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🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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0:00.0 | On this podcast, we explore fantastical thinking, moral panics, urban legends, conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and crazes, examine the forces that shape our culture, and tell the stories that create the realities we share, and sometimes the realities we don't. |
0:25.3 | I'm your host, Chelsea Weber Smith, and this is American Hysteria. |
0:32.7 | Soon we will have our one-world government. |
0:36.4 | My teacher says these are great for a Halloween sacrifice. |
0:40.3 | Ha! |
0:41.3 | Ha! That show paved the way for all our occult programming. |
0:46.3 | Grandma! Oh no! My face! It's melting! Oh God, help me! Help me! |
0:52.3 | God has forsaken Ashley! |
0:56.0 | Just because you haven't heard of Chick-Tracks, that doesn't mean you haven't seen them, |
1:15.4 | haven't thumbed through them, haven't gasped or laughed over their contents, and it certainly |
1:23.6 | doesn't mean that their freaky little cartoons haven't helped to covertly construct |
1:31.1 | the fantastical, hysterical America that perhaps you too grew up in. |
1:39.1 | My introduction to these religious tracts, small black and white 24-page booklets, no larger than a dollar bill, |
1:48.1 | came when they were left as tips at the restaurant I worked at in high school. |
1:53.7 | The multitude of bad kid behaviors I had participated in the night before, |
1:59.6 | no doubt radiating from my wan complexion and |
2:04.1 | suspiciously secular eyes. In the minds of these customers, bless their hearts, they were |
2:12.5 | giving me something far more valuable than 20% or even 10% on their check. |
2:20.3 | They were giving me the singular way to achieve eternal life and avoid the perpetual torture |
2:29.3 | I would no doubt endure when I finally faced my faceless creator at the pearly gates, my name absent from the |
2:40.5 | book of life, my sins unforgiven for good. When I thumbed through that small religious tract, I was shocked and a little delighted |
2:55.8 | to find the harshest hellish damnation, the most mellow dramatic fire and brimstone that |
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