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You're Wrong About

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.

Episodes (50)

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The Insanity Defense with Mackenzie Joy Brennan

August 19, 2025 1h 20m
What 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 make—and break—the...
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Corn Mazes with Chelsey Weber-Smith

July 31, 2025 1h 4m
Can 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 and haunted houses....
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Pee-wee Herman Part 2 with Jamie Loftus

July 16, 2025 1h 3m
In 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 allegations surface that...
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Pee-wee Herman Part 1 with Jamie Loftus

June 30, 2025 1h 8m
What’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 first of this two part...
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The Hitler Diaries with Adrian Daub

June 11, 2025 1h 24m
What 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 bought sixty volumes...
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Coyotes! with Lulu Miller

May 24, 2025 1h 16m
Who 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 American canine known as...
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Inventing the Teenager with Harmony Colangelo

May 07, 2025 1h 7m
Where 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 first had to decide what...
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Is Your House Too Clean? with Sarah Archer

April 15, 2025 1h 3m
Have 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 house as a status...
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Hoax Memoir Spectacular!

April 01, 2025 1h 27m
This 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 of James Frey; what...
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Your Joy and Resilience Stories

March 26, 2025 23m
At 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 last few months. These...
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The Worst Oscars Ever?? with Michael Schulman

February 27, 2025 1h 20m
What 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 masterminded by Allan Carr...
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Emotional Labor with Rachel Monroe and Ash Compton of Bad Therapist

February 12, 2025 1h 1m
What 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 journalist Rachel...
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Alice Kyteler and the First Witchcraft Trial in Ireland with Molly Aitken

January 30, 2025 1h 4m
In 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 Aitken—author of...
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Aron Ralston with Blair Braverman

January 13, 2025 1h 15m
What 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 correspondent Blair Braverman...
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Singing in the New Year with Carolyn Kendrick and Each Machine

January 01, 2025 32m
There'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 to some music, and join...
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Santa Claus with Sarah Archer

December 23, 2024 1h 3m
'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 tell us the tale of a...
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Cola Wars with Miles Klee

December 12, 2024 1h 16m
Miles 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 on Patreon Buy cute...
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Elizabeth Báthory with Princess Weekes

November 06, 2024 1h 11m
"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...
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Halloween History with Chelsey Weber-Smith

October 24, 2024 1h 21m
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...
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A MASSIVE SEANCE Live Show Tour with American Hysteria

October 18, 2024 1m
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...
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Revolutions and Resistance with Kellie Carter Jackson

October 12, 2024 1h 4m
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...
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Lawrence v. Texas Part 2 with Marcus McCann

September 26, 2024 1h 40m
"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...
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Lawrence v. Texas Part 1 with Marcus McCann

September 18, 2024 1h 6m
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...
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The Jane Collective with Moira Donegan

September 04, 2024 1h 9m
"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,...
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Dungeons & Dragons & The Satanic Panic with Adrian Daub

August 20, 2024 1h 10m
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...
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Rosie Ruiz and the Marathon Women with Maggie Mertens

August 05, 2024 1h 19m
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...
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Has the Supreme Court Always Been This Terrible? with Mackenzie Joy Brennan

July 22, 2024 1h 2m
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. ...
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Balloonfest ‘86! with Harmony Colangelo

July 11, 2024 1h 1m
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...
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Phones Are Good, Actually with Taylor Lorenz

June 25, 2024 59m
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...
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Immigration with Alejandra Oliva

June 12, 2024 1h 12m
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....
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The Tradwife Rises with Sarah Archer

May 29, 2024 1h 2m
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...
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Rosa Parks with Princess Weekes

May 15, 2024 1h 5m
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...
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George Michael Part 2 with Marcus McCann

May 01, 2024 1h 33m
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...
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George Michael Part 1 with Marcus McCann

April 17, 2024 1h 15m
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...
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Hoax Spectacular! with Chelsey Weber-Smith

April 01, 2024 1h 3m
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...
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BONUS Britney Spears Book Club with Eve Lindley

March 26, 2024 56m
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...
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The Oscars Streaker with Michael Schulman

March 19, 2024 1h 15m
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...
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Balto with Blair Braverman

March 04, 2024 1h 9m
Blair Braverman tells us how the legendary story of one good dog is actually a story of two good dogs. Read Blair’s book, Small Game Read Blair’s Patreon (and learn more about sled dogs!) Support...
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The Shoe Bomber with Miles Klee

February 20, 2024 1h 11m
This week, writer Miles Klee tells us why we have to take our shoes off at the airport. Read Miles Klee at Rolling Stone. Support You're Wrong About: Bonus Episodes on Patreon Buy cute merch Where...
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Tiny Tim with Harmony Colangelo

February 06, 2024 1h 14m
This week, Harmony Colangelo tiptoes through the tulips with us. You can find Harmony at This Ends at Prom here! Support You're Wrong About: Bonus Episodes on Patreon Buy cute merch Where else...
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The “Pro-Life” Movement with Megan Burbank

January 25, 2024 1h 4m
During what should’ve been Roe v. Wade’s 51st birthday week, Sarah and reproductive health policy reporter Megan Burbank take a look at the movement, decades in the making, to tear down abortion...
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The Battle of the Sexes with Julie Kliegman

January 08, 2024 1h 0m
Sarah teams up with writer and editor Julie Kliegman—author of the hotly anticipated book MIND GAME—to look back at tennis's Battle of the Sexes, between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs (aka the...
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The Exorcist with Marlena Williams

December 28, 2023 1h 11m
The Exorcist turns 50 this week, so we invited Marlena Williams, author of Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist, to come tell us about the little possession movie that changed...
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Influencers with Taylor Lorenz

December 12, 2023 1h 1m
“The creatures outside looked from influencer to human, and from human to influencer, and from human to influencer again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” Taylor Lorenz, author...
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Cattle Mutilation with Rachel Monroe

November 28, 2023 1h 4m
Mulder and Scully were busy this week, so Monroe and Marshall are on the case. Did UFOs really travel across the galaxy to experiment on American cows in the 1970s? And if so, why did they come back...
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Amy Winehouse with Eve Lindley

November 14, 2023 1h 39m
This week, celebrity correspondent Eve Lindley tells Sarah about why we should all be thankful for Amy Winehouse. Note: this episode depicts struggles with eating disorders, addiction and self harm....
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Our Dearest Fears with Chelsey Weber-Smith

October 30, 2023 1h 2m
This week, American Hysteria’s Chelsey Weber-Smith gives Sarah some exposure therapy. You can find Chelsey / American Hysteria here. Support You're Wrong About: Bonus Episodes on Patreon Buy cute...
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Lizzie Borden with Princess Weekes

October 16, 2023 1h 0m
Forty whacks with a wet noodle, Bart! This week, Princess Weekes tells Sarah the true story of the crime of the century… the nineteenth century, that is. You can find Princess on YouTube here. ...
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Mindhunting with Sarah Weinman

October 02, 2023 1h 6m
"What is it about the culture that has conditioned us to favor the wants and needs and desires, however horrible, of a serial murderer, as opposed to--most often--the women and girls that they harmed...
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Changing Your Mind

September 18, 2023 55m
Here's one from our bonus vault: you sent in your stories about moments when you found yourselves changing your minds, and we listened. When do we do it? Why do we do it? What does it take? Here are...

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