Episode 4: Bad Times, Good TV
The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall
CBC
4.6 • 751 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
How did the Satanic Panic take hold? Whitney Phillips, a professor of journalism at the University of Oregon, guides us through the labyrinth of media and motifs that laid the groundwork for the Satanic Panic in politics and pop culture… and laid down the roots of our current day political landscape.
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| 0:28.2 | This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:33.9 | Seine is the heart that you forlaced. |
| 0:36.1 | Seine is the odd-connot to be relapse. Se Sign is the auntie forlest. |
| 0:38.3 | Signest their ought to go not to philipra. |
| 0:40.3 | Say, is the black powers of our forefathers make us strong. |
| 0:45.7 | Hail. |
| 0:46.7 | Hail the Lord's of Darkness. |
| 0:49.4 | Remember this? |
| 0:53.2 | This is from an episode of The X-Files that first aired in 1995. |
| 1:00.1 | It's called D. D.Hand D. Verlest? |
| 1:04.0 | It's German, and it means the hand that wounds. |
| 1:08.4 | And this X-Files episode made a very big impression on our guest today. |
| 1:14.3 | Hi, my name is Whitney Phillips. I am an assistant professor of digital platforms and media ethics |
| 1:19.5 | in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. And I am the co-author |
| 1:25.3 | of the Shadow Gospel, How Anti-Liberal Demonologyology possessed U.S. religion, media, and politics. |
| 1:32.5 | If you were to draw a line between what I do now as a researcher and a teacher, |
| 1:37.9 | I suspect that the X-Files is the answer for a lot of it. |
| 1:41.7 | After the title credits, we watch a gaggle of teens heading into the forest |
| 1:45.8 | at night, where one leads the rest in a ritual. We hear chanting from demonic voices somewhere |
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