The Best of Mother’s Day Stories #3

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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To celebrate Mother’s Day this weekend, we’ve gathered a couple touching stories about moms. This episode is part of our Mother’s Day Stories series. Pitch us your story about moms! • 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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0:33.7	Risk. Hey folks, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they
0:42.8	dare to share.
0:44.3	I'm Kevin Allison, and every Thursday we release these special episodes where we look back at content
0:49.9	from our earlier years.
0:52.2	This week, it's the best of Mother's Day stories.
0:55.9	Number three, stories about mothers who are beloved, but also complicated.
1:02.8	In a little bit, we're going to hear from Emmett Montgomery.
1:05.8	But first, a story from Todd Kelly.
1:09.4	Here's Todd now with a story we call
1:12.2	The Aquarian.
1:43.3	It was shortly after my 45th birthday. and I want to say maybe the 12th or 13th time in the space of a goddamn half hour that she asked me for a glass of water, that I made the decision to kill my mother.
1:50.0	And before you judge me too harshly,
1:56.0	you need to understand that more than anybody else I've ever known at that moment, the woman deserved to die.
2:01.6	In 2007, my mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and it was an enormous blow to the family and an enormous surprise.
2:11.6	For one thing, I come from one of those incredibly tight-knit families, a nuclear family of four.
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