FLORIDA SCAM

FLORIDA SCAM

Not unlike the bubble markets of Beanie Babies and Cryptocurrency, the Florida Land Boom of the 1920s was a chaotic craze that caused the largest migration in American history. This episode follows the ridiculous life of Carl Fisher, one of the most flamboyant gimmick artists in American history who helped convince thousands of people to spend their life savings of on his half-baked dream. Become a Patron and support our show! Follow American Hysteria on social media: Twitter: @AmerHysteria Instagram: @AmericanHysteriaPodcast Find our merch at americanhysteria.com American Hysteria is written, produced, and hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith Co-production and co-editing by Miranda Zickler Co-research and co-writing by Riley Smith Sound design by Clear Commo Studios Voice Acting by Will Rogers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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My Pronouns are Jack/Ass with Podcaster Harmony Colangelo of 'This Ends at Prom'

My Pronouns are Jack/Ass with Podcaster Harmony Colangelo of 'This Ends at Prom'

Harmony Colangelo is one of the hosts of This Ends at Prom, a podcast that analyzes coming of age teen girl movies through a queer feminist lens, using her perspective as a trans woman and her wife’s ...

12 Juni 20231h 7min

JACKASS

JACKASS

In the year 2000, a group of rowdy skateboarders and loosely defined "performers" came to MTV with a pitch that would showcase their vulgar antics—outrageous stunts, shocking pranks, and gross-out hum...

5 Juni 20231h 5min

Context Clues: Welcome to Jackass

Context Clues: Welcome to Jackass

This episode will give context for our upcoming series on Jackass, an early reality show starring a group of skateboarders and unorthodox performers that filmed their stunts and pranks, becoming the o...

29 Maj 202350min

Unabandoned with Podcaster Blake Pfeil of 'All-American Ruins'

Unabandoned with Podcaster Blake Pfeil of 'All-American Ruins'

Blake Pfeil is the host of 'abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast,' a multimedia travelogue exploring abandoned spaces across the United States. Together, we discuss what our deep love of these Am...

15 Maj 20231h 12min

THE GHOST CHILDREN OF MUNGER ROAD

THE GHOST CHILDREN OF MUNGER ROAD

*Urban Legends Hotline* Lauren's story: On a rural road outside Chicago, the ghosts of children killed in a school bus-train collision are said to push cars uphill, off the tracks, and out of harm's w...

8 Maj 202348min

INTERVIEW WITH THE EX-VAMPIRE (pt. 2) with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'

INTERVIEW WITH THE EX-VAMPIRE (pt. 2) with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'

For part two of my conversation with Sarah, I finish telling her about a satanic panic era "memoir" published by Chick Publications in the early 1990s which culminates in the author's transformation i...

17 Apr 202347min

INTERVIEW WITH THE EX-VAMPIRE (pt. 1) with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'

INTERVIEW WITH THE EX-VAMPIRE (pt. 1) with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'

Over the next two episodes, I tell Sarah the story of another one of Jack Chick's occult experts using his "memoir" published by Chick Publications in the early 1990s which culminates in his transform...

10 Apr 202352min

CHICK TRACTS (part three)

CHICK TRACTS (part three)

Who was Jack Chick, really? For the final episode in our series we will explore his childhood, his time in WWII, the comic moral panic happening at the beginning of his career, and how it all shaped t...

3 Apr 202357min

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