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BOY BANDS
Season 5 Episode 21
Behind every manufactured boy band there is what the press calls a Svengali, a puppet master who assembles the group and styles everything about them…
4 years ago
FANGIRLS
Season 5 Episode 20
Hysterical fangirls have become so commonplace in popular music that we hardly pay attention to them anymore, no matter how loud they scream. But the…
4 years, 1 month ago
Context Clues: Teenage Sex
Season 5 Episode 19
To prepare for our series called Fangirls and Boy Bands, we are heading back to the fantastical realm of the teenager and the reactionary moral panic…
4 years, 1 month ago
Twitter Saves Megan from the Westboro Baptist Church
Season 5 Episode 18
*Please listen to our Westboro Baptist Church episode first!!* Megan Phelps-Roper was born and raised in the WBC, a fervent believer and lover of cru…
4 years, 1 month ago
THE WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH
Season 5 Episode 17
The Westboro Baptist Church outraged both sides of the political spectrum throughout the 90s, 2000s and 2010s, picketing the funerals of AIDS victims…
4 years, 2 months ago
Context Clues: Televangelists
Season 5 Episode 16
Next week we will be covering the Westboro Baptist Church, the small family clan and hyper-Calvinist group who have long outraged both the left and t…
4 years, 2 months ago
E.T. Phone Hollywood: 'Hysteria Home Companion' Patreon Sneak Peek
Season 5 Episode 15
This is a sneak peek of our new Patrons-only podcast Hysteria Home Companion, where we share with you all the hottest gossip from the cutting room fl…
4 years, 2 months ago
Normalizing the Paranormal with Podcaster Jim Perry of Euphomet
Season 5 Episode 14
Today we're talking to podcaster Jim Perry, the host of Euphomet, a paranormal documentary series that explores the unknown and our relationship to i…
4 years, 2 months ago
WAR ON CHRISTMAS (Rerelease)
Season 5 Episode 13
In this classic episode, learn about the battles fought for and against this controversial American holiday from the Puritans to the present as well …
4 years, 3 months ago
ALIEN ABDUCTIONS (part two)
Season 5 Episode 12
For part two of our series, we will look at skeptics' explanations for the alien abduction phenomenon to see what factors they believe may be creatin…
4 years, 3 months ago