Hello kids, 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 our earlier years.

Sometimes single stories, sometimes whole episodes, keep in mind that years ago people might

have awarded things differently than they would today.

As always, the title of the whole series, Risk, is itself a content warning.

This week, a story that David Keckner first shared on the podcast in September of 2014,

here's David now with the story we call The General.

I remember in sixth grade, a teacher, a student teacher came to our class, I'm from a small

town of Missouri, and the thing that he talked about was a little bit remarkable in that

it was very political.

The thing that was the most seared in my brain was he said, what you should do in life

is replace only you and your spouse because there are limited natural resources in this

world and we keep growing as a global population and the way to keep it in check was just replace

you and your spouse.

That really hit me.

It's like, you know, that makes absolute sense.

I remember that's what I digested from that talk.

My wife and I have five children.

Here's how it happened.

I got married at 33.

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