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I'm Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knocks.

I'm Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knocks.

Today on Hard Knocks, I interview Sarah Marshall, who is most famous for hosting the You're Wrong About podcast, which is all about misunderstood historical events. But today we talk about a new

podcast that Sarah has recently put out called The Devil You Know. It's about the satanic panic

of the 80s and 90s, mostly focusing on how it manifested in the U.S. and Canada. And she talks a lot about how the satanic panic entered the whole 80s zeitgeist,

but also how she dissects the history of this moral panic and how it was an attempt at resolving the issue of child, sexual abuse, women's sexuality,

women's liberation, and what lessons we can learn about how to interpret moral panics that we

might be seeing today. So definitely tune in something, you know, for anyone who knows me,

I'm famously fascinated by the satanic panic and what we can actually learn from this, you know,

in crazy hysteria that was ultimately a, just a figment of our collective imagination.

So enjoy.

Welcome Sarah Marshall to Hard Knocks.

For those who may not be familiar with you, I've given an introduction, but we are going to talk to you about

a very specific project that you've been working on for quite a long time, if I understand,

but this is The Devil You Know, a new podcast about the satanic panic. And to set the stage,

I was, for anyone who's listening,

who might not know what the satanic panic is, I kind of doubt that my audience doesn't know what it is. But let's just like very quickly, what are we referring to when we refer to the

satanic panic? Yeah. So when we talk about the satanic panic, which I love that this is

something that people generally know about these days, because I think in about the past 10 years,

we've had a real reckoning with it. And so originally this was a phenomenon that began in the early

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