Hey folks, this is Kevin. On this week's episode of Riskyle here, David Kendall. I would almost certainly be blind and brain damaged.

Well, I like to think he was only half right.

I can plainly see.

That and more. But before that, if I sound a little strange, it's because I'm in a hotel room.

We just did Risky and San Francisco. It was an amazing show. But I'm still here in my hotel room.

And listen, I do want to tell you before we start the show that we are so excited that we finally have a way that you, the risk fans, can easily help us keep the show going.

It's brilliant. It's a simple way of showing your support. And it's through our page on Patreon. It's at p-a-t-r-e-o-n dot com slash risk.

Patreon dot com slash risk. The way it works is you can choose to give $1 a month or $3 or $5 or $10 or even up to $100 a month.

And depending on how much you give, you get access to all kinds of prizes and bonus content from us here at the show.

We've been working our asses off since 2009, creating this show on a shoe string budget with three full-time employees.

And now more than 20 part-time folks pitching in. And it takes a lot to produce over 50 live shows a year, put out one episode a week, work with hundreds of storytellers on the shaping of their stories, do workshops and social media, and more making risk saved my life.

And almost every day a fan writes in to say it's meant just as much to them. I was just in Austin and a woman came up to me, gave me a huge hug and said that the podcast saved her marriage.

If you love risk, you know how very unique and very important it is. With fan funding, we'll be able to produce more content, pay our staff what they deserve, and keep ourselves from burning out.

The prizes are awesome. Our All-Star episodes, access to videos and picks and other posts that I'll be creating just for patrons and also other people on the team will to our video courses, getting thanked by name on the show, chances to meet us over Skype, personalized versions of stamps.com songs, and so much more.

I'm just about to upload my first patrons-only video and I think this is just going to be a super fun way for fans to be more plugged in to the risk community.

So it would absolutely mean the world to us. If you became a patron of ours at patreon.com slash risk that's PATRON.COM slash risk. And I hope to see you there soon.

Now here's the show.

Let's...

Hello kids, this is risk. The show where people tell true stories, they never thought they dared to share.

I'm Kevin Allison and this is Odyssey Behind Me Now. We're calling today's episode Southern Folk.

These are three stories during our recent Texas shows. They're actually from people who were born in rays in totally various parts of the South.

And you can hear it in their wonderful accents and their wonderful ways of phrasing things. I'm just a great lover of different unique styles of talking.

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