S5 Ep1: The Devil is in the Details: Is Monster Energy Drink a Vehicle for SATAN!

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The story of how one woman's bizarre obsession with Monster Energy Drink's marketing has buried the lede on the true evil behind the drink. Can drinking Monster invite the Devil into your body, or does giving the company your money invite more devilish deeds from the men who run it?

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0:00.0	Hey, Stranger, just a warning before we jump in.
0:03.4	This episode sort of unexpectedly veers into topics of sexual assault and rape.
0:08.4	Please take care when listening.
0:13.8	Can an energy drink corrupt?
0:16.5	Can the packaging on a product be a hidden incantation?
0:20.2	And can the character on the label be an effigy for a demon that waits, hungry for your soul, to be released when the top is popped?
0:30.0	Can the hiss of a can being opened be the hiss of fire and brimstone, the hiss of the vipers of hell?
0:39.9	Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.
0:43.6	As you probably know by now, 99% of my episodes come from listener's suggestions.
0:49.4	Occasionally, I come across a story all by my little self that interests me enough to
0:53.7	dive in and cover,
0:55.2	but the vast majority of episodes are suggested by listeners.
0:59.9	Today's episode was suggested by a listener, and it seemed so silly and preposterous that I thought,
1:05.6	how can I not cover this?
1:19.2	Music this. I don't much like energy drinks.
1:21.6	The first time I had a Red Bull was at a bar in France in 1997.
1:25.7	Some German guy offered to buy me a drink and handed me what I can only
1:29.1	describe as carbonated cough syrup with vodka in it. Listen, you do you, but that shit is nasty.
1:36.2	The only thing worse than Red Bull is sugar-free Red Bull. I would rather chew moldy coffee
1:40.9	beans than drink that swill. There have been one or two occasions on which I've had to perform and felt so tired I
1:48.7	didn't know how I was going to make it onto stage, and I have caved and had a Red Bull.
1:53.9	In one instance, I'd woken up the night before a two-show day absolutely covered head-to-toe
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