Burgers

American Hysteria

W!ZARD Studios

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to our season three premiere! Whether we’re conscious of it or not, hamburgers have always been an American symbol, a metaphor for our special brand of cognitive dissonance as well as our obsession with masculinity, dominance, and conquering. We have heard a lot about the horrors of factory farming, but this episode hopes to look at our relationship to meat and animals in a different way. We’ll look at the plains of the west where colonizers killed millions buffalo to make way for the cows we know today, the cowboy fantasies enshrined by Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows, the beef scandals that have rocked our nation since the 1800s, the fast food chains that put a smiling face back on meat, and the War on Burgers that conservative forces are invoking today. we’ll see how our long term attachment to our culinary contribution to the world is really a kind of long term hysteria, an attachment to an original manifest destiny, a story that has long disguised hard truths with happy meals. Please consider donating to the One Spirit Lokota nonprofit American Hysteria is written, produced, and hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith Produced and edited by Clear Commo Studios Research and cowriting assisted by Riley Smith Co-Produced by Miranda Zickler Show art by Roache Voice Acting by Will Rogers Become a Patron for extra episodes, interviews, and videos monthly! Follow American Hysteria on social media: Twitter: @AmerHysteria Instagram: @AmericanHysteriaPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.0	On this season, we'll explore our most ingrained beliefs, delusions, and archetypes.
0:37.0	The ways that cognitive dissonance shapes our culture and how our reality is created by the stories we tell.
0:45.0	I'm your host, Chelsea Weber-Smith, and this is American hysteria.
0:50.0	So what are they saying? We're going to ban hamburgers and Americans who are never going to have a barbecue and flip a hamburger again?
0:56.0	They want to take away your hamburgers.
0:58.0	No more steak, I guess, government forced veganism is an order.
1:02.0	I love cooking on the grill because that's what makes me a real man.
1:07.0	Among other awesome things.
1:14.0	On a camping trip in Washington State in my early 20s, I caught a shimmering rainbow trout,
1:21.0	something I'd done all through my childhood.
1:24.0	I cleaned it the way I was taught, saw its bright blood on the knife, all its complicated insides,
1:31.0	its little red heart that looked like a small polished stone.
1:36.0	I was pretty excited to present this dinner to share this hard-won bounty with anyone who wanted it skillfully cooked in tin foil over the campfire.
1:48.0	But when I returned to my surprise, many of the campers in our large group were shocked at my callousness,
1:56.0	telling me that they themselves could never kill a living thing like I did.
2:01.0	But at the same time, an orange red liquid was dripping down everyone's lips,
2:08.0	the messy ground hamburger meat of a sloppy Joe.
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