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RISK

Episode #910

Date December 11, 2017

Run Time 1:04:37

Emma Alamo, Jacoby Cochran, and Maureen Muldoon share stories about a blowjob in a tree, a kids’ production of the Passion, and a few jars of babies.


Song: RISK! Theme by Wormburner and John Sondericker

Song: Piamose Trastevere by Funkallisto

Live Story: Outta My Tree! by Emma Alamo

Live Story: I Don’t Know How to Love Him by Jacoby Cochran

Song: Nothing At All by The Shins

Live Story: The Babies by Maureen Muldoon

Song: Chicago by Sufjan Stevens

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RiskfanBlowjobTree
7 years ago

That Easter Egg Risk! theme song is FANTASTIC. Love it love it. Can you please bring it back as the close of each episode, or something? It deserves more airtime!

Kevin
7 years ago

Hey BlowjobTree. In the first couple years of RISK!, we had fans send in theme songs. After a couple of years, we decided the one created by Wormburner and John Sondericker that you hear at the very top of each episode was the cream of the crop. But there were literally dozens of absolutely fabulous songs with the word “risk” in them sent in to us for a couple years. I’ve talked about how we welcome people to be doing this again on the podcast a few times recently. Anyone who wants more info on how to do it should email me at kevin@risk-show.com.

geverend
7 years ago

Thanks, RiskfanBlowjobTree, for the kind words! If you like the song, you can download it here:
https://soundcloud.com/adamdickinson-2/take-a-risk
Or check out some of my other music at:
https://ahalocalledfred.bandcamp.com/

And thanks, Kevin, for using the song! Was listening to this episode on the trian this morning on the train, and did a double-take when I heard it playing!

Decency
6 years ago

I’m surprised there haven’t been more comments condemning the story by Emma Alamo. While it’s unfortunate that she was left unsatisfied by the guy in the tree, that’s certainly not justification for publicly shaming him and trying to emasculate him by telling a bar full of people about his sexual prowess. In my book, that’s no different (and just as despicable) as an angry ex-lover posting revenge porn.

The storyteller tries to justify her behavior by labeling the guy as a “Men’s Rights activist” who deserves no sympathy. But the fact that his values are so different from hers has no bearing on her actions.

Moreover, the storyteller admits (in so many words) that she is making bad choices on her dating app and pursuing men who — from the start — probably aren’t good for her. So, you’d think she wouldn’t be so surprised to learn that this dude wasn’t a stand-up gentleman and that the date didn’t go the way she wanted. I don’t want to be accused of “victim-blaming”, but she bears some of the responsibility of not knowing this guy better before she blew him, and of consequently getting upset when it wasn’t reciprocated. It’s not like the storyteller was duped by a guy pretending to be someone he wasn’t.

The storyteller seems upset — but only in hindsight — that she made a bad decision by meeting up with this guy in a tree. And she seems to be inappropriately transferring her feelings of poor judgment into resentment about this guy: his premature ejaculation, his beliefs, his behavior in the bar when they ran into each other again. I think it’s absolutely despicable that the storyteller goes out of her way to humiliate this guy because of misdirected feelings of her own bad decision-making. This isn’t about the tree guy; this is about her.

The storyteller’s actions are the same as slut-shaming. They’re the same as the old app Lulu. They’re the same as revenge porn. She is straight-up bullying. And if we don’t (and shouldn’t) accept men treating women this way, then we shouldn’t have a double-standard and allow women to treat men this way, either.

The storyteller may not like this tree guy, and she may have some reason not to. But she should at least show some basic human decency and respect. Her behavior in this story was totally unacceptable.

Maria
6 years ago

Hey Decency, shut the fuck up. Holy shit you’re annoying

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