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Today: #108 in Arts, Australia on our combined chart.

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Ranking history · Australia

Latest daily rankings: Oct 22. New rankings will appear after the next update.

Position on the Arts, Australia combined chart over the last 7 days. Toggle platforms to compare their positions. Lower rank numbers are better.

#95#112#130#147#164Chart rankOct 16Oct 18Oct 20Oct 22#108
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DateCombined RankApple PodcastsCastbox
Oct 22#108#86#62
Oct 21#105#77—
Oct 19—#182—
Oct 18#154#126—
Oct 17#122#96#90
Oct 16#131#102—

Latest episodes

  • Bangkok Stories 1

    October 20, 2026 · 56 min

    Ploy Anderson is rushing out of her Bangkok house for a lunch date, a hair roller still clipped under her helmet, when a 10-wheeler drifts into her lane. Abel Athi Kumar is easing into a slow Sunday when his housemate starts screaming by…

  • Live From London!

    October 15, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min

    This week we're revisiting the first RISK! episode ever recorded outside the United States. In July 2014, the show traveled to London for a live event co-produced with Spark. (Content note: suicidal ideation) Dave Pickering heads to a…

  • The Best of Hispanic Lives #5

    October 14, 2026 · 40 min

    Two RISK! favorites come back for Latine Heritage Month, handed to guests who know the territory. Brenda González & Delsy Sandoval, Latina co-hosts of Tamarindo podcast, join us to talk both stories through and celebrate Latine lives that…

  • The Best of RISK! #37

    October 13, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

    Three of the most memorable stories from the last six months of RISK!, back in one place. (Content note: gun violence) Jon Rappoport is on a work call outside Chicago when his wife kicks the door open: their twelve-year-old twins are…

  • Seedy

    October 8, 2026 · 56 min

    Dug out from the RISK! archives, this June 2014 episode goes straight for the seedier side of growing up, getting by, and getting out alive. Brian Cirmo spends his last night in downtown Utica the way he and his heavyset childhood crew…

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  • Gettin' Off Scot-Free

    October 6, 2026 · 35 min

    Three people do something small and stupid, then meet the full weight of the law. Kona Morris spends a four-hour Beijing layover in a customs line that will not move, with a backpack full of rocks and a Tokyo souvenir that reads as an…

  • Live From Chapel Hill!

    October 1, 2026 · 58 min

    Recorded live at DSI Comedy Theater in Chapel Hill in 2014, this classic RISK! episode brings together three storytellers on the wilder edges of youth. (Content note: emotional abuse) Lauren Patton grows up on a Georgia estate where her…

  • The Best of RISK! #36

    September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 51 min

    Twice a year we gather the best of the best from the last six months. This round holds three. (Content note: suicide) At fifteen, Richard Velazquez steps onto a 1986 Lower East Side corner for his first crack sale, carrying the…

  • Stung

    September 24, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

    "Stung" is a set of four live stories from June 2014 back in the feed, each about someone caught off guard. Matt Kirshen, 18 and backpacking through France with two sisters from Berkeley, plans to sleep in a Bordeaux park until a priest…

  • Almost

    September 22, 2026 · 40 min

    Three people come within reach of what they want and are nearly undone grabbing for it. Karen Ibarra brings a self-described nerd's devotion to a heated Los Angeles delegate election, where bad blood between two party factions turns…

  • Second Wind

    September 17, 2026 · 40 min

    This episode first surfaced back in June 2014, presenting two people who’d run out of road and somehow had to find more. Joe Mulligan, a stand-up whose marriage and career have both come apart, flies to Boulder for a peyote ceremony and…

  • Giggles

    September 17, 2026 · 41 min

    Three stories about laughing at exactly the wrong moment, and finding out it was the right one all along. Three ways of getting through it sideways. Be Part of RISK! 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in NYC - Tuesday, December 8, 2026 ✍️ Pitch your…

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About the show

If you like The Moth, This American Life or Snap Judgment, take a walk on the wilder side with RISK! Your colorful host Kevin Allison (of the legendary comedy group The State) helms this surprisingly uncensored show where people tell jaw-dropping true stories they never thought they'd dare to share in public. RISK! is hilarious, heart-wrenching and remarkably real. Think you've heard it all? Fasten your seatbelt.