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, inspired the idea for our podcast but it’s also the final episode of 10 Things That Scare Me. Thanks for listening to the show! Please email us at 10thingpod@wnyc.org, we're always listening.

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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’re afraid to talk about race or sick of trying to make other people talk about it, this show is for you. Subscribe to Come Through wherever you get your podcasts and enjoy this rebroadcast of Rebecca's fears.

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Mara Wilson is a former child actor and host of the podcast What Are You Afraid Of.

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Asking someone to show up for me.

Veralyn Williams is a Producer at Radio Rookies, a youth journalism program embedded within New York Public Radio’s narrative unit. Williams teaches young people to report radio documentaries inspired by their own experiences. https://www.wnyc.org/shows/rookies

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White women. They have more power than they think.

Natalie Diaz is a poet and MacArthur Genius. https://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/She also teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program. You can find her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nataliegdiaz.

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Everything was going too fast. Everybody was talking too fast. Everybody was moving too fast.

Jad Abumrad is the creator and one of the hosts of Radiolab. The son of a scientist and a doctor, Jad grew up in Tennessee. Jad is also the producer of The Ring & I about Wagner's Ring Cycle.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/71011-the-ring-and-i-the-passion-the-myth-the-mania/

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It's the one thing I think I share in common with George Bush. Just not in the broccoli fan club.

Janet Napolitano was governor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009, and the Secretary of Homeland Security under President Obama. She is currently the president of the University of California.

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There was no one in the house. Why would they be in the house?

Alaska Thunderfuck is a singer, drag performer and winner of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars. When not performing, Alaska is Justin Andrew Honard.

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It's like a tiny car crash every time you hit the mat.

Scott Colton wrestles under the name Colt Cabana. Check out his podcast, The Art of Wrestling https://soundcloud.com/coltcabana and follow him @ColtCabana on Twitter and Instagram.

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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 manifesto in graphic form. If you'd like to hear more about Brooke's inner life, check out the Radiolab episode about nihilism 

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/dust-planet 

and the follow up to it on On The Media

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/staring-abyss

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Doing it for the views.

Diante Folk is a high school student and gamer from Brooklyn. Check out his YouTube page DIANTE DA GOAT. 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVYYt04xnJFD5g6BBkfmUDw

Thanks to Children of Promise for getting us in touch with Diante. You can find out more about the important work they do here: https://www.cpnyc.org/.

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Is it too ordinary to be afraid of your cat dying?

Jeff VanderMeer is an author based in Tallahassee, Florida. His award-winning Southern Reach trilogy has been published in over 35 languages. Find out more at http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/, and follow him @jeffvandermeer (https://twitter.com/jeffvandermeer). 

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I finally figured out what the Apple store reminds me of.

Starlee Kine is the creator of Mystery Show and a writer on Search Party.

Find her @StarleeKine: https://twitter.com/StarleeKine

Mystery Show: https://www.gimletmedia.com/mystery-show 

Search Party: https://deadline.com/2018/10/search-party-louie-anderson-season-3-tbs-comedy-recurring-1202485498/

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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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A power comes over you that feels like death.

Farhad is an IT apprentice for Germany's Fraktion DIE LINKE, and lives in Berlin.

Thanks to Oliver Lazarus, who co-produced this episode.

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In my house, I'm the designated spider killer. I see the culprit and I have to ask myself: Which shoe will get the job done this time? 

Sonya Edelman is a Senior Producer at National Geographic. You can find her work at vimeo.com/sedelman2

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What’s going to happen to my brain?

Brian D’Addario is a singer, songwriter and musician. He fronts the band The Lemon Twigs ( thelemontwigs.com ) with his brother Michael D’Addario. Follow them on Twitter @thelemontwigs ( twitter.com/thelemontwigs ) 

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You might actually want the tea. But you have to appear to not want the tea.

Samin Nosrat is a chef, author, host of the Netflix series Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat (saltfatacidheat.com), and a writer for the New York Times Magazine. You can follow her @CiaoSamin: https://twitter.com/CiaoSamin

Check out Samin's recipes at https://www.saltfatacidheat.com/cook-the-recipe

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I hope my dad hears this.

