Dave and Anna send the podcast into the abyss in the best possible way. Three of their favorites perform -- Kyle Kinane, Kyle Mizono and Guy Branum -- each of whom addresses fear and anxiety in a hilarious and beautiful way, and each uniquely different from everyone else on the show. It ended with Dave and Anna opening the mic up to anyone who wanted to confess their anxieties and fears, which found almost everyone in the theater coming to the stage. It was wonderful. The show ended with a cameo...
Mar 18, 2016•1 hr 54 min
Anna and Dave give Terrified a proper send-off. This is the last studio-recorded episode of the show, and the second to last ever (or at least for a long while). The last episode will be recorded live, February 29th, 2016 at NerdMelt. In this last discussion, Anna and Dave do a little bit of everything -- they joke around, they come up with catchphrases, they read listener emails, they do a call-in interview with their old friend Hasan Minhaj, they discuss their own battles with depression and a...
Feb 10, 2016•3 hr 6 min
Zack is a musician based in Toronto. He's the drummer in the band PUP, you know, that band Dave never shuts up about. They met last summer on Warped Tour and got along immediately. In this interview, they discuss depression in every aspect. They talk about what leads to depression, how depression manifests itself, what could happen if gone unmanaged, how to manage it, and much more. They also have a lot of fun. Maybe you wouldn't think it, but when two people who fight depression get together to...
Jan 28, 2016•1 hr 20 min
Dave and Anna get real dumb in this episode. They come up with at least four catch phrases and can't stop saying them. They then move into more call-in interviews, with Lisa Friedrich, Ryan Stout, Emily Maya Mills and Nate Craig. Each interview is dark, sweet and different in its own way. Follow @lisacfriedrich, @StoutRyan, @emilymayamills and @NateCraigLive on Twitter!
Jan 22, 2016•2 hr 11 min
Terrified... is ending! :( But for now, Anna's back, and Dave is so excited. She and Dave briefly discuss the end of the show, and the bittersweetness of it. They then move into phone interviews with people Dave knows from the road that he's always wanted on the show. Brandon Jazz, Christina Parrish, Steve Anderson, Ryan Solomon, Zach Peterson and Asif Ali all give short interviews about their fears, anxieties, and self-loathing. These are six of Dave's favorite people, comedians and creators in...
Jan 14, 2016•2 hr 25 min
Kristin Rand is a comedian based in Los Angeles, CA, formerly of Denver, CO. She's the best. She and Dave discuss a litany of things, from body image to personal growth to struggling professionally to eating disorders, all the while laughing like idiots. The episode concludes with Kristin opening up for one of the first times publicly about sexual assault, and the times it's it happened to her. It's shocking and heartbreaking and sad, and yet Kristin pulls it into the uplifting and optimistic an...
Jan 07, 2016•1 hr 26 min
Ahamed Weinberg is a comedian based in Los Angeles, California, and a good friend of Dave's. Pretty much immediately in the episode, Dave makes a horrible conversational faux pas with Ahamed, and spends like ten minutes apologizing for it. Once the dust settles from that, Ahamed and Dave discuss Islam, Ahamed's Muslim upbringing, and both the love and the guilt that came from this upbringing. They then move onto discuss Ahamed's recent decision to leave his job, and his fear that he made the wro...
Dec 31, 2015•1 hr 29 min
Garrick Bernard is a stand-up comic and writer based in Los Angeles, CA. He and Dave discuss the idea of being funny, and the things one does throughout one's life to get good at being funny, before even making the decision to try stand-up. They also talk being afraid that you're not funny, and worrying at every moment that people will stop thinking you're funny or have never thought you were funny at all. Dave gives Garrick homework. It was honestly weird of him. Follow @GarrickWasTaken on Twit...
Dec 17, 2015•1 hr 5 min
Kevin Brody is a comedian and podcaster based in Chicago. He and Dave talk about his father, and his father's Alzheimer's, and the difficulty he's having dealing with his father's Alzheimer's, in every way possible. They talk about grief and pain and abuse and coping with those things despite being unable to talk to your family about it. They also talk about jokes. They both love jokes! Follow @kevin_brody on Twitter!
Nov 25, 2015•1 hr 54 min
Jeff Wattenhofer is a comedian based in L.A., and is a longtime friend of Dave's. They started stand-up together! They used to run HOLY FUCK together. They reminisce for awhile and then get into Jeff's frustration with the current comedy scene, now six years after starting. He lays out, in detail, the options he has as a grown adult -- focus on a happy, fulfilling, normal American life or keep focusing on comedy and let it keep being hurtful and difficult and still not make it. Jeff and Dave ser...
