On this episode of Risk.

One day, I am going walking through the alley, and I look up in a damn tree and I see a monkey in Churchill, in Richmond, Virginia, in the city.

What the hell? Is it real monkey?

Hello, folks. This is Risk, the show where people tell true stories.

They never thought they dared to share.

I'm Kevin Allison,

and this is one of our conversation story episodes,

where someone tells me a story and we chat about it, simple as that.

Now, if you want to watch this episode,

there's a link to that in the show notes,

but all of our audio episodes,

going back over 15 years, are at Ristashow.com or wherever you get your podcast. Today, we're going to be hearing a story from my

dear friend, Ray Christian. He told me this this past March about some of the animals he spent

time with as a young kid growing up in

Church Hill, a neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia. And from there, we ended up kind of spiraling

and swapping out all kinds of other stories with each other, you know, the way that friends can do,

but animals, past, present,

all that sort of thing. Now, I do have to warn you, though, that we do mention animal harm,

animal abuse, and even animal death, you know, just as facts of life in these stories, especially, you know,

when we talk about childhood and like half a century ago, some of these things happening,

you can even hear a story where I am the bad guy, right? Or you can decide.

So, after the break, I'll be joined by Ray Christian sharing a story he calls Animals Past and Present.

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