Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHobby Lobby: Crafting a Christian Nation with Michael Blanding
The multibillion dollar arts and crafts corporation Hobby Lobby has long been steeped in Evangelical Christianity, owned by a family that is extremel…
21 hours ago
90s Angel Craze with Christine Laskowski
Back in the 1990s, it seemed like angels were everywhere in popular culture: in movies, TV shows, songs, and home decor. Our guest today is Christine…
1 week ago
FIREWORKS pt. 2 with Sarah Marshall
Just like every year, more and more stories are coming out about how wild, unpredictable, and dangerous fireworks can be, and yet our capacity for ex…
2 weeks ago
FIREWORKS pt. 1 with Sarah Marshall
Love them or hate them, there are few things that feel as quintessentially American as fireworks, the favorite way to celebrate during every unhinged…
3 weeks ago
Playing Indian with Rebecca Nagle
As we endure surreal celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the United States, we hear the same Disneyfied history being told over and over again. …
4 weeks ago
In Defense of Queer Villains with BJ Colangelo
Have you ever noticed that many of the most iconic evil-doers in movies seem, well, pretty gay? Think Scar from the Lion King, Jafar from Aladdin, Ur…
1 month ago
DATING APPS
In the early 1990s, match.com debuted as the first major dating app on the world wide web, but it was far from the earliest way that people used tech…
1 month, 1 week ago
THE GAY AGENDA (Pride Rewind)
This is a rerelase with a new introduction! The purse-carrying, tutu-wearing purple Teletubby Tinky Winky was outed as a homosexual in 1999, capping …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Our 300th Episode with Sarah Marshall
We are celebrating our (estimated) 300th episode of American Hysteria with a little Chelsey Weber-Smith Q&A session hosted by Sarah Marshall of You’r…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Voyager Golden Record with Riley Swedelius-Smith and Miranda Zickler
During the 1970s, a ragtag group led by American astronomer Carl Sagan set out to create and then launch into deep space an audio time capsule of sou…
2 months ago