Optophobia

When you grow up on a farm in the Blue Ridge mountains, two things are assured. 1) You’ll become a great swimmer, and 2) You’ll be best friends with a chicken you’ve named after yourself. Charlie (Donna Steele) was no exception, and when she grew up, she took her athletic expertise to the Deep State to train elite American athletes using medieval torture methods.

Show Notes

When you grow up on a farm in the Blue Ridge mountains, two things are assured. 1) You’ll become a great swimmer, and 2) You’ll be best friends with a chicken you’ve named after yourself. Charlie (Donna Steele) was no exception, and when she grew up, she took her athletic expertise to the Deep State to train elite American athletes using medieval torture methods.

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Credits:

Donna Steele played Charlie. Donna performs with Hellcat and Colossus. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter.

Jamal Newman played Clifford Hanger. Jamal performs with Lena Dunham and NIXON. Follow him on Instagram and Twitter, and find him at jamalnewman.com.

Produced by Tim Townsend.

Theme music by Bart Warshaw.

Cover art by Claire Smalley. 

Website by Chance Griffin. 

What is Optophobia?

Optophobia is the fear of opening one’s eyes. Our show is dedicated to encouraging you — our listeners — to move beyond that fear. To solve riddles they don’t want us to unriddle. To investigate supposedly ironclad truths. To unearth evidence, buried for so long they believed it would stay buried. Each season we tackle a new investigation into what is often dismissively called a “conspiracy theory,” and each week a new guest weighs in. Are you bored by the lies? Open your eyes.