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

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

podcast. This week it's the best of self-help stories,

number two. Now in the second half of this episode, we'll hear from Ellie Jackson and hers is an extraordinary

story about being a survivor of sexual abuse but first we're going to hear a story from David Jacobs. This

one was shared at a Risk Live show at Brown University in 2013 from one of the three or four times that we've done

risk shows at universities so without further ado here is David Jacobs now with the story we's the speed limit. I was nice, I was kind, I was funny.

I wasn't the most popular kid in the class, but I had friends, don't worry about me.

And, uh, most importantly, I listened to authority and I followed the rules.

But then there was also 90 mile an hour David.

Now as you might expect he had an uncontrollable temper, used expletives gratuitously.

And if you saw this situation developing,

it was an immediate warning of like an emergency evacuation

kind of thing.

Anyone within like a 10-mile radius probably

want to get out of the area.

In kindergarten, we had this assignment, a city and country.

We had to turn our classroom into a modern

US small town. So we had the the pancake house and the police station and the

firehouse and the post office and Scott and I had been given the library.

The library was up in the loft.

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