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American Hysteria: LIVE VARIETY HOUR (Watch the full show!!)
Season 4
Our Live Variety Hour is not your run-of-the-mill podcast live show, but an actual two-hour theatrical production performed in 2019. For the first ti…
5 years, 1 month ago
CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING
Season 4 Episode 14
As the nation grapples with a volatile culture war over just what version of American history our children will grow up learning, in this episode we …
5 years, 1 month ago
We Were Teenage Conspiracy Theorists with Ellen Cushing
Season 4 Episode 13
Ellen Cushing's recent piece in The Atlantic called “I was a teenage conspiracy theorist” tells her story as a young Illuminati-truther during the po…
5 years, 1 month ago
Animatronic America with Sarah Marshall of 'You’re Wrong About'
Season 4 Episode 12
Join me and our Disney darling of the day, podcaster Sarah Marshall of ‘You’re Wrong About’ and ‘Why Are Dads?’ as we discuss our love for Disney par…
5 years, 1 month ago
DISNEYFICATION
Season 4 Episode 11
Disney has been presenting a fairytale reality within a reality since the 1920s, a far cuter reality that mimics our reality until reality is no long…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Theater of Trash with Alissa Bennett
Season 4 Episode 10
Alissa Bennett is co-host of The C-Word podcast on Luminary as well as a decorated historian of bad behavior. “By sifting through the cultural trash …
5 years, 2 months ago
TRASH TALK SHOWS
Season 4 Episode 9
There are few pieces of popular culture as problematic as the trash talk shows of the 1980s and 90s. Many of us remember Jerry Springer, Geraldo, Jen…
5 years, 2 months ago
'Falling for Fascism' Emergency Re-Release
Season 4
Due to the what appears to be an attempted coup happening right now at the Capitol, I wanted to re-release this vital interview immediately. Please l…
5 years, 2 months ago
Seekers and Swindlers with Glynn Washington
Season 4 Episode 8
Podcaster and storyteller Glynn Washington grew up in an extremist religious sect called the Worldwide Church of God and also hosted the Heaven’s Gat…
5 years, 3 months ago
CHARISMATIC LEADERS
Season 4 Episode 7
The charismatic leaders we are talking about today offer utopia and doomsday, salvation and absolute truth, perfection of the self and of the world a…
5 years, 3 months ago