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Feb 20, 2015

The Fear-vengers: Young Jennie beats back her journalism fears, Charlie’s mom stands up to Ike Turner, and Jen conquers the fear beneath her back brace.

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Show Notes:

Form: The 3fer: Three people, three stories, one theme and let’s see if they connect.

Theme: Fear

The music:

“Unlocked Door” and “Mountain Prelude” used by permission of Alex Cook.

If you want to hear the complete songs, check out Alex Cook’s bandcamp page and his website Stonebalancer

Storytellers:

Charlie Parrish is a stunt man, a stunt coordinator, a former US Army infantryman.  Need we say more? Oh yeah, he helps run a martial arts school in Texas and died once.  Learn more about Charlie at his website and on IMDB.

Jen Spyra is a writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She’s also that voice you hear at the top of the show. was a senior writer for The Onion at the time of this interview.  She is the author of such classics as, “Nothing Gets Me Wetter Than A Monotonous Domestic Routine” and “David Bowie Asks Iman If They Should Just Do Lasagna Again” Read more of her work at jenspyra.com

Jennie Josephson, podcast producer and writer. Works at Daily Tech News Show with Tom Merritt. Jennie grew up in a radio studio, but sadly did not pay so much attention.

Part One: Jennie “The Fearvengers”

Part Two: Charlie “Frosty”

Part Three: Jen “The Fear Beneath the Back Brace”

Behind the story: 

Charlie Parrish is a stunt man, a stunt coordinator, and a former US Army infantryman.  Need we say more? Oh yeah, he helps run a martial arts school in Texas and died once.  Learn more about Charlie at his website and on IMDB.

Jen Spyra is a senior writer for The Onion, author of such classics as, “Nothing Gets Me Wetter Than A Monotonous Domestic Routine” and “David Bowie Asks Iman If They Should Just Do Lasagna Again” Read more of her work at jenspyra.com

Note: We’re not posting a new episode next week so that we can tape lots of episodes and get ahead for the month of March, but we’ll put out some bonus content to keep your ears happy.