Hello kids, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they

dared to share.

I'm Kevin Allyson and every Thursday we release these special episodes that were calling

classic risk singles.

Each of these episodes features just one story from our earlier years.

If you're new to risk, you should know that the podcast can be very uncensored.

This week, a story that David Barlow first shared on the podcast in September of 2010,

here's David now with a story we call Into the Woods.

So when I was 23 years old, I was in this Indian movie on the Anaman Islands, which is in

the Bay of Bengal between the mainland India and Burma and Bangladesh.

And it's beautiful, tropical paradise.

It'd been only opened to foreigners for like a year and a half before I got there.

So I found myself in this incredibly unusual place with a very tiny role.

So I didn't have very much to do there.

But one day, I decided to go on a hike.

Someone had told me about a lookout on the top of this mountain with sweeping views of

the sea and that there was a trail that began at the top of this lookout and went all the

way down the mountain through the jungle to the ocean where there was a lighthouse.

And they even drew on a little coffee napkin, the mountain and then the dotted line going

through the jungle to the lighthouse.

And I was very captivated about this, very excited because I'd never been in a jungle

before.

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