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

SYNOPSIS: 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.

SYNOPSIS: 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

SYNOPSIS: 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

SYNOPSIS: 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

SYNOPSIS: 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

SYNOPSIS: 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

SYNOPSIS: (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

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