On this episode of Risk, you'll hear.

And we're standing there, you know, in our underwear, two dudes holding butcher knives.

And you'll hear.

Didn't think I'd be doing so much centrifuging, but at least I'm still drowning in come.

And of course me, Kevin Allison, on the show where people tell true stories they never thought they dare to share.

We'll be right back.

We're back.

We're back okay okay okay folks

this episode of risk is called

come and go

and this is bunker buster

behind me now

I'll tell you my next online storytelling workshop starts on February 15th, 2026 at 10 a.m. Eastern time.

It'll happen eight Sundays in a row like that on Zoom.

So email me at Kevin at Risk Dash Show.com to learn more about that.

Now, in a little bit, we're going to hear from Sarah Adelman, but to start things off, a story by the wonderful Ezra Homeland, who is now a

risk favorite, and for the first time, he recorded a story with us live on stage at Caviot in New York last September.

So here's Ezra now with a story we call, Things Are Going South.

Thank you. So it was just one of those strange anomalies.

Both my little brother and I, we were both leaving the country on the same day, both flying out of PDX, Portland.

I was headed down to Antarctica to begin a six-month tour of duty working as a cook at the McMurdo Research Station, and my little brother, he was headed over to Amsterdam to go start living with his new girlfriend. So my parents, they still lived in Portland, so we decided to spend the night at their place, you know, before we flew out the next day, have a little family reunion. So we show up in my parents' place. We have

dinner with them. We're sitting around the, you know, the dinner table, you know, talking about our

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