Worldwide Panic

You can watch this program and more on the Satanic Temple’s very own streaming platform, TST TV. Subscribe today: https://thesatanictemple.tv/programs/wwp-207-satans-bible-study Welcome back to Worldwide Panic. In this episode, Scott Whiteman from the Boys’ Bible Study podcast joins Lenny and Lucien for a deep dive into the bizarre world of Christian entertainment, beginning with Darren Wilson’s F...

This is from Lenny's other podcast, The Inner Empire. In this episode, I read my recent article, “The Uses of Manson,” originally published in ⁠Failed State Update⁠ . Charles Manson has been used to explain everything from the collapse of the 1960s counterculture to the supposed workings of a CIA mind-control program. But the stories people tell about Manson often reveal more about the storyteller...

Watch this episode on TST TV! https://thesatanictemple.tv/categories/worldwide-panic In this episode of Worldwide Panic, we catch up after Lenny's launch of a new podcast, The Inner Empire , an investigation into why people believe what they believe, featuring cult members, magicians, and Christian evangelicals. Lucien discusses the value some Satanic Temple members find in tarot reding and other...

From Joseph L. Flatley, co-host of Worldwide Panic . THE INNER EMPIRE is a podcast that pulls together a lot of what I’ve spent years reporting on and thinking about: cults, the occult, conspiracy culture, and the platforms that have inserted themselves directly into our daily life. Here’s the simplest way I can put it: for five hundred years, people have known how to install a belief in someone’s...

Watch this episode on TST TV: https://thesatanictemple.tv/ In this episode of Worldwide Panic, we discuss the oeuvre of Emma Katherine, host of the Imagination Podcast, an conspiracy influencer who platforms self-described survivors of satanic ritual abuse and MKUltra “programming.” Lucien recounts his own 2024 Twitter clashes with Emma and her followers, who accused him of being secretly connecte...

Watch this program on TST TV: https://thesatanictemple.tv/ Congress held hearings on the CIA's MKULTRA mind control program last week, but instead of uncovering new evidence, lawmakers mostly resurrected conspiracy narratives that have been circulating since the 1970s. In this episode of Worldwide Panic, Lenny and Lucien break down what actually happened during the hearing, who the witnesses w...

NOTE : We accidentally uploaded the wrong audio file before. This is the corrected version. This week: Lucien receives a “top secret” book exposing the coming ruling cabal (available on Amazon), as well as Lenny’s recent book on Timothy Leary. And we discuss an absurd documentary revealing that Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced by a double. Next, we dig into academic papers by Colin Ros...

Watch this episode on TST TV: https://thesatanictemple.tv/programs/wp-202-a-therapist-a-search-warrant-and-a-coverup A prominent trauma specialist is accused of warning a patient about an impending police search warrant, a decision prosecutors say allowed evidence to be destroyed before investigators arrived. What begins as a bizarre criminal case soon opens onto a much larger story about recovere...

Watch this episode on TST TV: https://thesatanictemple.tv/programs/wp201-is-it-disclosure-day-already In this episode of  Worldwide Panic , Lucien and Lenny kick off Season 2 with a look at the recent wave of Pentagon UAP file releases and the decades-old "disclosure day" mythology that ufologists have built around the promise of a coming revelation. The conversation traces how thin, unc...

In this episode of Worldwide Panic , we examine Let the Devil In, a recent docuseries centered on a 1988 New Jersey murder-suicide that has been retroactively framed through the lens of Satanic panic and occult fear. The conversation interrogates how the series presents its material: the use of reenactments, graphic imagery, and speculative testimony to imply supernatural causation where evidence...

This week, Lucien and Lenny pick up where recent headlines left off: Australian authorities claim they disrupted an “international satanic pedophilic network,” and the hosts unpack why that framing echoes the Satanic Panic era even as today’s internet-born extremist micro-scenes muddy the picture. They draw a hard line between sensational “occult crime” narratives and what evidence-based investiga...

In this episode of  Worldwide Panic ,  Lenny and Lucien talk about the realities of surviving as an independent journalist in 2025, including Lenny’s recent move into private investigative work as a way to stay financially afloat without abandoning long-form reporting. They discuss the pressures of audience-building, the exhaustion of social-media performance, and how influencer culture warps both...

In this week’s episode, we break down the New South Wales Police announcement that they had dismantled an international satanic child-sex ring. Within hours, major outlets—including CNN and Al Jazeera—ran with the headline unquestioningly. What didn’t show up in any of the early coverage? Evidence. Not even the basic details that would justify calling the case “satanic” in the first place. Lucien...

Worldwide Panic is a weekly conversation about the stories, anxieties, myths, and cultural flashpoints that shape how we understand the world. Each week, journalist Joseph L. Flatley and The Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves examine how fear spreads, how belief takes hold, and why certain narratives return again and again—long after they’ve been debunked. In this week’s episode, Lucien and...

Worldwide Panic is a weekly conversation about the stories, anxieties, myths, and cultural flashpoints that shape how we understand the world. Each week, journalist Joseph L. Flatley and The Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves examine how fear spreads, how belief takes hold, and why certain narratives return again and again—long after they’ve been debunked. In this week’s episode, Lucien and...

Worldwide Panic is a weekly conversation about the stories, anxieties, myths, and cultural flashpoints that shape how we understand the world. Each week, journalist Joseph L. Flatley and The Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves examine how fear spreads, how belief takes hold, and why certain narratives return again and again—long after they’ve been debunked. In this debut episode, we dig into...