Hey folks this is Kevin. Today's episode features a few instances of abuse and I know that for some listeners that sort of thing can trigger stressful traumatic sorts of feelings so I wanted to warn everyone beforehand.

Now here's the show.

Hello kids, this is Risk. The show where people tell true stories, they never thought they'd dare to.

Hello kids, this is Risk.

The show where people tell true stories, they never thought they'd dare to share. I'm Kevin Allison and this is the Bombay Royale behind me now.

We are calling today's episode fighting back because on today's episode we have two very strong, very smart, very talented young ladies who tell stories of facing traumatic shit that happened in their past.

And finding the wherewithal to move onward and upward.

In a little bit we're going to hear from comedian Liz Stewart. Wow, did she throw everyone for a loop at the Risk live show in Los Angeles last week?

Well, whenever it was at the Nerd Melt Theater in LA.

But before that beautiful young actress Ellie Jackson who took our story studio workshop here in New York.

She told a lot of wonderful stories in class but this one was one I asked her if she would come over to my apartment to record one-on-one for the podcast here.

So without further ado, here is Ellie Jackson with a story we call, I can see clearly now.

The summer between 6th and 7th grade I attended Bandcamp and one afternoon as I was walking with two of my cabin mates I asked them where Amanda was.

Amanda was another girl in our cabin and within the first couple days of camp she had procured herself a camp boyfriend, this kid named Nate.

My cabin mates informed me that Amanda and Nate had skipped lunch so they could sneak back to our cabin when they knew the counselor wouldn't be in there and make out.

This information stopped me dead in my tracks and without thinking I just blurred it out in real earnest sincerity.

You guys, we have to warn her because deep kissing can lead to other things.

And this stopped the other girls dead in their tracks too and they turned and looked at me their eyes narrowing and I suddenly felt what a deer must feel when it realizes the wolves have singled it out as the weakest in the herd.

As time slowed down and my brain caught up to my mouth I realized what a totally embarrassing, humiliating, socially disastrous thing I had just said.

And so I start laughing trying to play it off as a joke is what our health teacher would say.

In my defense I will say that deep kissing totally does lead to other things and I was right but in that moment I was mortified and realized that you're not supposed to let other people know how sexually naive you are.

I got better at covering that up and it didn't really affect me again until years later when I was 18 years old I was a freshman in college and I was going with some friends to a frat party.

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