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This, Again

You may think you know these stories, but not like this. This, Again is where historical disasters, delusions, downfalls, and déjà vu collide with human psychology. From palace scandals, space shuttle explosions, nightclub fires to witch trials, host Mallory Faust takes the moments in history you thought you understood and reveals the blind spots, egos, and eerie echoes you missed. It’s darkly funny, sharp, and empathetic - and it just might change how you see the past repeating in real time.

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All Episodes

29:00

Inside the Minds of Cult Leaders and Followers: Pt. 1...

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2026/02/26

In this episode of This, Again, we trace the evolution of cults from the obvious monsters of the 1960s and 70s, the Manson Family, Jonestown, and Heaven’s Gate, to the respectable reinventions of the 1980s and 90s like NXIVM, Scientology, and multi-level marketing empires.What do these groups share beneath the costumes, the jargon, and the business cards? The same psychological mechanics: obedience, conformity, charisma, sunk cost fallacy, and the intoxicating promise of belonging. Drawing on

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38:25

The Radium Cover-up and Dangers of Institutional Delay

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2026/02/12

In the early 20th century, hundreds of women were employed to paint luminous watch dials using radium-based paint. Despite early warnings from medical experts, companies continued to insist the work was safe. This episode examines the history of the Radium Girls, focusing on what corporate leaders knew, how they delayed accountability, and the lasting legal and public health consequences. It also draws a direct line to modern chemical exposure cases, including PFAS contamination. Supported by court

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34:26

Reconciling Rebellions: The Boston Tea Party vs. The...

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2026/01/29

How do you justify rebellion when you are fighting for freedom, and then justify suppressing it once freedom is yours?In this episode of This, Again, we rewind to the years immediately after American independence, when the Founding Fathers were forced to confront a problem they had not fully planned for. Americans were rebelling again, this time against them. We begin with the Boston Tea Party before it became a founding myth, when it was still risky, debated, and unresolved. Then we follow that

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34:54

Why We Change the Stories: Columbus and Late Medieval...

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2026/01/15

In this episode of This, Again, we look at three familiar figures from late medieval and early modern Europe and ask a different kind of historical question.Not whether they were heroes or villains. But how their stories came to be told the way they were. We start with Christopher Columbus, whose brutality was documented while he was alive and whose authority collapsed long before he became a national symbol. His later transformation into a heroic origin story tells us less about new discoveries

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30:48

The Anatomy of a Coup: Chile 1973 and Modern Echoes

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2026/01/01

Coups are often remembered as sudden explosions of force. Tanks in the streets. Jets overhead. Governments collapsing overnight. But history tells a quieter, more unsettling story.In this episode of This, Again, we trace the hidden psychological pattern that links coups across centuries and continents, from Napoleon’s rise in revolutionary France to Cold War interventions in Latin America and beyond. Using the 1973 Chilean coup as our central case study, we examine how democratic systems unravel

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30:50

The Child Star Problem, Pt. 2: From Pop Stardom to...

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2025/12/18

The lights got brighter. The cameras got closer. But the system never changed.In Part 2, we pick up where we left off and trace the next wave of child stardom, from the 1980s to today. We revisit the sitcom era that gave us tragic headlines, the pop machine that chewed up teen girls for profit, and the digital boom that turned toddlers into monetized brands. Behind the fame was something more dangerous: a psychological cost that built quietly over time. We look at how parasocial fame warps

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35:03

The Child Star Problem, Pt. 1: A Hidden History of...

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2025/12/04

Hollywood has been cashing in on cute kids for over a century, and the kids usually pay the price. In Part 1 of The Child Star Problem, we trace the origins of child exploitation in the entertainment industry, starting even before Hollywood with vaudeville stages, traveling acts, and silent films. This episode unpacks the system that raised children for applause and profit, from Jackie Coogan, whose stolen fortune led to the first child labor law in entertainment, to Judy Garland, whose teen years

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37:00

The Luddites, AI, and The Power of Narrative Control

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2025/11/20

What do 19th century weavers and 21st century tech workers have in common? More than you might think. In this episode, we unpack the real story behind the Luddites, skilled artisans who weren’t afraid of machines but deeply aware of how those machines were being used to undercut their labor and erase their way of life. Their protests were met not just with force, but with a powerful narrative campaign that branded them as backwards and irrational.Two hundred years later, the same pattern shows up

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33:01

Historical Heists: The Star of the South, Mona Lisa,...

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2025/11/06

In 1949, the royal vaults of Baroda were supposed to be sealed, transferred to the new Indian state as part of a complex and delicate independence process. But when an audit revealed that hundreds of crown jewels had vanished, suspicion fell on one woman: the Maharani of Baroda, Sita Devi.A woman as notorious as she was glamorous, Sita Devi didn’t just smuggle the jewels out of India. She wore them on magazine covers, flaunted them in Monte Carlo casinos, and lived a life of velvet defiance while

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32:20

When Leaders Vanish in a Crisis: Marie Antoinette,...

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2025/10/24

When the world is burning, the most powerful people often have one job: show up. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it’s too little, too late. And sometimes, they don’t bother at all.In this episode of This, Again, we’re looking at three centuries of leaders who vanished when their people needed them most — and what that absence cost them. From Marie Antoinette’s balcony gamble during the French Revolution, to Tsar Nicholas II’s abdication and brutal end, to Emperor Hirohito’s eerie silence and single

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30:19

Parties That Killed People: Cocoanut Grove & The...

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2025/10/09

A luxurious nightclub filled with palm fronds and politicians. A festival stage surrounded by screams. In this episode, we revisit two events separated by 80 years—but united by a chilling truth: when crowds gather, things can turn deadly fast.We start with the Cocoanut Grove fire of 1942, a catastrophe that claimed 492 lives in just ten minutes. Locked exits. Flammable ceilings. One of Hollywood’s biggest cowboy stars. Then, we jump forward to Astroworld 2021—another event where the warnings were

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28:13

Salem Witch Trials, The Central Park Five, and...

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2025/09/25

We all know the story of Salem: young girls pointing fingers, women dragged to the gallows, and a community unraveling. But the real terror? It wasn’t the witches. It was the certainty. In this episode of This, Again?, we dig into the Salem witch trials—not just what happened, but why it happened, and why it keeps happening. We explore the deep-rooted fear that gave rise to the Malleus Maleficarum, the mass hysteria of 1692, and the frightening parallels in our own era—from viral accusations to the

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32:37

Challenger & Titan Disasters: Why We Ignore Warnings

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2025/09/25

On January 28, 1986, millions watched as the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off with a teacher on board—only to explode 73 seconds later. Thirty-seven years later, five passengers dove toward the Titanic wreck in OceanGate’s Titan submersible—never to return.What connects these two tragedies? Not just technology or risk, but human psychology: normalcy bias, diffusion of responsibility, and the seductive power of a good story. In this episode of This, Again, Mallory Faust takes you through the

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1:34

Introducing: This, Again

This, Again ·

2025/09/23

History doesn’t just echo — it screams. This, Again is a podcast about the disasters, delusions, downfalls, and bizarre evolutions that prove humans don’t really change…we just change outfits. I’m Mallory Faust, and in every episode, I dig into the psychology behind the moments when people got it wrong — from witch trials to cult devotion, space shuttles to parties gone fatally wrong. Why do we keep falling for the same tricks, ignoring the same warnings, repeating the same mistakes? You may think

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