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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 new podcast called Come Through, which will feature 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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I'm really afraid that one day I'll say something and people will be like Hank, you know, that they went to the moon like more than once, right? And I'll be like, yeah, no, I totally knew that....
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.
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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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When I think about people who are doctors, I just have this like vision of intestines and having to sort through them.
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 was learning how to make suicide soda, which is when you mix all the different flavors together. Apparently he makes ‘em good.
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Raising a white son as a queer woman of color.
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 she stood up on the skis. With her head held high, she willfully maintained her balance all the way around the lake. As it turns out, that event has been a pretty good metaphor her life so far.
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There are too many people living in too close proximity to each other who don't even know each other anymore.
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 no fresh water on Cooper Island this year because all the multi-year sea ice he has relied on for drinking water over the 45 years of his research has disappeared.
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I'm afraid that we really do prefer comforting lies over truth.
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.
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I've never used a computer. The only electricity that I used is batteries for my radio and for a flashlight. That's the extent of my technology.
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 book published by the University of Arkansas.
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There is a fear of missing out on my little boy's life as a result of my profession. If that happens is my own damn fault.
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.
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I think I'm a control freak and not that I necessarily want to have power over other people but in that I want to have power over my own life.
Mara Wilson is a former child actor and host of the podcast What Are You Afraid Of.
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Seeing my mom's face in a crowd.
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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I think sometimes people think it's funny to scare people.
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. We played his episode last season and we are including it in this episode for you.
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I just feel like one day a bear is just gonna come along or a hyena or a lion and just be like, well, now it's my turn asshole and just eat me like I'm a Philly cheesesteak.
Chris Distefano is an actor and comedian in New York City.
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When I'm feeling stressed about something it makes me feel calm when I take an inventory of the things that I own and I can see it in my head.
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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In our culture, Black culture, African-based culture, the mask is a sacred thing. It's not fun times.
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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It could have been a guy who sat next to me in geometry, I had no idea because my eyes were closed.
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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I'm afraid of being dropped in the ocean.
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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"The line between thinking you have everything figured out and having nothing figured out is way closer than I think it is."
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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What Billie and I have together... well, the first thing I can think of to tell you is that I was 69 years old before we got together, and she's the first person who's ever told me I was beautiful.
As a married couple, Billie's fears and Gay's fears are echoes of each other. So Isaac Jones, our sound designer, did something special with their episode that we think you will enjoy.
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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"I'm a certified scuba diver but I don't go out much because it scares me."
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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"Running out of gas in the middle of nowhere and then dying of thirst."
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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"I think I need to work on feeling comfortable in my own skin."
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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"I don't think I realized that I'm enough for my son."
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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Ike is a listener from Chandler, Arizona. He is 11 years old and an artist.
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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, a quick behind the scenes peek into how 10 Things That Scare Me gets made each week. Look for season 2 in late fall.
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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.
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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 lives in Washington state. We met Jerry when he called in to the Bill Radke show on the KUOW.
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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 care of her parents in Lansing, Michigan with her dog Sam.
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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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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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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 for the Daily Mirror, the Journal-American, the World Journal Tribune and the New York Post among others.
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The possibility that ultimately there is no cost to being despicable.
Jon Mooallem is a journalist and the creator of The WALKING podcast which begins its second season today.
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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 just launched its fourth season.
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Paper cut on eyeball.
Brenda Shaughnessy is a poet. Her most recent book is The Octopus Museum.
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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 Other Lies, and his solo album Tenderness is out now.
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Mothman related driving fears.
Matt Collette makes Post Reports, the daily news podcast from the Washington Post. He used to make Nancy from WNYC Studios.
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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 founding members of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan. He is the author of Raw: My Journey Into The Wu-Tang. If you want to enter the Wu-Tang, just head to the corner of Targee Street and Vanderbilt Avenue on Staten Island in New York City, which has been officially renamed the "Wu-Tang Clan District."
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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 MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship and lives in Oregon with her husband and son. Her other books include: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Swamplandia!, Vampires in the Lemon Grove and Sleep Donation: A Novella.
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The woods at night.
Garrett Crowe is a writer and podcast producer. Check out his work here. And follow him @crowegarrett.
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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 newsroom.
He was also the host of the podcasts The United States of Anxiety, Caught, and There Goes the Neighborhood. He is a columnist and former editor for The Nation.
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The marionettes in my mom’s bedroom.
Sarah Duckett is a mechanical engineer in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Actually being betrayed.
Felix Bircheneder studies English and German language, literature and culture. He sends his greetings from Germany.
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My future sucking.
Zenna Wallace is a student who is homeschooled in Florida.
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Being shot and killed by law enforcement.
DeRay Mckesson is a civil rights activist. He was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Why did I say yes to this party?
