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The Best of School Stories #1

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RISK!

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

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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A compilation of some of the best school related stories from the podcast.  🎤Live Story: Taking A Long Time by Angie Chatman At age 8 Angie is in 2nd grade. A policeman visits and when he asks for a volunteer he hand shoots up. He handcuffs her in front of the classroom and refuses to let her go until she says "please." The fright causes her to pee, until the teacher finally insists he let her go. Angie's mom does nothing about it, but tells her, "Change is going to come."   🎤Live Story: Found In Translation by Eli Reiter Eli is an Orthodox Jewish Kid who becomes friends with a Muslim student at school. When the conflict in Israel heightens and his friend is there, Eli worries about his safety – discovering that friendship crosses boundaries.  🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in NYC September 25th • ✍️ 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey folks, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they

0:12.6

dare to share. I'm Kevin Allison, and every Thursday we release these special episodes

0:18.4

where we look back at content from our earlier years. This week,

0:23.2

it's the best of school stories, number one, as we are now in September. Now, both of these

0:30.4

stories we're about to hear were first shared back during the COVID lockdown in 2020,

0:36.4

when we were doing risk shows from our living rooms.

0:40.3

Myself as the host, every storyteller, and every audience member. We were all in our homes,

0:46.3

but we were all having a risk live stream show together. We did that for several months.

0:52.0

It was so much fun, but the audio quality of the stories

0:55.9

is a little different from what you're used to because of that. And in fact, I was just thinking

1:01.9

it's about time we have both of these storytellers back on the show, ASAP. In a little bit,

1:08.4

we're going to hear from Ellie Ryder, but first, we're going to hear a story from Angie Chatman.

1:14.8

And here she is now with a story that we call, taking a long time.

1:20.8

Everyone, please welcome to the virtual stage, Angie Chatman.

1:33.3

Second grade was boring. The nuns all wore these habits where we were like big black capes,

1:39.3

and they also had to wear the thing that covered their heads so that all you saw was their face.

1:44.9

My teacher, Mrs. Scott, wasn't a nun, so she was always in what I call dress-up clothes.

1:52.2

Me and my fellow students, we also had to wear uniforms to school, the girls in plaid skirts

1:59.4

and knee-high socks that had to either be navy or white. And we wore a

2:05.6

white shirt with a collar. In the colder days, you could wear a navy blue sweater. And the boys

2:12.4

had to wear blue pants and dark shoes and white shirts as well. So it's kind of strict and not a lot of fun,

2:23.0

except on Visitor Day. Oh, Visitor Day. We got to wear our own clothes. And it was always a surprise

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