Worldwide Panic is a weekly conversation about the stories, myths, and anxieties shaping our world. Journalist Joseph L. Flatley and Lucien Greaves, co-founder of The Satanic Temple, examine how fear spreads, how belief takes hold, and why certain narratives return long after they’re debunked. From media panics to political spectacle to the strange edges of culture, WorldWide Panic explores what happens when shared reality starts to crack. This is a co-production of The Satanic Temple TV and Failed State Update
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Worldwide Panic is a weekly conversation about the stories, myths, and anxieties shaping our world. Journalist Joseph L. Flatley and Lucien Greaves, co-founder of The Satanic Temple, examine how fear spreads, how belief takes hold, and why certain narratives return long after they’re debunked. From media panics to political spectacle to the strange edges of culture, WorldWide Panic explores what happens when shared reality starts to crack. This is a co-production of The Satanic Temple TV and Failed State Update
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June 23, 2026
202. A Therapist, a Search Warrant, and a Coverup
<p><strong>Watch this episode on TST TV: </strong><a href="https://thesatanictemple.tv/programs/wp-202-a-therapist-a-search-warrant-and-a-coverup" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://thesatanictemple.tv/programs/wp-202-a-therapist-a-search-warrant-and-a-coverup</a></p><p><br></p><p>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 recovered memories, dissociative disorders and ritual abuse allegations.</p><p>From there, Joseph L. Flatley and Lucien Greaves talk about the ISSTD, a professional community that has spent decades defending claims many researchers consider discredited. Along the way, they explore the enduring influence of conspiracy thinking in therapeutic settings, the legacy of the Satanic Panic, and why certain beliefs continue to survive long after the evidence behind them has collapsed.</p><p>Also: Feral House has a new series on TST TV! And Lucien catches fire while filming a video for Satanic Planet.</p><p>Links:</p><p>-Lucien Greaves on Substack: <a href="https://luciengreaves.substack.com/"><u>https://luciengreaves.substack.com/</u></a></p><p>-Subscribe to Joseph L. Flatley's Failed State Update newsletter: <a href="http://lennyflatley.substack.com/"><u>http://lennyflatley.substack.com/</u></a></p><p><br></p><p>Theme music: “Satanic Planet” by Satanic Planet</p>
June 16, 2026
201. Is it Disclosure Day Already?
<p><strong>Watch this episode on TST TV: </strong><a href="https://thesatanictemple.tv/programs/wp201-is-it-disclosure-day-already" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://thesatanictemple.tv/programs/wp201-is-it-disclosure-day-already</a></p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of <strong>Worldwide Panic</strong>, 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.<br>The conversation traces how thin, uncontextualized documents get inflated into proof through credentialed-sounding "whistleblowers," recycled tabloid sourcing, and sloppy AP-wire framing, drawing a direct parallel to recent Epstein files coverage, where a single ambiguous mention becomes a headline regardless of what it actually says.<br>The episode closes with Lenny discussing his new book The Occult Timothy Leary, and Leary's own derisive take on UFO believers.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Subscribe to Joseph L. Flatley's Failed State Update newsletter</strong>: <a href="http://lennyflatley.substack.com/%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><u>http://lennyflatley.substack.com/</u></a></p><p><strong>More info on Lenny's book The Occult Timothy Leary: </strong><a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Occult-Timothy-Leary/Joseph-L-Flatley/9798888500842" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><u>https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Occult-Timothy-Leary/Joseph-L-Flatley/9798888500842</u></a></p><p><strong>Lucien Greaves on Substack: </strong><a href="https://luciengreaves.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://luciengreaves.substack.com/</a></p><p><strong>Theme music:</strong> “<a href="https://thesatanictemple.tv/programs/_satanic-planet_-by-satanic-planet-official-video-149b03?category_id=171640" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Satanic Planet</a>” by Satanic Planet</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
December 22, 2025
7. Lucien and Lenny Let the Devil in
<p>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.</p><p>The conversation interrogates how the series presents its material: the use of reenactments, graphic imagery, and speculative testimony to imply supernatural causation where evidence is fragmentary or altogether absent. </p><p>What emerges is a critique of true-crime storytelling in the streaming era: not as entertainment alone, but as a belief-producing system that rewards implication over proof and atmosphere over accountability.</p><p><strong>Watch this on TST TV:</strong> <a href="https://thesatanictemple.tv/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://thesatanictemple.tv/</a></p><p><strong>Subscribe to Failed State Update:</strong> <a href="http://lennyflatley.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://lennyflatley.substack.com/</a></p><p><strong>Theme music:</strong> “Satanic Planet” by Satanic Planet</p>
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