Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Blair Witch: The First Viral Hoax (with David Sims)
Season 1 Episode 7
The Blair Witch Project stands alone in the kind of panic it caused. No film before or since has quite hit the same fevered pitch, where many people …
1 year, 7 months ago
The Blair Witch: The first viral hoax (with David Sims)
Episode 7
The Blair Witch Project stands alone in the kind of panic it caused. No film before or since has quite hit the same fevered pitch, where man…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Women the Internet Loves to Hate (with Caroline Calloway)
Season 1 Episode 6
Caroline Calloway became internet famous for living a fantasy, at least that's how it appeared on Instagram. Then, she became infamous when the publi…
1 year, 7 months ago
The women the internet loves to hate (with Caroline Calloway)
Episode 6
Caroline Calloway became internet famous for living a fantasy, at least that's how it appeared on Instagram. Then, she became infamous when …
1 year, 7 months ago
Chappell Roan and the Pop Crave election (with Akilah Hughes)
Episode 5
Why does it feel like this election isn’t really happening? Why does Chappell Roan feel like the biggest story?
Our theory? We live in a Pop …
1 year, 7 months ago
Whatever happened to Kate Middleton? (With Ellie Hall)
Episode 4
Remember earlier this year, when people thought Kate Middleton was dead and or replaced by AI? What was up with that? We’re joined by Ellie …
1 year, 8 months ago
Are kids' brains being rotted by screens? (With Michael Hobbes)
Episode 3
Since the advent of smartphones, a simmering and increasingly boiling panic has been about whether too much “screentime” is ruining the nati…
1 year, 8 months ago
The right-wing meltdown over Haitian immigrants (with Kat Abughazaleh)
Episode 2
With the second and maybe probably last 2024 presidential debate now in our rearview, we’re taking a look back at Americans’ relationship wi…
1 year, 8 months ago
NyQuil Chicken (with Katie Notopoulos)
Episode 1
Welcome to Panic World. For our premiere, we're going back a few years to explore the panic that grew around "Sleepytime Chicken" aka NyQuil…
1 year, 8 months ago
Panic World, A New Podcast by Garbage Day (Trailer)
Remember NyQuil Chicken? Or when Kate Middleton mysteriously “disappeared”? How about when teens were eating Tide Pods? These sorts of inter…
1 year, 9 months ago