35 episodes
American Hysteria Skylark Media
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- Society & Culture
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4.3, 795 Ratings
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American Hysteria is a podcast exploring our moral panics, urban legends, and conspiracy theories, how they shape our psychology and culture, and why we end up believing them. Host Chelsey Weber-Smith explores the sometimes hilarious, sometimes distressing stories of modern and historical American freak-outs, why we fear the wrong things, and what these bizarre panics might be covering up.
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Customer Reviews
I’m Hysterical...
...for American Hysteria! I can’t remember the last time I eagerly awaited a new episode of a podcast. SO well researched, SO well produced and edited. Honestly, Ms. Chelsey Weber-Smith, if each episode was two hours long, I would *not* complain.
OK until she ends everyepisode
Anti-semitism? TRUMP!!! Killer Clowns? TRUMP!!!! (Yeah, seriously. I'm not making that one up for comedic effect.) In the Satanic panic episode I skipped her end ramble so I can't say for sure that was because of TRUMP!!! OK, I get it. She does like Trump. Maybe an episode an TRUMP!!!! hysteria is in the future planning.
The Uncanny Valley
Interesting topics, presented rather rationally, though there is a measure of political tone associated with it (which is quite inextricable from the topics but it could annoy others). She likes to touch upon the “uncanny valley”...a lot. I do have to work to not cringe every time she says “nuCYOOler” instead of “nuCLEEar.”
