Terrified With Dave Ross & Anna Seregina

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!

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 make fun of him a little. Follow @WendiStarling on Twitter!

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!

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 fall asleep. Follow @tonythaxton on Twitter!

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!

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 also discuss wasting time, and focusing, and wasting too much time to focus.  They had fun.  Mikal's great. Follow @MikalCronin on Twitter!

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.

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!

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.  

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.  

Kevin Bigley is an actor in L.A.  He and Dave discuss narcissism, and his fear of becoming a narcissist, and how everyone in Hollywood is in immediate danger of becoming an awful, narcissistic douchebag at any moment.  Kevin is not a douchebag.  Dave checked.

Megan Rosati is an actor and writer in Los Angeles, CA.  She and Dave discuss her fear that she's chosen the wrong path in life, and that she'll be sent to live with her sisters in shame.  They discuss the other possible paths she could've taken, and her fear that her life will not be as fulfilling or interesting or safe or complete as a result of not taking those paths.  They talk failure, and pushing for a dream.  They also discuss how they know each other, and we suppose you'll just have to listen to see what we mean by that. Follow @meganrosati on Twitter and watch 52 Ways to Break Up on YouTube!

Moshe Kasher is a comedian and author based in Los Angeles. He and Dave discuss the double life he led as a child, splitting his years between the conventional American community that is Oakland, California and a strict Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York.  The talk the differences between the two, the ways he was ostracized from each, how it affected him then and now, and on and on and on.  It was fascinating.  Dave was absolutely fascinated.  

Megan Amram is a comedy writer based in Los Angeles, CA.  She and Dave discuss her fear of her own hands, and wrists, and touching her hands and wrists, and other people touching her hands and wrists.  Dave does not touch her hands and wrists, or his own hands and wrists, out of respect. Follow @meganamram on Twitter!

Marty DeRosa is a stand-up comedian who just moved to Los Angeles from Chicago.  He and Dave talk depression, and getting better, and taking medication, and really everything surrounding clinical depression and the painful process of trying to beat it.  They also talk wrestling!  Dave was intrigued.

Sean Green is an LA-based comedian, writer and podcaster. He chronicles his battle with testicular cancer to Dave, and all the fear and anxiety that went/goes along with that. Also, turns out, they both hate Fireball.

Aristotle Acevedo was born and bred in Alhambra, California and is the producer of THIS PODCAST.  He and Dave talk about all kinds of fear and self-loathing, from not having friends to feeling like you have no friends to feeling like you can't do anything right to suicide.  Dave thinks Aristotle is great, and spends a certain amount of time berating him about how he should never commit suicide.  They somehow managed to not talk about pop punk that much.

Joey Izzo is a filmmaker in Los Angeles, CA.  He's great.  Dave's a big fan of his.  They talk about the oversaturation of people with art and culture and "content" in the modern world, and how they think its both hurt and helped their lives.  They also talk about detachment from your loved ones, and not being present in your relationships.  Near the end, they discussed changes in DAVE.  It was a great conversation.  They both thought so.  For real.

James Fritz is a stand-up comic based in Los Angeles, CA.  He and Dave talk about love, and what it is to be a good comic, and what it is to be a good person, and what it is to fail at all three of those things.   Follow @jamesfritzcomic on twitter!

Kate Berlant is a comedian based in Los Angeles, California.  She and Dave discuss her paranoia that something awful is about to happen, at any time, for no reason.  They talk panic attacks and social panic and just panic in general.  Also swastikas.  For real. Follow @katerberlant on Twitter!