Live From NYC Podfest 2014

RISK!

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

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🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Originally recorded live at NYC Podfest in January 2014, this is one of those classic RISK! episodes where the theme, confession, actually delivers on its promise. Kevin Allison opens with a story he has told for years, then stops midway to admit he has been leaving out the best part. What he adds reframes everything. Alex Edelman turns a power strip at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport into a secret-collecting operation, until a soldier from Ramstein Air Force Base shares something that neither of them can easily walk away from. Chemda recounts her first time getting high, which escalated from bong novice to shirtless Hulk impersonation to improvised superhero capes, and ended face-first in a party-size snack mix. Keith Malley spent months in a baffling odyssey through free clinics and baffled physicians over a rash that ultimately resolved without medical intervention. Selena Coppock traces her lifelong suspicion of genuinely nice men back to a seventh-grade ski trip, then confesses to acting on that suspicion in a way she is not proud of. Full episode details and music credits at risk-show.com/podcast/live-from-nyc-podfest-2014-cre514 Be Part of RISK! 🎟 See RISK! live⁠! ✍️ Pitch your story⁠ ❤️ Support us on Patreon⁠ 💵 Make a one-time donation⁠⁠ via PayPal or Zelle to kevin@risk-show.com 📚 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	I'm Richard Serrett. Join me on Strange Planet for in-depth conversations with the world's top paranormal investigators, alien abductees, bigfoot trackers, monster hunters, time travelers, and more.
0:11.1	The handler one day told her this whole thing about how they've been terraforming on Mars, and they're building a colony,
0:16.7	and they're recruiting specific people of specific bloodlines and specific talents and skill sets to go onto the planet.
0:23.0	On Richard Serrett's Strange Planet,
0:25.5	we're redefining reality.
0:27.9	Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. Hey folks, this is risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they
0:46.9	dare to share. I'm Kevin Allison, and every Thursday we release these special episodes
0:52.4	where we look back at content from our earlier years.
0:55.7	This week, an episode that premiered in January of 2014, it's one we call live from NYC Podfest
1:04.0	2014.
1:05.8	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
1:06.9	Whoa, whoa. Whoa, wow, wow. Hello! Whoa! Hello! Hello! Welcome, thank you so much, everyone.
1:35.3	Welcome to Risk.
1:36.3	How's everyone doing tonight?
1:38.3	Holy shit, I think the entire city is running behind tonight for one thing we've learned
1:45.8	that medical marijuana is going to be okay here pretty soon oh I mean that is
1:54.5	good news for me because as many of you already know I am a very very sick man. I was very late myself because the trains are
2:05.6	crazy on the weekends here now. They kind of don't really exist for poor people in the city
2:10.7	anymore. The trains that go out of town. Listen, how many people have heard the podcast risk
2:16.1	before?
2:24.6	Awesome. Great to know. Great to know. If you don't know, risk is the show where people tell true stories that they never thought they dare to share. So it's not quite like an NPR
2:33.3	kind of storytelling show.
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