I'm Gay and Pets Are My Only Friends: RISK! Reacts

RISK!

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

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Kevin hears Fabian Godinez’s “I’m Gay and Pets Are My Only Friends” story from The Mortified Podcast for the first time and gives you his hot takes. You can also watch this episode on YouTube! This is part of our RISK! Reacts series, where we listen to a story told on another show and give our first reactions. 🎧 Story: I’m Gay and Pets Are My Only Friends by Fabian Godinez At a live Mortified event, Fabian reads from his teen journal, about growing up with immigrant parents. His sister outs him as gay, his dog dies, and Fabian works toward self-acceptance. keywords: coming out, mortified, journal entries, pooping, dogs, parvo, immigrant storyteller 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • 🎟 See RISK! live • ✍️ 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 Next• 🎥 Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.2	Hello, folks. This is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they
0:42.3	dare to share. I'm Kevin Allison, and this is another one of our Risk reacts video episodes
0:49.2	where I listened to a story for the very first time and give you my instant reactions. Now, if you want to
0:56.0	watch the episode over on YouTube, there's a link in the show notes, but for all of our audio
1:02.1	episodes going back 15 years, you just go to risk dash show.com or wherever you get your podcast.
1:09.3	I also want to point out that this is one of four of our June Pride Month episodes.
1:18.2	On June 5th, we had the Best of Queer Lives number three with a story by Dan Savage.
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