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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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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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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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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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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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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