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Facing Your Fears with Writer Dan Farren

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4.1529 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2011

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Writer/Producer Dan Farren (Story Salon) has a fear of snakes. But he knows that by facing your fears, he can overcome it. Or can you? And Christine shares her fears so that everyone else, can feel a little better about their own. 

Each week Hollywood’s most talented people in the entertainment industry share true, personal stories on the Story Worthy Podcast. Story Worthy celebrated 13 years of podcasting in July 2023 and has over 800 episodes recorded. Christine Blackburn is the creator, host and producer of Story Worthy, Story Smash the Storytelling Game Show, and My Life in 3 Songs exclusively on Spotify. 

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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0:08.1

Now, five bucks a gallon.

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0:18.4

I'm proud to run on the same ticket as a Joe Biden. You're out of gas.

0:23.8

Biden's out of time. Fetterman's out of the question. NRC is responsible for the content of

0:29.2

this advertising. Welcome to the story-worthy podcast.

0:45.2

Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hannes Finner. Welcome to Storyworthy.

1:00.1

I am Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hanna Sfinney, and we're coming to you from the Royal Albert Hall to watch Fear Factory, an American Industrial Metal Band. Wait a second. That's at Royal Albert Hall. That's who's playing there? Yes. So we're in London. Yes, we're in London. Is it playing now? I would like a banger. See, we're in London. I proved it to you. That's quite nice, really? Yes. Okay, Hannah, so you're saying this, I'm sorry.

1:28.3

We're here to see Fear Factory, and that's why, because fear is, is facing your fears, is our topic. Okay, so Fear Factory, this is the name of a band? This is a band. They were formed in 1989. They were at least seven full-length albums, a number of singles and remixes. Okay. course of their career.

1:43.5

See, now you're afraid I'm going to read the whole Wikipedia.

1:45.3

Well, the thing is, I'm going to read the whole Wikipedia

1:45.3

actually.

1:45.7

Well, the thing is, I thought you might go like Joe Rogan, Fear Factor, something like that, but then you add a why. Well, I'll tell you that. I tell you what happened is I thought of the, I was going to say we come from the Fear Factor show at Universal Studios, Hollywood, where I work, except they haven't had that show in about

2:00.5

six years.

2:01.1

You know, I was listening to Joe Rogan's podcast the other day, or a couple of weeks ago, about Fear Factor, and he was saying that he was high every day that he shot that show. He never shot that show. Nothing about that show seemed, nothing about that statement seems remotely amazing. First of all, I think he's always high. Second of all, if I had a whole sphere factor, I would be high and I don't do drugs at all.

2:19.6

Yeah, I guess so. I don't know.

2:20.9

I just feel like once you really have to work and think about it, that would be hard to do. I have two things say about this. First of all, I saw a commercial. There's a Fear Factor special coming back a brand new fear fact okay so joe rogan is going to be coming yeah it's

2:33.1

been off the air for like 10 years okay so so like they were like you know what people want to see a

2:37.0

reunion fact. Okay. Joe Rogan is going to become. Yeah, it's been off the air for like 10 years. Okay, so. So like they were like, you know what? People want to see a reunion of what? Of people eating dung? Yeah, we need Joe Rogan and more spider eating. And also there was, people have told me who worked the Fear Factor show in Universal that someone would vomit 93% of the time. audience. Yeah, because the show doesn't get good until somebody vomits, really. Right, but this was a live show where people in the audience had to like eat disgusting things, except it was basically sushi. Yeah. Because obviously the Universal Studios is not going to feed people, you know, rectums and possibly in lawsuits, but people would throw up any out. You know, if I had a nickel for every time I heard somebody say that, what? Rectums. Well, they really push the rectum angle. Ladies and gentlemen, you're probably wondering what the hell Honest is talking about because I am, but that's not the point. The point is we have a topic tonight that I think everybody can relate to. It's called Facing Your Fears. Yes. That's the topic on us. That is the topic. Ask me where we got the topic. Where did we get the topic? Okay, dude, this is from out of left field. Uh-huh. A guy emails me. Right. Tells me a little about himself, says he wants to be on the show. You know what we say? We say yes. We say yes. Come on over. I'm sorry. We say yes and.

3:44.8

Yes. right tells me a little about himself says he wants to be on the show you know what we say we say yes we say yes come on over i'm sorry we say yes and yes and dot dot dot well you know at the end of the show you always hear our announcer bill ratner say you know and if you'd like to be on the storyworthy podcast please send your name and yeah you probably think we're full of shit but we're not and then and it happens. It's happening right now. It's happened before, and it'll happen again.

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