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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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4"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 we even have the tools to know? And what about that bathing in the blood of virgins thing? Lizzie correspondent Princess Weekes is here with your election night distract-a-thon. Princess' YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@Princess_Weekes"Tall, Dark and Racially Ambiguous" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x...
Black 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 Weber-Smith is on the show tonight. It's a tale of mischief, mayhem, and adults trying to keep their kids safe by nailing meat to the walls. What is Halloween? Can there be treats without tricks? And does it really count if no one's house gets egged?If you liked this episode, consider attending A Massive Seance. ...
What 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 spectacular for the living and dead. Hold hands with your favorite disembodied voices for a spiritualist séance* featuring fireside conversation, mystifying tricks, special guests, and music from The Little Lies – the only Fleetwood Mac tribute band that may actually be ghosts. This winter, we will release the phanto...
Kellie Carter Jackson, author of We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance, is here to take us on a trip through American history where we learn about revolutions, change, and joy not from a few white men, but from generations of Black women. Kellie Carter Jackson https://www.kelliecarterjackson.com/Read We Refuse https://www.kelliecarterjackson.com/we-refuseSupport You're Wrong About:Bonus Episodes on PatreonBuy cute merchWhere else to find us:Sarah's other show: You Are Good[YWA co-...
"Times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact serve only to oppress. As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom." — Justice Anthony Kennedy This week, Marcus McCann brings us to the end of our story of a few good men who challenged Texas' anti-sodomy law, and ended up changing the law of the land—and we ask what becomes of the peop...
Or, is it legal to have gay sex in your own home? This week, Marcus McCann takes us back to the 2003 Supreme Court case that challenged a Texas anti-sodomy law--with little stops along the way for Mexican food, the endowment of James Dean, and peevish police. (Part 2 coming next week!)Dale Carpenter's book Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas Marcus' book Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander off the Path Support You're Wrong About:Bonus Episodes on PatreonBuy cute ...
"As long as the law is male, women must be outlaws." — Linnea Johnson This week, Moira Donegan takes us back to Chicago in 1969, when an underground feminist collective got fed up with doctors, and started providing abortions themselves. Moira's podcast In Bed with the Right Moira in the Guardian Moira on the tradwifeSupport You're Wrong About:Bonus Episodes on PatreonBuy cute merchWhere else to find us:Sarah's other show: You Are GoodLinks:https://gender.stanford.edu/inbedhttp...
This week we travel back to the 80s, when America’s parents decided to freak out over some kids rolling dice and drawing things on graph paper! Adrian Daub walks Sarah through the history of Dungeons & Dragons, and the panic it inspired. Content note: The story we're telling today also involves suicide; please listen with care. Find Adrian online here.Buy his book The Cancel Culture Panic here. And check out this delightful 60 Minutes segment about the dangers of Dungeons &...
Maggie Mertens tells us a tale of the first women who fought to run the marathon, and of one woman who decided to cut to the finish line. Find Maggie online here. Find Maggie's book Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women online here.Support You're Wrong About:Bonus Episodes on PatreonBuy cute merchWhere else to find us:Sarah's other show: You Are GoodLinks:https://maggiemertens.com/https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/maggie-mertens/better-faster-fa...
What is “originalism,” and what does it have to do with all these bribes? Mackenzie Joy Brennan has some answers.Find Mackenzie online here. You can find Abortion Access Front online here. "Anita Hill" episode of You're Wrong About. The US supreme court just basically legalized bribery by Moira DoneganSupport You're Wrong About:Bonus Episodes on PatreonBuy cute merchWhere else to find us:Sarah's other show: You Are Good[YWA co-founder] Mike's other show: Maintenance PhaseLinks:https://www.mkz...
The city of Cleveland will not be made to apologize for its balloons. Harmony Colangelo defends the mistake on the lake.You can find Harmony on This Ends at Prom. Support You're Wrong About:Bonus Episodes on PatreonBuy cute merchWhere else to find us:Sarah's other show: You Are Good[YWA co-founder] Mike's other show: Maintenance PhaseLinks:https://podpeople.me/this-ends-at-promhttps://www.teepublic.com/stores/youre-wrong-abouthttps://www.paypal.com/paypalme/yourewrongaboutpodhttps://www....
This week, Taylor Lorenz fights our latest moral panic. Are phones really making kids anxious, or are kids just good at noticing what's going on? Listen to Taylor's podcast, Power User Read Taylor in the Washington Post ...and her book, Extremely Online Support You're Wrong About:Bonus Episodes on PatreonBuy cute merchWhere else to find us:Sarah's other show, You Are GoodLinks:https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/power-user-with-taylor-lorenzhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/people/...
Alejandra Oliva, author of Rivermouth, came by to catch us up on the last few decades of American immigration policy--and to talk about how the world as we know it is not the world as it must be.Alejandra's website: olivalejandra.comRead Rivermouth, out now in paperback:https://bookshop.org/a/10832/9781662602672Further Reading:Greg Grandin The End of the Myth (2020)Jonathan Blitzer Everyone Who is Gone is Here (2024) David Bacon The Right to Stay Home (2014) Dara Lind, "The disastro...
