If you know anything about the Westboro Baptist Church, you'll know to expect very offensive and painful language around just about anything,

but particularly around the gay community, of which I am a flaming part, and also around soldiers who've died in combat. And if you have a background with religious

abuse, I'd also be cautious with this one. Here's the show.

On this podcast, we explore fantastical thinking, moral panics, conspiracy theories, and urban legends,

examine the forces that shape our culture, and tell the stories that create the realities we share,

and sometimes the realities we don't. I'm your host, Chelsea Weber Smith, and this is

American hysteria. The Phelps group pickets military funerals, with signs reading things like

pray for more dead soldiers and God hates fag enablers. We're happy when the world hates us.

It's that kissy-proof preaching that's sin in this country to hell in a faggous handbasket.

Live from Las Vegas at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, it's the Howard Stern Show.

I'm on the set of Freaky Family Few!

This is going to be an interesting competition.

You've heard them all week.

They're very controversial.

They're wearing their God hates fags.com t-shirts, which are not available in the gift shop.

Let me talk to you, Megan. You're the daughter. How old are you, Megan? I am 18 years old. Megan is 18 years old, fags and see i was going to ask you can you read because it says god hates fags not i hate fags we are

preaching the message of the bible which is that you cannot live like the devil himself and expect

to go to heaven when you die on the other side of some real gay people let's say hello to moon

buck edward angelela megan do you find this offensive

to see Buck this close?

Back, Devil Spawn.

I thought you loved the gays.

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