Hello kids, this is Risk!

The show where people tell true stories they never thought they dared to share.

I'm Kevin Allison and every Thursday we release these special episodes that we're 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 of my own!

This one first appeared on the show in November of 2012 and it's called Man at Hawaii.

The morning of my first day of high school, I sat in an auditorium with about 300 other

freshman boys.

There were going to be a lot of speeches from a lot of Jesuits.

And first, an older priest with beige hair came striding out on stage.

He had a kind of a JFK look about him and he meant business.

He said, boys, we have a motto at St. Xavier High School.

Men for others.

What's most important to us is that you learn who you are and what you can do with who

you are to help anyone who could use it.

I felt like the Jesuits recharged my batteries that day because they were Catholic like

high was Catholic but they seemed to be talking about it in a much more vital way than I'd

heard before.

As I came to think of it, they were speaking Jesuit.

See, in grade school, I cherished my religion.

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