In Defense of Queer Villains with BJ Colangelo
Have you ever noticed that many of the most iconic evil-doers in movies seem, well, pretty gay? Think Scar from the Lion King, Jafar from Al...
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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-podcaste...
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20 of 306 episodesDATING APPS
In the early 1990s, match.com debuted as the first major dating app on the world wide web, but it was far from the earliest way that people...
THE GAY AGENDA (Pride Rewind)
This is a rerelase with a new introduction! The purse-carrying, tutu-wearing purple Teletubby Tinky Winky was outed as a homosexual in 1999,...
Our 300th Episode with Sarah Marshall
We are celebrating our (estimated) 300th episode of American Hysteria with a little Chelsey Weber-Smith Q&A session hosted by Sarah Marshall...
The Voyager Golden Record with Riley Swedelius-Smith and Miranda Zickler
During the 1970s, a ragtag group led by American astronomer Carl Sagan set out to create and then launch into deep space an audio time capsu...
The Disturbing World of Cute Cat AI with Panic World
Warning! Extremely weird episode! In a world where AI creations are taking over social media, we are seeing more and more bafflingly bizarre...
Introducing: No Such Thing
We’re excited to share a preview of a new podcast we think you’d enjoy: No Such Thing. No Such Thing is a show where three best friends and...
THE BENNINGTON TRIANGLE pt. 2 with Sarah Marshall
When the Bennington Five disappeared in Southwest Vermont between 1945 and 1950, the local refrain became: Don't go into the woods while wea...
THE BENNINGTON TRIANGLE pt. 1 with Sarah Marshall
At Bennington College in southwest Vermont, tales of a curse have been passed around for 75 years. Known as the Bennington Triangle, the nea...
Introducing: History Daily
Today we bring you an episode of another great podcast: History Daily. Every weekday, host Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American Histor...
Blowing Up the Georgia Guidestones with Tyler McBrien
In 1980, a Stonehenge-esque monument called the Georgia Guidestones appeared in the rural county of Elbert. Financed and designed by a myste...
Black Magic with Gruff Webb
Take a seat in our old, ornate theater for the confounding wonders of this traveling magic show. For this episode, my dear friend is here, t...
Hysteria Home Companion: The Berners Street Hoax
This is a Subscribers-Only episode from 2024 in which I tell our producer Miranda about a wild April Fools Day prank that took place in 19th...
DINOSAURS pt. 2
Prior to becoming stars of the stage, screen, and of wondrous World’s Fairs, dinosaurs had to be uncovered, dug out, studied, and finally, d...
DINOSAURS pt. 1
The dinosaur craze of the 1990s, inspired largely by the Jurassic Park movies, led to a legion of children dreaming of becoming paleontologi...
The Spooky Side of Pokémon with Guide to the Unknown
The extended media universe of Pokémon has been an obsession for young people since the late 1990s, and for this goofball episode my friends...
The Corporate Takeover of Caring with Dr. Mara Einstein
Have you ever been suspicious of a corporation showcasing their commitment to the environment, to marginalized groups of people, or to those...
BUGS!!!!!! with Akilah Hughes
We have had many media panics about swarms and hordes, about infestations and plagues of dangerous insects and arachnids that promise to rai...
Talking to the Future: Nuclear Semiotics (rerun)
[We are taking a break this week so please enjoy a re-release of one of our favorite episodes!] How do we warn people 10,000 years in the fu...
JINGLES pt. 2 with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'
If you thought the first part of our series was catchy, wait til we enter the modern era where all the jingles that played throughout our li...