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

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Jun 18, 2026 · 19m

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…