Nov 19, 2015•1 hr 18 min
Caitlin Gill is a comedian and writer based in Los Angeles, California. And she just got her first writing job! Dave and Caitlin talk about that, and what it took to do that, and what it takes to make it as a comedian in general. They also talk about friendship and feeling wanted in a lonely, oversaturated city like L.A., and the millions of ways a person -- particularly an awkward or an anxious person -- can sabotage themselves socially. They also talk about judging themselves, and how they sho...
Nov 12, 2015•1 hr 46 min
Danny Lobell is a comedian and storyteller in Los Angeles, CA. He and Dave discuss being a comedian, and being happy as a comedian. They discuss the idea of accepting oneself, and what it takes to do that. Danny really seems to have done that. Dave is impressed. Follow @dannylobell on Twitter!
Nov 05, 2015•1 hr 13 min
This episode was recorded live from the annual Savage Henry Comedy Festival on September 5, 2015 in Arcata, Caifornia. WHAT AN AMAZING FESTIVAL. Dave and Anna had so much fun. They talked to Humboldt and Savage Henry Magazine's own Christ Durant, as well their friend and hilarious SF-based comedian Kate Willett, and the one and only Billy Wayne Davis about pretty much every fear under the sun. Find a copy of Savage Henry Magazine NOW and get to next year's festival WHEN IT HAPPENS NEXT YEAR. Fol...
Oct 29, 2015•1 hr 12 min
Chris Conley is a songwriter and musician, and lead singer of Saves The Day. He's also just the nicest and most thoughtful guy. He and Dave and Anna talk sadness, and anxiety, and emo, and the long journey of learning how to be better. They talk for a long time about Chris's music, and how it's developed over time, and the stress and difficulty of moving forward in your career and life when some people are stuck in its past. They also talk about performing, and encountering disrespect when you'r...
Oct 15, 2015•1 hr 10 min
Soupy is the lead singer of The Wonder Years and about the sweetest person alive. He and Dave discuss fear, and extreme fear, and specific extreme fears, and dealing with those specific extreme fear. Soupy is particularly in tune with the fears in his life, which fascinated Dave. They also discussed the escape of those fears with art and music. It was great. Hope you enjoy. Fun fact: they were in trailer on Warped Tour in the rain. Yeah. It was great. Follow @headabovewater on Twitter and check ...
Oct 08, 2015•1 hr 6 min
This episode comes to you live from Cynic Cave, in the basement of Lost Weekend Video, in the Mission district of San Francisco, California. It's about our favorite comedy venue in one of our favorite cities, and the lineup was filled with some of our favorite people. We talk about it in the show -- we literally did not have enough time to interview all the people in San Francisco we love. There are just too many. Our first guest was the RETURN of Petey Dammit! He's one of our favorites. And the...
Oct 01, 2015•1 hr 57 min
They're back! We're back! (It's back.) Dave and Anna hang out together. They talk about their return, and how they've been feeling, and where the show's going to go, and what happened in the last five months while they were away, and what they're afraid of, and what they dislike about themselves. Did they solve all of their problems during the show's hiatus? Every single problem? In just five months? Are they totally fine now? Listen and find out. Also, they sing 90s songs. OTHER 90s songs....
Sep 24, 2015•1 hr 30 min
Dave and Anna are BACK! They are back from tour and they are BACK ONLINE. Here lies the first live episode they ever did in their home town of Los Angeles, and it's at their home theater, The Nerdist Showroom at Meltdown. It was so much fun. One of the best live shows either of them have done, podcast OR stand-up. Simon Gibson did stand-up, Joey Izzo showed some videos and Karen Kilgariff played some songs, each followed by an interview about fear and self-loathing. It's a weird mish-mash of med...
Sep 17, 2015•1 hr 42 min
This is not an episode. I mean... It's kind of an episode. But it's a short episode? IT'S NOT AN EPISODE. Look, the show has been on hiatus, and it's not back yet. But it's ALMOST back. And Anna and Dave wanted to let you know that it's almost back, and talk about what they're gonna do when the show IS back, so they recorded this little teaser episode. They joke and laugh and talk about their upcoming 2015 California tour (8/27 to 9/7), their live show in SF (8/28), their live show in Humboldt (...
