Boys and Girls

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4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in August of 2013, when DC Pierson, Selena Coppock, Brad Lawrence and Nina Davis shared stories of love and loss. 🎙️Radio Story: Let Me Sleep On It by Brad Lawrence In his youth, Brad finds and loses love with a fellow bookstore employee. Later, after marrying someone else, he sees his feelings for his fellow employee were just a crush, and that real love allows for making mistakes.keywords: crushes, love, marriage, relationships, youth 🎤Live Story: In the Belly by DC Pierson As a nerdy virgin in high school, DC and his friend’s girlfriend become friends and have an affair in which he only kisses her stomach until eventually she goes down on him spontaneously and breaks up with her boyfriend. keywords: teenage, high school, affair, sexual exploration, cheating, relationships, youth, virgins 🎙️Radio Story: Remember You Like a Child by Nina Davis At 14, Nina fell in love with a boy while on vacation. Decades later, she finally found him again. He’d been through homelessness and heroin addiction. Now, he was married with a child. keywords: long lost love, lost and found, reuniting, young love 🎤Live Story: Complete by Selena Coppock In her freshman year of college, Selena fell head over heels in love with a young man who had already graduated. It was never meant to be, but years later Selena got to share with him how much he’d meant to her. keywords: love, dating, college, recent graduate, reconnection, closure, support, self love, self belief, confidence, unrequited love 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in NYC on December 11, 2025 • ✍️ Pitch your story⁠ • ❤️ Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • 📚 Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • 🎓 Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • 🎥 Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories. They never thought they
0:12.4	dare to share. I'm Kevin Allison, and every Thursday we release these special episodes
0:18.0	where we look back at content from our earlier years. And folks, there's
0:22.4	still time to jump into my eight-week-long online storytelling workshop starting on November
0:29.2	16, 2025 at 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. These workshops are so inspiring and profound and packed with over 16 years of knowledge
0:42.2	that I've gained about storytelling from producing risk. And also just really fun. You know,
0:48.8	some folks are complete and total beginners. They never even imagined they'd be doing it.
0:54.8	And then others are repeat customers.
0:57.0	But everyone is so supportive and thoughtful in these groups.
1:02.2	You might not think you have stories.
1:04.5	But I can promise you, you've got big ones, you've got little ones, you've got funny ones,
1:10.7	you've got moving ones. Don've got little ones, you've got funny ones, you've got moving ones.
1:12.4	Don't be shy. Just email me at Kevin at Wristash. Show.com and I'll send you all the info.
1:19.9	Now, this week we're featuring an episode that premiered in August of 2013.
1:25.3	It's an episode we call
1:27.5	Boys and Girls.
1:45.0	Wow Whoa, oh, we're Oh, wow Way Way RELWWWWWWWWW WIWWW
2:03.6	WRWAWRWRWRY Hello, kids, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they dare to share.
2:29.3	I'm Kevin Allison, and this is Jonathan Geer behind me now.
2:33.8	Calling this week's...
2:35.0	Sorry, I had to get some gremlins out of my jowls.
2:43.8	We're calling this week's episode, Boys and Girls.
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