And Tommy will definitely scare you!ĭP: What’s unique about your podcast? Why do your listeners keep coming back?Īnthony: Although we may not be the only horror narration podcast on the market, we are different in a few ways. Elias Witherow, the author, has mentioned that we are the only narrators “brave enough to put him on your podcast!” And that is a funny thing to me because horror is about being scared. A lot of the feedback that we get tends to be about how great Tommy Taffy is (in a terrifying way), and I have to agree. Mainly because of how terrifying of a character Tommy is. Scariest stories? I think for me, it would have to be the Tommy Taffy series. Though we are branching out quite a bit and doing an audiobook while also working on being the official podcast of /r/nosleepteams! So, plenty of material all around.ĭP: What are some of the scariest stories you’ve told so far? Have your listeners chimed in?Īnthony: Wow. Like I said before, we have a very good relationship with the authors we work with, so it’s easy for us to find material when we need it. Though we have received submissions from authors of stories they have elsewhere, be it print or their own websites or a different writing platform. It allows your deepest, darkest fears to paint the picture and truly experience “What scares you” rather than “What I think would be scary to most people.” Which is what a lot of horror movies do.ĭP: Where do you source your stories from?Īnthony: We source our stories mostly from /r/nosleep on Reddit. I like to think that the monsters and situations I describe to you are going to be a lot scarier when you are the one drawing the monsters in your mind. So if it hadn’t happened when it did, it might not have ever happened.ĭP: Why did you choose a podcast over other mediums?Īnthony: I feel like a podcast is the perfect way to present a written work, especially horror, as fear is just as much an auditory experience as it is a visual one. The idea was bouncing around for about 10 years. I can also say with complete certainty that it would not have happened without her. Even if I talked like Goofy, I think she would have pushed me to do it because of how much the idea meant to me. It’s just a part of life, right? I’d like to say it wasn’t her comment that was the catalyst so much as her support. Was her comment the tipping point and catalyst for the podcast or do you think you would have done it anyways?Īnthony: I think everyone gets made fun of for singing in the car. My wife is usually the one making fun of my voice when I sing in the car. I posted the first episode and got really good feedback from friends, so I continued from there!ĭP: Your relationship sounds very different than mine. I’ve been wanting to do that for a long time…” I outlined the idea for Irrational Fears to her, as I’ve had the idea floating around for ~10 years at that point, and she was 100% on board and pushed me to get it rolling. About halfway through, she stopped me to let me know that she thought I had a really good reading voice and should read to everyone. Thinking I was being funny, I thought I would read her a scary story from /r/nosleep. Laying in bed one night with my girlfriend (now fiancé), she asked me to read her a story. See our full Q&A below.ĭiscover Pods: How did your podcast get started?Īnthony: I have always had a passion for horror, fear and writing. I got a chance to meet Anthony and talk to him about how he got the podcast started, why horror in general, and the types of fans the horror genre attracts. Because it’s audio-only, the listeners can imagine everything in more detail that subsequently makes it scarier for themselves in a personalized fashion. Host Anthony has had the idea of bringing the campfire storytelling narrative to podcast form for awhile, however, it wasn’t until he was reading a scary story to his girlfriend did he decide to jump right in.Īs he tells it - and I tend to agree - the value of the horror genre on a podcast is a perfect fit that balances presenting the audience with the fuel to make it even scarier by not showing them everything. Want to hear a scary story? Irrational Fears is betting you do, and is providing the podcast platform to keep you up late at night.
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