You're Wrong About
by Sarah Marshall
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Sarah is a journalist obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.
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- Death! with Becky Robison · 1 h 30 minHow do we do what we have to do at the worst possible moment? Death correspondent Becky Robison, the author of My Parents Are Dead: What Now? A Panic-Free Guide to the…
- Halloween Listener Special · 1 h 1 minWhat does Halloween mean to you? For this listener submission episode, we asked you to send in your favorite Halloween memories and you delivered the spooky, the funny, and the…
- Halloween Pranks with Chelsey Weber-Smith · 56 minChoose wisely: trick or treat? Starting in the late 1800s, the spooky and goofy version of Halloween we know today became a time of ruckus and sometimes dangerous pranks by kids…
- The Crocodile Hunter with Brianna Bowman · 2 h 19 minCrikey! How does a man decide to wrangle giant reptiles for a living? For this episode, ocean correspondent Brianna Bowman shares the life story of Australian icon Steve Irwin…
- Back to School with Gabe Henry · 1 h 13 minWho will you be this year? No matter your age, it’s likely that your body remembers the school calendar, and with the blooming aisles of binders and pencils and backpacks, it’s…
- Ballet with Megan Burbank · 1 h 12 minMegan Burbank’s gotta dance. The centuries-old dance style known as ballet has been stereotyped in our modern world with images of refined, wispy, frighteningly disciplined young…
- "Heaven is for Real" with Adrian Daub · 1 h 25 minIf your four-year-old told you about a trip to heaven, would you believe them? For a pastor named Todd Burpo, the answer was yes. In 2010, his book Heaven Is For Real—co-authored…
- Lightning Round! with Chelsey Weber-Smith · 1 h 6 minSend your submissions for our Halloween Listener Spectacular (scary stories or Halloween nostalgia) to [email protected] before August 31st! How many maligned women can…
- What I Love: A Listener Summer Special · 58 minHow do I love thee? For this special episode, we asked you to send us a voice message about something you love. From gas station coffee to tap dancing to rocks to the inner lives…
- The JFK Assassination Part 2 with Mackenzie Joy Brennan · 2 h 31 minBut seriously, who really killed JFK? For part two of the JFK Assassination series, law correspondent Mackenzie Joy Brennan takes Sarah through the conspiracy theories that have…
- The JFK Assassination Part 1 with Mackenzie Joy Brennan · 1 h 43 minWhere is Dana Scully when you need her? For the first installment of this two-part episode, legal correspondent Mackenzie Joy Brennan tells Sarah about what happened before…
- Crying in Baseball with Julie Kliegman · 1 h 26 minCould there be a little crying in baseball as a treat? Sports correspondent Julie Kliegman is here to tell Sarah about the history of women’s baseball and softball and to finally…
- Rainbows with Lulu Miller · 1 h 12 minWhy are there so many songs about rainbows (and what’s on the other side)? A bridge between worlds, a map to a pot of gold, the centerpiece of a Lisa Frank trapper-keeper, and of…
- What to Carry, What to Burn with Blair Braverman · 1 h 4 minAda Blackjack wants one thing: To make enough money to bring her son home from an orphanage. But good work is hard to find in 1920s Nome, Alaska, so when four strangers come to…
- Desperation Pie with Sarah Archer · 1 h 14 minWhat would you do for a desperation pie? Kitchen correspondent Sarah Archer is here to talk with Sarah about the American food trends that marked the 20th century and how they…
- The Great American Spelling Bee with Gabe Henry · 1 h 26 minCan you use the word in a sentence? For this episode, Spelling Correspondent Gabe Henry takes Sarah through the surprisingly rampageous (r-a-m-p-a-g-e-o-u-s) history of the…
