194: Conspiracy Theories & More w Chelsey Weber-Smith!

Be Here For A While

Education, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Self-improvement

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Chelsey Weber-Smith is the host of Rachael's new favorite podcast, American Hystertia. It might be safe to call this podcast a new obsession for Rachael, as she binge listened to the entire catalog of episodes in less than a week. American Hysteria is a podcast that explores the moral panics, conspiracy theories, and fantastical thinking of American culture from the puritans to the present.

Chelsey uses history, sociology, psychology, and even biology to try to get at the heart of why we fear the wrong things and how the long history of these fears inform our current politics and culture. On the show, Chelsey examines in detail the lost oddities of America history, how race, gender, class, and sexuality have molded our beliefs, and how these themes have been continuously expressed and spread through pop culture and the media. From the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, the conspiracies around the Gay Agenda and the Illuminati, to our obsession with Stranger Danger and Poison Halloween, and much more. Chelsey also looked at our long term beliefs in Mind Control, Quackery, and the ability to Talk to the Dead, as well as the Toy Riots that rocked the nation when Beanie Babies and Tickle Me Elmo caused brawls in the street.

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0:36.8	Ah, guys, happy 2020, so we're still just barely in it,
0:42.3	and things are good I'm really excited about my
0:45.9	podcast yesterday and I think you guys are gonna freaking love her but before I get
0:50.4	to that I just want to thank you guys so much for just being so cool, nice to me and
0:55.2	the DMs I receive and I'm so excited to meet a bunch of you at my shows coming up and, you know,
1:00.0	and again, thank you so much for the five-star reviews and good ratings like I love you guys
1:04.2	so much and a quick show dates Denver that's that will show what is happening the
1:10.9	day after this podcast comes out so if you can make it January 17th Denver Colorado I think there's still some tickets available
1:17.0	You can find all my tickets at Rachel O'Brien comedy.com that'll be the easiest way to do this and then Detroit Michigan February 19th
1:24.0	Long Island March 28th and then Boston March 29th and we're looking to add some
1:29.8	Texas state soon so I'll keep you posted on that and as always there's a bunch of shows around LA but the And okay, so now for the guest. I'm so excited. So audio boom my network originally like pitched her to me so we could do like a cross promotion and I was like yeah sure and so they told me about her podcast and I was hooked within the first 10 minutes of listening to one episode okay so this is Chelsea Weber Smith
2:00.5	She's a poet-turned- Podcaster with an MFA from the University of Virginia and
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