Mar 19, 2026 · 44 min · 16 segments
First released in December 2013, this live RISK! episode from Philadelphia's First Person Arts pairs two storytellers with a lot to say about losing control and getting it back. Dawn Jewel Fraser's…
Kevin AllisonHost[upbeat music]
[audience cheering]
I'm sitting at this bar in the beautiful moonlit sky in Rio de Janeiro, Copacabana Beach, Brazil.
I look up and I see this huge Christ statue that's, like, looking out over the entire city as if it's, like, forgiving all the people for being so damn sexy all at once.
[laughing]
I look down and I see all these beautiful people just wandering around, and I'm thinking to myself, "This is where I belong." But I'm pretty tipsy, and I need to go home, so I, I call over the waiter, and I say, "Garçon," you know, "Waiter, bring me the check." But the person sitting directly across from me, Marcy, my Portuguese instructor, stops me, and she says, "Dawn, Dawn, Dawn, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Go ahead, bring one more drink," right? So they go back, and he brings me another drink.
He's like, "Oh, this girl definitely is not from here," because every... unlike everyone else who can handle the liquor after about five, six drinks, I definitely cannot.
I'm ready to go." And Marcy says, "Wait, wait, Dawn, Dawn, a saída." And I'm thinking to myself, "This is my first week in Portuguese.
Is that the bathroom?" I was like, "Marcy, what is a saída?" She's like, "It's the wordy for the drinky after your last drinky."
[laughing]
And I was like, "There is a word in Portuguese for the drink after the last drink?"
[laughing]
[upbeat music]
[audience cheering]
I'm sitting at this bar in the beautiful moonlit sky in Rio de Janeiro, Copacabana Beach, Brazil.
I look up and I see this huge Christ statue that's, like, looking out over the entire city as if it's, like, forgiving all the people for being so damn sexy all at once.
[laughing]
I look down and I see all these beautiful people just wandering around, and I'm thinking to myself, "This is where I belong." But I'm pretty tipsy, and I need to go home, so I, I call over the waiter, and I say, "Garçon," you know, "Waiter, bring me the check." But the person sitting directly across from me, Marcy, my Portuguese instructor, stops me, and she says, "Dawn, Dawn, Dawn, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Go ahead, bring one more drink," right? So they go back, and he brings me another drink.
He's like, "Oh, this girl definitely is not from here," because every... unlike everyone else who can handle the liquor after about five, six drinks, I definitely cannot.
I'm ready to go." And Marcy says, "Wait, wait, Dawn, Dawn, a saída." And I'm thinking to myself, "This is my first week in Portuguese.
Is that the bathroom?" I was like, "Marcy, what is a saída?" She's like, "It's the wordy for the drinky after your last drinky."
[laughing]
And I was like, "There is a word in Portuguese for the drink after the last drink?"
[laughing]
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