Oh, Welcome to Spirit's Poodsie

Bousie dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.

Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.

I'm Amanda, and I'm Julia.

And we are joined by a podcaster, uh, oft-requested and finally fulfilled as a guest on this show.

It's Chelsea Weber Smith. Chelsea, welcome to spirits.

Oh, I'm so excited to be here. I love any urban legend kindred spirit that I can talk to at length so I

really appreciate being asked to come on. I am so excited you are here and for those who might not know a little bit about your

podcast can you give us the elevator pitch why they should listen to American

hysteria yeah we cover what we call American fantastical thinking so definitely urban

legends that's my my favorite thing to do but we also do moral panics sometimes

conspiracy theories and even like crazes, lots of hoaxes, just

any time that Americans have been duped in some way or have believed in something that perhaps is at least partially untrue and

then we more so examine how those narratives have come to be instead of whether

they're true or false so we're more interested in kind of the sociology

of fantastical thinking and how that intersects

with politics and anything around psychology,

that's what we do. And it's a lot lot of fun we try to have fun with it but it can get pretty dark as well

Well, I think like a lot of the stuff that you have covered on the But then there's also topics that you've covered where I was like I think any

I almost said blue-blooded red-blooded American but like I think anyone who had lived through these

crazes would have some interest in like beanie babies was something that was like whoa that's not something I would ever think would come up on a podcast that also does urban legends got me the most excited

looking through your back catalog, the 12-foot tall

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