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My Secret Career: RISK! Reacts

RISK!

RISK!

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

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Kevin hears C. J. Guy’s “My Secret Career” story from The Secret Room for the first time and gives you his hot takes. You can also watch this episode on YouTube! This is part of our RISK! Reacts series, where we listen to a story told on another show and give our first reactions. 🎙️ Story: My Secret Career by C.J. Guy CJ reveals his secret career path that started with dropping out of law school without informing his family and becoming a flight attendant. He maintained the lie for eight months until his sister discovered the secret.  keywords: flight attendant, law school, german, hogans heroes, lie, secret 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in NYC (December 11th, 2025) • ✍️ 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 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On this episode of Risk React.

0:03.0

And if you spoke none of those languages, you were assigned to either Cincinnati or Nashville. All right. I get the feeling that you wanted to live on the coast. You have to speak German. This is your bilingual certification. I was like, can we work something out? I cannot live in Cincinnati.

0:32.0

Hello, folks.

0:36.7

This is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they dare to share. I'm Kevin Allison,

0:39.2

and this is another one of our Risk Reacts video episodes, where I listen to a story for the very

0:46.1

first time and give you my instant reactions. Now, if you want to watch this episode, there's a link to

0:52.2

that in the show notes, and of course, all of our

0:54.7

audio episodes going back over 15 years are at risk-dash-show.com or wherever you get your podcast.

1:03.3

So let's get started. A risk fan named Kira Mirren emailed me writing,

1:11.4

I've been loving the new Risk React segment on the podcast.

1:15.8

You mentioned you're open to listener story suggestions.

1:19.9

And I immediately thought of this story.

1:22.7

It's from the Secret Room podcast and told by a guy named CJ. I've probably listened to it at least three

1:30.6

times over the years, and it's never failed to make me laugh. The storytelling is incredibly

1:37.1

charismatic, and the story itself is equal parts hilarious and outrageous. I won't give anything

1:42.9

away, but I think it's going to be up your alley.

1:47.0

So I pass this on to John LaSala,

1:50.5

who produces these episodes,

1:53.1

and he had a listen,

1:55.1

and he said, yeah, Kevin, let's do this one.

1:58.1

So let's do this one.

2:01.0

We'll be right back.

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