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FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast explores horror—in real life AND in the movies—from an LGBT perspective. Horror films aren’t just an escape–we believe they"re a mirror to the horrors we face in real life, and our show offers strong opinions for our audience to consider and engage with.www.frigay13.comInstagram, Twitter, TikTok, Threads: FriGay13Contact us: frigay13@gmail.com-a proud, independent podcast-

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🌽 Episode 169: CORNFIELDS ARE TERRIFYING 🌽

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2026/10/02

This week, Matty & Andrew wander into the rows (against Matty's better judgement — he grew up in Northwest Indiana, he KNOWS what corn does at night). We get into the very real phenomenon of "corn sweat" making Midwest summers miserable, why mature cornfields are scientifically designed to make you walk in circles (one family got lost in a maze just 25 feet from the exit!), the chilling reality of crimes hidden in ordinary Midwestern fields, and the nightmare of grain-bin entrapment — drowning

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121:50

EPISODE 168: SURVEILLANCE IS TERRIFYING

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2026/09/18

This week we go deep on the surveillance state, 25 years after 9/11:🚨 Matty digs into how Ring/Nest doorbell cams are quietly wrecking neighborly trust — and getting innocent people shot at — via Vox's July reporting on the paranoia economy🚨 Andrew covers real cops abusing Flock license-plate cameras to stalk exes, plus three cases where facial recognition sent innocent people to jail, including an 8-months-pregnant woman arrested at homeThen we're back in the found-footage woods with:🎬 Book of

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127:37

<> SPOOKY SEASON!

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2026/09/04

It's a FRIGAY REWIND! Our usual summer hiatus is lasting just a wee longer than usual. We'll let you know more in our next episode (everything is OK!), but until then, we are bringing back Episode 150: Spooky Season... so let us get you in the spirit of SPOOKY SEASON: grab a PSL, light those pumpkin candles, and listen in!

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127:42

🔪 EPISODE 167: POPULARITY IS TERRIFYING 🔪

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2026/08/14

Matty and Andrew are back with a brand new episode — and this week it's giving Mean Girls, but make it horror. We're breaking down who gets to sit with us (RIP Annabelle, we don't make the rules) before diving into two flicks about cliques, queen bees, and what happens when you'll do anything to get in.🎬 FILM ONE: Heathers (1989)Three girls named Heather rule Westerburg High until new kid J.D. convinces Veronica it's time to take them down a peg — and things get murderous fast.Matty: 6 | Andrew:

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101:41

🌊😱 EPISODE 166: WATERPARKS ARE TERRIFYING

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2026/07/31

Wave pools. Drain suction. Parasites that laugh at chlorine. Turns out the "safe" attraction at the water park was never safe — and we've got the real-life horror stories to prove it (RIP Action Park, aka "Traction Park").🎬 PIRANHA (1978) — Genetically engineered killer fish, bred for Vietnam, get loose and head straight for a summer camp. Spielberg himself called it "the best of the Jaws rip-offs."🎬 JAWS 3D (1983) — The Brody boys can't catch a break. This time it's a SeaWorld-style marine park

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111:32

💄 EPISODE 165: BEAUTY IS TERRIFYING 🪞

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2026/07/17

How far will we go for beauty? How deep and dear is the costs? We dig in to a genuinely gruesome history — lead face paint, arsenic wafers, radium perms, and an electric corset that promised to cure your "hysteria." We dig into how beauty has been poisoning people for centuries, then bring it into the present with looksmaxxing, bone smashing, and the new horror of AI dysmorphia — patients bringing AI-edited selfies to plastic surgeons and asking to look like a face that was never real.Then two films

