Hi everyone, this is Katia, executive producer of On the Media.

So over the holidays, a couple of weeks ago, we brought you an episode of a new podcast made right here at WNYC.

It's called Ten Things That Scare Me.

I said it was tiny, and it is.

Each episode is under 10 minutes.

This week's episode features Jeff Van Damir, author of the Southern Reach trilogy.

Avid OTP listeners will remember him from a show we did in 2017 about our fears of a

climate apocalypse. Here's Jeff. Number one, climate change. Number two, the old house.

You know that there's a gray fox that hangs out at night there.

You know the possum, you know the raccoon, you know the birds.

I've been worrying about what will happen to the creatures in the yard if I have to sell.

And can I have a contract with a buyer, which basically says you can't change anything in the yard,

which I don't think is something you can do?

Number three, the new house.

In buying a new house, we're essentially saying we believe in the future of Florida in a

climate change scenario.

I just was at the new place

and using the broom that I found there

and the cap on the end of the stick of the broom,

which happened to be hollow,

was off.

And inside was a whole family of tree frogs.

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