Isaac Mizrahi is an fashion designer, artist, and performer from New York City. You can find him on Twitter @isaacmizrahi, Instagram @imisaacmizrahi, and at HelloIsaac.com.
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What if I decide to have kids and the whole world is just a hellhole?
Joanna Solotaroff is a producer and performer who lives in Brooklyn. For WNYC Studios, she produces Sooo Many White Guys and 2 Dope Queens. Joanna is from Minneapolis, and her mom is doing great. Follow her @joannna on Twitter.
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I always fear that maybe I was just lucky.
Bassem Youssef is a heart surgeon turned political satirist and the creator of the most popular television show in Egypt's history. He is the author of the book Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring.
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Teeth dreams.
Tia Hosler is studying Applied Behavioral Sciences in Fort Wayne, Indiana. You can learn more about her here.
Thanks to Emily Forman for her help with this episode.
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Moths are my mortal enemy.
Libby Callaway is a former fashion writer and vintage clothing collector. She currently runs her own branding company, The Callaway, in Nashville, TN.
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We got death threats for months.
Tanya Tagaq is a singer/songwriter who lives in Toronto. You can follow her @tagaq, and you can find out more about her new EP here.Thanks to Julia Botero for co-producing this episode.
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Howard Dardashti sees most of his life in the rear view mirror. He talks about his divorce, his health problems, and how he's worried that classical music won't survive.
This is a repeat episode.
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Jo Firestone is totally a grown up. Her fears mirror where she is in life: she knows how to pronounce "canapés" and she's bringing boyfriends home to meet the family—presumably after she finds out if they ride a unicycle.
This is a repeat episode.
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Diante Folk was only 12 when he made his list and you can see it in his fears. He still plans on being a famous YouTube star. He's worried about breaking his X-Box and not getting permission to play Fortnite.
This is a repeat episode.
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Why don't more people think about the way they want to die?
Brian Ruder is a volunteer and an Exit Guide with the group Final Exit Network. He was born in Kansas and lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife of 43 years. His son is the editor of New Mobility magazine. Brian says, "I walk 10,000 steps a day and believe I will live to 100 unless someone kills me first."
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There's something inside of me, and it goes mad.
Okwui Okpokwasili is MacArthur Fellow and a performer, choreographer, and writer. The child of immigrants from Nigeria, Okpokwasili was born and raised in the Bronx, and the histories of these places and the girls and women who inhabit them feature prominently in much of her work.
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Why do you keep asking me if I have a gun?
Roberto Lange is a musician from South Florida. He performs as Helado Negro. You can listen to his latest album here.
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I'm too boring for my therapist.
Cartoonist Mari Andrew is the author of Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood. You can find her on Instagram @bymariandrew.
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A rabid flying squirrel poised over my sleeping form.
Cartoonist Liana Finck is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and the author of the graphic memoir Passing For Human. You can find her on instagram at @lianafinck.
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If the apocalypse happens, I don't have a good chance.
Jensine Eckwall is an illustrator living in New York City.
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If I suspect any paranormal activity I'm going the other direction.
Worth Barbour is a pediatrician in Florida
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Takers, opportunists, and boundary crossers.
Anna Chlumsky is an actor on the show Veep, among other productions.
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Life costs money.
Anna Sale is the host and managing editor of the podcast Death, Sex & Money.
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Everything just evaporated like smoke.
Chris Miller is an elementary school art teacher, and an artist, who lives in Milwaukee.
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If I put my feet on the floor something's going to grab me.
Amelia Madarang, from Vancouver, Washington is a college student.
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Compulsory heterosexuality.
Dan Savage writes the long-running sex advice column Savage Love and hosts the Savage Lovecast. You can find him @fakedansavage.
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It felt like death was coming fast.
Wang Bing is a documentary filmmaker from Xi'an. His latest documentary is Shanghai Youth. You can learn more about him and his work here.
Thanks to Richard Yeh and Lydia McMullen-Laird for their invaluable help with translation.
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Parasites suck. But a lot of things depend on them.
John Platt from right outside of Portland runs the environmental news site therevelator.org.
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What if he runs into the wrong one at the wrong time at night and mouths off?
Bishop Michael Curry is the leader of the Episcopal Church. He presided over the royal wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle. You can hear more from Bishop Curry here.
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Just like the children in the clubs.
Kay Powell is a retired reporter and obituary writer for the Atlanta Constitution-Journal.You can read one of her most famous obituaries died-much-as-it-lived-famous-but-an-1212645.php">here.
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That raccoon could’ve ripped my face off.
Kara Swisher is the editor-at-large of Recode, host of the Recode Decode podcast, co-host of the Pivot podcast, and a contributor to the New York Times Opinion section, among other things. You can find her on Twitter @karaswisher.
