In a sick society there is no difference between mass hysteria and wanting your rights because you know they are met with the same degree of credibility. Once again, I am just dancing myself to death in spiritual ecstasy to be joined by Sarah Marshall. Host of the podcast, You're wrong about and you are good.

If you haven't listened to part one of our series on Tarentism, definitely do that right now.

For part two of our series, we're exploring the many theories behind this southern Italian centuries long dancing mania that began in the middle

ages when the bites of a certain spider seemed to cause symptoms similar to that of a demonic possession. The only cure to the deadly bite

was to dance to fast-paced music for hours or even days, with the dance itself seeming to become contagious,

reoccurring every summer as if the venom stayed in the veins of the afflicted for a lifetime. Now we'll ask the big questions.

Were these extreme symptoms truly a reaction to the venom? Was it a religious possession? a or a pagan cult's secret rituals.

Sarah and I will look at all the theories

that have been presented over the last 600 years

and of course add some unorthodox ideas of our own. I'm your host

Chelsea Weber Smith and this is American hysteria.

Hello, Sarah Marshall and welcome back.

I'm so excited to finish up this series with you and thank you for coming. Do you know what that's from?

Oh, what is that? Thank you for coming. It's Charlie from Always Sunny.

Oh! Yeah, our favorite little guy.

Our favorite little guy.

I'm glad you brought Charlie up because there, Kelsey, there is something I wanted to talk to you

about which is, we never play Nightcraw anymore man I know I'm sorry I'm sorry

we could play that game Charlie we gonna play night crawlers again.

Okay so this is our part two of our series on Tarentism and I was wondering if you felt like maybe you could give us just your brief overview of what we talked about last time. Oh boy, yeah, we recorded

part one on a Monday and it is now a Friday so that's a pretty tall order but yeah

for you I will try. I feel like correcting someone's inability to remember something is always a great way to explain it which is basically the premise of my show

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