Hey folks, this is Kevin. Just a few words before. Oh god, damn it. You guys just won't stop tweeting at me today, but I'm happy to receive it. I'm happy to receive it.

In fact, you want to use guys. We'll be receiving something from me today and that is a risk t-shirt because I just mailed it and guess what I used for postage stamps.com.

Because right now, I can think of no bigger waste of my time than having to go to the post office on a practically daily basis, come ridiculous.

In fact, there's a lot more mailing that should have been being done before, that is being done now, now that I'm doing stuff through stamps.com.

And you should be doing it too. You can buy and print official US postage using your own computer and printer. You can print exact postage for any letter or package right from your desk using the free digital scale they send you.

But stamps.com will also save you money. It's a fraction of the cost of a postage meter. You get discounts, you can't find at the post office.

All you got to do is use our promo code RISK for a no-risk trial. I know that's strange. Plus $110 bonus offers, that includes the digital scale and $55 of free postage.

So go to stamps.com before you do anything else, click on that little radio microphone at the top of the homepage, type in RISK and get going. That stamps.com enter risk, now here's the show.

Hello kids, this is RISK, the show where people tell true stories. They never thought they dared to share. I'm Kevin Allison and this is the heap behind me now, H-E-A-P.

We're calling today's episode Fraught. As in, these three stories are so fraught with fraughtology and maybe even fraughtars. I would say it could fraught me even the stoutest of personages.

So get your personages ready for Mr. Brent Sullivan, such a dear friend of mine. He was recently written up in the New York Times as being a stand-up comedian to be on the lookout for.

And now when I was a kid, I thought that the whole world was divided between Allison's and Sullivan's because the people next door were the Sullivan's and I thought that Allison's were God-fearing people who very healthily drank milk and that Sullivan's didn't even say grace before dinner and got to drink all the Pepsi their hearts could desire.

I'm still a little suspicious of most of these Sullivan types, but this one so far seems to be a pretty good egg. Here he is live at the RISK show in New York City. This is Brent Sullivan with a story we call No Use Crying.

So I want to tell you about the time in which I cried most recently, but to get there, I figured we probably should start at the very beginning.

So I will tell you about me as a kid. I was like a very emotional kid and that manifested itself and that I cried constantly as a child.

It focused on the fact that I hated being disconnected from my mom for any length of time regardless of the circumstances. So I would do whatever it would take to be reunited with her again.

I remember those kids who came to school in first grade like just to throw up.

I remember having a conversation once. I was in first grade and my grandfather had just died and my grandfather was a pretty shitty guy. No one really liked him very much.

He was an alcoholic and abusive. So when he died, it really didn't significantly impact the family. But I remember driving to school and my mom asked me, you know, how are you doing? How are you feeling?

I said, well, I'm relieved because when I cry in class today, at least I'll have a reason.

I'll never forget my mom said, okay, why don't you try not crying in class today? I was like, no thanks.

And this continued throughout my entire childhood. The first year in which I didn't cry at school at some point during the school year was senior year of high school.

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