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10 Things That Scare Me is a tiny podcast about our biggest fears. In each episode, one person talks. Alone in a room. It could be anyone. It could be you. It’s someone driven by fears that...

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...

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 cal...

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....

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...

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...

Hrishikesh Hirway is a musician, composer, and the creator of the podcast Song Exploder -- where musicians take apart their songs and tell t...

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 Americ...

George Divoky studies the black guillemots of Cooper Island in Alaska. He is also the director of Cooper Island Arctic Research. Divoky twee...

Kent Bonar lives with his animals in the Ozarks region of Arkansas. Many years ago he started drawing the various plants he encountered on h...

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 co...

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 tel...

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...

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...

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 10thin...

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,...

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 h...

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 convict...

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...

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

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. Maur...

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 tin...

Billie Parker is a wife, sister, friend, activist, writer, a retired corporate video producer, and presently an addiction recovery teacher a...

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 wi...

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...

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...

Cameron Esposito is a Los Angeles-based standup comic, actor and writer. Cameron did a stint as ringmaster for El Circo Cheapo Cabaret out o...

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...

Ike is a listener from Chandler, Arizona. He is 11 years old and an artist. Join the 10 Things That Scare Me conversation, and tell us your...

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. The...

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....

It's the slow feeling of becoming less. Jerry Roback was assigned by the State Department to humanitarian projects in Vietnam during the war...

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...

I'm scared that I'm asking too much of her. Andrew Kim is the first Democratic congressman of Korean descent. Join the "10 Things That Scare...

One minute she's there for me and the next minute she's not. Billy Jackson lives in New York City. Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conver...

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 w...

The possibility that ultimately there is no cost to being despicable. Jon Mooallem is a journalist and the creator of The WALKING podcast wh...

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...

Paper cut on eyeball. Brenda Shaughnessy is a poet. Her most recent book is The Octopus Museum . Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conversa...

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 an...

Mothman related driving fears. Matt Collette makes Post Reports , the daily news podcast from the Washington Post. He used to make Nancy fro...

When you're a little kid, everything looks big. Born Lamont Jody Hawkins, U-God is an American rapper and hip-hop artist and one of the foun...

This is all I deserve. Alex Goldman is the co-host of the podcast Reply All from Gimlet Media. Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conversati...

My own heartbeat. Kathryn Harrison is a writer living in New York City. Her latest book is On Sunset . Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" co...

I wanted to read a masterpiece but this is just a book. Karen Russell is the author of Orange World and other books. She has received a MacA...

The woods at night. Garrett Crowe is a writer and podcast producer. Check out his work here . And follow him @crowegarrett . Join the "10 Th...

Dead air. Kai Wright is host and managing editor of The Stakes , a podcast about social change, produced by the Narrative Unit of WNYC’s new...

The marionettes in my mom’s bedroom. Sarah Duckett is a mechanical engineer in Boston, Massachusetts. Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" con...

Actually being betrayed. Felix Bircheneder studies English and German language, literature and culture. He sends his greetings from Germany....

My future sucking. Zenna Wallace is a student who is homeschooled in Florida. Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conversation, and tell us y...

Being shot and killed by law enforcement. DeRay Mckesson is a civil rights activist. He was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Join the...