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RISK!

The Best of Controversial Stories

RISK!

RISK!

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

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Bruce A. Smith and Jupiter Diego present a couple of the most controversial stories that have ever appeared on RISK! • Come to Portugal for RISK!'s 15th Anniversary in May 2025: risk-show.com/portugal • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets to RISK! live shows: risk-show.com/live • Get the RISK! Book and shop for merch: risk-show.com/shop • Take our storytelling classes: thestorystudio.org • Hire Kevin Allison as a coach or get personalized videos: kevinallison.com 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

Hey folks this is Kevin on this

0:08.0

this is Kevin on this week's episode you'll hear

0:12.3

Tori Spelling.

0:17.0

That and more.

0:22.0

But before that, hello folks. that and

0:25.0

before that, hello folks, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories

0:28.0

they never thought they dare to share.

0:31.0

I'm Kevin Allison, and this week what we have for you is the best of

0:37.8

controversial stories stories we ran that got listeners saying, well saying all kinds of stuff, stories that kind of made

0:47.6

waves when we put them out. In a little bit we're going to hear from Bruce A Smith, a story that was previously only available

0:55.3

to our Patreon members over at patreon.com slash risk.

0:59.6

We have an enormous archive of bonus content over there.

1:03.6

But first, we have a story from Jupiter, Diego.

1:08.8

You know, when Risk started, I was always eager

1:11.8

to see if maybe some of the older wilder performance artists and underground

1:18.0

scenesters of the 70s and 80s like Annie Sprinkle and John Waters and Yoko Ono. Folks like that could do the show.

1:28.0

Well, it's always been hard to get folks who aren't familiar with risk to prepare something that suits the show, you know, that

1:37.1

colors within the lines that we've established, but especially so with older revolutionary artists who are used to doing

1:47.6

things however they want. Jupiter Diego was a character to say the least.

1:54.4

He was known for storytelling in the New York downtown scene, but in a performance artist

2:00.6

kind of way, like Lori Anderson or Master Lee and as a larger-than-life persona he was

2:09.8

quite beloved it's hilarious to me now that he was on NPR of all things back in the day because by 2017

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