S17 Ep533: Second Wind

Risk! Storytelling Podcast · Sep 17, 2026 · 55m

This episode first surfaced back in June 2014, presenting three people who’d run out of road and somehow had to find more.

Daniel Lobell is broke enough to be applying for Medi-Cal, sitting in an LA social services office, and privately deciding his comedy career is finished, when an offhand habit turns the whole waiting room's attention on him. Joe Mulligan, a stand-up whose marriage and career have both come apart, flies to Boulder for a peyote ceremony and finds his spirit guide is the last thing he would have chosen. And Olga Schmutz, gutted by a breakup, walks into a Philadelphia shop at…