"Here Be Monsters": Tackling personal fears through podcasts

In 2011, Jeff Emtman came across a photo on Facebook that both disturbed and fascinated him. The picture featured a friend holding a recently birthed placenta in her hands.

“I said to myself, 'Wow, that's really bothersome, and I don't know just why it's bothersome,'” the 24-year-old Emtman recalled over Skype. “It tied into some things I was thinking about, and it got me thinking that maybe I really needed to start doing art about the things that I'm afraid of. Because that list is about as long as the King James Bible."