Aug 26, 2015•23 min
This week's guest is... NO ONE. Or... EVERYONE! It's just Anna and Dave this week. They catch up. They catch on the show, on their lives, and on their love of 90s radio hits. They also make an announcement. It's a saddening announcement, and also an exciting one. They're broke, you see. Broke, and overwhelmed, and having a hard time, and also doing great. They have to take a break from doing the show for a few months, and they explain why. They love you. They'll see you in September....
May 08, 2015•1 hr 29 min
This episode was recorded live at the Floodwater Comedy Festival in Iowa City, Iowa on April 19, 2015! The fest was so fun. Dave talks to Daniel Frana, who ran the festival, Quad Cities comedian and screamo keyboardist Andrew Cline, Chicago-based touring comedian Emily Galati, and the mortal soul of Des Moines comedy, Ryan Solomon. Each brought their own weirdness to the table. It was great. Follow @franieldana, @sadclone, @emilygalati and @ryanmsolomon on Twitter!
May 01, 2015•1 hr 24 min
Wendi Starling is a comedian who recently moved from Los Angeles to New York City. She talks depression, and mental illness, and medication, and drug use, and she talks about rape. She was raped. She's very open about it. It's heartbreaking, and so awful, and she talks about it in detail, both what happened then and what's happened since. It's honestly impressive and brave how open she is about it. This is also, as it happens, the first time Anna conducts the interview! Dave's not there. They ma...
Apr 24, 2015•2 hr 19 min
Joe Wagner is an insanely funny writer and performer in Los Angeles, California. He and Dave are big fans of each other. They talk about that, and love, and loving your friends, and romantic love, and being without romantic love, and walking alone through the streets of Los Angeles without romantic love and still feeling loved. They also talk about loss. Joe is afraid that he won't be able to handle his next great personal loss. Follow @BrotherWags on Twitter!
Apr 17, 2015•1 hr 32 min
Tony Thaxton is a musician, writer, performer and podcaster based in Los Angeles, California. He was also, for years, the drummer for the band Motion City Soundtrack! He and Dave discuss that, and then move on to Tony's fear of getting yelled at. He's scared at every moment of saying the wrong thing, and of getting yelled at for it. They then move on to Tony's total lack of confidence, and Dave's total lack of confidence, and the episode devolves into them apologizing to each other until they fa...
Apr 10, 2015•1 hr 49 min
Ryan Singer is a stand-up comic based in L.A. He and Dave talk about his start in stand-up comedy in Dayton, Ohio, and the alcoholism and frustration and insanity that came out of that. They also discuss Ryan's fear of being a joke, and his attempt to control the laughter coming his way by being a stand-up comedian. Follow @RySing on Twitter!
Apr 03, 2015•1 hr 38 min
Mikal Cronin is a musician now based in Los Angeles, California! Last time he and Dave talked, Mikal was living in San Francisco, where he'd lived for a long time. Dave had him back on the show to discuss his feelings about his music and himself after recording his new album, MCIII. The last time they talked, Mikal was frustrated and despondent about making music, and worried he couldn't do it. Now that he's made a new (incredible) album, he and Dave revisit his feelings on creating again. They ...
Mar 27, 2015•1 hr 46 min
Brent Sullivan is a comedian in Los Angeles, CA. He and Dave discuss dating in the gay community, and Brent's frustrations with that, and with interacting with people in general. They also talk stand-up comedy. They are both in love with and angry at stand-up comedy.
Mar 20, 2015•1 hr 26 min
Georgea Brooks is a comedian from Los Angeles by way of Toronto. She and Dave discuss intimidation by men in different capacities, and how it's changed the way she carries herself and sees the world. They go further to discuss assault and abuse of women by men, and how it's affected her. Dave was floored by the interview. They also discuss Jon Schabl!
Mar 13, 2015•1 hr 40 min
Todd Glass is a comedian and podcast host in Los Angeles. He and Dave talk about not doing things because you're scared. Todd holds back from trying new things if he doesn't think he's gonna be good at them -- singing, for example. This fear carries over into dating, and he and Dave discuss how difficult that's been for him since getting out of a long relationship and publicly coming out as gay.
Mar 06, 2015•1 hr 44 min
Tom Segura is a stand-up comedian based in the SOUTH BAY of Los Angeles, California. He and Dave discuss the South Bay at length. They also talk anxiety, and being comfortable with one's own anxiety, and being afraid of sharing one's anxiety with others. Tom doesn't want to tell others he's anxious, you see. And neither does Dave.
Feb 27, 2015•1 hr 24 min
