We Are All Pro Wrestlers with Entertainment Journalist BJ Colangelo
American Hysteria8 Tammi 2024

We Are All Pro Wrestlers with Entertainment Journalist BJ Colangelo

Pop culture correspondent and major Pro Wrestling fan BJ Colangelo and I discuss the quirky history of this manly soap opera, its changing landscape in terms of gender and sexuality, as well as the complicated psychology of kayfabe, in which staged performances are presented as genuine. Read BJ's Review of The Iron Claw Check out her podcast This Ends at Prom Check out our new merch line Folk Devils United Become a Patron to support our show and get early ad-free episodes and bonus content Or subscribe to American Hysteria on Apple Podcasts Leave us a message on our Urban Legends Hotline Hosted Chelsey Weber-Smith Produced and Edited by Miranda Zickler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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GRIEFBOTS (mini episode)

GRIEFBOTS (mini episode)

American Hysteria presents the AFTER SHOCK, a follow-up minisode to the main episode before it, basically The Shit They Didn't Show or From The Cutting Room Floor. We'll cover one interesting story ev...

10 Kesä 201915min

TALKING TO THE DEAD

TALKING TO THE DEAD

For the season two premiere, we are exploring the rich American history of Spiritualism, a massive 80-year trend of popular culture lasting from the Civil War to the Jazz age in which mediums began sp...

3 Kesä 201931min

Presenting American Hysteria: Season Two

Presenting American Hysteria: Season Two

Join us next week, Monday, June 3rd, for the premiere of season two where we cover the creepy, sexy, gross, and surprisingly political American movement of Talking to the Dead. Find out what more you ...

27 Touko 20192min

BELIEVING IN THE BLAIR WITCH (mini episode)

BELIEVING IN THE BLAIR WITCH (mini episode)

This is the 20 year anniversary of one of my favorite movies of all time, The Blair Witch Project, a movie that masqueraded as real found footage of three college students who went missing in the wood...

6 Touko 201916min

THE MANDELA EFFECT (mini episode)

THE MANDELA EFFECT (mini episode)

Our culture, our society, our very sense of self, relies heavily on a faith in our memories as perfectly accurate. But what if our memories aren’t as reliable as we think? What if we can recall vividl...

22 Huhti 201913min

THE MOMO SUICIDE CHALLENGE (mini episode)

THE MOMO SUICIDE CHALLENGE (mini episode)

The newest viral internet urban legend focuses on an entity named Momo, a creepy humanoid figure with giant eyes, a strange too-wide smile, and grotesque chicken legs, said to message teens and kids o...

8 Huhti 201913min

THE END OF THE WORLD

THE END OF THE WORLD

It has been said that the apocalypse is as American as apple pie, and for our season finale we are exploring different versions of the end of the world, the hyper-religious, the new age, and the scien...

25 Maalis 201942min

The Morality of Drugs and the Opioid Crisis with Sarah Deutsch

The Morality of Drugs and the Opioid Crisis with Sarah Deutsch

This week we will be discussing the history of drug panic in the United States and its effects in the present day. My guest is Sarah Deutsch, a friend of mine from high school who received her masters...

18 Maalis 201925min

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