I'm going to start a panic about clue. where sometimes we get to talking about the

satanic panic and this time we're talking about it with Adrian Dob co-host of

in Bed with the right and a Dungeons and Dragons enthusiast which is wonderful for us because today we're talking about the part of the

satanic panic that was fixated back in the 80s not on the idea that daycare

workers were infiltrating preschools as part of organized satanic

cults so that they could gain access to children to engage in cult rituals but instead the part of the satanic panic focused on the fear of Dungeons and Dragons, a fantasy role-playing game that you might think of as a harmless way to spend time with your friends, but according to some

satanic panic organizers and entrepreneurs, was actually a game capable of breaking the brains of teenagers, especially new college students,

suffering them from reality and driving them to devil worship or worse.

This is an episode about one of the more ridiculous corners of the satanic panic, but it's also an episode about

parents trying to understand what to do with

information that they perhaps don't have a way to handle. And in this case it's about

a panic over a game that is spawned to some extent by parental grief over the death by

suicide of teenage children.

So this episode certainly gets into that subject matter at times and I would say that you can't talk about one part of the satanic panic without talking about all of the more complex implications of the whole thing.

But this is also an episode where we do talk about Dungeons and Dragons quite a lot and I do think that it might make some of you

want to go start a campaign after you listen to this episode. If you want to find more of our show you can of course always do that on Patreon and Apple Plus subscriptions.

We have an episode up there right now that I really love about the sequel to Rosemary's baby,

son of Rosemary, I get to talk about it

with Sarah Archer.

At great length, I got to do a little bit of a Jerry Orbach

impression.

It's not a good sequel, but is it a delight to talk about it is and that's what I'm always

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