The End of the World

American Hysteria

W!ZARD Studios

Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It has been said that the apocalypse is as American as apple pie, and for our season finale we are exploring different versions of the end of the world, the hyper-religious, the new age, and the scientific, as well as Chelsey’s personal experience with the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse. The stories we tell about the end of time tend to involve not only a series of cataclysmic, devastating events, but also the saving of an elect few, and the punishing and death of the rest. While none of the end times predictions have come to pass, major leaps in technology have opened us up to both the potential nuclear war and the potential for climate disaster, terrifying realities that prove more difficult to face than our fantasies. What comes next is up to us. American Hysteria is written, produced, and hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith Produced and edited by Clear Commo Studios Research assisted by Riley Smith Show art by Roache Voice Acting by Will Rogers Become a Patron for extra episodes, interviews, and videos monthly! Follow American Hysteria on social media: Twitter: @AmerHysteria Instagram: @AmericanHysteriaPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	On this season we'll be exploring the moral panics, urban legends, and conspiracy theories
0:13.5	that shape our psychology and culture and why we end up believing them.
0:17.7	I'm your host, Chalceboe Vismith, and this is American hysteria.
0:23.3	For people to hear 2,000 is not a milestone as much as it is, a sign of some sort of
0:28.8	pending chaos.
0:30.1	The atomic bomb plash could burn you worse than a terrible sunburn, but if you duck and
0:35.6	cover it will be much safer.
0:37.3	Base Agency has received panic calls about the Mayan apocalypse.
0:41.7	The sky vanished, and every mountain of the island was removed from its place.
0:52.5	The day before December 21, 2012, my father and stepmom loaded their car and drove toward
1:03.8	a cabin on Mount Rainier, a place prophesized by some to be safe from the coming Mayan
1:09.4	apocalypse.
1:11.4	This was not a split second decision, but one year in the making, a room full of canned
1:16.4	food, a handwritten survival guide, and predictions both beautiful and terrifying that marked
1:22.0	my teenage years.
1:23.8	My dad created his own patchwork spirituality that had end times both blooming and vibrant,
1:29.7	hopeful bursts of true peace and a soft gentle justice, as well as disintegrating in horrific,
1:36.2	holes in the ground loaded with rifles, purifying water with the fibers in your clothes.
1:41.6	As an idealistic teenager, I could imagine along with my dad a vast wonderland of post-apocalyptic
1:47.6	fun, and I saw a world where all the cruel greedy people were finally gone, where all
1:53.0	my best friends and I were free to exist in our truest forms without judgment, roaming
1:58.0	the broken cities, unafraid, skateboarding through the mall, ransacking the grocery stores,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from W!ZARD Studios, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of W!ZARD Studios and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.