The Best of RISK! #33

RISK!

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🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Our 33rd compilation of some of our favorite recent stories shared on the RISK! podcast, guest-host by Cyndi Freeman. 🎤Live Story: Hope Under the Sky (excerpt) by LP Nguyen SYNOPSIS: In 1975, the North won Vietnam’s civil war, and LP's dad, high ranking in the Southern Army, was imprisoned. The children lost everything, hunted for food, swam to school, and after 7 years, got their father back. 🎤Radio Story: Black Is the Loneliest Color by Larry Dorsey Jr. SYNOPSIS: Larry saves a suicidal Black man’s life on the streets of SF and examines his tendency to bridge things between people of different races and classes. keywords: Black experience in San Francisco, homeless, knife attack subway, people experiencing homelessness, public violence bystanders, racial isolation, urban survival stories 🎤Live Story: What the Blorp?! by Kerri Doherty SYNOPSIS: Kerri falls in love with a guy who tricks her into helping him lie to the army while he resumes his other life with his wife and daughter. keywords: army, cheating, lying to the army, relationship 🎤Radio Story: The Silver Dollar (excerpt) by Daryl Davis SYNOPSIS: Daryl backs the Ku Klux Klan into a corner and demands that they tell him why they hate him, and he really listens. keywords: blackness, changing minds, communication, conflict, empathy, grand dragon, ku klux klan, open minds, prejudice, racial hatred, racism, resolution, unchecked bias 🎤Live Story: Orgasmic by Yossi Rosenberg SYNOPSIS: Yossi is a shy guy raised in a conservative Jewish household with intimacy issues. He gets involved with the Orgasmic Meditation Scene, a somewhat iffy tribe that practices clitoral stimulation as a meditation. keywords: clitoral stimulation, culty, Orgasmic Meditation 🎤Radio Story: Breaking Point by Heather Farley SYNOPSIS: Heather has a psychotic break and leaves a Rauschenberg painting worth millions left to her in the divorce on a park bench. keywords: divorce, Psychotic Break, Rauschenberg Painting 🎤Live Story: The Big Secret (excerpt) by Brad Lawrence SYNOPSIS: (Content note: child sexual abuse, murder, suicide) In a church where guilt is weaponized and silence rewarded, teenage Brad listens to a friend's secret that echoes into adulthood, long past her violent death. keywords: abortion, childhood abuse, church youth group, evangelical guilt, murder, shame, strangulation, U2 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in NYC on December 11, 2025 • ✍️ Pitch your story⁠ • ❤️ Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • 📚 Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • 🎓 Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • 🎥 Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos 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. Now, by the time you're hearing this, I will have moved to Thailand,
0:05.6	but I figured it might take me a couple weeks to get settled. So I asked our beloved story
0:12.0	coach and casting director and corporate workshops leader Cindy Freeman to sit in for me as the guest
0:20.6	host today, but also our audio guy,
0:24.3	John LaSala, barges into this one too. So let's get to it. And by it, I mean the best of risk
0:33.5	number 33. Hey folks, this is Cindy. And this is John.
0:39.3	On this week's episode of Risk, you'll hear this eerie music.
0:43.3	That and more, but first, as you might know, I work behind the scenes helping cast the shows,
1:01.7	and holiday season is coming up upon us. So if you have any stories of holiday celebrations,
1:08.6	interesting gifts, unique holiday-related moments,
1:12.1	send us your pitch by November 1st.
1:14.5	For submission guidelines,
1:15.9	go to risk-show.com slash submissions.
1:20.4	We'll be right back.
1:23.8	Now, here's the show.
2:13.7	Music Now, here's the show. Oh, oh, oh, ah, oh, ah, oh, ah, oh, ah, oh, ah, oh, ah, oh, oh, oh, oh, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they dare to share.
2:15.2	I'm Cindy Freeman.
2:16.6	And I'm John LaSalle. And behind us there is
2:19.8	Sweet Mama, Papa's Getting Mad by the original Dixieland jazz band. And as you can hear, it's also
2:27.1	a 105-year-old recording fetched from the Library of Congress' Archives. And it's in the public domain. But most importantly, this is
2:37.3	the best of risk number 33. It is highlighting some of the best stories from the past six months
2:43.9	or so. So if you want to turn your friends on to risk, send them this episode. Or really, actually, you can send them any of the previous
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