- I shouldn't laugh at people's phobias,
but this phobia is hilarious. (laughing)
(dramatic music)
- [Interviewer] Hello!
- Hi, my name is Nikita and I write jokes for a living.
- My name's Nicole, right now I'm a stay at home mom.
- I am Coach Gigs, today I am going to be
guessing people's phobias.
- [Interviewer] What are you afraid of?
- I really, really hate spiders.
I can't even handle like "Charlotte's Web".
- I think I feel a lot of fear, generally.
- Because I'm a black dude,
I don't respond like, ah!
Besides being pulled over by the police,
that's pretty scary for a black man.
- I think there's multiple reasons that people have phobias.
One of the big ones is probably an experience
in childhood or adulthood.
I just think some people just may be born afraid of things,
if some things are innate.
- [Interviewer] You ready to meet the line?
- Yeah. - Okay.
Let's go ahead and bring the line out.
- Hello. - Hi there.
- How y'all doing? - Good.
- Good. (laughing)
- My name is Nikita and I will be scaring you today.
- Okay. - Great.
- [Interviewer] Okay, let's bring out the first phobia.
We'll have the line close your eyes.
- Eyes closed.
Oh my gosh, no!
(all laughing) No, okay,
I literally said I'm a black dude and I don't act like that,
and I just acted like that. (laughing)
(all laughing) Oh my God.
Listen, no, because what if it starts to run?
- This looks like a chicken or some type of turkey.
- I ain't never been this close
to a chicken that I was not eating.
- This one seems nervous, so I just feel bad for her,
slash whoever's afraid of her.
- Chickens are pretty hardcore.
They don't ask questions, they just charge.
(Coach Gigs laughing)
- I was just watching everybody's reaction.
What's your name?
- Megan.
- Megan, is that your phobia?
- That's mine.
- Is it chickens? - It's chickens.
- Oh, wow, that's crazy.
- How long have you had this phobia?
Where did it come from?
- So, I was with a friend for the day
and it was her turn to go out and feed their chickens.
And they had like, like a lot of chickens.
- Oh, okay. - It wasn't just like
a couple for fun, it was like chickens.
They just started
like coming at me- - Swarming.
- And I was like, absolutely not. (laughing)
So, that's my earliest chicken memory.
(Coach Gigs laughing)
- [Megan] You might be more scared than me.
- Because the moment that thing started like-
(Coach Gigs imitating chicken clucking)
(all laughing) - Oh I know, oh I know.
- I'm like, all right, I'm cool.
You feel good?
You okay? - I'm okay, I'm all right.
I'm doing okay. - I got you.
- I'm here with you.
- Would you be willing to try to feed the chicken?
- Sure.
Her pupils are like dilating and retracting.
(Megan screaming) (all laughing)
Okay, that's good, that's enough. (laughing)
(all laughing) That's all I got.
- All right, can we move on, y'all?
- Yes, we can move on. - 'Cause this a lot.
- Okay, let's move on. - Good job.
- Mm-hmm.
- [Interviewer] What do you have there?
- I have a visual pattern that I know is very unnerving
for a lot of people.
- It just looks completely disgusting.
I see some like shiny stuff in there.
- I don't know, holes?
Maybe they think they're gonna pop out at them.
I'm interested to find out from the person,
what makes it so freaky for them.
'Cause this is not one that I share.
- Here, catch.
- What? (Coach Gigs laughing)
- I think it's her.
Am I right?
- No, you failed.
- This ain't your phobia? - Nope.
- I'm sorry about this.
I think I got you. (laughing)
- If it's not you, then it is her.
(all laughing)
What you think?
- I don't like it.
- Why?
- I don't know.
- That's intense.
I'm not gonna torture you with this,
but would you like to come up?
- Okay, can you help me with what,
oh, so sorry.
(all laughing)
Would you like me to set it on the ground,
or at least not show it to you?
- Yeah. - I can set it on the ground.
- Okay.
- What is it about this, that's creating all that?
- I don't like seeing multiple holes together.
I'm not really sure why.
- This is really intense.
