American Hysteria
American Hysteria explores how fantastical thinking has shaped our culture – moral panics, urban legends, hoaxes, crazes, fringe beliefs, and national misunderstandings. Poet-turned-podcaster Chelsey Weber-Smith tells the strangest stories from American history and examines the forces that create the reality we share, and sometimes, the reality we don't.
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Our Halloween Open Mic
41 min
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Halloween Sadism from Cautionary Tales
15 min
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Haunted Dolls
55 min
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Context Clues: The Uncanny Valley of the Dolls
36 min
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Rainbow Fentanyl: Poisoned Halloween Candy Rere...
42 min
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Halloween is Millennial Christmas with Podcaste...
60 min
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Florida Scam
36 min
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Florida Man
57 min
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Context Clues: Feeling Like a Freak on a Beach
27 min
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An Irresistible Movement with Reproductive Just...
48 min
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Womb Wars pt. 2
52 min
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Womb Wars pt. 1
55 min
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Context Clues: Maybe it Ain't About the Babies
30 min
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Postcolonial Astrology with Alice Sparkly Kat
39 min
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The Planetary Propaganda of the Anti-Nazi Astro...
36 min
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The Supernatural Imaginary of the Third Reich w...
56 min
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Astrology
50 min
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Pride Rewind: Gender Reveal Parties
40 min
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All the Other Snuff with Sarah Marshall of 'You...
55 min
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Rotten.com
25 min
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Snuff Films
50 min
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Context Clues: Pornography
This rerelease will give some context for next week's new episode called Snuff Films.
38 min
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Hear ye! Hear ye! Extra extra hear all about it!
Just a handful of little announcements as we take a few weeks off (back in late April).
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The Séance of Selena with Poet Melissa Lozada-O...
Melissa Lozada-Oliva is a Guatemalan-Colombian-American poet, screenwriter, and educator, and co-host of the podcast Say More. She is the author of a novel in verse called Dreaming of You, about bringing 90s Mexican-American pop star Selena back to life through a séance and the disastrous consequences that follow.
38 min
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Scene Queens with Podcasters BJ and Harmony Col...
'This Ends at Prom' is a podcast that dives deep into coming-of-age and teen girl movies from the queer, feminist cisgender and transgender perspectives of wives and film analysts BJ and Harmony Colangelo. Today we chat about millennial pop groups, the emo scene, pop punk, hair metal, gender contamination, boy band haircuts, and what we hope for the next generation of stars and the fans that make them.
57 min