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111:22

🌈🔪 Episode 164: PRIDE SHOULDN'T BE TERRIFYING 🔪🌈

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2026/06/19

🌈🔪 Episode 164: PRIDE SHOULDN'T BE TERRIFYING 🔪🌈It's Pride Month, and Matty & Andrew are asking the question nobody wants to answer: why does celebrating still feel like a risk?This week's Horror in Real Life: Pride events turning into full security operations, parades getting canceled outright (Tampa, Arlington, Long Beach), corporate sponsors quietly bailing, and the online harassment machine that never clocks out. Cute rainbow crosswalk, increasingly not-cute reality.Then, two films about

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116:27

🏚️🔑 Episode 163: LANDLORDS ARE TERRIFYING 🔑🏚️

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2026/06/05

The lease says one year. The nightmare is forever.This week Matty & Andrew dive into one of the most universally relatable horrors imaginable — your landlord. From Matty's own front-row seat to the Dublin housing crisis to the very real terror of LGBTQ+ people losing their homes during the AIDS epidemic, we cover the full spectrum of landlord horror: the passive-aggressive newsletter, the unannounced inspection, the company town where your boss owned literally everything... and the eviction

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120:47

🌀 Episode 162: STORMS ARE TERRIFYING 🌀

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2026/05/22

Nature doesn't care about you. It never did.This week Matty & Andrew are boarding up the windows and sitting with the most primal fear of all — the sky itself turning against you. We get into the long, ugly history of storms being used to blame queer people, the real science behind why severe weather feels genuinely supernatural, and why Tornado Alley is no longer where anyone thinks it is.Also: twenty years after Katrina, New Orleans is still haunted — and not in the way you'd expect.And then

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106:42

🧚‍♀️🩸 Episode 161: FAIRY TALES ARE TERRIFYING 🩸🧚‍♀️

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2026/05/01

🧚‍♀️🩸 Episode 161: FAIRY TALES ARE TERRIFYING 🩸🧚‍♀️Once upon a time, two brave, beautiful, and moderately unhinged men set out on a quest…This week Matty & Andrew go down the breadcrumb trail of fairy tale horror — the actual famine that birthed Hansel & Gretel, why Little Red Riding Hood was never really about a wolf, the patriarchy hiding inside every "happily ever after," and how the Brothers Grimm themselves softened their own stories until biological mothers became stepmothers

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119:12

🎲 Episode 160: BOARD GAMES ARE TERRIFYING 🎲

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2026/04/17

Do NOT touch the planchette.This week, Matty & Andrew are rolling the dice on board game horror — from the real-life Ouija board possession case that inspired The Exorcist, to the brief and genuinely unsettling history of board games that have ended in actual murder (Yahtzee, we're looking at you), to a close reading of games so offensive they were banned outright.And then we watched some movies. 🍿🎲🎬 OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL — Mike Flanagan does the impossible and makes a Hasbro prequel

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125:01

🤡 EPISODE 159: CLOWNS ARE TERRIFYING 🤡

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2026/04/03

Step right up… to your worst nightmare.This episode, Matty & Andrew are diving honk-first into all things clown horror — from the origins of the clown (cute!) to the very real terror of the 2016 creepy clown panic (not cute!) to John Wayne Gacy, who used his alter ego Pogo the Clown to hide crimes too monstrous to comprehend.And then we watched some movies. 🍿🎈🎬 KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE — alien clowns, cotton candy cocoons, and a banger title track from The Dickies. Matty was

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113:43

>>FRIGAY REWIND<< | Episode 110 - Drag is Terrifying

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2026/02/27

It's a FRIGAY REWIND! Andrew is DRAGGING up one of our fave episodes— all about drag! Enjoy, FriGays, and we'll be back with a new episode soon.

