Fascination

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🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This one goes back to February 2014: a live RISK! episode built around the theme of fascination, meaning the things that get under your skin and won't let go. Ryan Britt was a self-appointed porn expert at age 10, thanks to his father's very open magazine policy and to a darkroom box labeled "Do Not Open" that turned out to contain something far more interesting than photographic paper. Adam Wade spent years nursing a Rick Moranis complex, right up until a chance encounter at a pharmaceutical convention gave him an unusual opportunity to put it to use. (Content note: eating disorder) Brad Lawrence was 15, overweight, and utterly transfixed by a softcore film called Felicity — until a different movie sent him down a dangerous path of self-reinvention over a single summer. Lulu left a long, sexless marriage at 44 and spent the next several years making up for lost time, culminating in a nerve-racking attempt to fulfill a very specific fantasy at a kink convention class in Astoria. Full episode details and music credits at risk-show.com/podcast/fascination-cre516 Be Part of RISK! 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in [CITY] ([MONTH & DAY]) or [CITY] ([MONTH & DAY]) ✍️ Pitch your story⁠ ❤️ Support us on Patreon⁠ 💵 Make a one-time donation⁠⁠ via PayPal or Zelle to kevin@risk-show.com 📚 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	Fear is the virus is trending on TikTok.
0:03.0	Vaccines are poison.
0:05.0	Then your yoga teacher says that sex-trafficed children are being sacrificed by satanic liberals,
0:11.0	but it's all okay.
0:12.0	The Great Awakening is coming.
0:14.0	What is happening?
0:17.0	Every week on Conspiratuality Podcast, we explore the fever dreams that suck friends, family, and wellness gurus down the right-wing cult spiral in a search for salvation.
0:43.9	Hey folks, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they dare to share. I'm Kevin Allison, and every Thursday we release these special episodes
0:49.6	where we look back at content from our earlier years. This week, an episode that premiered in February of 2014.
0:57.7	It's an episode we call Fascination.
1:00.4	Whoa, Mr. Kevin Kelly. Hello!
1:32.3	How is everyone?
1:36.6	Thank you so much for coming out on this crazy cold night.
1:41.8	Oh my gosh.
1:42.3	And a lot of the trains aren't running. It's terrible, but we're here. God
1:47.2	damn it. We are here. We have actually a super, super fun show tonight. How many people are familiar
1:52.7	with Risk the podcast? Awesome. I love that there's always people who raise their hand.
2:04.1	So polite. If you don't know,
2:09.4	Risk is the show where people tell true stories that they never thought they dare to share in public. So we feature a lot of stories that, you know, you'd never hear on NPR or places like that.
2:16.5	We really kind of encourage people to step outside their
2:19.8	comfort zones, whether or not it's in an emotional way or an X-rated way or whatever it may be.
2:26.6	We say, nothing is inappropriate until something is.
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