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 that were 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 that Reggie Watts first shared on the podcast in August of 2012, here

he is now, it's Reggie Watts with a story we call Thank You.

So let me be myself again.

Alright, this is a story about a young man and some drugs.

The young man is me, not anymore, but I used to be a very young man, incredibly young.

Very young.

One of the youngest men you've ever met.

I don't know how many of you guys are kind of extroverted, but you find that there are

some things that you're really uptight about, like still, like in some hidden things that

you don't find out until certain kind of crucial moments.

But in this particular situation, I would have been about 27, I think, 27.

I was working in a health food store called Mother Nature's in Seattle, Washington, on

the base of Queen Anne Hill, and I had just quit a disco cover band.

That was making shit loads of money.

I mean, like we're making, I mean, at the time, as a young man, any amount of money is

a lot of money, but enough to buy my friends Keonti once in a while.

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