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Holiday Stories #18

RISK!

RISK!

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

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Ty Gentile, James Rana, and David Hu share yuletide tales about Christmas carols, unorthodox Santas, and of course, excretory health in our annual winter holidays special for 2025. 🎙️Radio Story: A Very Moving Christmas by David Hu David’s dad has Alzheimer’s. David always struggled to understand how to give and receive love from his immigrant father. But when he buys his dad dearly needed laxatives for Xmas, it’s a touching moment of bonding.  🎙️Radio Story: The Widow’s Song by Ty Gentile Struggling with homesickness, Ty gets a gig working as a Christmas elf in costume. He is surprised to find himself crying when an old widow breaks the tension in the crowd by breaking into song singing a Christmas carol.  🎙️Radio Story: Alternative Santa by James Rana James gets a gig as a Santa and, in spite of being dark-skinned with a Muslim surname, he takes it and likes it. Then he’s asked to do a party for Kellyanne Conway (of the Trump administration) and is conflicted. 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ 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

Hey folks, this is Kevin. On this week's episode of Risk, you'll hear David Who.

0:06.2

And afterwards, we circled back to the house, and we both dropped a couple hits of laxenus.

0:13.8

Oh my God, I never felt so light in my life.

0:19.7

That and more.

0:21.3

But first, do you follow me on all the socials at the Kevin Allison?

0:26.7

Do you follow risk on all the socials at risk show?

0:30.5

There's so much that we post about behind the scenes, little mini video check-ins, commentary on the stories, interacting with you.

0:42.8

So follow us.

0:44.7

I'm at the Kevin Allison, and Risk is at-risk show.

0:50.6

We'll be right back.

0:52.9

Now here's the show. Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh Thank you. Hello, Yes. Hello, folks. This is Risk, the show where people tell true stories.

1:48.1

They never thought they dare to share.

1:50.7

I'm Kevin Allison.

1:52.3

This is Amos Ever Hadami behind me now, and we're calling this week's episode Holiday Stories

1:58.7

18, our annual winter holidays celebration.

2:04.6

I will tell you, I am just so proud that we have made it this far since October of 2009,

2:15.8

and especially this year, where we've all had to take pay cuts yet again,

2:24.8

where members of the staff have had to deal with lots of challenges in our personal lives,

2:31.0

where we've all been so worried about the state of the U.S. and the world, and where I took

2:39.5

the biggest risk of my life so far by moving to Thailand and through it all. We have

2:48.7

featured phenomenal stories this year,

2:53.0

and I've had unforgettable, beautiful experiences teaching my online storytelling workshops.

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