It has been said that the apocalypse is as American as apple pie, and for our season finale we are exploring different versions of the end of the world, the hyper-religious, the new age, and the scientific, as well as Chelsey’s personal experience with the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse. The stories we tell about the end of time tend to involve not only a series of cataclysmic, devastating events, but also the saving of an elect few, and the punishing and death of the rest. While none of the end times predictions have come to pass, major leaps in technology have opened us up to both the potential nuclear war and the potential for climate disaster, terrifying realities that prove more difficult to face than our fantasies. What comes next is up to us. 

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American Hysteria is written and produced by Chelsey Weber-Smith

Assistant produced by Derrick Smith

Produced and edited by Clear Commo Studios

Show art by [Roache](http://www.xroache.com)
Voice Acting by Will Rogers

Thanks to Jim and Perry Weber for their interview
Thank you to research assistant Riley Smith

For further reading, check out [The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War, and Our Call to Greatness](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/547525/the-america-syndrome-by-betsy-hartmann/9781609807405/) by Betsy Hartmann

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Season two will be dropping soon, in the meantime we will be updating you with mini episodes, so please stay tuned, and thanks so much for listening.