Hello kids, this is Risk.

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

I'm Kevin Allyson and every Thursday we release these special episodes where we look

back at risk content from our earlier years.

Now for a long time now, the first two years worth of risk episodes, the ones from October

of 2009 through October of 2011 have been behind a paywall.

But there's been a little confusing for a lot of risk fans who are always telling us

they didn't even know those first two years worth of episodes existed.

So we thought it would be fun if every other Thursday now we reran an entire episode

from the very earliest days.

Now as we review these throwbacks, remember many of these recordings were made over a decade

ago.

I just asked that you keep that historical context in mind.

Today in 2020 there's a vastly different consciousness.

Risk has always asked our storytellers to err on the side of not being too cautious,

to speak in as unfiltered away as possible.

That said, we also want our storytellers to be compassionate in their storytelling.

But even in stories where you hear an overall compassionate context to the sharing, you might

still notice some moments that strike you as cringe worthy today.

A lot of these storytellers and myself as the host of some of the oldest episodes would

probably have handled those moments differently today.

As always, the title of the series, Risk, is itself a trigger warning.

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