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Chewing on tinfoil.
Kim is from L.A. She told us her fears using the link below.
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Come on brain. Come on brain.
Mitch Albom is the best-selling author of Tuesdays With Morrie and The Five People You Meet In Heaven.
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Life without Subway sandwiches.
Narla panhandles in Seattle.
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Darth Vader if he was real.
Check out her recent album "Bought to Rot" and upcoming tour.
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Losing my hand in a conveyer belt.
Luke Bruner is a craft beer sales rep in Louisville, Kentucky. He told us his fears using the link below.
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I thought I had a fear of death and then a woman stole my horse.
Quince Mountain is a writer and a dog musher. He and his wife Blair Braverman run Bravermountain Mushing. Blair will be running her rookie Iditarod in March 2019. You can follow Quince and the dogs on Twitter here https://twitter.com/QuinceMountain. And Blair and the dogs here: https://twitter.com/BlairBraverman.
Here is Blair's Iditarod musher profile: https://iditarod.com/race/2019/mushers/1062-Blair-Braverman/
If you want to follow along with the race, and her occasional trail updates from Quince, subscribe to the Iditapod Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/iditapod/id1204512892?mt=2
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He was in the E.R. and nobody could wake him up.
Jami Floyd is an attorney and journalist from New York City. She hosts All Things Considered on WNYC.
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You know what I discovered that happens a lot more in New York City than you'd imagine? Scaffolding falling on people.
Jon Ronson is a writer, journalist and radio host. He still uses Twitter @jonronson.And for more on Alison Moyet's Elvis Costello story, you should listen to her interview on Desert Island Discs. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b043wk0j
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Am I selfish with my money? Do I give enough away?
Mark Duplass is a writer, director, and actor who lives in Los Angeles. He's co-starring in the movie Paddleton, available on Netflix February 22nd. Follow him @MarkDuplass.
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If I want to be scared I can turn on the news. I don't need to pay for that.
Trisha Hope is a realtor from League City, Texas. She's also published a book titled "Just the Tweets: President Donald J. Trump's Historical Collection of Tweets, Vol. 1". You can find out more about that here: https://justthetweets.com or @JustTheTweets17.
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Losing touch with reality, completely.
Aparna Nancherla is a comedian and actor, and currently stars in the Comedy Central show Corporate. You can find her on twitter and instagram @aparnapkin.
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Wait for the drop.
Dillon Francis makes electronic music in Los Angeles. His latest album is called Wut Wut. You can follow him @DILLONFRANCIS.
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You never expect to actually find a dinosaur.
Marina Suarez is an associate professor of geology at the University of Kansas. The species of dinosaur she discovered with her twin sister is called the Geminiraptor Suarezarum.
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I feel like I'm living in the angriest Spike Lee movie ever.
Born in New Jersey to Caribbean parents, actress/comedian Michelle Buteau has had stand-up specials on Netflix and Comedy Central, as well as an album called Shut Up!, which was released on Comedy Central Records. She was also a featured comedian on the 2 Dope Queens special for HBO. Last year, she shot the Netflix feature Always Be My Maybe with Ali Wong and Randall Park, a recurring role on Tales of the City for Netflix, and a leading role in the TV remake of First Wives Club for BET. In the podcast space, she produced and hosted the talk show Late Night Whenever for WNYC.
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I was in that room for 45 minutes, and I will never, ever, commit any kind of crime in my life.
Dr. Judy Ho is a licensed and double board-certified psychologist with a Ph.D in clinical psychology. She also serves as a forensic expert witness in both civil and criminal matters. Dr. Judy is currently co-host of the talk show Face the Truth.
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I had a sick feeling in my stomach sometimes at night when I heard beer cans popping.
Bill is a retired police officer from Brooklyn, NY.
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Lone white men on a college campus.
Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize for his 2014 novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. His latest novel is Black Leopard, Red Wolf.
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As a follower of Jesus I can tell you firsthand, his terrible day, his worst day, was my best day.
Rev. Samuel Rodriguez is an Evangelical pastor and the president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. He gave a prayer at President Trump's inauguration and advises the president on immigration issues. He is an ardent Yankees fan.
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Rumors of an internment camp.
Hatem El-Gamasy is a political analyst and commentator based in Brooklyn. You can follow him @HatemGamasy
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Every house should have a gun, if not a machine gun.
Howard Dardashti is a cantor and real estate broker in Florida. You can check out his father Younes Dardashti's music here https://open.spotify.com/artist/49Wof1MvWVSExNcRQOFT5Y
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The devil is real. Tom Morello is the guitarist for Rage Against the Machine, Prophets of Rage, and formerly Audioslave. His latest solo album is The Atlas Underground. Follow him @tmorello.
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