Non-Ethical Non-Monogamy
11 August - 55 mins explicitFox Emerson moves to Milan with his husband for a fresh start, then lets a charismatic man he met in Atlanta follow him there. The man settles into the apartment, grows colder and stranger by the day, and one late-night argument escalates until Fox is the one in handcuffs, alone in an Italian jail cell with no idea why.
Patrick Holbert convinces himself his marriage is quietly open, books an appointment with a dominatrix in Queens, and spends the next six weeks deciding whether to tell his wife. His confession lands nothing like he pictured. Funny, filthy, and more honest about marriage than he probably planned.
Both men skipped the conversation that might have changed everything.
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Series Episodes
Live From Reno 1!
explicitLive from Reno in April 2014, three first-time RISK! storytellers turn a single night into a run of proposition, prophecy, and psychedelic reckoning. Virginia Munsterman is a 20-year-old college student scraping by as a barista when a new job as a chiropractor's assistant lands her at a business conference in Clearwater, Florida. The company's multimillionaire CEO zeroes in on her immediately, and over two days his attention escalates from flattery and magic tricks to a yacht tour and a dinner where he asks her to give him the next 15 to 20 years of her life in exchange for his fortune. Jessica Levity is driving cross-country to Reno with her brother when a detour to the clearest lake in Kansas turns into a three-day stay with a self-proclaimed shaman named Lone Wolf. He shows up at their campsite with a bottle of ketchup Jessica had forgotten to buy, claiming the Great Spirit told him to bring it, and offers to reveal the hidden history of the Earth. His teachings turn out to include an antisemitic alien-hybrid origin theory for Jewish people, and Jessica and Teddy have to figure out how much of any of it to believe. Steve Emmerich grows up gay and Catholic in Cincinnati, suppressing an identity that doesn't fit the blueprint he was given. At a massive Phish festival in Maine, high on several substances at once, he breaks down crying when a vision presents him with two doors and realizes he doesn't recognize himself in either one. Comments, episode details, and music credits at risk-show.com/podcast/live-from-reno-1-cre527Ā Be Part of RISK! š See RISK! liveā in NYC on Tuesday, September 8th, 2026 āļø Pitch your storyā ā¤ļø Support us on Patreonā šµ Make a one-time donationā ā via PayPal or Zelle to [email protected] š Shop merch or the RISK! bookā š Take storytelling classes with usā š„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1 hour
6 August Finished
Trying It On
explicitKenice Mobley grew up on a 1999 movie fantasy of the woman who travels the world, says yes to everything, and never flinches. As an adult she follows that ideal into a Paris sex club, a single shared baguette, and a straight-faced argument about whether taking your clothes off makes anyone free. Itās all fun and game right up until it turns into a question about who a room actually wants. (Content note: suicide) Richard Velazquez is fifteen in 1986, newly out of a Jehovah's Witness childhood, and living with his drug-dealing father, when he walks onto a Lower East Side corner for his first crack sale. What he is really carrying is fear: of demons, of prison, of turning into the man in front of him. When his first customer hits the pipe and collapses, every childhood terror comes back at once. Leave your comments and find episode details and music credits at risk-show.com/podcast/trying-it-onĀ Be Part of RISK! š See RISK! liveā in NYC on Tuesday, September 8th, 2026 āļø Pitch your storyā ā¤ļø Support us on Patreonā šµ Make a one-time donationā ā via PayPal or Zelle to [email protected] š Shop merch or the RISK! bookā š Take storytelling classes with usā š„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
49 mins
4 August Finished
Freedom
explicitFrom April 2014, five people finding a way out. Sean Crespo signs up for a sleep deprivation study to escape the worst summer job in Boston, then spends ten days plotting one act of privacy. Kate Greathead, dumped and displaced, discovers she can cry on the subway every night and nobody will stop her. (Content note: suicidal ideation) Jeff Simmermon loses a testicle to cancer and gains an imaginary black bird that whispers to him at night about how the loneliness will never end. John F. O'Donnell, in the middle of a manic episode in 2008, decides he alone can stop the neoconservatives from crashing the internet. Jean Ann Le Bec, married in 1966 to a man who naps all day, goes back to college on Open Admissions and finds a women's group, a room worth occupying, and Mona. Leave your comments and find episode details and music credits at risk-show.com/podcast/freedom-cre525 Be Part of RISK! š See RISK! liveā on September 8, 2026 in New York City āļø Pitch your storyā ā¤ļø Support us on Patreonā šµ Make a one-time donationā ā via PayPal or Zelle to [email protected] š Shop merch or the RISK! bookā š Take storytelling classes with usā š„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1 hour 13 mins
30 July Finished
Let Him Go
explicitTwo people confront what it means to stay bound to someone who keeps letting them down. Tuesday Thomas, a trans woman in LA with a lifelong pull toward unavailable men, meets a charming match on a dating app. The chemistry is undeniable, right up until he looks her in the eye and warns her not to Google him. Her response becomes a very funny, surprisingly pointed argument about honesty and what commitment is really worth. Then David Hu comes home to the Bronx for Father's Day 2021 and finds his father, deep in dementia, suddenly and frighteningly ill. Amid COVID lockdowns and an overwhelmed nursing home, he and his mother face impossible choices about how to care for a man who is slipping away. Leave your comments on these stories and find episode details and music credits at risk-show.com/podcast/let-him-goĀ Be Part of RISK! š See RISK! liveā in NYC on Tuesday, September 8th, 2026 āļø Pitch your storyā ā¤ļø Support us on Patreonā šµ Make a one-time donationā ā via PayPal or Zelle to [email protected] š Shop merch or the RISK! bookā š Take storytelling classes with usā š„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
37 mins
28 July Finished
Still Dog People: Who Am I Now
explicitMarilyn Gilchrist is a professional dog trainer, and "Who Am I Now" is her conversation with Michael Shikashio, lifted from his podcast The Bitey End of the Dog. Kevin Allison sets it up and returns at the end with his own thoughts. This is a companion episode to Still Dog People: Two Truths, released earlier in the week. (Content note: graphic dog attack) An hour into a routine welfare check on a foster dog, Marilyn stood up to leave. The dog grabbed the lead, she dropped it exactly as she had twice already that afternoon, and every muscle in the dog went tense. The weeks after taught her that the wound in her leg was the smaller problem. She had built a career and a self on being good with dogs, and now she could not be in a room with one she did not know. Leave your comments plus find episode details and music credits at risk-show.com/podcast/still-dog-people-who-am-i-nowĀ You can find all of our Conversation Stories at risk-show.com/conversationstoriesĀ Be Part of RISK! š See RISK! liveā in NYC on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 āļø Pitch your storyā ā¤ļø Support us on Patreonā šµ Make a one-time donationā ā via PayPal or Zelle to [email protected] š Shop merch or the RISK! bookā š Take storytelling classes with usā š„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1 hour 3 mins
23 July Finished
