I'm Glad You Exist
I'm Glad You Exist is a network of podcasts created by photographer, author, trainee counsellor and generally introspective dude, John Liot. From chats about existential counselling and mental health, to figuring out where the best breakfast in Jersey is. Horror movies and much more! Each episode, John and his plethora of co-hosts and guests talk candidly and comically about anything and everything.
Episodes
73 episodes
Crafting Chills - Battle Royale
Congratulations! You have been selected to enter todays episode where a classroom full of teenagers learns the hard way that group projects can be deadly—literally! In this darkly comedic episode, we explore the absurdity of forced friendships,...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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Crafting Chills - Nosferatu (2024)
"Original or Remake?" - media's most tedious question gets brought out to wince in the sunlight as the Crafting Chills co-ghosts discuss Robert Egger's Oscar-nominee re-imagining of the granddaddy horror of them all, Nosferatu.
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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I'm Glad You Exist - Etaoin
Etaoin returns!The Irish singer-songwriter superstar is back on IGYE to talk all about what's happened in the last four years since we last spoke. New music, her own record label, problems with boys, it's all going on and it's all makin...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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1:16:48
I'm Glad You Exist - Alex Welch
On today's episode, John is joined by Ultra-Marathon athlete, Alex Welch.Fresh off a successful sophomore attempt at the insanely brutal, Marathon Des Sables, Alex chats about what makes Ultras so special, how he got into running, the p...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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1:24:56
Crafting Chills - The First Omen
Live, for the first time, in studio TOGETHER!A spooky union months in the making. Today, the Crafting Chills Crypt Crew take on The First Omen - a movie that is tediously annoying to tell people you're watching, as they assume you mean ...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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I'm Glad You Exist - Laura Dawn
On today's episode of IGYE I'm joined by my good friend, intrepid educator, film buff and general lovely soul, Laura Dawn.Laura lives in South Korea, where she works as an English teacher in a primary school. In this chat, we talk all a...
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Episode 32
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I'm Glad You Exist - Cara Lisette
On today's episode I'm joined by eating disorder and bi-polar influencer, Cara Lisette.Cara is a huge personality within the world of eating disorders and mental health, having released several books around eating disorders and bi-polar...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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I'm Glad You Exist - Michael Swaim
OH DAMN, it doesn't get much more personally special for me as far as guests go!Michael Swaim is a professional author, comedian, actor and podcaster. He became the face of the website Cracked.com during its hey-day, the popularity of w...
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Episode 30
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I'm Glad You Exist - Jay Du Heaume
James (Jay) Du Heaume is a professional musician currently living and working in London. He's been a good friend of mine for a number of years. His pilgrimage from Jersey to find success as a musician is one I keep a close eye on and feel passi...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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I'm Glad You Exist - Dan Liot
BACK FROM BEYOND THE PODCAST GRAVE!But for real, just a big ol' hiatus whilst I got some life stuff sorted.Big episode today - we're going familiar with my own family, my big brother, Dan Liot.Dan is on instagram as @jer...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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1:49:57
Crafting Chills - Evil Dead Rise
BONUS EPISODEContext found within, tl;dr, I've moved flat and got engaged! I haven't had any time to set-up a new home studio yet for recording, so until that's back up and running, here's a little sneaky episode Nyxx and I got done bef...
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Episode 28
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IGYE 27 - Jack Bergin
On today's episode I'm joined by frontman, musician and fashionista, Jack BerginJack is the vocal talents behind Australian metal band, Void of Vision.Their music crosses a range of themes, from depression and substance abuse to...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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Crafting Chills - Update
Hey guys! A quick update for y'all about the immediate future of CC.TLDR: We're taking a lil break for our own sanity and will commence your regular horror programming very soon!Stay spooky,John
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Crafting Chills - The Outwaters
We're keeping the finger on the pulse of contemporary horror this week! We watched The Outwaters, "it's the 2023 Blair Witch!", is it though? I guess, kinda?! What it definitely is is a found footage movie that's generated a lot of hype and we ...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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Crafting Chills - Baskin
From the horrors of a living room in Skinamarink, to a good ol' fashioned black mass orgy in an abandoned building - this week we're chatting about Baskin! An offering from the lands of Turkey where such cultural differences are imperative to g...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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Crafting Chills - Possum
Can you spy him, deep within? Little Possum, black as sin.2018's Possum, written and directed by Matthew Holness is one of John's favourite films, let alone horror films. Tune in for 90 minutes of him gushing to Nyxx about why this film...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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Crafting Chills - Skinamarink
The year's most divisive movie takes the form of this narratively obtuse, indie horror. Is it the nostalgic horrorscape 50% of the audience celebrate it as, or is it simply a weird little film that stands out because it breaks convention so bra...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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Crafting Chills - Blair Witch Project
It's the mac-daddy, grandfather of all found footage films, The Blair Witch Project and Crafting Chills is spending almost three hours going into our biggest takeaways from this cultural phenom. Thus concludes Found Footage month a...
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Episode 12
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Crafting Chills - Rec
3-2-1 AND WE'RE LIVE!No we're not, and neither is the conceit of this film, so this opening bit by me really makes no sense.What does make sense is this absolute horror icon being just about as flawless as a found footage horror...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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Crafting Chills - Grave Encounters
Found Footage. Haunted Asylum. This film writes itself, which is ironic, because the nature of reality tv is that it's supposed to not be scripted!We just watched Grave Encounters and spend the majority of this episode talking about the...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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Crafting Chills - Host
SCIENCE itself declared Host the scariest movie ever.It's a film that takes place entirely on a Zoom call.Make of those two facts what you will.We now enter February - Found Footage month!-Follow Nyxx on ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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Crafting Chills - We Are Still Here
John and Nyxx are back - this time they're going back in time to the year...2015?! Wait, what?!If that leading sentence makes no sense to you, it's because this little gem nails a 70's throwback aesthetic so well, you'd be convinced it ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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Crafting Chills - The Lodge
Spoiler: This film is bleak as. Topics include suicide, child abuse and religious cults.When condensed to those features it really makes it seem weird that Nyxx and I love this film so much, but hey, that's horror!Find out why o...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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Crafting Chills - Black Mountain (Side?)
Spooky happenings in this not The Thing homage to The ThingA movie so creepy it (maybe?) has two titles. Known as both Black Mountain, sometimes with the suffix of 'side', BMS is a low-budget indie movie about The Thing if it had more n...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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Crafting Chills - 30 Days Of Night
Coming out you with one of the best original horror concepts out there. 30 Days of Night is a premise so straightforward yet so brilliant you'll slap your head like Hank Scorpio when the concept of hammocks was presented to him.This vic...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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