I'm Horrified!

Apr 07 2025 201 ep. 49 mins 58
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Sam Beairsto and Allie Gavin are horrified. Enter an abyss of lighthearted panic and heartfelt hysteria with a podcast that explores the ups and downs of being alive in 2024 (all through the lense of two unconscionably anxious women). The world is chaos: be horrified with us. Follow us on twitter at @ imhorrifiedpod

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Episode 158: Chiropractors (feat. Becky Thorogood)

Apr 07 2025 47 mins  
You're going to feel a little pressure right here... This week, we're talking about the startlingly recent history of chiropractors. They're not doctors, insurance loves them, and they don't seem to be going anywhere. Hold onto your necks and spines, Horror Honeys! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 157: Nostradamus

Mar 18 2025 53 mins  
Things couldn't get any worse... could they? This week we're talking about Nostradamus, the illustrious french astronomer, seer, man about town, etc etc. Was he a highly positioned and powerful quack or the greatest prophet the world has ever known? Well, I guess the jurys still out, unless something else he predicted falls from the sky. Keep your eyes on the stars, Horror Honeys!

Episode 156: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

Feb 04 2025 62 mins  
Who doesn't love astrology, except its for work, and it might get you fired! This week we've got special guest Carole Ann Penney, a leadership and career coach, talking with us about the shady and not so scientific history of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a personality test that had made its way into boardrooms and hiring rooms, which we all feel pretty uneasy about. Keep your e

IH Classics: The Radium Girls and Purity Rings

Jan 28 2025 49 mins  
We're throwing it back to episode 27: The Radium Girls and Purity Rings, originally aired August 26 2018! This week, we're diving into two subjects that will rot your brain from the inside out: Radium and Bush-era abstinence only public school education. Who knew that fake silver rings on the hands of horny tweens won't stop the rampage of STI's? Or that Radium will literally melt

Episode 155: Sister Wives

Jan 20 2025 42 mins  
It's happening folks - we've long spoken of Allie's obsession with the long running TLC masterpiece, but today you're hearing it right from the horses mouth: we're talking about Sister Wives. For the blessedly uninitiated, Sister Wives is a reality television series based around the Polygamist Brown family, with Husband Kody and Wives Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn. I don't th

Episode 154: The Omegaverse

Jan 14 2025 48 mins  
Welcome back! We're kicking off 2025 with our New Year's guilty pleasures, and Sam is up first with something so diabolical we can hardly believe we're posting it. You've heard of romance, well this is a little different, and a little more wolf centric, but we all remember twilight don't we? Made famous by a notable fanfiction lawsuit, The Omegaverse has been creeping onto the roma

Episode 153: Stockholm Syndrome

Dec 24 2024 60 mins  
It's a Christmas miracle! We're coming at you live from our holiday hiatus to bring you a surprise episode. We'll see you again January 14th! Is this really a thing? If so why is it Swedish? Psychiatrists and psychiatry enthusiasts alike have pondered these questions over the elusive and somewhat foggy concept of "Stockholm Syndrome". Is it possible the Swedish people are just real

Episode 152: Mary Todd Lincoln

Dec 04 2024 48 mins  
Ooooooh Mary! Today we're talking about the one, the only, the often sad and lonely, Mary Todd Lincoln. Our girl Mary had some big ideas, big dreams, and big feelings (don't we all?). She was a foundation for our boy Abey, and sometimes she was also the one rocking that foundation. Double check your monthly budgets, Horror Honeys! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.

IH Classics: Ruby Ridge and The Hymen

Nov 26 2024 66 mins  
We're throwing it back to episode 83: Ruby Ridge and The Hymen, originally aired November 10th 2019! This week, Allie and Sam educate the people about the foundations of the modern militia movement and what exactly a hymen actually is. If you want to learn about an incredibly dark occurrence in US History, or about why we prize a totally made-up concept, this episode is for you! Do

Episode 151: Appendicitis (feat. Rachael Beairsto)

Nov 12 2024 40 mins  
Ah, the miracle of the human body, what can't it do? Today we're pulling a Magic Schoolbus and delving into the inner workings of human anatomy when things go... well... wrong. Thankfully we've got friend of the podcast Rachael Beairsto to bring us along on the journey, a journey she unfortunately has some firsthand experience with. Go eat something with fiber in it, Horror Honeys!