Outdoors / Nature TV shows usually include some rugged outdoor person like Bear Grylls, who eats armadillo skin and sucks on cactus roots to quench his thirst to survive in the wild.
Even nature podcast feature the sounds of nature from bird song to insect chirping while the narrator waxes poetic about the visual beauty that podcast listeners can only hear, not see.
How about a podcast where the host /narrator enjoys her four walls and the comfort and security of climate controlled air?
Believe or not, there's a podcast for that. It's called Fear Of Going Outside. And it's beginning a second season on February 13.
Fear of Going Outside (FOGO) is a nature show — by the most reluctant host ever. Most nature shows are hosted by reckless white men, but avid indoors woman Ivy Le is an Asian mom with severe allergies. Last season, Ivy conquered camping. She’s back, braving the outdoors, to go hunting - or die trying!
Listen to the brand-new trailer for the upcoming season HERE.
This season, Ivy Lee shares her experience conquering hunting, from the preparation, to learning how to find animals in the wild and how to break them down in the field.
She seeks out the answers to questions “indoor people” ask: why are outdoor clothes so ugly? who do you call if you break a leg in the wild? and does it smell bad when you skin an animal?
Ivy Le is a Vietnamese American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer based in Austin, Texas. Ivy was selected to be one of the 10 out of 18,000 applicants to go through Spotify’s first Sound Up podcast accelerator for women of color. She co-hosts the only queer comedy mic in Austin, is a producer for Austin Sketch Fest, and performs at comedy festivals all over the country. She speaks Spanish, German, Vietnamese, and English, and is a mom of two kids.
Fear Of Going Outside premiered in May 2021. Through its ten episodes that ran till August 2021, listeners followed Ivy's journey from indoor cocoon expert to communing with nature in its most basic form. Listeners followed Ivy through therapy, training, a shaky introduction to bugs and plants, and her preparations to finally go camping.
Fear of Going Outside is produced by Fearless Squirrel Productions. On the website of FOGO, the podcast communicates this important message to listeners: "Fear of Going Outside is created in a space that was and is still home to many Indigenous people. We acknowledge that the land on which we gather and create is the traditional territory of Tonkawa, Lipan-Apache, Karankawa, Comanche, Jumano, and Coahuiltecan people. We also want to acknowledge and give respect to the various Indigenous people and nations who live in the land we now call Texas...We are grateful for the opportunity to work in the community, and on this territory."
Good for you, FOGO.
Check out Fear of Going Outside on Monday, February 13.
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