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Catastrophe

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Personal Journals, Arts, Society & Culture, Comedy, Performing Arts

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Emma Yarbrough and Joel Gonzalez share stories about learning and growing from hard times. 🎤Live Story: Searching for Blue Sky by Emma Yarbrough Emma believes an intruder has broken in her home but it’s a false alarm. It triggers memories of her PTSD following the murder of her beloved Aunt Day. Emma cherishes her aunt’s memory and is stronger for it.  🎙️Radio Story: Keeping Us Safe by Joel Gonzalez Joel is working a grocery store job during the pandemic and is in charge of enforcing the mask mandate. Joel has a sick wife at home and becomes overly obsessed with people not cooperating but then starts to calm down.  🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in NYC on Tuesday, March 17, 2026 ✍️ 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

On this episode of Risk, you'll hear, fuck you, knocks the basket over.

0:05.9

Fuck you, fuck everybody, and fuck this store.

0:08.8

And you'll hear.

0:10.3

She was driving to church, eating a bowl of cereal, on mountain roads, and drove her ass off of the mountain.

0:18.4

And of course, me, Kevin Allison,

0:21.2

on the show where people tell true stories

0:23.7

they never thought they dare to share.

0:30.8

We'll be right back.

0:33.4

We're back.

0:42.6

RIS. Yes. We're back. Hello, folks. This episode is called catastrophe.

0:48.9

But it's about people who faced overwhelming situations in such a way that they grew from it and that they're

0:55.5

grateful for it.

0:56.6

It's one of those things that I most treasure about this show, that we have so many

1:02.7

stories that I personally feel reassured by because it's so easy for me to get into my own head about how bad things are or about how bad

1:17.2

things might be tomorrow or next month or whatnot. And then I hear people share stories on this

1:25.9

show about getting through so many different, big, and small things.

1:33.7

I'm just constantly adjusting my perspective. Now, before we jump in, musicians, do you want us to play

1:42.6

your music on risk? I'll get to this later in the episode,

1:47.1

but everything you need to know is at risk dash show.com slash music. Now in a little bit,

1:55.8

we're going to hear a story by Joel Gonzalez, but to start things off, a story by Emma Yarbrough that was recorded at a risk live show

2:04.4

we did at Isle 5 in Atlanta last year, I should warn you, there's a violent death recounted in this

2:13.5

story.

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