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 (lover of spectacle and producer of Grease). But awards season correspondent and New Yorker staff writer Michael Schulman is here to argue that the tackiest, most disastrous Oscars of all time might just be... unfairly maligned. And to tell us what's bringing you joy and excitement right now, send...
Feb 27, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Monroe are here to tell the tale of how the term sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild coined—in her 1983 book The Managed Heart—has come to mean, well, almost everything. How is the term still useful? How can we use therapy language as a tool for growth or an excuse for avoiding it? And whose j...
Feb 12, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 BRIGHT I BURN—is here to tell us a tale where the more things* change, the more they stay the same. (*Men) Read Molly's books : https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2204198/molly-aitken/ This month's bonus episode on Peg Bracken's I Hate to Cook Book : https://www.patreon.com/p...
Jan 30, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 is here to tell us the tale of the man, the myth, and the multitool. 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 : https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780063066175 Read Blair’s Patreon (and learn more about sled do...
Jan 13, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 us for a conversation about making art and community in uncertain times, and the new year's dreams that will sustain us in 2025. Find Carolyn's songs, record, website, zine, and more here : https://linktr.ee/carolynkendrick Support You're Wrong About: Bonus Episodes on...
Jan 01, 2025•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast '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 jolly old elf. Where did he come from?/ Where is he going?/ We know you have questions/ So bundle up, if it's snowing/ And sing out your favorite holiday song/ (As ever, it was capitalism all along.) Sarah Archer's Website : https://www.sarah-archer.com/ The Santa files (containing im...
Dec 23, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 merch Where else to find us: Sarah's other show, You Are Good Links: https://www.rollingstone.com/author/miles-klee/ http://patreon.com/yourewrongabout https://www.teepublic.com/stores/youre-wrong-about https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/yourewrongaboutpod https://www.podpage.com/you-are-goo...
Dec 12, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast "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.you...
Nov 06, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Mas...
Oct 24, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 phantoms ...
Oct 18, 2024•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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-refuse Support You're Wrong About: Bonus Episodes on Patreon Buy cute merch Where else to find us: Sarah's other show: You Are...
Oct 12, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast "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 pe...
Sep 26, 2024•2 hr 40 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Patreon Buy ...
Sep 18, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast "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 tradwife Support You're Wrong About: Bonus Episodes on Patreon Buy cute merch Where else to find us: Sarah's other show: You Are Good Links: https://gender.stanford...
Sep 04, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 & Drago...
Aug 20, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Patreon Buy cute merch Where else to find us: Sarah's other show: You Are Good Links: https://maggiemertens.com/ https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/maggie-mertens/...
Aug 05, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Donegan Support You're Wrong About: Bonus Episodes on Patreon Buy cute merch Where else to find us: Sarah's other show: You Are Good [YWA co-founder] Mike's other show: M...
Jul 22, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Patreon Buy cute merch Where else to find us: Sarah's other show: You Are Good [YWA co-founder] Mike's other show: Maintenance Phase Links: https://podpeople.me/this-ends-at-prom https://www.teepublic.com/stores/youre-wrong-about https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/yourewrongab...
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Patreon Buy cute merch Where else to find us: Sarah's other show, You Are Good Links: https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/power-user-with-taylor-lorenz https://www.washingtonpost.co...
Jun 25, 2024•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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.com Read Rivermouth, out now in paperback: https://bookshop.org/a/10832/9781662602672 Further 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 disa...
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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-business Sarah Archer's bibliography Clips: Mrs. Modern versus Mrs. Drudge from The Middleton Family at the 1939 New York World's Fair (produced by Westinghouse) ...
May 29, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Patreon Buy cute merch Where else to find us: Sarah's other show: You Are Good [YWA co-founder] Mike's other show: Maintenance Phase Links: https://youtube.com/@princess_weekes?si=qPVPnRDuJyfySdEX https://youtu.be/odq8iebaqDw?si=lQMoWCWvdWPWP-7A https://www.teepublic.com/stores/youre-wro...
May 15, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Patreon Buy cute merch Where else to find us: Sarah's other show: You Are Good [YWA co-founder] Mike's other show: Maintenance Phase Links: https://houseofanansi.com/products/park-cruising https://www.teepublic.co...
May 01, 2024•2 hr 34 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Patreon Buy cute merch Where else to find us: Sarah's other show: You Are Good [YWA co-founder] Mike's other show: Mainte...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Patreon Buy cute merch Where else to find us: Sarah's other show, You Are Good [YWA co-founder] Mike's other show, Maintenance Phase Links: https://www.chelsey...
Apr 01, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 invol...
Mar 26, 2024•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Patreon Buy cute merch Where else to find us: Sarah's other show, You Are Good Links: https://www.newyorker.com/contributor...
Mar 19, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 You're Wrong About: Bonus Episodes on Patreon Buy cute merch Where else to find us: Sarah's other show, You Are Good Links: https://bookshop.org/p/books/small-game-blair-braverman/18155642 https://www.patreon.com/bravermountain http://patreon.com/yourewrongabout https://www.teepublic.com/store...
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 else to find us: Sarah's other show, You Are Good Links: https://www.rollingstone.com/author/miles-klee/ http://patreon.com/yourewrongabout https://www.teepublic.com/stores/youre-wrong-about https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/yourewrongaboutpod https://www.podpage.com/you-are-good Support the s...
Feb 20, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 to find us: Sarah's other show, You Are Good Links: https://podpeople.me/this-ends-at-prom http://patreon.com/yourewrongabout https://www.teepublic.com/stores/youre-wrong-about https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/yourewrongaboutpod https://www.podpage.com/you-are-good Support the show...
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