07 01 2024 Most Googled Fear... do you have this?

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Hello, Killing Nash, It's tomorrowshow Today Tomorrow, the second of July,
Tuesday morning, and then I guessthat'll be the for most people.
That'll be the second and only fullworkday. A lot of people trying to
get out of the door early onWednesday, at least by noon, maybe
not even going in Wednesday because theygotta get ready for the big fourth of

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July on Thursday? Is that gettingIs that like a sick day? Then
on Wednesday, because you get dopeople get the fifth off? I don't
remember. I was over at JTZthe other day. I met some women
who are working and they're like,yeah, we only get the fourth off.
We don't get the fifth so we'llbe back in the office. And
car dealerships are always open. Well, they're the business people, they're the
ones that pay the employees. GotchafSo she's like, yeah, it's just

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another workday for us. So Iguess the fifth is not a holiday for
most Americans. Probably not. Bankswill be open again because they can't be
opened by federal law more than threedays. I mean can't be closed born
three days. So a lot ofpeople are gonna have to work on the
fifth. So I don't know howcrazy you're gonna get on the fourth.

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Okay, well let's talk about someof this uping and talking about. Maybe
we're talking about your getting ready forthe big Fourth of July. A lot
of big celebrations coming down. Well, you know Lake Murray Head, there's
all this weekend. I was sodisappointed. I was watching the news and
they were like, don't forget Junethirtieth or June twenty ninth, it's the
big Lake Murray fireworks. I waslike, why, why would you have

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it before the fourth? I'm notin charge of those things. So we
missed it. Just we have towait till next year. We do have
a Morning Russell regular, who's gonnahave h Well, the plan was his
friend is going to spend the weekendor at least a couple of days at
their house, coming down into Columbiafor the fourth. But his living girlfriend

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has put the kebbats on it becauseshe's pregnant, and she said, I
don't feel like I want anybody here. Now what do you do? It's
my house? True, she don'teven pay rent here. I already committed
to this guy that he could comehere. He's coming in. He's flying
in with the expectation that he's goingto be spending two nights at our place,

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and you want me just twenty fourforty eight hours before he lands to
say scrap all that. Either don'tcome or you're going to have to find
a hotel or some other place togo. Is that? Is that what
a friend does. I've known himtwenty thirty years that I've even known you.
Right, you should have given mea heads up on this, That's

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what she's saying. If you had, if you had run it by me
before, I'd have told you.No, I'm four months pregnant over here,
I'm going through a rough time.What do you do? How do
you contact your friend and tell himyour plans are scrapped? We got COVID.
Just tell Matt I ain't afraid ofCOVID. I'll be right there to

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help clean you up. Yeah,you're gonna have to put You're gonna have
to look. I'm thinking it dependson where you're looking at your relationship.
But if you are looking at thiswoman as somebody who maybe you're not going
to marry her, I don't know, if she's pregnant and you haven't married

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her yet, then I don't knowwhat it's gonna take. But if if
your relationship is let's say more thana year long or future, if you
think you've got more than a yearwith her, you need to step up
and take the blame. You needto contact your friend. Don't even mention
her, don't even bring her up, Just say I have decided that for

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for for my personal well being andfor Debbie, we need to spend some
alone time this holiday weekend. AndI know I promise you you could spend
the weekend here, but I'm makingan executive decision to scrap those plans.
I'm very very sorry about it.Make the decision. But but and then,
if I'm the friend, I'm like, dude, I just bought an

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airline ticket. Why would you havetell me this? Now, I'm coming
to Columbia to reconnect with you.I wasn't coming to see anybody else.
We need some help, we needsome guidance. Want to Russia regulars help
us? All right, we'll dowith that in the six o'clock hour.
Then. Now, this is aninteresting list because the initial headline makes it

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seem as if these are the mostpopular phobias ranked in America and it's a
shocker. Like you've heard many times. The biggest phobia is public speaking.
More people are afraid to speak inpublic than they are to die. That
I don't know is not true oris true. This list is not indicative

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of what is really the most feared. This is an indicative of how it
was googled. So these are actuallythe most google gold phobias in America.
Interesting. So the number one phobiais one that you have. It's called
I'm going to try to take it. Trypop a phobia. Trypop phobia.

