【万圣节特辑】来，说说各自的童年噩梦

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LINDA HOLMES, HOST:

A lot of us are about to have the experience ofopening our front doors to find witches, goblins, ghosts and those guards from"Squid Game" standing on our porches. Why? Because it's almostHalloween.

So we decided this would be agood time to talk about what kinds of entertainment scared us when we were kidsand maybe even whether they still scare us now. I'm Stephen Thompson.

HOLMES: And I'm Linda Holmes.And today we're talking about some of our old favorite fears on POP CULTUREHAPPY HOUR from NPR.

Also with us, from his homestudio, is Glen Weldon of the NPR Arts Desk. Hi, Glen.

GLEN WELDON, BYLINE: Hey,Linda.

HOLMES: Spooky, spooky, veryspooky.

WELDON: Spooky, scary.

HOLMES: And also here, ofcourse, is our friend Aisha Harris. Hi, Aisha.

AISHA HARRIS, BYLINE: Hello,Linda.

HOLMES: Well, so I don't havemuch to kick us off here other than to go directly to Aisha and say, whatscared the just living daylights out of you when you were a kid? I'm dying toknow.

HARRIS: So kid Aisha was verymuch a basic kid. She was scared of the most basic of things. I would alwaysget scared of the figures who were cartoon characters who I loved. Like, myparents waited in line with me for who knows how long to go see Darkwing Duckat this park. And then by the time we got to the - to Darkwing Duck, heterrified me because he was so big and huge and I was tiny, and it just feltweird. He wasn't a cartoon. But my most basic scaredy thing as a kid was clowns- hated clowns.

HARRIS: They were unsettling.

HOLMES: You're one of thosepeople.

HARRIS: Oh, I was one of those people. I did not like clowns. 

So at a 10th birthday partyfor a classmate of mine - I don't know why her parents thought this was a goodidea, but her parents rented the movie "It" by Stephen King.

HARRIS: This was the TV moviefrom the early '90s, starred Tim Curry as Pennywise the clown. I was 9 yearsold. I already hated clowns, and then I saw this movie that I knew nothingabout. And that scene - that opening scene where Pennywise just pops up in themiddle of the sewer and says...

HOLMES: It's real creepy.

HARRIS: ...Hiya (ph),Georgie.

HARRIS: And then they havethis back-and-forth, and it terrified me.

I had nightmares for weeks -weeks - and it still scares me to this day. Like, even just pulling that clipto listen to...

HARRIS: ...I actually had tonot have the screen on - up. I was just like, I'm not going to - I can't watchit. I will have to say that the remake of "It" that came out a fewyears ago - I did see the first part in theaters. And it wasn't quite as scary.I mean, it's definitely - has its moments and all of that. But I think I am alittle bit older now.

THOMPSON: A little bit.

HARRIS: I still don't likeclowns. I still find them unsettling. But because this is - the original was sotied to being 9 years old and nowhere near ready to experience that. That is what scaredme the most and gave me the most nightmares out of anything.

Stephen, how about you? Whatscared you as a kid? I'm surprised. I feel like I don't know this about you.

THOMPSON: Oh, well - so toprepare for this segment, I wrote down a list of everything that terrified meas a child. It turned out to be a fairly long list,

When I was right aroundturning 4, in the summer of 1976, my parents took me and my sister to UniversalStudios and somehow had access to some VIP run through the "Jaws"ride. I didn't know what "Jaws" was. I was 4 - barely 4. Riding alongwith my parents, the shark jumps out of the water - blaaargh (ph) - rightdirectly into my terrified, gap-tooth, big-eared, 4-year-old face. And it wasthe most terrifying thing I had ever encountered.

HOLMES: Well, Stephen, thisis wonderful. I feel like I have learned a lot about you......And also learnedsome things to avoid in dealing with you. I will not be bringing a shark toyour house... Which means one less fun thing for yourbirthday.

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