RISK!

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Humiliating

#29 trending · Arts

Three people get taken down a few pegs in front of an audience in this classic RISK! episode, first released in August of 2014 and pulled back into the feed. Roger Haile

Nov 12
43 min

Nontraditional

Two folks try to make love and family work without a road map. Adam Darrow agreed to an open relationship on a don’t ask, don’t tell basis, and it held up until his wife

Nov 10
45 min

Live From Chicago 2!

RISK!'s second live Chicago show, back now from August of 2014, nearly came apart from technical trouble and a lineup crisis, but the audience there saved it. (Content n

Nov 5
1 h 10 min

Immigrant Stories #4

Two people, decades and continents apart, are both foreigners in the land they were headed for. Lucy McCullough is six when her parents’ visas expire and the family need

Nov 2
34 min

Scary Stories #4: Yikes!

Halloween weekend brings back one of RISK!’s eerier classics from November 2013. Jackson McKeehan, orphaned at seven and still an anxious wreck as an adult, books a sess

Oct 29
1 h 02 min

Scary Stories #18: Spine-tingling!

The eighteenth annual Halloween-tide episode runs from a dark bedroom to a front porch to a burning house. Larry Dorsey Jr. is eighteen and staying at his girlfriend’s a

Oct 27
1 h 03 min

Make It Stop!

A classic RISK! episode from July 2014 built around three situations that everyone involved would happily have ended earlier. Sam Mullins is in his final year at the Uni

Oct 22
51 min

Bangkok Stories 1

Ploy Anderson is rushing out of her Bangkok house for a lunch date, a hair roller still clipped under her helmet, when a 10-wheeler drifts into her lane. Abel Athi Kumar

Oct 20
56 min

Live From London!

This week we're revisiting the first RISK! episode ever recorded outside the United States. In July 2014, the show traveled to London for a live event co-produced with Sp

Oct 15
1 h 26 min

The Best of Hispanic Lives #5

Two RISK! favorites come back for Latine Heritage Month, handed to guests who know the territory. Brenda González & Delsy Sandoval, Latina co-hosts of Tamarindo podcast,

Oct 14
40 min

The Best of RISK! #37

Three of the most memorable stories from the last six months of RISK!, back in one place. (Content note: gun violence) Jon Rappoport is on a work call outside Chicago w

Oct 13
1 h 16 min

Seedy

Dug out from the RISK! archives, this June 2014 episode goes straight for the seedier side of growing up, getting by, and getting out alive. Brian Cirmo spends his last

Oct 8
56 min

Gettin' Off Scot-Free

Three people do something small and stupid, then meet the full weight of the law. Kona Morris spends a four-hour Beijing layover in a customs line that will not move, wi

Oct 6
35 min

Live From Chapel Hill!

Recorded live at DSI Comedy Theater in Chapel Hill in 2014, this classic RISK! episode brings together three storytellers on the wilder edges of youth. (Content note: em

Oct 1
58 min

The Best of RISK! #36

Twice a year we gather the best of the best from the last six months. This round holds three. (Content note: suicide) At fifteen, Richard Velazquez steps onto a 1986 Lo

Sep 29
1 h 50 min

Stung

"Stung" is a set of four live stories from June 2014 back in the feed, each about someone caught off guard. Matt Kirshen, 18 and backpacking through France with two sist

Sep 24
1 h 03 min

Almost

Three people come within reach of what they want and are nearly undone grabbing for it. Karen Ibarra brings a self-described nerd's devotion to a heated Los Angeles dele

Sep 22
40 min

Second Wind

This episode first surfaced back in June 2014, presenting two people who’d run out of road and somehow had to find more. Joe Mulligan, a stand-up whose marriage and care

Sep 17
40 min

Giggles

Three stories about laughing at exactly the wrong moment, and finding out it was the right one all along. Three ways of getting through it sideways. Be Part of RISK! 🎟

Sep 17
40 min

Live from Boston!

Three wildly different stories from a night RISK! recorded live in Boston at the Nameless Coffeehouse back in May of 2014, pulled from the archive and dropped back into t

Sep 10
1 h 09 min

Chart trend

Position in the Performing Arts chart (US), last 90 days.

#1#7#13AugSepOctNov

all-time peak

371

days in the top 10 since Nov 2024

Chart positions

Where RISK! ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Nov 14, 2026).

#24 — Arts US

#8 ▲ 2 Performing Arts US

What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

We cannot lose Risk, please support it on Patreon as I have and will continue to. The bravery and candor with which people share their stories - sometimes funny, sometimes gross, sometimes heart-breaking, often moving - can truly alter lives. Offering up experiences listeners might never even heave dreamt of having not only leads to a level of familiarity and openness with a given sensitive subject, it can also make other experiences listening feel less alone.

Nick. C · Jun 2026

I just listened “ into the moving dark” I have wanted to become a patron but due to multiple surgeries and expensive medical issues I just didn’t feel I had the funds. I donate to several community support organizations. After hearing this story, I decided that nothing‘s going to change in this world unless we stand up and share our stories so that people can be exposed to alternative ways of thinking that might be more healthy for us all.. I am transsexual, I identify as male, and I feel deep sadness for the difficulty my female community members are suffering because of ignorance and the politics in this country. I am lucky in that I blend in easily with other men, and because I have a spinal cord injury and use a power wheelchair whenever I’m out in public, I feel very safe because of the fact that people are also nervous about those of us in chair chairs and keep their distance. Of course they’re wonderful people that want to support us but those that don’t or unlikely to bother me. I know what it’s like to be locked up. I suffered from severe depression prior to transition and spent many hours in psych hospitals. Some were amazing and some were terrifying. This beautiful woman who shared the podcast is so strong, I hope that I can hold that kind of strength as I move into more surgeries and likely run into those who do not support me. I now realize just how important this podcast is. I can’t give much but I will give what I can to keep the voices speaking truth. America was built on diversity and courage. We need to retain that courage in order to keep our freedom. Am I terrified being trans in the world right now? Absolutely! When I hear stories like I heard today, it gives me just a little bit more courage to hang in there. Enough already! We must not allow cruelty to take away our incredible power to love. Thank you, Kevin. Thank you for. your commitment to make America something far better than great. Thank you for making America more compassionate and empathetic. In the Bible, it says that God. IS love. Though I spend many hours contemplating, I don’t know much about God, but I hope to learn more and more about love every day until my last.

Brokenboxer · Jun 2026

I have been listening to Risk for a long time and appreciate the authenticity, intimacy, vulnerability, and breadth of stories shared from a multitude of perspectives. This podcast is so valuable and has greatly expanded my understanding of different people’s experiences. My favorite episodes are the uninterrupted stories.

Boggle Queen · Apr 2026

Obsessed with Risk! I’ve been listening for well over a decade. Always engaging and entertaining and thought provoking. Love Kevin like family. So thankful for everyone who makes Risk happen.

Kit Kat !D · Apr 2026

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