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Stories with keyword: poci storyteller

Howdy, Pardner!

Javier grows up in Puerto Rico on an American consulate base, frustrated by teachers who don’t understand how bilingual and bicultural he is. As he grows up and spends his graduate school years in Michigan, he feels both trapped between … Continue reading →

Keywords academia, Austin, bilingual, cowboy, fetish, fetishization, gay, giddy-up, glbtqia, hook-up, Latino, Latinx storyteller, Live, Michigan, Minneapolis, Minnesota, one night stand, pick up, POCI storyteller, Puerto Rican storyteller, queer, racism, Reba McIntyre, sex, stereotypes, Texas, West Side Story

The Backstabber

10-year old Kumail, living in a conservative Muslim household in Pakistan, is indoctrinated with how sinful it is to look at girls, or think about sex whatsoever — it’s worse than “stabbing the nephew of The Prophet in the back,” … Continue reading →

Keywords Celebrity storyteller, childhood, conservative, forbidden, Indian storyteller, Live, Muslim, Pakistani storyteller, Pakistani-American, parents, POCI storyteller, porn, pornographic, power outage, Prophet, religious, Risk show host, sex, strict, VCR, video tape

Untitled

Kumail tells his Risk! Live in LA co-host Pete about the time in his life when he lived with three roommates in Chicago, in a 3-story house with an attic, and his roommate Katie kept insisting that she heard “someone … Continue reading →

Keywords attic, banter, Best of RISK!, ceiling, Celebrity storyteller, colander, footsteps, hobo, improvisation, Indian storyteller, LA, Live story, Pakistani storyteller, Pakistani-American, POCI storyteller, Risk! Show hosts, roommates, spaghetti strainer, two person conversation, walking

The Buzzer

Wes dreams of being not just a contestant on Jeopardy, but a Grand Champion — meaning, winning at least five games — a “streak” — and then coming back for the Tournament of Champions. He studies obsessively for hours every … Continue reading →

Keywords African-American storyteller, anxiety, Black storyteller, brain, buzzer, champion, competition, competitive, contestant, depression, filming, game show, Jeopardy, Live, memory, perfectionism, POCI storyteller, pressure, suicidal, timing, trivia, TV, TV studio, winner, winning

24 Hours

In 2001, Gregory has just been kicked out of the navy for substance abuse issues (he’d been doing various drugs since adolescence), and his life has hit a rut; he’s renting sleeping space on a couch in Virginia, has no … Continue reading →

Keywords addiction, African-American storyteller, black, Black storyteller, crack, crack house, dealer, drug deals, drugs, grandmother, heroin, Live, meth, Navy, POC, POCI storyteller, St. Paul, substance abuse

Cat Lady Interrupted

Lila is a proud cat lady living a quiet life in an apartment building in Minneapolis, when one day a team of eight cops bangs at her door stating that they have a warrant to search her apartment. They cuff … Continue reading →

Keywords apartment, Asian, Asian storyteller, cats, cops, drug bust, drug raid, edibles, Live, marijuana, Minneapolis, mistaken identity, mixup, package, POCI storyteller, police, pot, renters, search

What Kind of Friend

It’s 2010, and Hank is living in NYC post grad school, and is in deep credit card debt. He becomes friends with a fellow actor, Walter, who’s so broke he’s living in his van. Hank invites Walter to be his … Continue reading →

Keywords abuser, acting, actor, Asian, Asian storyteller, bed, blow job, broke, Chinese-American storyteller, credit card debt, debt, drunk, explosive, fear, fight, force, friends, friendship, frightened, gay, glbtqia, grad school, hotel, insidious, Law & Order, Live, love, New York, NYC, platonic, POCI storyteller, police, queer, rape, roommate, sleep, stability, success, tour, unpredictable, wing man

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