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The Best of Groundhog Day Stories

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

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Some of our favorite stories about Groundhog Day • 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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The steakhouse stack, with two beef paties, crispy onions and peppercorn sauce,

0:03.7

it's the kind of McDonald's you take photos of to put pride of place on the mantelpiece.

0:07.6

Sure you'll need to make room.

0:09.3

But you remember what your wedding day looked like.

0:11.6

The steakhouse stack, it's McDonald's and then some.

0:14.4

Available until the 6th of feb, sir from 11 a.m. subject to availability,

0:18.8

participating restaurants only. 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

0:36.2

Thursday we release these special episodes where we look back at content from the earlier years of the

0:42.4

podcast. This week it's the best of Groundhog Day stories.

0:49.7

We dug through our archives to find every story we could with at least some sort of connection

0:57.9

to Groundhog Day, whether the day itself or the movie.

1:03.7

Now, in a little bit, we're going to hear from David Crab,

1:07.2

but first, a story from one of our favorite storytellers

1:11.5

and the host of our LA show. It's a story we first shared on the

1:16.2

podcast back in February of 2022. Here he is now with a story we call Groundhog Day.

1:25.0

When I was 15 years old, my guidance counselor accidentally outed me to my father and it was a shock to my

1:36.3

father I don't know how I drew Wonder Woman so much when I was little I listened to

1:40.3

Xanadu so many times in a row but it was a shock and that point I was

1:44.0

a goth kid I was literally sitting there with like black fingernails in a dog

1:46.4

collar like yeah I'm gay and my dad he seemed to accept it but he didn't. I don't know if any of people have come out of had this, and I had to come out to him like again and again. It was like gay Groundhog Day, which is this endless loop, like for two years still gay dad not changing now over the

2:06.4

years I told my whole family they all know that I'm gay but there's one person

2:09.8

that I haven't come out to and it's my grandmother's Sossie. Sossie's real name is Selma, but my little

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