Sarah Archer came by to make an episode from scratch. What's the real history of the American housewife? Where did the tradwife come from, and why? Is she okay? Will we be okay? And who is she churning all that butter for? Sarah Archer's accompanying Substack post https://open.substack.com/pub/saraharcher/p/going-to-businessSarah Archer's bibliographyClips:Mrs. Modern versus Mrs. Drudge from The Middleton Family at the 1939 New York World's Fair (produced by Westinghouse) https://youtu.b...
Today, Princess Weekes takes us to meet the real Rosa Parks.Find Princess on YouTube: Princess’ video, “The 1920s Sex Scandal You’ve Never Heard of” Support You're Wrong About:Bonus Episodes on PatreonBuy cute merchWhere else to find us:Sarah's other show: You Are Good[YWA co-founder] Mike's other show: Maintenance PhaseLinks:https://youtube.com/@princess_weekes?si=qPVPnRDuJyfySdEXhttps://youtu.be/odq8iebaqDw?si=lQMoWCWvdWPWP-7Ahttps://www.teepublic.com/stores/youre-wrong-abouthttps://www.pay...
Let's go outside in the sunshine. An extended cut of this episode is available for Patreon and Apple Plus subscribers.You can buy Marcus McCann's book, Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path, here.Support You're Wrong About:Bonus Episodes on PatreonBuy cute merchWhere else to find us:Sarah's other show: You Are Good[YWA co-founder] Mike's other show: Maintenance PhaseLinks:https://houseofanansi.com/products/park-cruisinghttps://www.teepublic.com/stores/youre-wrong...
He turned a bright spark into a flame.(Part 1 of 2!)You can buy Marcus McCann's book, Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path, here.Content warning: this episode briefly discusses suicide around minute 13.An extended cut of this episode is available for Patreon and Apple Podcast subscribers.Support You're Wrong About:Bonus Episodes on PatreonBuy cute merchWhere else to find us:Sarah's other show: You Are Good[YWA co-founder] Mike's other show: Maintenance PhaseLinks:https://ho...
Sarah talks with Chelsey Weber-Smith, host of American Hysteria, about some of their favorite hoaxes—from the Loch Ness Monster to the Taco Liberty Bell—and ponder the value of pranks in a world of misinformation. You can find Chelsey here.You can find American Hysteria here. Support You're Wrong About:Bonus Episodes on PatreonBuy cute merchWhere else to find us:Sarah's other show, You Are Good[YWA co-founder] Mike's other show, Maintenance PhaseLinks:https://www.chelseywebersmith.com/ht...
Celebrity correspondent Eve Lindley came by to tell us about Britney Spears' memoir The Woman in Me. This is part one of a four-part saga we're currently releasing on Patreon and Apple Plus, and in this episode we get into Britney's family history, her childhood, her years of searching for stardom, and her life until the eve of "...Baby One More Time." *A content warning—in this episode we talk about mental health struggles, and a part of the story around minute 22 involves suicide. Eve Lindl...
In 1974, Robert Opel ran naked through the Academy Awards telecast, and into American history. Today, Michael Schulman, a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Oscar Wars, tells Sarah the story of gay history, art, and tragedy that happened after Robert’s fifteen minutes were over.Read Michael’s work here.Support You're Wrong About:Bonus Episodes on PatreonBuy cute merchWhere else to find us:Sarah's other show, You Are GoodLinks:https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/michael-schulm...
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Love the comment about all the holidays being squished on the calendar and then... 3 more months of winter in the Northern hemisphere. 😂 Totally agree it would be great to space them out!
I think he wrote his legal name simply because it would come up as who he is when they are trying to identify a body potentially in the future and it was a move of logic and closure for his family.
how do we broadcast this to all of the trad wives trending at the moment?
what a fantastic episode
There's a lot of good discussion in this podcast, but I agree that it sidesteps the main causes for anti-phone concern: mental illness statistics over time and the attention economy. I don't think social media use can be evaluated without discussing those things.
As the parent of a preteen/teen who tried to commit suicide due to social media messaging, etc…yeah….im immediately disappointed with this episode. Do either of you have kids? The uptick in mental health issues is kids is HUGE.
this was not a good episode, did you guys do any research at all?
Wow--I never heard of this Momo conspiracy before. Momo is the name of my new cat.😹
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fantastic episode I agree. waited for the moment Courtney outed Weinstein. booo ❤️
this is my first book club series from you're wrong about and I'm really digging it I usually avoid book discussions but this is all right they have such great banter though
tried 5 more minutes and the giggly disrespectful attitude and constant "OMGGG" makes me want to pull my skin off
her constant interruption, moaning "uhm hum" and over the top laughing really made it impossible to listen more than 5 minutes... what a shame
She actually received a 1.2 million dollar trust fund which said was all lost due to bad investments.
1:00:47 "Have you seen a baby? Those f**kers are pathetic!" 🤣🤣🤣
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I find the topics to be quite interesting, but the hosts' flippant attitudes and comments grind on me after about 15 minutes.
The cohost is really annoying