Mass Hysteria

The Brohio Podcast

The Bros of Brohio

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Brohio Podcast, we’re diving headfirst into the wild world of mass hysteria—when fear, paranoia, and collective delusion spread faster than facts. From the Dancing Plague that made people dance themselves to death, to the Salem Witch Trials, the Tanganyika Laughing Epidemic, Y2K panic, mystery seeds from China, and the infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast that sent America into a full-blown meltdown. No ghosts. No monsters. Just humans losing their absolute minds—together. We break down the dumbest details, the most egregious reactions, and the moments where society collectively short-circuited. Buckle up… because once hysteria takes hold, logic is the first casualty.

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0:00.0	I'm going to say this is loud and as loud and as clearly as I can.
0:24.1	Ladies, if you have a husband and he doesn't let you peg him, you have a wife is what you have.
0:33.2	And you can tell.
0:34.7	Is that accurate?
0:36.7	Yeah, dude. I've been saying a lot of really important shit on this podcast for going on a fucking decade. Damn, man. You know, there's that one guy you work with. He's like, I've been here 10 years. We're getting the point with this podcast where we can start to say, I've been here 10 years. Isn't that wild? It's crazy, dude. Yeah, man. And we'll tell everybody.
0:55.1	We'll say, you know, everyone.
0:58.4	We like getting pegged.
1:00.4	Fucking peg me.
1:01.9	Call me Cracker Burl, baby.
1:05.1	Go to the peg game.
1:06.2	You're all fitting nine pegs in each of my holes.
1:10.8	Welcome into this episode of the Broughio podcast, everybody.
1:13.7	I'm the one half of this circus.
1:17.4	I'm the delicious nicholicious.
1:19.1	And I'm Rob Dogg, guys.
1:20.3	And you are the greatest fans and listeners.
1:24.4	And I wouldn't call you fans because fans is short for fanatics and um well
1:29.8	that's just not you because you're normal just like us and we're normal a little bit like ish
1:35.6	each yeah we're normal ish i think everybody's a little you know normal ask in the neighborhood
1:42.1	of normal right right? Yeah.
1:58.5	We got to do, was it, a couple days ago, our buddy Shane Brubaker, he is, he sent in the PO box, he sent a, you know, we always talk about how bad we want to be magicians.
1:59.4	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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