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

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.

Sometimes single stories, sometimes whole episodes, keep in mind that years ago people might

have awarded things differently than they would today.

As always, the title of the whole series, Risk, is itself a content warning.

This week a story that can read for shared on the show in October of 2014, here's Ken

now with a story we call Little Shop of Horrors.

Thank you so much.

The 21st century where the world has sort of come to you and everybody really loves comic books now and it is a living hell for me.

Because people don't really understand the struggles that we went through when we liked comic books in the 1980s.

And people say that being gay is not a choice you're born that way.

It used to be that way for comic books.

It was not you didn't discover it, it didn't come around, you were just born liking it.

And a lot of times you wished you weren't.

And people are like, Ken, I don't know, I really like comic books and I'm like, oh, what do you read?

And they're like, I saw the Avengers movie.

And I'm like, the best we had was the incredible Hulk on TV.

That was it.

You saw the Avengers movie and they're like, well, I like really nerdy things.

Like I'm really into Doctor Who and I'm like, oh, you mean a 50 year long television series that is the longest running television series in history and the most popular television show in an entire westernized nation.

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