- Crop Circles with Chelsey Weber-Smith · 1 h 14 minWhat do men really get up to at the pub? For this April Fools' Day episode, Sarah tells urban legend correspondent Chelsey Weber-Smith of American Hysteria the history and the…
- How to Deprogram a Guy in 10 Days with Endless Thread · 1 h 25 minFree yourself. What does it take to get someone to leave a cult? What happens if the cult is all around us? In this episode, Ben Brock Johnson & Amory Sivertson of NPR’s Endless…
- The Worst Movie Ever Made? with Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson · 1 h 34 minFrom the bonus vault! What actually makes a movie “bad”? In this bonus episode, Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson of the film podcast Unspooled tell Sarah the story of what many…
- The Bluebelle with Blair Braverman · 1 h 17 minDo we ever finish surviving? Sarah tells Survival Correspondent Blair Braverman the incredible story of 11-year-old Terry Jo Duperrault, who was lost at sea for several days on a…
- Keiko Part 3 with Brianna Bowman · 1 h 18 minWould you ride on the back of a random orca at the beach? For the final part of this series on Free Willy star Keiko, deep sea correspondent Brianna Bowman tells Sarah about his…
- Keiko Part 2 with Brianna Bowman · 1 h 45 minThe movies freed Willy, but what about Keiko? For the second part of our trilogy on the biggest aquatic star of the 90s, deep sea correspondent Brianna Bowman takes Sarah through…
- Keiko Part 1 with Brianna Bowman · 2 h 2 minCan a killer whale really jump that high? For kids of the 90s, the adventure movie Free Willy introduced us to magic of the orca through its charismatic megafauna star, Keiko. In…
- Where I Live: The Listener Holiday Special · 1 h 30 min“We’ve always been inventing and reinventing new worlds for taking care of each other. We just have to notice.” We asked our subscribers to send us audio postcards to encapsulate…
- Cold War Santa with Sarah Archer · 1 h 39 minWhat happens when Santa trades his sleigh for a rocket ship? Christmas correspondent Sarah Archer tells Sarah about how the Cold War era affected the image of old Kris Kringle…
- The Dictionary Wars! with Gabe Henry · 1 h 12 minRemember being a teen and coming up with “cool” ways of spelling common words? Well, just like the teenager it was, the United States in the 18th century was annoying their mom…
- Introducing: The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall · 41 minListen now to the first episode of Sarah's new 8-part series with CBC Podcasts, The Devil You Know. In the 1980s and 90s, Satan and his followers were accused of brainwashing…
- Midnight Ghost Shows with Chelsey Weber-Smith · 1 h 43 minWhat do you get when you combine a horror movie audience, a spiritualist séance, and a haunted house attraction? Beginning in the 1930s and lasting into the 1960s, midnight ghost…
- The Auralyn with Blair Braverman · 1 h 11 minAre you a survival pessimist or a survival optimist? Blair Braverman surprises Sarah with a harrowing, heartening, and sometimes hilarious tale of love and endurance in the face…
- Samantha Smith vs. the Cold War with Maris Kreizman · 1 h 18 minWho really ended the Cold War, Ronald Reagan or a ten-year-old girl? Eighties correspondent Maris Kreizman joins us for a heartfelt conversation about America’s Youngest…
- The Insanity Defense with Mackenzie Joy Brennan · 1 h 20 minWhat do John Hinckley Jr. and a jazz age tuberculosis patient have in common? Legal correspondent Mackenzie Joy Brennan takes Sarah through some of the strange cases that helped…
- Corn Mazes with Chelsey Weber-Smith · 1 h 4 minCan you find your way out of the maize? The corn maze has become an enduring attraction of the American autumnal experience, seen at touristy family farms next to pumpkin patches…
- Pee-wee Herman Part 2 with Jamie Loftus · 1 h 3 minIn the second part of our series, pop culture historian Jamie Loftus takes us through the meteoric rise of Pee-wee Herman and the withering of Paul Reubens' world as dubious…
