10 Things That Scare Me
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10 Things That Scare Me
A tiny podcast about our biggest fears.
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Ida and Noa
Ida and Noa are sisters from Brooklyn. Noa tasted her first snail last summer and Ida passed the purple swim test at camp. Now she’s allowed to swim a...
Rebecca Carroll
Back in january we brought you the fears of WNYC cultural critic and author Rebecca Carroll. She just launched a brand new podcast. It’s called Come...
Hank
Hank Green is the author of the novel An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. He lives in Missoula Montana with his wife Katherine and his son Orin. Hank is a...
Jessica, David, Nata and Charlie
Jessica is a comedy producer in her 30s and until a couple of months ago she said she would describe herself as “eggs on ice, career on fire”. David i...
Anne
Anne Wolf is a 38 year old mother, strategist, and minimalist shoe enthusiast. She loves the idea of hobbies, but she hasn’t found the right one yet....
Hrishikesh
Hrishikesh Hirway is a musician, composer, and the creator of the podcast Song Exploder -- where musicians take apart their songs and tell the story o...
Sarah
Sarah Haider grew up a devout Muslim, but left the religion as a teenager. Today she is the executive director of Ex Muslims of North America, and her...
George
George Divoky studies the black guillemots of Cooper Island in Alaska. He is also the director of Cooper Island Arctic Research. Divoky tweeted that t...
Kent
Kent Bonar lives with his animals in the Ozarks region of Arkansas. Many years ago he started drawing the various plants he encountered on his walks i...
Chris T.
Chris Thile is a traveling musician and the host of Live From Here from Minnesota Public Radio. He told us his son Cal is named after the comic strip...
Mara
Mara Wilson is a former child actor and host of the podcast What Are You Afraid Of.
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Liz
Liz is a listener who called in to us from the suburbs of Chicago where she makes her living driving a book mobile.
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Nigel
Nigel Poor is a visual artist and lives in California. She is the co-host and co-producer of the podcast Earhustle with Earlonne Woods. She met Earlon...
Chris D.
Chris Distefano is an actor and comedian in New York City.
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Kathy
Kathy Tu is the co-host of the podcast Nancy. When she and her co-host Tobin Low pitched the idea for a podcast about the queer experience, there was...
Jeffrey L.
Jeffery Lackman is a 23 year old listener who called in to us from the Minnesota/North Dakota border. He is running around with a smile on his face, t...
Ellen
Ellen Ryan is a lawyer from Chicago. She told us that she met her husband while on a trek in the Himalayas. After Jeffrey Dahmer was convicted, she an...
Michael
Michael W. Twitty is a culinary and cultural historian and author of The Cooking Gene. He converted to Orthodox Judaism at 25. Twitty is the first Rev...
Molly
Molly called in to us from Maryland.
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Maureen
Maureen took up the challenge to tell us what scares her from her home in Mendocino County, CA. Where she works as a hospital chaplain. Maureen is als...
Jeff E.
Jeff Emtman is the host of KCRW’s Here Be Monsters. He’s originally from Pullman, Washington. When Jeff was a kid, he ate a whole jar of tiny sea shel...
Billie and Gay
Billie Parker is a wife, sister, friend, activist, writer, a retired corporate video producer, and presently an addiction recovery teacher at Santa Fe...
Jia
Jia Tolentino grew up in Texas and is a New Yorker staff writer and author of the essay collection Trick Mirror. Jia has never had a soda without alc...
Vivian
Vivian Wagner is a listener like you who who decided to share her fears with us. She is an associate professor of English and getting ready to marry...
Rebecca
Rebecca Carroll is a cultural critic and Editor of Special Projects at WNYC. She met her husband on a subway platform in Brooklyn. He was on his way t...
Cameron
Cameron Esposito is a Los Angeles-based standup comic, actor and writer. Cameron did a stint as ringmaster for El Circo Cheapo Cabaret out of Chicago....
Charles
My dad loved talking to me. And I always felt bad because I didn't love talking to him even though I loved him.
Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Pri...
Ike
Ike is a listener from Chandler, Arizona. He is 11 years old and an artist.
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Season Finale: Amy Pearl
Amy Pearl lives in Brooklyn with her animal family.
For our 100th episode and the final episode of season 1, we're presenting Amy Pearl. Then,...
Eddie Adkins
By the time I got to high school, I became a featured twirler.
Eddie Adkins is a retired accounting firm partner living in Washington, D.C.
Jerry Roback
It's the slow feeling of becoming less.
Jerry Roback was assigned by the State Department to humanitarian projects in Vietnam during the war. He...
Jill Chenault
I'm not out there trying to make amphibious friends.
Jill has had many careers, from lawyer to dog walker to hand model. She currently takes car...
Congressman Andrew Kim D-NJ
I'm scared that I'm asking too much of her.
Andrew Kim is the first Democratic congressman of Korean descent.
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Billy Jackson
One minute she's there for me and the next minute she's not.
Billy Jackson lives in New York City.
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Mike Pearl
I think the real reason I didn't reenlist was because they had wool uniforms.
Mike Pearl is a retired newspaper reporter from New York. He wrote...
Jon Mooallem
The possibility that ultimately there is no cost to being despicable.
Jon Mooallem is a journalist and the creator of The WALKING podcast which...
Earlonne Woods
Tight wool sweater with syrup inside of it.
Earlonne Woods is co-host and co-creator of the Ear Hustle podcast, from PRX's Radiotopia, which jus...
Brenda Shaughnessy
Paper cut on eyeball.
Brenda Shaughnessy is a poet. Her most recent book is The Octopus Museum.
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Duff McKagan
We're singing against the man.
Duff McKagan is best known for his stint as the bassist of Guns N' Roses. He is the author of It's So Easy and Ot...
Matt Collette
Mothman related driving fears.
Matt Collette makes Post Reports, the daily news podcast from the Washington Post. He used to make Nancy from WNY...