Hey folks, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they

dare to share. I'm Kevin Allison, and every Thursday, we look back at content from our

earlier years. This week, it's the best of coming of age stories,

number two. In a little bit, we're going to hear from Amy Salloway, a risk favorite. But first,

a story from the hilarious Byron Bowers, although this is a pretty hefty story that first

appeared on risk in November of 2015.

It's a story we call my father's son.

I want to talk about the first day, the day, one of the days that changed my life.

Like, we all got days that, you know, we remember, like she just told hers. One of my days, just one, is the day I found out my dad smoked cracked.

It was like 94. It was 1994. The world still was hopeful then.

I was still short. I was still short.

I was very superstitious.

I was a Christian fully into it.

I ain't even curse during that time.

You know what I mean?

I would think it, but I never said it.

I just talk real slow, you know.

It'll be a blank. Like, yeah, man, let's go to the stove, you know what I mean?

But I ain't say motherfucker, you know.

It was during that time, like, I had visitation, right?

I had the chance to go see my dad, you know, which I was very excited about, because he lived in Athens. I was in Atlanta, Georgia, and I haven't seen that much since he got out of a mental institution. So I talked to him, and it sounded like he was getting his life back together. So I was like, oh, shit, I'm about to go see my dad. You know what I mean? This is going to be dope. You know, he was telling me he had this Thunderbird. He just got like a late 80s Thunderbird. I had a chance to get in the Thunderbird and it was a coop, blue, you know, nice plush interior, had that real, like, smell like an old car, smell use, you know. Like somebody just fucked into it and was like we should sell it and then they gave

a deal on it because they was like you ain't ready to get them stains out right there so we're just

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