- Pee-wee Herman Part 1 with Jamie Loftus · 1 h 8 minWhat’s today’s secret word? Paul Reubens spent years bringing to life one of America’s most beloved characters, Pee-wee Herman, an icon of joy for weirdos of all ages. In the…
- The Hitler Diaries with Adrian Daub · 1 h 24 minWhat happens when you’re just a little too good at forging the diaries of Adolf Hitler? And why did so many people want to read them? In 1983, the West German news magazine Stern…
- Coyotes! with Lulu Miller · 1 h 16 minWho is out there behind the howling midnight parties in the distance? For generations we have coexisted in varying degrees of rivalry, conflict, and admiration with the North…
- Inventing the Teenager with Harmony Colangelo · 1 h 7 minWhere did all these teens come from? Harmony Colangelo, co-host of This Ends at Prom, is here to explain how, before Americans got to worry about what teenagers were up to, we…
- Is Your House Too Clean? with Sarah Archer · 1 h 3 minHave you scrubbed down the top of your fridge lately? Home & garden correspondent Sarah Archer is here to tell us how and when we got so obsessed with the antiseptically clean…
- Hoax Memoir Spectacular! · 1 h 27 minThis week, flim flam correspondent and certified April Fool Chelsey Weber-Smith is here to talk about a fistful of fake memoirs, featuring girls raised by wolves; the chicken pox…
- Your Joy and Resilience Stories · 24 minAt the end of our last episode, we asked you to call in and tell us what has been bringing you joy, connecting you to your community, and where you’ve been finding hope in these…
- The Worst Oscars Ever?? with Michael Schulman · 1 h 20 minWhat do Lily Tomlin, Snow White, and Kenny Ortega have in common? They were all part of the 61st Academy Awards, a broadcast now remembered as the worst of all time, and…
- Emotional Labor with Rachel Monroe and Ash Compton of Bad Therapist · 1 h 1 minWhat is "emotional labor," and why is it probably not what your boyfriend accuses you of making him do when you want him to go to Ikea with you? Psychotherapist Ash Compton and…
- Alice Kyteler and the First Witchcraft Trial in Ireland with Molly Aitken · 1 h 4 minIn County Kilkenny, Ireland, in an early year of a century not too long before our own, Alice Kyteler was accused of witchcraft. But the story doesn't end there. This week, Molly…
- Aron Ralston with Blair Braverman · 1 h 15 minWhat would you do if you were pinned down by an 800-pound boulder, and no one knew where you were? In 2003, Aron Ralston had to answer that question. Today, our survival…
- Singing in the New Year with Carolyn Kendrick and Each Machine · 32 minThere's one last present at the toe of our stocking, and it's a new album by producer Carolyn Kendrick. We'll be back with a regular episode next week, but for now, come listen…
- Santa Claus with Sarah Archer · 1 h 3 min'Twas (the night before) the night before Christmas/ And all through the show/ We await Sarah Archer with eyes all aglow/ To blow the dust off some old books from the shelf/ And…
- Cola Wars with Miles Klee · 1 h 16 minMiles Klee can’t take it anymore. This week, a tale of corporate intrigue, world domination, and soda. Read Miles Klee at Rolling Stone. Support You're Wrong About:Bonus Episodes…
- Elizabeth Báthory with Princess Weekes · 1 h 11 min"Our alleged serial killers deserve better than this." Was Elizabeth Báthory the most prolific serial killer of all time, or was she just in the wrong place at the wrong time? Do…
- Halloween History with Chelsey Weber-Smith · 1 h 21 minBlack cats and goblins and broomsticks and ghosts/ Covens of witches with all of their hosts/ You may think they scare me, you're probably right/ But American Hysteria's Chelsey…
- A MASSIVE SEANCE Live Show Tour with American Hysteria · 2 minWhat could possibly go wrong when two skeptical podcasters try to summon a ghost? Join Sarah and Chelsey Weber-Smith (of American Hysteria) for a historical, theatrical, ecstatic…
