Hey folks, this is Kevin.

On this week's episode of Risky, you'll hear Melanie Hamlet.

And I certainly don't say my favorite word anymore.

Pussy, unless I'm like, hey, you want to eat this?

Now here's the show.

Whoa whoa whoa!

Hello kids, this is Risky.

The show where people tell true stories they never thought they'd dare to share.

I'm Kevin Allison, this is Mini-Grew Orchestra Behind Me Now, and we are calling this week's

episode Masculinity.

Two stories, one told live and one a radio style story about boys in the process of becoming men.

This is also the week that we've debuted our latest Amazon Original Story.

It's called My Boy, Their Son by Mariah McCarthy.

Now, Mariah told a version of this story on the podcast at one time, but the Amazon Original Story version is so expanded and so nuanced.

It's practically a whole new story. I was blown away by it.

I highly recommend you check it out.

You know, you can download it onto your Kindle, you can listen to it as an audio book.

Each of the five Amazon Original Stories that we've curated with Amazon are just phenomenal.

The other four are in a collection called This Can't Be Happening, but this latest one, My Boy, Their Son by Mariah McCarthy, is available now.

Just search for it by title or by the author's name on Amazon.

Let's get to our first story today, Vin Brew, pitched this story to us years ago and then was just, you know, consistent about reminding us that he was out there.

A lot of people have to do this. A lot of people end up sharing stories on the show.

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