NEW - Tonight: He-Man Was Recruiting Kids for Satan. Apparently

The satanic panic of the 1980s turned rock music, Dungeons and Dragons, and Ouija boards into instruments of the devil. Tonight the target is He-Man, and the claim that a cartoon prince with a magic sword was secretly recruiting children into devil worship through action figures. It sounds absurd. It was also believed by a lot of people. And the more interesting question is how much of that fear quietly shaped the way an entire generation still sees the world, hidden in the background of what feels like ordinary judgment. The show also gets into what makes a gift actually memorable, the difference between something sentimental and something that changes how you live every day, and why a Japanese knife and a wooden cutting board might be the most honest answers to that question. Topics: satanic panic, 1980s moral panic, He-Man movie, conspiracy theories, gifts that change your life Originally aired on 2026-06-17