- Like my skin crawls, and I get like goose bumpy,
and like my knees like go weak.
- I think this is a really hard one to cope with
because this pattern, like you see it a lot.
- Yeah.
- Is it something that you feel
like affects your day to day?
- Unfortunately, there's like clusters of holes
kind of like in different areas of your life.
So like, shower heads really freak me out.
That actual specific thing
is in a lot of like table centerpieces,
I don't know if you've ever seen it.
- I got 'em on my table. (laughing)
Yeah.
So, have you ever wanted to like get past the phobia?
- I have, I don't like the reaction
'cause it's embarrassing.
'Cause then other people are like,
"What the hell are you crying for,
what the fuck's wrong with you?"
- Right. - But like-
- I think if that would've came first,
before the chicken, I would've been like,
girl,
(Trypophobia Guest laughing) she is crying over some holes.
But, I know how it felt when that chicken came in here, so.
- We'll get this out of the room now.
Does that sound good? - Thank you,
I would appreciate that. (all laughing)
- Ready for number three, let's go.
- [Interviewer] Everybody close your eyes.
- Dang, that's a big snake.
(all laughing)
- We're gonna have snakes now. - Right, unless it's,
oh, what? (all laughing)
Hell no!
- No, no, no, no, no.
- [Interviewer] Wait, wait.
- I literally said to my husband this morning,
"I'm going to have to touch a snake."
- Many snakes are very dangerous. (laughing)
So, that seems like a smart fear to have.
- [Crew] I've been told this is a pretty nice snake.
His name is Jeff.
Get closer!
- How do you feel about petting Jeff?
(all laughing)
- That's it.
(all laughing)
- Oh, there's some promise there.
You like Jeff.
How do you feel about holding Jeff?
- Hmm, sure.
(all laughing) - You seem a little
uncomfortable.
- Nope. - Do you?
- Not at all.
- I think there is two candidates.
You were somewhat uncomfortable with Jeff.
The other person I thought
seemed uncomfortable with Jeff is you.
- Is it you?
- Yeah, my heart's racing. (laughing)
I'm glad we share the same fear.
- He's touching me.
Oh God, don't make him mad. (groaning)
- Is it something they did?
- Yeah, so when I was a little kid,
I actually got bitten by like a common garden snake,
and every one of them look the same.
The fact they don't got arms and legs.
- Right. - And, then they smell
with their tongues.
Just the whole embodiment of a snake.
- You seem more comfortable than I do.
- I'm managing it, but I'm-
- It's crazy. - I'm shaking.
- [Interviewer] Okay, let's bring out the next item.
(paper crinkling)
- Okay, I'm holding, I think, a newspaper.
- [Interviewer] You think?
- Yeah, it looks pretty newspaper-ish to me.
- [Interviewer] Well, how come
you're holding it so delicately?
- I don't know, I just think everything is a setup in here.
(all laughing)
- I'm thinking it could be fear of the news.
- The stories are definitely
the scariest part for me, personally.
Then, I guess it could be small font?
- Maybe a paper cut?
- I don't know why somebody would fear a newspaper
besides so many people is touching it.
Right, 'cause this is like a used newspaper
and already my hands feel dirty.
- [Interviewer] So, you can look around you
and maybe ask somebody to come forward.
- One person's not making eye contact.
- What you doing?
(Trypophobia Guest laughing)
Wow, I found her already.
- Mmm-hmm.
- Oh!
- Newspaper, sorry.
I'm so sorry. (all laughing)
- Just don't waft it too much.
- I won't, is it the airflow?
- It's the smell. - Oh.
- Smell it. - Oh, it's the smell.
- What does it smell like?
- It smells like everything that's bad.
I'm fine with like my son's dirty diapers,
but like this, I cannot deal with this smell.
- That's crazy.
- Has it been your whole life
or was there an event that happened?
- It started off like, you know,
like I didn't like newspaper and like with art projects.
- Paper mache. - Yeah, paper mache.
And it's all slimy, and the ink comes off.
I would tell my family that I don't like newspaper
and they would use it to threaten me.
Like, if I don't wake up on time,
they'll say like they'll put newspaper on my face,
like as I'm sleeping. - No!
