Hey folks, this is Kevin, and another of our Patreon patrons, Mika Kuspa, wrote into us at risk to say you deserve stability.

The archives of the show when I found it got me through a super rough time. There's nothing quite like this show.

I hope we can listen to it for many years to come.

Thank you so much Mika. So many people say that risk got them through a really tough time in their lives at one point.

Knowing that is helping me get through this really rough time in risk's life history.

Remember to help make sure we can still keep making the show for many years to come.

Join us at patreon.com slash risk, like Graham Steinhauer and Yerizza Ruiz recently did.

Thank you Graham and Yerizza, and for anyone who wants to make a one-time donation, that's at paypal.me slash risk show.

Now, on this week's episode of risk, you'll hear David who?

One afternoon, a Seattle's commercial came on, and I started to cry because that middle-aged white guy wearing his button-down dress shirt and wrinkle-free khakis was better than me.

He got his shit together and still can keep it up.

That and more, but first, I was at the gym today, and I ran into a risk listener who told me she was so moved by Ray Christian's story called grit.

That was on the episode the best of risk number 21, because she works with young people who are near the poverty line.

She basically said, I feel like people are able to talk about things on risk in a raw real way that you don't hear on other shows.

That story by Ray was about hunger, and it got into the nitty-gritty hardcore day-to-day reality of someone who had to figure out how to navigate his day without enough money to pay for food.

I was so touched that she said that, and it made me want to put out there today that we'd love to hear more stories like that on the show.

If there are social workers who listen to the show, who might be able to introduce us to someone, who might be able to share about their experience dealing with poverty, or maybe you're listening to this and you're someone who has dealt with being unhoused, or at the end of your rope financially at some point,

we want to hear those stories. Reach out to pitches at risk-show.com, and all the info you need is at risk-show.com-slash-submissions.

We'll be right back.

My 13 year old ex like a puppy again. Almost overnight, she's a different dog.

Perfect poops.

When people switch their dog's foods to the farmer's dog, the effects can seem like magic, but there's no magic involved.

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