S3E1: Satan's Last Stronghold
SNAFU with Ed Helms
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Organized crime, speakeasy gin, and jazz impresarios stole headlines in the 1920s, but behind the scenes boiled a bizarre government plot rooted in the first American culture war. In New York City, a pair of scientists sees the devastation written on the wall, and they try to put a halt to the mayhem before it's too late.
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| 0:00.0 | In Mississippi, Yazoo Clay keeps secrets. |
| 0:04.8 | Seven thousand bodies out there or more. |
| 0:08.5 | A forgotten asylum cemetery. |
| 0:10.6 | It was my family's mystery. |
| 0:13.0 | Shame, guilt, propriety, something keeps it all buried deep until it's not. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm Larison Campbell, and this is under Yazoo Clay. |
| 0:24.2 | Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:29.9 | Have you ever wondered if your pet is lying to you? Why is my cat not here? And I go in and |
| 0:34.3 | she's eating my lunch. Or if hypnotism is real? You will use the suggestion in order to enhance your cognitive control. |
| 0:40.7 | But what's inside a black hole. |
| 0:42.4 | Black holes could be a consequence of the way that we understand the universe. |
| 0:45.7 | Well, we have answers for you in the new I-Heart original podcast, Science Stuff. |
| 0:50.0 | Join me, or Hitcham, as we answer questions about animals, space, our brains, and our bodies. |
| 0:55.3 | So give yourself permission to be a science geek and listen to Science Stuff on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:06.3 | November 30th, 1928, Cleveland, Ohio. |
| 1:12.6 | The city has just opened a new music hall downtown. |
| 1:15.9 | It's 1920s opulence from top to bottom, arched ceilings in an Italian style, |
| 1:22.0 | columns and balconies glowing with gold leaf, a giant plaster eagle looking down over the stage. |
| 1:28.3 | Maybe not how I would do the decor, more into tasteful minimalism myself, but the folks in Cleveland |
| 1:34.3 | are eating it up. A massive sparkling chandelier spills light over a crowd of thousands who are |
| 1:40.3 | all losing their minds, cheering for the Paul Whiteman Orchestra playing their |
| 1:46.7 | hits. They're the most popular band in America, and they have a talented young coronetist blowing |
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