- Aren't you happy about the internet, right?
- Oh yeah. - When the internet
started coming out, less newspapers started being produced.
- I'd give you a hug, but I smell like newspaper.
So, I'm gonna stay right here.
- Newspaper phobia, that's crazy.
- I'm ready for the next scary thing when you are.
(crate rattling) - Oh, you're not gonna ask me
to put someone in there, are you?
- I believe this is a claustrophobia inducing machine.
- Like, when you scared to be in tight spaces.
- I'm not sticking a person in this.
- Can I ask them like, "Who wanna go in here?"
- [Interviewer] Yeah.
- All right, who wanna go in that thing?
- I think the way I would do it with dogs is...
(crate rattling) (all laughing)
(crate rattling) - Okay, it's not you,
come out. (all laughing)
- Would you be willing to look in the crate?
- It's a nice crate.
(all laughing)
- Your voice makes me think it's not a nice crate.
(crate rattling) (Claustrophobia Guest crying)
(all laughing)
- This is her phobia.
- Is it just a small space or is it cages in particular?
- Small spaces.
- Did you get stuck somewhere or?
- So, when I was a kid,
my dad would play this game with my sister and I (laughing),
that he would put a blanket over our head
and then hug us so that we couldn't like get out.
And then, I would say like,
"I can't breathe", and start crying.
- I see. - Childhood trauma,
but my dad's a great guy, I swear. (laughing)
(all laughing)
- [Interviewer] All right,
let's bring out the next one. (Coach Gigs laughing)
This is funny.
I shouldn't laugh at people's phobias,
but this phobia is hilarious. (laughing)
- [Interviewer] Why do you think someone
would be afraid of dolls?
- There's just something about it being lifelike, but not.
I think that's pretty spooky.
- Is it okay if I inflict suffering with this?
- Yeah. (all laughing)
Do I proceed?
This is, oh wow.
(all laughing)
- You don't want it?
- I don't want it. (laughing)
- Okay.
- Wow, I just found out whose phobia this is. (laughing)
- I believe (laughing)
it's this person, right there. (all laughing)
- I'm gonna respect your phobia.
- Okay.
- I got her in the headlock, with her ponytail in my hand.
She's not messing with you.
- All right, I'm good. - Okay.
- I'm gripping them cheeks right now.
(all laughing)
- So am I, but they're like small lifeless cheeks, okay.
- All dolls, baby dolls? - Yep, all of them.
- Bigger dolls. - Barbie dolls.
- Part, oh, Barbie dolls? - Mm-hmm.
- Whoa, when did the eyes close?
- (laughing) What?
- Look.
- Oh, no, no, what?
- Oh!
(all laughing) When it's laying down.
- [Pediophobia Guest] Did you do it?
- You want it to go? - Yeah, we're over it.
- [Interviewer] Throw it. (all laughing)
- Come on, come back.
- Is it less the doll itself
and more the idea that something lives in the doll?
- Yeah, that's probably more of what it is.
They be turning their heads, they be looking at you.
- Like, how does this affect you?
Is that a big problem? - Oh, because I have nieces
and, you know, like I have friends that have daughters.
When you go to someone's house,
and their kid like runs up like, "Oh, Auntie Fifi."
And then all of a sudden, yeah, they got the doll out.
- Do you like, boop? - Boop, yeah.
(all laughing)
- Do you want to work on getting rid of this fear somehow?
- I mean, I would like to, but I can't.
It's just something I can't do.
We're good? - Yeah.
- You're good, you did awesome.
- Cool.
- [Interviewer] How was that?
- This was difficult for me.
I overall had a good time, I just,
I do feel some amount of guilt
just for causing this much deliberate discomfort.
- I didn't know I had phobias like that.
I thought I just didn't like stuff,
but my body really reacted to those animals,
so that was interesting.
- I was doing okay up until the snake.
I think it was probably a much rougher
for the people behind me,
and I think they should all be proud of themselves.
- [Interviewer] Thank you, everybody.
- Yo. (all applauding)
Good job, good job, good job.
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