Live From Charleston 2!

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in June of 2013 - Stories from our 2nd visit to Charleston’s Theatre 99! 🎤Live Story: The Storm by Camille Lowman Camille attends a bachelorette party full of proper Southern suburbanites and watches them descend into drunken shenanigans when the male stripper arrives. keywords: women behaving badly, strippers, bad behavior, oral sex 🎤Live Story: The Wrapper by Nathaniel Bates Nathaniel is confounded when, as a child, he sees his dad’s penis and realizes that it is much different from his own, causing him lots of secret shame and worry about having a foreskin. keywords: circumcision, penises, parents, childhood, puberty, school 🎤Live Story: Roadside Assistance by Shon Kennedy Shon, a Black woman, is in a car accident in the deep South. A white trash redneck comes to her aid (with lots of marijuana to offer as well) and the two of them end up revealing their deepest insecurities to one another. keywords: Stereotypes, defied expectations, strange friendships, cars, pot 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in New York September 25th • ✍️ 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 Risk, the show where people tell true stories. They never thought they
0:12.4	dare to share. I'm Kevin Allison, and every Thursday we release these special episodes
0:18.3	where we look back at content from our earlier years.
0:22.0	This is a real blast from the past.
0:24.5	The whole thing is a live show that we did in Charleston, South Carolina, and it premiered in June of 2013.
0:32.2	You're not going to believe it, but it's called Live from Charleston, too.
0:56.0	Music but it's called Live from Charleston, be. Whoa, wow, way. Now, wow, we're going to be.
1:00.0	Wow, wow. Let me Wra Wra WRae Wra Wra Let's Let's Hello, kids, this is risk, the show where people tell true stories.
1:40.2	They never thought they dare to share.
1:42.6	I'm Kevin Allison, and this is giraffege behind me now.
1:47.9	Or giraffe age?
1:50.8	I don't know.
1:52.2	I don't know from these kids and their animal referencing band names.
1:58.0	But they sound terrific, and it's the start of a terrific show. This is live from Charleston
2:04.7	two, the second time. We've been to the absolutely delightful town of Charleston, South Carolina.
2:11.8	If you go there, you must, you must stop by Theater 99.
2:17.9	Brandy Sullivan and Greg Tavares have created the most creative and friendly and fun community of people there at Theater 99.
2:28.1	I can't tell you how much I love those guys.
2:30.6	And because I taught storytelling workshops the last time I was down there in January,
2:38.0	a lot of those folks who attended the workshops have either gone on to create storytelling shows
2:43.0	or participate in storytelling shows.
2:45.0	So I'm really hoping that every time we come back, we can keep this storytelling phenomena in Charleston building and growing.
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