The Punchline
Radiolab
WNYC Studios
4.6 • 44.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Amy Pearl, are you there? |
| 0:03.2 | Yeah, I am. |
| 0:03.9 | Okay. |
| 0:22.0 | Hi. Hi. Hi. Are you still allergic to me? Of course you are, right? Yes, totally. It's okay. I don't miss it anymore. Oh, really? Yes, I do. Hey, Chad here. Before we get to the show, I want to reintroduce you to someone. Let's see. My name is Amy Pearl. You might remember Amy from an episode we did a couple years ago about ticks and meat allergies. And we brought her back into the |
| 0:28.2 | studio because she is now hosting her own podcast. And it's pretty great. It's called 10 Things That Scare Me. |
| 0:37.1 | And this show, 10 Things That Scare Me, name kind of says it all, because a couple times a week, they put out a show. |
| 0:43.8 | Would they come out three times a week, so? |
| 0:45.6 | Holy moly. |
| 0:46.6 | But they're really short. |
| 0:48.0 | I mean, for a podcast, unprecedentedly short. |
| 0:50.8 | Each episode is only about five minutes, like a little microdose. |
| 0:55.5 | And in each episode, |
| 1:01.3 | you hear one person explaining their ten greatest fears and explaining why each of those ten things scare them. What was the idea behind it? Well, Chad, I feel like radio is not weird anymore, |
| 1:07.6 | for one. And I really wanted, I'm like, let's make it weird. |
| 1:13.9 | And so a while back, she heard this recording. |
| 1:16.3 | Hi, I'm Ida. |
| 1:17.8 | And I'm Noah. |
| 1:18.7 | Of some kids. |
| 1:19.3 | We are very excited to bring you our first episode. |
| 1:24.4 | Yes, a friend from work made me listen to a recording of their kid. Each of us has made a list |
| 1:31.2 | of things we think are really scary. A recording of things that they were afraid of. I'm scared of |
| 1:37.4 | the laundry room because of the pipes. The pipes are scary when you look up at them. |
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