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This week, it’s all about fear! Find out what things from childhood still creep us out–and what our greatest fears are today. Listen to us talk about how we’ve overcome many of the fears we’ve faced. Learn about how anger and fear are related. We all have a phobia or two, but what happens when we give in to irrational fears? We talk about how statistically, most of us are safer than ever, and yet many people we talk to have never seemed more afraid. Many of these people watch a lot of “news”; we discuss how the media, in a race for ratings, benefits when it can play to our fears and keep us on edge.
Fear isn’t just about things that go bump in the night–the stresses of working in a time when layoffs are not uncommon leads to fear at work. We talk about how to break those fears, and most other fears you have (including how to use fear to overcome fear). Finally, sometimes we love being scared. We close this episode talking about why some scary things bother us, but yet we gravitate toward amusement parks, scary movies, and haunted houses.
Beta listeners have said this is one of their favorite episodes, and we won’t argue with them. We haven’t had this much fun doing the podcast…
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Spiders are my friends. 🙂
But silverfish . . yeah. Creepy. There’s just something wrong about them. Same with roaches, ever since I had one crawl up my arm and one crawl up my pants leg. I Completely Freaked Out. Crying, hyperventilating.
I love basements. 🙂 The darker, mustier, and spiderwebbier, the better. Horror movies from the 70s and 80s were my friends too. “Jaws” scared me, though. Goats – the pupils used to freak me out until I saw a goat drink his own urine as he was peeing. After that, the pupils were a good thing.
I’ve always been very afraid of clowns and houseflies (in a house). I wouldn’t say I have full-blown phobias, as these fears don’t affect the quality of my day-to-day life. But in the presence of clowns or houseflies, I panic. 🙁
“Roanoke? Oh my god!”
“What?”
“I mean, oh my goodness.” 😉
Still listening but have to chime in on my irrational fear when I was a kid:
The end credits to Doctor Who with the woosh/swoosh sounds and the tunnel graphics always creeped me out (This was before I started watching the show…I think I was waiting for Monty Python or something to start every Sunday night and always caught the end of it.
Hated it and always creeped me out.
Okay, you can shut the hell up about slitting gums and nasal cavities…
CMS: Silverfish just seem so prehistoric. And then they crumble, like dust. It’s like the ages came together to make this vessel by which the dust of time can live on, but it’s not held together very well. Most bugs in the apartment get caught and put outside because it’s rare that they get in. Silverfish…you can’t even try putting them out because they crumble. (Okay, and when the 2-3 wasps get in the apartment each year, they meet an untimely demise!)
The goat pee thing. Wow! I worked around goats on a farm and fortunately missed out on that experience. The head scene in Jaws scared me so much, I believe I’ve mentioned, that any sound on our roof from things falling from trees in my mind was that head!
Clowns…we need not mention them! 🙂
“the ages came together to make this vessel by which the dust of time can live on” Yesss . . you need to write a story with silverfish in it.
Another fear of mine – hearing the “Star-Spangled Banner.” It’s the creepiest song ever. Not the words, the melody. Especially the first 5 seconds. I simply cannot take listening to it.
Oh yeah, the head scene in Jaws. The first time I saw the movie (in a theater) I knew something very bad was gonna happen when Hooper went diving by the abandoned boat at night. So I covered my eyes, thinking I’d resume watching the movie after the very bad thing was over. After maybe half a minute, thinking the scene was over, I uncovered my eyes JUST AS THE HEAD POPPED OUT. I was the only one in the theater who screamed. Loud. A few people laughed. Embarrassing.
One of the best movies ever.
Curtis: The Dr. Who music creeped me out, too! Big time. That, and the extended section of Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” bothered me.
Sorry about bringing up the almost surgery and the gums thing. Yeah, that’s kinda grizzly — glad I got out of that!