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The Living Room: RISK! Reacts

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

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Kevin hears Diane Weipert’s “The Living Room” story from Love and Radio for the first time and gives you his instant reactions. You can also watch this episode on YouTube! This is part of our RISK! Reacts series, where we listen to a story told on another show and give our first reactions. 🎙️ Story: The Living Room by Diane Weipert Through an unobstructed window, Diane observes the lives of a young couple in the apartment across the street, becoming a silent witness to their private moments, which become more and more profound.  keywords: voyeurism, neighbors, rear window, death 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in New York City 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

On this episode of Risk React,

0:03.0

Oh, I've been so stressed lately and I've been so stuck in my own head ruminating about money worries and oh my God, I don't have this and oh my God, what's going to happen with this, Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they

0:30.5

dare to share. I'm Kevin Allison, and this is another one of our Risk reacts video episodes where I listen to a story for the very first

0:41.0

time and give you my instant reactions. Now, if you want to watch this episode, there's a link to that

0:47.9

in the show notes. And for all of our audio versions of our episodes, those go back 16 years, and they're at risk dash

0:56.1

show.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Now, let's get started. If you've been following our

1:02.7

Risk React series, you'll remember that back in April of 2025, I heard a story called

1:09.5

The Silver Dollar from the podcast Love and Radio, and it was

1:14.2

absolutely extraordinary. And since then, we've had multiple suggestions for me to hear another

1:21.9

particular story from Love and Radio called The Living Room. It's from their March 2015 episode. I have never

1:31.6

heard it before. So that's what we're going to do now. We're going to listen to it together.

1:36.0

Now, what I have been told by my producers is that it was presented by Nick Vanderculk and produced

1:42.8

by Brianna Breen,

1:44.5

and we'll hear just a bit of their voices.

1:46.7

But for the most part, we'll be hearing from Diane Weipert,

1:50.7

whose story this is.

1:52.8

So after a quick break, we'll hear the living room from Love and Radio.

1:58.1

We'll be right back.

2:01.5

We're back.

2:07.8

So I've been living in my apartment about 15 years.

2:14.0

And one evening I walked in the living room, which has three bay windows, which face the gardens in the back.

2:21.3

And over half a block of gardens and across a small street, there was this bright window that I'd never noticed before.

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