Ten Things That Scare Brooke Gladstone

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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Merry Christmas, to those who celebrate! To those who don't (and, aw heck, to those who do too) we offer a very special end-of-year gift: fear. More specifically, Brooke's greatest fears, courtesy of our WNYC colleagues 10 Things That Scare Me. Fear is a subject — and experience — near and dear to our beloved Brooke, so we can assure you that this is not a conversation to skip.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Eloise Bondio, one of the people who makes OTM.
0:04.0	Our colleagues here at WNYC are a very creative bunch,
0:09.0	and a few years ago, Brook was asked to be part of a project
0:12.0	dreamt up by one of our favorites, Amy Pell.
0:16.0	The podcast series was called Ten Things That Scammy,
0:19.0	described as a tiny podcast about our greatest fears.
0:24.0	Each episode was only seven minutes long,
0:26.0	and this week we want to replay Brook's episode.
0:30.0	The problem is, most of what I've ever done in my life is motivated by fear.
0:36.0	It's like a big dust storm of fear.
0:40.0	And you're asking me to pick out ten little moats or something.
0:56.0	And then of course there's all the fears that you don't even realize that you have.
1:02.0	I once went to this anus and I was like,
1:06.0	I once went to this anus-leaziologist-slash-therapist,
1:12.0	who used the technique where he would put you under,
1:17.0	just to the point where you would have no memory of what you said.
1:21.0	And it would be unmediated by anything social.
1:27.0	I went in there for various complaints about work and the way I lived my life.
1:35.0	And then when I went under, the first thing I said was,
1:42.0	I can't sleep unless the kids are home.
1:46.0	And the kids are 33 years old.
1:49.0	That is not something that I'm aware of continually,
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