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The fear of small holes or bumpsbeing clustered together nasty look honey combs,
Swiss cheese, objects like sponges turntheir stomachs. Yeah, I've got I've
got it. I'm on the spectrumfor that, as they say, yeah,
I don't have a deep I canlook at a sponge, but I
think that I think it's more orless for me. It's things that I

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see on the internet like they are. They're not necessarily supposed to be that
way. Like I can look ata tomato, no problems, you know.
I can look at things that growporous type surfaces tomatoes, no,
But some people look at tomatoes andit's nasty, like starfish or those kind

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of things where they have little poresall over them, or like an octopus
arm. I can look at that. That's not a problem. That's natural.
What about a honeycomb? Uh?Not typically now I'm good with that,
okay, But I see pictures onthe Internet of people's skin and stuff
like that. If they've blown itup, that's nasty. That makes just
turns my stomach. I don't knowwhat that is about. I don't I

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guess that's a very popular problem.There's a car and I think it's a
I think it's an Infinity. There'sa car right now. The grill of
that car makes my stomach current turn. So somebody who has like like nobody
wants to see it per se.But like people who had I don't know,
was it horrific acne as a childor maybe they had some watch or

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something. But they've got all thosebumps in their faces. Yeah, yeah,
you can't look at them. Nointeresting. And if I can't see
like some people that they see likea tree trunk that is decaying, Yeah,
rings on it. Some people.That affects them. That doesn't affect
me. I'm good I'm good withthat. That's like a slice of bread
with all the holes. I'm goodwith that's a natural thing. But if

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I see things that are unnaturally filledwith holes, unnatural. Yeah, it's
like no and that and like thatgrill on that car. I remember seeing
that. I don't know why that'sunnatural. I remember seeing a pin of
a woman. I think it wasa Clemson tiger and it had a bunch
of little it was it was likeit was like it was a metal but
it was like a woven metal strandsand you could see through it. And

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that really grossed me out. You'rea game, come man, I said,
no, it's the design of thatjust makes me want to throw up.
Can of bar your purse, Iwant to throw up a gro Rapaphobia
is the number two on the listand grow now. This effects about one
and a half percent of America.This is a fear of leaving any environment

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that you know is safe. Solike if you were in your office and
you felt safe in your office,you wouldn't want to leave to try to
go home because there's the fear ofbeing outside of a known safe and interesting.
That's how they end up becoming arapophobic they become homebound for the most
part, because in their home,if they feel safe there, they never

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want to leave to go to anyother place. Misophobia or phonia is it
with an N? I guess it'smisophonia severe aversion to chewing, swallowing,
or even breathing sounds hum. Itdrives them crazy to hear themselves chew.

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Hear anybody else chew here, swallowingor breathing? Did you hear themselves breathing?
I'm disgusted? How do you evengo to sleep? That's a that's
a problem. Facile phobia the fearof large, deep bodies of water.
The people with it aren't so muchafraid of the water, but the unknown

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of what's underneath the swer works.I'll be honest with you. I was
swimming Saturday in I guess it's notvery deep, but Lake Murray. The
meter on the boat said there was. We were in thirty seven feet of
water, and I did think aboutit, like, crap, that's thirty
seven was I'm swimming around my body, you know, if my head's above

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the water, so that means I'mfive feet down basically my feet are so
I'm like, well, crap,there's more than like thirty two feet of
water between me and the bottom.There could be all kinds of things living
underneath. The cat fish under there, the size of a volkswagon could be
could be ready to take you under. You always hear about all the cemeteries
and stuff that they washed out what'sunderneath me? Right now, I thought

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about it. I didn't let itbother me. I deferred my thinking.
I started to go down that path, and I said, not going to
do any good to think about it. Just enjoy floating in the cool water
on a hot day. And soI went back to that. Thankfully.
Them bones going to rise again doesnot mean that bones are have the floatation.
I'm trying to find the one.I'm floating to the top. This

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is the one I was looking for. Because you mentioned vomiting, I think
it's pronounced emma taphobia. Emma taphobiais an extreme disgust and aversion to vomiting.
It's not just the fear of throwingup. It's the anxiety about not
being able to make it to abathroom in time, a fear of not
being able to stop the vomiting onceyou start, a fear of choking on

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the vomit. I've never heard ofthat, So it's not like I thought
it was when I first read it. When it says a disgust to vomiting,
I thought, like a severe LikeI love the movie for Christmases when
Brad that's his name, what's hisname plays Brad he can't see vomit was

