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Holiday Blues #3

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RISK!

Personal Journals, Arts, Society & Culture, Comedy, Performing Arts

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Michael J Bennett and Jessica Piscitelli Robinson tell holiday stories that are new, true and kinda blue.   🎙️Radio Story: Santa's Revenge by Michael J Bennett Michael is a shopping mall Santa when his worst teacher from High School comes in with his kid. The rule of a store Santa is make no big promises the parents have to fulfill. Michael promises this kid the moon and a pony. 🎙️Radio Story: A Mom-Made Christmas by Jessica Piscitelli Robinson Jessica is a teen when her mom has a stroke right before Christmas. Her mom was the end all be all of making Christmas magical throughout Jessica’s life. But this holiday, the miracle was simply being able to bring mom home on Christmas Day. 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ at Caveat in NYC on March 17, 2026 • ✍️ Pitch your story⁠ • ❤️ Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • 📚 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

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0:02.8

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0:04.6

Running things in Slack saves me so much time.

0:07.3

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0:10.4

What say you?

0:11.4

Rocks from Gosney.

0:12.4

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0:13.9

It helps us build connection.

0:15.2

Your partners, vendors and customers all in one place.

0:18.3

Take us on home, Ashley from Carraway.

0:20.2

If we did have Slack tomorrow, I would explode. Well, let's not let that happen. Visit Slack.com slash podcast to get 50% of Slack Business Plus. Hi, just leave on work now. Sorry, it's a bit loud. Basically, so I was thinking we could get Macies tonight. Had a big Mac on my mind all day, and delivery fee on the app is now from 99P. So, you win? Of course you are. Love you. Bye. Exclusively on the McDonald's app. 18 plus, service fee and small order fee may apply, but it's a pacing restaurants. Serving times and teas and seas apply. Hey folks, this is Kevin. On this week's episode of Risk, you'll hear Michael J. Bennett.

0:55.8

Revenge is a dish that's best served cold. And I got to tell you, it was very, very cold on Christmas morning.

1:06.4

That and more. But first, there's still time to sign up for one of my next two eight-week online

1:12.1

storytelling workshops. One starts on January 14th and we'll meet every Wednesday evening at

1:18.3

8.30 Eastern time, 8.30 p.m. Eastern time. Then I'm teaching another Sunday morning one,

1:26.5

starting on February 15th with each Zoom session, starting at 10 a.m. Eastern time.

1:33.6

Email me at Kevin at Risk-Show.com to jump on in.

1:38.8

We'll be right back.

1:40.9

Now here's the show.

2:29.6

Yeah. Now here's the show. Oh, oh, oh, oh, ah, oh, ah, oh, and, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, folks, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they'd dare to share.

2:37.8

I'm Kevin Allison. This is Will Taylor behind me now. And this is Holiday Blues number three.

2:42.8

We get so many amazing story pitches for holiday stories each year.

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