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Weirdos

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RISK!

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

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a love letter to people who are magnificently, irrepressibly, sometimes accidentally weird. Larry Dorsey Jr. opens with the true account of his first day teaching standup comedy at Northern California's top improv venue. He has TAs, a curriculum, a strategy. None of it survives contact with a visibly high student who, roughly fifteen minutes into class, pulls out his ding-dong and just starts going, putting Larry in an impossible position. And Tuesday Thomas moves to LA fresh from a divorce, meets Alexis Arquette within her first week, and ends up at a film premiere with Danny Elfman, where she personally escorts a legless, increasingly volatile Susan Tyrrell down Hollywood Boulevard in stiletto heels on a Friday night. She thought she had finally made it in Hollywood. And in a way, she had Full episode details and music credits at risk-show.com/podcast/weirdos  Support RISK! & Get Involved 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 ✍️ 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

On this episode of Risk, you'll hear...

0:02.6

He stands up and he pulls his dick out.

0:07.6

Yes.

0:09.2

And you'll hear...

0:10.8

I love everyone.

0:12.9

I love you all.

0:14.6

And of course you'll hear me, Kevin Allison,

0:17.8

on the show where people tell true stories

0:20.4

they never thought they'd dare to share.

0:31.1

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free for 60 days. What happens when two people who grew up in a very strange corner of Los Angeles

1:05.3

look back and realize just how bizarre their upbringings really were? They start a podcast, of course. I'm Ashley Johnson.

1:13.3

And I'm Talison Jaffe. Before we became the internet people we are today, we spent our childhoods as

1:18.4

working actors, appearing in shows like growing pains and films like Mr. Mom. And our podcast,

1:23.5

Weird Kids, we're diving deep into our unique upbringings, our friendship with each other,

1:28.4

and all the delightfully odd interests we still carry with us today.

1:32.9

In each episode, we get to share stories of our youth, the things that bring us joy,

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