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getting sick himself, yes, Andso the baby vomits on his girlfriend yep,
and he's like, oh I can'tsee that. Oh my god.
She's like, Brad, you gottakick the baby from me, get it
away from me. And all thewomen come and help him out, and
they don't care about her being coveredin vomit. No, that's great.
Oh people hear someone vomiting and theyalmost vomit. Yeah, that's apparently not

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what this is, no, butthat it has a lot to do with
it. So there's a bunch ofthese things, and there's like another ten
more on there that I could gothrough. But these are kind of unique.
These are unique fears because these aren'tfears necessarily. These are the fears
people were searching out on Google.Yeah, so like like I have a

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fear of snakes, I can admitthat I do not like I don't like
reptiles. There's not a reptile onthe earth that I'm happy to see.
I'm not happy about frogs. I'mnot happy about lizards. I'm not happy
about snakes, turtles. I don'tlike turtles. I don't like reptile.
So that's I recognize it as irrational. I understand it. I have overcome

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it at certain instances where I'll haveto pick up a snake and move it,
pick up a frog and move it, pick up a turtle and move
it. I kind of buckle downand just focus really hard. I'm doing
it. I'm touching it. Idon't want to touch it, and I
just get it off the road orwhatever it is. It's in my way.

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So I have an irrational fear ofit, but I can overcome it.
These are people who have irrational fears. Apparently oftentimes they can't overcome it.
Like if you're talking about the likethey can't go in a lake,
they can't be on a boat ina lake, they can't the idea well,

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they're for the yeah, anything,the deep fear, the fear of
deep bodies of water, anything more. If I can't see the bottom of
it, I can't be in it. The severe aversion to chewing, swallowing
and heavy breathing. I don't knowwhat you do with that, because you
can always hear yourself swallowing. Think, I mean you have to wear earbuds
all the time and listen to yourfavorite country songs to drownd out the sound

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of your own breathing. I see, I have a bigger fear of not
hearing myself. I'm a bigger fearof that. So what is the weird
Maybe it's not weird like to someof them here, like an intense fear
of death. That's called fantaphobia.It leads to feelings of distress. I

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know, someone like that, you'rethinking about your own death, maybe that
the loved one you're Yeah, youdon't even mention someone died because they'll just
shut down. That's a rough placeto be. That is a rough place
because you can never hear about death. It happens every day, yes,
and the older you get, themore it happens. Yeah, I mean,
it's in the news, if theywere a celebrity, if there were

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a celebrity. I'm just think thinkabout like, you know, I'm trying
to remember some oh, one ofmy nephews just lost somebody kind of like
in their age group. They're liketwenty two, twenty three, and I
was like, yeah, that itusually happens sometime around high school. It
is like the first dead kid.Like I remember the first dead kid died

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when I was like a junior inhigh school and I was a junior.
He was a junior. He diedin a car accident over the weekend.
And it was like, wait aminute. The kid that was here on
Friday. I thought I was closeto him, but I knew him,
You're not gonna be here. He'snot here now. The kid I saw
a church every Sunday. Now hedoesn't exist. He's not on the plane,
no longer here. And that wasreally I remember it kind of a
struggle for me to kind of justgrasp that, like how could he die

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so early? Then, like youget into the college era, some kids
die at parties and things like thatis like every day you go into your
thirties, and then by the timeyou're in your thirties, you got kid
people dying of diseases. It isstill unusual, but it happens forties.
It picks up fifties by the timeyou're in your seventies. Everybody's dying,
right, everybody you know is dyingat a rapid It's like you got a

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funeral a week. Let's go,let's go. We gotta wrap this thing
up. It's pretty soon it'll bemine. Let's go. Yeah. And
if you're afraid, if you havesome intense fear of that, I don't
know how you survive. I don'tknow how you function as a human being.
You gotta live in a bubble ifyou if you have to, if
that's something we have to protect youfrom. I mean, you're gonna certainly

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you can't go to the funeral youryour spouse has do don't tell him the
spouse dies, tell me they lefthim. It'd be far better if you
think that they left him a divorcenote. She can live with that,
he can live with that. Allright, We'll talk about your fear of
spiders, your fear of heights,your fears of deep water, your fears

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of swallowing, your what have wegot going on in your neighborhood? What
do you got planning for the Fourthof July? Who's planning on losing some
fingers this year? With Oh mygosh, that'll be I did see a
funny post that some one of ourfriends put up. It said, please
keep fireworks away from all flammable thingsSouth Carolina. How about we sell them

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at every gas station in the state. That's great. Hey, you know
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