The Best of RISK! #33
RISK!30 Syys 2025

The Best of RISK! #33

Our 33rd compilation of some of our favorite recent stories shared on the RISK! podcast, guest-host by Cyndi Freeman. 🎤Live Story: Hope Under the Sky (excerpt) by LP Nguyen In 1975, the North won Vietnam’s civil war, and LP's dad, high ranking in the Southern Army, was imprisoned. The children lost everything, hunted for food, swam to school, and after 7 years, got their father back. 🎤Radio Story: Black Is the Loneliest Color by Larry Dorsey Jr. Larry saves a suicidal Black man’s life on the streets of SF and examines his tendency to bridge things between people of different races and classes. keywords: Black experience in San Francisco, homeless, knife attack subway, people experiencing homelessness, public violence bystanders, racial isolation, urban survival stories 🎤Live Story: What the Blorp?! by Kerri Doherty Kerri falls in love with a guy who tricks her into helping him lie to the army while he resumes his other life with his wife and daughter. keywords: army, cheating, lying to the army, relationship 🎤Radio Story: The Silver Dollar (excerpt) by Daryl Davis Daryl backs the Ku Klux Klan into a corner and demands that they tell him why they hate him, and he really listens. keywords: blackness, changing minds, communication, conflict, empathy, grand dragon, ku klux klan, open minds, prejudice, racial hatred, racism, resolution, unchecked bias 🎤Live Story: Orgasmic by Yossi Rosenberg Yossi is a shy guy raised in a conservative Jewish household with intimacy issues. He gets involved with the Orgasmic Meditation Scene, a somewhat iffy tribe that practices clitoral stimulation as a meditation. keywords: clitoral stimulation, culty, Orgasmic Meditation 🎤Radio Story: Breaking Point by Heather Farley Heather has a psychotic break and leaves a Rauschenberg painting worth millions left to her in the divorce on a park bench. keywords: divorce, Psychotic Break, Rauschenberg Painting 🎤Live Story: The Big Secret (excerpt) by Brad Lawrence (Content note: child sexual abuse, murder, suicide) In a church where guilt is weaponized and silence rewarded, teenage Brad listens to a friend's secret that echoes into adulthood, long past her violent death. keywords: abortion, childhood abuse, church youth group, evangelical guilt, murder, shame, strangulation, U2 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in NYC 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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