This week, Aimee and Lisa are anxious about knowing enough. They’re also wondering why they feel the constant need to seem smart and cultured and perfectly well-read. Is it just them? Everyone? Or mostly just women?

They are joined by Ophira Eisenberg, comedian and host of NPR’s trivia game show ‘Ask Me Another,’ who offers context into our cultural obsession with knowing all sorts of random facts, reminds them that ‘trivia’ literally refers to small or unimportant matters, and confirms that there are in fact gendered elements to knowledge-based insecurities.

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This week, Lisa and Aimee are anxious about the internet. Lisa tries to avoid social media while Aimee finds herself going down Instagram rabbitholes late into the night, and they both wonder: Why does it seem like the experience of being online lately is all trolls and no fun?

They’re joined by New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz, author of the book Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, who explains that social media is designed to be addictive, just like junk food. He also assures Lisa and Aimee that there is still good to be found in certain pockets of the internet—but that we should still remember to unplug every now and then.

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This week, Lisa and Aimee are anxious about nature: ticks, bears, and assorted other dangers that lurk in the great outdoors.

They’re joined by Outside parks and travel columnist Emily Pennington, who documents her visit to every U.S. national park in a forthcoming book. Emily explains how she got into camping and outdoors life, shares how empowering being alone in nature can be, and offers some helpful tips on repelling ticks while hiking.

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This week, Lisa and Aimee are anxious about “the big fear:” death, and specifically the death of loved ones.

They’re joined by NYU associate chaplain Shaykh Faiyaz Jaffer, who offers wisdom from the Muslim tradition about death and mourning, shares the perspective he’s gained from a year marked by funerals, and gives Lisa and Aimee an assignment to take an unexpected field trip.

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This week, Lisa and Aimee are anxious about COVID—about protecting themselves and their loved ones from the virus, of course, but also about navigating a world where every encounter is a potential vector for transmission. What to say to the maskless neighbor who wants to chit chat, or to the strangers not properly distancing at the grocery store? To answer these questions and more, they’re joined by Australian philosopher Ben Bramble, who published Pandemic Ethics: 8 Big Questions of COVID-19.

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Welcome to Anxiously, a new podcast from Tablet Studios. 

Each week hosts Lisa Sandell and Aimee Friedman grapple with one of their anxieties—from the trivial to the existential—in a humorous and heartfelt way. From germs to mortality, they’re tackling it all. They're helped along the way by smart and entertaining guests who offer perspective and advice. 

This week, Lisa and Aimee are anxious about handling raw chicken, stressed about being bad cooks, and confused about where this leaves them as proud feminists. They’re joined by cookbook author Shannon Sarna, who helps them address the many layers of this chicken anxiety, and offers some fun advice for the next time they’re in the kitchen 

Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod. 

 

Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie.  

Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

This episode is sponsored by Soom Foods, which makes delicious tahini, chocolate sweet tahini, and silan date syrup. Use discount code ANXIOUS and receive 15% off your first order at soomfoods.com.

Welcome to Anxiously, a new podcast from Tablet Studios. 

Each week hosts Lisa Sandell and Aimee Friedman grapple with one of their anxieties—from the trivial to the existential—in a humorous and heartfelt way. From germs to mortality, they’re tackling it all. They're helped along the way by smart and entertaining guests who offer perspective and advice. 

This week, Lisa and Aimee are anxious about getting older, and wondering if they’re getting less relevant. They’re joined by fashion commentator and bon vivant Simon Doonan, who explains that confidence is the secret ingredient to style, praises the virtues of “embracing hagdom,” and suggests that Lisa and Aimee adopt a signature sartorial flourish, like a motorcycle jacket. 

 

Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod. 

 

Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie.  

Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

This episode is sponsored by Soom Foods, which makes delicious tahini, chocolate sweet tahini, and silan date syrup. Use discount code ANXIOUS and receive 15% off your first order at soomfoods.com.

Welcome to Anxiously, a new podcast from Tablet Studios. 

Each week hosts Lisa Sandell and Aimee Friedman grapple with one of their anxieties—from the trivial to the existential—in a humorous and heartfelt way. From germs to mortality, they’re tackling it all, helped along the way by smart and entertaining guests who offer perspective and advice. 

 

This week, Lisa and Aimee are anxious about the state of the world. They are joined by novelist Anne Roiphe, who talks to them about learning to handle everything the universe throws your way, about writing angry letters to her relative, Roy Cohn, and about meeting a cute Israeli soldier at the Metropolitan Museum. 

 

Like the show? Send us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod. 

 

Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie.  

Check out all of Tablet’s podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts.

This episode is sponsored by Soom Foods, which makes delicious tahini, chocolate sweet tahini, and silan date syrup. Use discount code ANXIOUS and receive 15% off your first order at soomfoods.com.