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Staff Picks: Are You Afraid of the Irrational?

Staff Picks: Are You Afraid of the Irrational?

October 29, 2025 (October 29, 2025) // Riot Fest

It’s spooky season and what better way to celebrate than to ask everyone what they’re irrationally afraid of?

These would never happen, haha. Unless…


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DAN

Standing behind a tall person at a concert / standing in front of a short person at a concert. I would like to have a good sightline without being in the way of someone else’s. 


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JEN

Daddy Long Legs. I don’t care that they are not spiders and are harmless to humans, they freak me out. Same with cave crickets. 

Being trapped in a crowded elevator in a skyscraper (triple whammy of fears) see also: flying in a metal tube 30,000ft in the air.

Dating apps.


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HANNAH

Any type of spider.

Marc.

The creepy crawlers that live in this office.

Waves, but also the entirety of the ocean.


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MO

Unemployment.

Clowns.

Emails sent after 5:00PM on a weekday.


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TWITTER PERSON

Luba.

Being sober.

The collapse of civilization.

Your mom not calling me back the next day.


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CAROLINE

Getting my hair stuck in a rollercoaster.

The mystery seat moisture on the CTA.

Accidentally having my camera on during a Zoom call.

Under-packing undergarments when traveling.


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LUBA

Rain on Riot Fest weekend.

Murderer breaking into my house right as my foot falls asleep.


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MARC

The spider near my car keys.

Hannah.

Shingles (because by all accounts Shingles doesn’t care).

Hearing the phrase “having a moment”


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JAKE

A 5th Buffalo Bills Super Bowl loss.

That Tom Waits will play live again but I won’t be able to be there to see it.

My Spotify Wrapped.


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