Rohan is an apprentice at the Healthy Butcher in Toronto. thehealthybutcher.com/

Thanks to Elliott Dawson for his help with this episode.

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Will I be happy when this is all over?

Cleo Robinson is a cook at Dooky Chase's in New Orleans. dookychaserestaurant.com/

Thanks to Laine Kaplan-Levenson, who co-produced this episode.

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Being chased at night: when I first moved to New York, a lot of people were like just create a claw with your keys....

Jo Firestone is Brooklyn-based comedian and podcast host. You can see her live at Littlefield in Brooklyn, every Monday night at 8pm.

For more Jo, listen to her appearance on a recent episode of Radiolab here: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/sex-ed 

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Early one morning, an army green Volkswagen pulls up to the house.

Norma Elia Cantú is a folklorist, writer, and professor at Trinity University in San Antonio. Her latest novel, Cabañuelas, will be out in February.

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When you're a tall kid, it's the short kids you have to be afraid of. 

Paul Feig is a director. His films include Ghostbusters, Bridesmaids and this year's A Simple Favor. He also created the cult classic TV show Freaks and Geeks.

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Every public fear is a private fear, too.

Rebecca Traister is a writer at large for New York Magazine and the author of Good And Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger from Simon & Schuster. 

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Chris Distefano is an actor and comedian in New York City.

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Phone calls late at night or early in the morning are never a good sign. 

Deborah Backle runs an alpaca ranch in Blanco, Texas, and is the outreach coordinator for Acres of Love Animal Rescue. 

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When the zombie apocalypse meets adulting.

Jasmine Newton is originally from Brooklyn, NY and lives in Philadelphia, PA. She currently works at YouthBuild Philly as a Community Projects Coordinator.

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It not the fear itself. It’s the fear of what the fear will do to you.

John Green is a YouTuber and author based in Indianapolis, Indiana. 

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A storm doesn't care about anything. It's just a storm. A human with an agenda? That's another story.

Blair Braverman is a dog musher running her first Iditarod this March. She is the author of "Welcome To The God Damn Ice Cube" and is based in Wisconsin. You can find her @BlairBraverman

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Karma. Balloons. Karma. Balloons. 

Steven Agudelo is a mail clerk from Long Island.

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D.C. people are the worst. No wonder Trump was elected.

Anthony Scaramucci is an investor, former White House Director of Communications, and the author of Trump: The Blue-Collar President. You can follow him @Scaramucci 

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Imagine watching an animal you love kill herself.

Ottessa Moshfegh is a novelist based in Los Angeles. Her latest book is My Year of Rest and Relaxation.

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Heights. Being a black man in America. No elaboration needed.

Rob Lewis is a composer, music producer, and musical director based in New York City. Follow him on Twitter @IAmRobLewis

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Clown faces. Egg yolks. Failure. Introducing 10 Things That Scare Me, a tiny podcast about our biggest fears. The stuff that keeps us up at night, that informs our choices, and defines our lives. Listen, and feel less alone.

From WNYC Studios. 10 Things That Scare Me premieres December 4, with three new episodes every week. Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conversation, and tell us your fears at 10thingspodcast.org

Fear unites us all. In this tiny podcast, people from across the world reveal their biggest fears. The ones that keep them up at night, that inform their choices, and define their lives. Listen, and feel less alone.

From WNYC Studios. 10 Things That Scare Me premieres December 4, with three new episodes every week. Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conversation, and tell us your fears at 10thingspodcast.org 

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 Earlonne’s episode. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Molly called in to us from Maryland.

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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”.

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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 people are kind and considerate. Nata lives in Azerbijan. Nearly 6,000 miles away.Charlie is 39 and lives in Jersey City. He told me he’s been waking up in a panic at 7:30 every Saturday morning worried that he has slept through the Tottenham Hotspur match.

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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.

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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 Francisco for most of her life.

Gay Block is a portrait photographer. Her work is collected by many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Jewish Museum.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 to a conference on race and social policy. He proposed to her on the same subway platform a year later.

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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 Prize–winning reporter and host of the podcast How To from Slate. 

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