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 all the way out to the dock. This audio recorded by Ida's and Noa's father on vacation in Maine

Brooke Gladstone

1 Jan 11th, 2019 7m 20s

The problem is, most of what I've ever done in my life is motivated by fear. It's like a big dust storm of fear.Brooke Gladstone is a Peabody-award winning host of WNYC's On The Media. She's also the author of The Influencing Machine, a media

Rebecca Carroll

Apr 8th, 2020 6m 44s

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 Through: 15 Essential Conversations About Race In A Pivotal Year For America. And whether you

Hank

Apr 6th, 2020 11m 24s

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 also one half of the Vlog Brothers.Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conversation, and tell u

Jessica, David, Nata and Charlie

Apr 6th, 2020 13m 26s

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 is a 54 year old engineer living in Wales in the UK. He believes that given the chance, most pe

Hrishikesh

Mar 30th, 2020 9m 45s

Hrishikesh Hirway is a musician, composer, and the creator of the podcast Song Exploder -- where musicians take apart their songs and tell the story of how they were made. Hrishi’s favorite memory from his time working in the fast food industry

Anne

Mar 30th, 2020 6m 1s

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. One time, back in the 90s, she tried water skiing. Her swim trunks fell down immediately, but

Sarah

Mar 23rd, 2020 7m 34s

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 dad is now an atheist.Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conversation, and tell us your fear

George

Mar 23rd, 2020 7m 33s

George Divoky studies the black guillemots of Cooper Island in Alaska. He is also the director of Cooper Island Arctic Research. Divoky tweeted that there is was fresh water on Cooper Island in 2019 because all the multi-year sea ice he has rel

Kent

Mar 16th, 2020 6m 51s

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 in the woods. Eventually, he had over 3,500 illustrations. In 2017, they were collected in a bo

Chris T.

Mar 16th, 2020 5m 41s

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 character Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes.Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conversation, and te

Mara

Mar 9th, 2020 4m 20s

Mara Wilson is a former child actor and host of the podcast What Are You Afraid Of.Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conversation, and tell us your fears at 10thingspodcast.org.

Liz

Mar 9th, 2020 3m 34s

Liz is a listener who called in to us from the suburbs of Chicago where she makes her living driving a book mobile.Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conversation, and tell us your fears at 10thingspodcast.org.

Nigel

Mar 2nd, 2020 14m 35s

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 Earlonne while volunteering in San Quentin and says he was the quietest guy in the room. Here’s Earl

Chris D.

Mar 2nd, 2020 7m 12s

Chris Distefano is an actor and comedian in New York City.Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conversation, and tell us your fears at 10thingspodcast.org.

Kathy

Feb 24th, 2020 11m 54s

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 a time they wanted to name it "Gaydiolab". Here’s Tobin’s episode.Join the "10 Things That Sc

Jeffrey L.

Feb 24th, 2020 4m 46s

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, trying to pay his bills and believes that the Bigmouth Buffalo Fish is undervalued.Join the "1

Ellen

Feb 17th, 2020 7m 21s

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 and her husband continued to visit him in prison.Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conversatio

Michael

Feb 17th, 2020 7m 52s

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 Revolutionary in Residence at Colonial Williamsburg. His comfort food is pot liquor.Join the "10

Molly

Feb 10th, 2020 4m 56s

Molly called in to us from Maryland.Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conversation, and tell us your fears at 10thingspodcast.org.

Maureen

Feb 10th, 2020 2m 53s

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 also a writer and author of the play “It’s All About Sex”.Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" con

Jeff E.

Feb 3rd, 2020 8m 13s

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 shells.Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conversation, and tell us your fears at 10thingspodcast

Billie and Gay

Feb 3rd, 2020 10m 21s

Billie Parker is a wife, sister, friend, activist, writer, a retired corporate video producer, and presently an addiction recovery teacher at Santa Fe County Jail. She lives with her wife Gay Block in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after residing in San

Vivian

Jan 27th, 2020 3m 51s

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 a handsome commercial pilot.Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conversation, and tell us your

Jia

1 Jan 27th, 2020 6m 6s

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 alcohol in it.Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conversation, and tell us your fears at 10thing