Hey, folks, this is risk. the show where people tell true stories they never thought they'd dare to share.

I'm Kevin Allison, and every Thursday we release these special episodes where we look back at content from our earlier years.

This week, it's Holiday Stories fan favorites. If there's

one episode, you can easily share with all of your friends and family at this time of year.

It's this one. These are the holiday stories. Risk fans request to hear again year after year. Now, we will be hearing the present

from Sarah Longhendershot, the Allison family Christmas tree hunt from me, and we're going to

cap it all off with Snow Globe from Kate Bow. But first, the OG most requested story recorded in 2010 when the

podcast was just one year old. It comes to us from Elna Baker, and it's called For the Love of Nubbins.

So I moved to New York to do acting, and I never, I audition, I never, I've actually, still,

I've never been cast once in anything. But the first acting job I actually was able to get

was as a toy demonstrator at FAO Schwartz. And it's an acting job, you work retail, but basically

you have to audition, you read a monologue by

Princess Pretty, and then for two weeks, you have to rotate from toy to toy so they have

confidence that you can do this. And there's like the fun toys. Like I like being on jewelry,

because I would just make earrings for myself all day, and you're supposed to give them to the kids.

I never did but then there

were like sucky toys like band in the box where it's like Maraca is a tambourine and

clapper and you do that for eight hours worst band ever or there was a toy veterinarian kit

where you have like a stuffed animal dog and you'd have to interrupt families as they go through

the store and you're like spot interrupt families as they go through the store

and you're like spot is sick can you help me figure out what's wrong with spot which is like

you know basically like you and your family want to be left alone but I'm an actor mortifying but

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