A Family Meeting on Risk

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 13, 2015

It's a family meeting -- all about risk. Amy Fusselman discuss the shifting standards of risk for children; the risks of dangerous jobs, including police officers, sanitation and construction workers; your stories of risks you take regularly and big risks you've taken; and Gimlet Media’s Alex Blumberg discusses the calculated risks he took when he left a secure job to start his own podcast company. 

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