Hey folks, this is Kevin. On this week's episode of Risk, the best of Risk number 19, you'll hear Alexandra Anagnostopoulos.

Me and my friend, me and my, me and my, me and my, me and my friend.

That and more, but before that, I just want to say, did you know we have, I think it's 20 people at this point who do one thing or another for Risk or the story studio.

Our business and administrative folks, our audio editors, our story coaches, our faculty members, our website and social media folks.

There are a few of us, even who are full time. Now everyone at Risk and the story studio has had to take pay cuts this year.

On top of our efforts to reduce the hours that a lot of the folks who work for us are working.

And then us full timers are taking on more hours, but also pay cuts.

One thing that just keeps being said in conversation after conversation among us on the staff is that we just love and believe in this show so much that we just want to do anything necessary to keep the show running.

Our last assessment is that we can continue to break even for another eight months or so, but we're placing our intention on not just surviving this economic crisis, but flourishing and thriving and becoming stronger because of this.

You know, not to see this as the possible end of risk, but to see this as the greatest challenge we're making it through so that we can expand the show in the future.

That's why it means so, so very much to us when risk fans become members of ours at patreon.com slash risk.

I've said it many times you already know there's a lot of bonus content over there. There's a lot of perks to becoming a member at patreon.com slash risk.

There's also the opportunity of giving us a one time donation at paypal.me slash risk show.

So we are so very deeply grateful that people have been signing up or increasing the amount that they're giving over there on patreon, but know that we need that trend to continue for the greater goal of risk itself to continue.

We want to thank everyone so very much for being a community that keeps this show running.

Now here's the show.

Hello kids, this is risk.

The show where people tell true stories they never thought they'd dare to share. I'm Kevin Allison, this is Manu DeBango behind me now, and this is the best of risk number 19.

Every six or seven months we do a little round up of some of our very favorite stories from the show recently.

We've started polling our audience to find out what your favorite stories were, and this time around we decided to release two of them.

We came out with the best of risk 18 on Tuesday of this week, and now it's Thursday and we're releasing the best of risk 19 because everyone agreed.

I mean in the polling a lot of people thought that nine stories in particular were clearly favorites.

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