Hillary Clinton and the Lizard People
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Hillary Clinton and the Lizard People | 27
Put on your tinfoil hat and grab your favourite pantsuit – “Paranormal Pajama Party” is back! In the Season 3 premiere, Steph connects the dots between confused Victorian lemur scientists and modern-day conspiracy theories about lizard people running the world. (It makes more sense than you'd think.)
Join us for a wild ride through the peculiar world of reptilian conspiracies, where we discover how theories about shape-shifting aliens somehow wound up tangled with gender politics and presidential pantsuits. Steph digs into why powerful women like Hillary Clinton keep getting cast as everything from robots to reptiles – and what our monster-making tendencies reveal about society's complicated relationship with female leadership.
From David Icke's cosmic energy smoothies to Hollywood's hangup on sinister women in power suits, this episode unpacks how conspiracy theories reflect our deepest anxieties about changing power structures. It turns out that when marginalised people start climbing the political ladder, our collective imagination gets pretty creative.
Listen now for a fascinating exploration of gender, power, and why some people think our world leaders might need a heat lamp to survive.
Key moments
- 1:16 – The Lizard King
- 8:56 – Where the reptilian conspiracy theory came from
- 19:47 – Real-world consequences of the reptilian theory
- 30:15 – Examining Hillary Clinton's complicated feminist legacy
- 39:45 – Female politicians and the double bind
- 42:09 – Politics, gender, and pop culture
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Capíttulos
1. Content warning (00:00:00)
2. The Lizard King (00:01:16)
3. Welcome to the Paranormal Pajama Party! (00:07:35)
4. Where the reptilian conspiracy theory came from (00:08:56)
5. Real-world consequences of the reptilian theory (00:19:47)
6. Hillary Rodham Clinton's feminist background (00:22:11)
7. Examining Hillary Clinton's complicated feminist legacy (00:30:15)
8. The Clintons and conspiracy theories (00:34:45)
9. Hillary Clinton's monstrous portrayals (00:37:31)
10. Female politicians and the double bind (00:39:45)
11. Politics, gender, and pop culture (00:42:09)
12. Catch you at the next Paranormal Pajama Party (00:43:44)
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