Shiftheads - He-Man, Satanic Panic, and Who Was Really After Your Kids

Nathan Radke of the Uncover Up Podcast is here to explain why a new He-Man movie is the perfect entry point into one of the most useful ideas you can carry into the news cycle right now. In the 1980s, He-Man was accused of recruiting children into the occult. Experts testified. Documentaries were made. Cassette tapes were sold. What was actually happening is a much better story, and a much more revealing one about who benefits when a society decides it has found the thing to blame for everything going wrong. Radke connects the Satanic Panic to a double murder in his own hometown, to the West Memphis Three, to Ronald Reagan's FCC, and to the question you should be asking every time someone hands you a simple answer to a complicated problem. The He-Man movie comes out this summer. The panic is already warming up. This conversation will change how you watch it happen. Topics: moral panic, Satanic Panic, He-Man, conspiracy theory, children's television GUEST: Nathan Radke | https://www.amazon.ca/Uncover-Up-Think-Clearly-Conspiracies/dp/1770418873 Originally aired on 2026-06-17