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111:02

🔮 EPISODE 158: SEANCES ARE TERRIFYING 🔮

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2026/02/13

Candles are lit. Boundaries are ignored. Consent is… actively debated with the afterlife.This week, a séance goes horribly, flirtatiously wrong as we explore horror in real life:👻 The history of séance grifters🎩 Harry Houdini’s war on Spiritualism🏛️ Mary Todd Lincoln’s White House séances and grief as survival🦶 The Fox Sisters and the birth of modern spiritual scams...and horror in the Movies:🎥 THIRTEEN GHOSTS (1960) – gimmicks, goggles, and goofy chills🎥 THE QUIET ONES (2014) – messy

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122:16

🚑📄 EPISODE 157: INSURANCE IS TERRIFYING 📄🚑

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2026/01/30

What’s scarier than ghosts, cults, or cosmic madness?👉 Insurance.This episode, we tackle the true horror of prior authorizations, denied claims, medical debt, and a healthcare system that somehow finds a way to say “have you tried waiting until Monday?” 😱👁️ Horror in Real Life:• The UnitedHealthcare / Luigi Mangione case• Why claims are often denied by default• How AI is increasingly making life-or-death decisions• Why medical debt remains the #1 cause of bankruptcy in the U.S.• And why being

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119:16

🔢 EPISODE 156: MATHEMATICS IS TERRIFYING🔢

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2026/01/16

What’s scarier than ghosts? MATH! This week we’re diving into the horror of math, algorithms, and the unsettling idea that randomness might not be random at all. From the Princeton PEAR Experiment (where intention may have bent probability) to dating apps, advertising algorithms, and the numbers quietly running our lives.🎥 Films this episode: 🔲 CUBE (1997) – puzzle-box terror with murder math 🔢 PI (1998) – obsession, chaos, and numbers that know too much🎧 Listen now— wherever you listen to

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125:43

🎆 EPISODE 155: 2025 WAS TERRIFYING 🎆

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2025/12/26

Cheers to making it through the year.Barely.This episode of FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast, we look back at the horrors of 2025—from AI anxiety and cursed group chats to box office beasts, Billboard bangers, and some genuinely great horror.👻 Was 2025 terrifying… or just 2025?💀 Final Destination: Bloodlines earns its stripes🪝 I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) proves some franchises refuse to die🕯️ In Memoriam🎮 A brand-new game: Terrifying or Just 2025?Plus: Tony Todd forever, FPJ nostalgia

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117:37

💃 EPISODE 154: DANCE IS TERRIFYING 💃

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2025/12/12

💃🔥 EPISODE 154: DANCE IS TERRIFYING 🔥💃Out now wherever you get your podcasts.This week, we’re sweating, spiraling, and counting our way through the horror of dance—from cursed movement to psychological breakdowns and historical mass hysteria.✨ This episode includes:🧠 The 1518 Dancing Plague — when hundreds danced until collapse (and possibly death)🎭 The dark, exclusionary history of The Rockettes⚠️ The brutal pressure of ballet & body image🔴 SUSPIRIA (1977) — witches, technicolor

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112:19

🍽️ EPISODE 153: COOKING IS TERRIFYING

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2025/11/21

Is cooking art? Is it trauma? Is it a gateway to poisoning your enemies? On this week’s FriGay the 13th, we’re stirring the pot — literally and historically — and diving into why the kitchen might be the scariest room in the house. We kick things off with an opening skit featuring Matty eating pasta like a raccoon behind a 7-Eleven (Andrew’s words, not ours). From there, things only escalate. 🔪 HORROR IN REAL LIFE — Foodies and the insufferable beauty of “The Menu” — SNAP, growing up cooking, and

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135:15

📞 EPISODE 152 — PHONES ARE TERRIFYING ☎️

FriGay the 13th Horror Podcast ·

2025/11/07

It’s ringing… and it won’t stop. 👀📱From SCREAM to THE BLACK PHONE, we’re answering the call and diving deep into why our phones might just be the most terrifying thing in our lives.💀 HORROR IN REAL LIFE: The death of the smartphone and the rise of wearable AI—are we entering a world where our devices know us better than we know ourselves?🎬 FILMS: 🔪 SCREAM (1996) & 📞 THE BLACK PHONE (2022)💬 WHATCHA BEEN WATCHIN’, BITCH?! features HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, BUGONIA, and VHS HALLOWEEN.So pick up the

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