You're Wrong About
Sarah is a journalist obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.
Inventing the Teenager with Harmony Colangelo
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 they wereâand how a boom in postwar educational films taught a generation of adolescents what not to do.
Skipper Learns a Lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8kJzBJrOkU
1950 Family Date: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8kJzBJrOkU
More about Harmony Colangelo:
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Is Your House Too Clean? with Sarah Archer
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 symbol, and whether we really need to worry about every bit of dust on that baseboard.
Find out more about Sarah Archer:
https://www.sarah-archer.com/
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Hoax Memoir Spectacular!
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 poetry can give us that memoir can't; and Eugene, Oregon (twice!).Â
Read more about it here:
The Smoking Gun's "A Million Little Lies" https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/million-little-lies
Blake Eskin's "The Girl Who Cried Wolf" https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2008/08/18/the-girl-who-cried-wolf-a-holocaust-fairy-tale/
Michelle Dean's "Opal Whiteley's Riddles" https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/opal-whiteleys-riddles
Christopher L. M...
Your Joy and Resilience Stories
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 youâve been finding hope in these last few months. These are some of the responses we wanted to share in hopes that we can all find new ways to survive this world together. Thank you to all who sent us messages; though we couldnât play them all, we felt inspired listening to each and every one.
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The Worst Oscars Ever?? with Michael Schulman
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 us a voice memo (three minutes or shorter) at sloppyandalive (at) gmail...
Emotional Labor with Rachel Monroe and Ash Compton of Bad Therapist
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 coinedâin her 1983 book The Managed Heartâhas 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 job is it to do these dishes? Happy Valentine's Day from...
Alice Kyteler and the First Witchcraft Trial in Ireland with Molly Aitken
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 Aitkenâauthor of BRIGHT I BURNâis 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/posts/121131515?pr=true
Aron Ralston with Blair Braverman
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.Â
Read Blairâs book, Small Game:
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780063066175
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Singing in the New Year with Carolyn Kendrick and Each Machine
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
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Santa Claus with Sarah Archer
'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.)Â
Sarah Archer's Website:Â
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Cola Wars with Miles Klee
Miles Klee canât take it anymore. This week, a tale of corporate intrigue, world domination, and soda.
Read Miles Klee at Rolling Stone.
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Elizabeth BĂĄthory with Princess Weekes
"Our alleged serial killers deserve better than this." Was Elizabeth BĂĄthory 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.Â
Princess' YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@Princess_Weekes
"Tall, Dark and Racially Ambiguous"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvg5nShcAOU
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Halloween History with Chelsey Weber-Smith
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?
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American Hysteria:
A MASSIVE SEANCE Live Show Tour with American Hysteria
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 sĂ©ance* featuring fireside conversation, mystifying tricks, special guests, and music from The Little Lies â the only Fleetwood Mac tribute band that may actually be ghosts. This winter, we will release the phantoms of the past year and make room for the spirit of the new.
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Revolutions and Resistance with Kellie Carter Jackson
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
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Lawrence v. Texas Part 2 with Marcus McCann
"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."Â
â Justice Anthony KennedyÂ
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 landâand we ask what becomes of the people who bring the rest of us closer to freedom.
D...
Lawrence v. Texas Part 1 with Marcus McCann
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. TexasÂ
Marcus' book Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander off the PathÂ
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The Jane Collective with Moira Donegan
"As long as the law is male, women must be outlaws."Â
â Linnea JohnsonÂ
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.Â
Moira's podcast In Bed with the Right
Moira in the Guardian
Moira on the tradwife
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Dungeons & Dragons & The Satanic Panic with Adrian Daub
This week we travel back to the 80s, when Americaâs 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.Â
Content note: The story we're telling today also involves suicide; please listen with care.Â
Find Adrian online here.
Buy his book The Cancel Culture Panic here.Â
And check out this delightful 60 Minutes segment about the dangers of Dungeons & Dragons from 1985.
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Rosie Ruiz and the Marathon Women with Maggie Mertens
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.
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Has the Supreme Court Always Been This Terrible? with Mackenzie Joy Brennan
What is âoriginalism,â 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
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Balloonfest â86! with Harmony Colangelo
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.Â
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Phones Are Good, Actually with Taylor Lorenz
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?Â
Listen to Taylor's podcast, Power UserÂ
Read Taylor in the Washington PostÂ
...and her book, Extremely Online
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Immigration with Alejandra Oliva
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)Â
David Bacon The Right to Stay Home (2014)Â
Dara Lind, "The di...
The Tradwife Rises with Sarah Archer
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?Â
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) https://youtu.be/vH2Lpl-UB64?si=vtVFAWhAvkDq-EOE
Design for Dreaming f...
Rosa Parks with Princess Weekes
Today, Princess Weekes takes us to meet the real Rosa Parks.
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Princessâ video, âThe 1920s Sex Scandal Youâve Never Heard ofâ
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George Michael Part 2 with Marcus McCann
Let's go outside in the sunshine.Â
 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.
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George Michael Part 1 with Marcus McCann
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.
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Hoax Spectacular! with Chelsey Weber-Smith
Sarah talks with Chelsey Weber-Smith, host of American Hysteria, about some of their favorite hoaxesâfrom the Loch Ness Monster to the Taco Liberty Bellâand ponder the value of pranks in a world of misinformation.Â
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You can find American Hysteria here.
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BONUS Britney Spears Book Club with Eve Lindley
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 warningâin this episode we talk about mental health struggles, and a part of the story around minute 22 involves suicide.
Eve Lindley on Instagram.
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The Oscars Streaker with Michael Schulman
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 Robertâs fifteen minutes were over.
Read Michaelâs work here.
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Balto with Blair Braverman
Blair Braverman tells us how the legendary story of one good dog is actually a story of two good dogs.Â
Read Blairâs book, Small Game
Read Blairâs Patreon (and learn more about sled dogs!)
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The Shoe Bomber with Miles Klee
This week, writer Miles Klee tells us why we have to take our shoes off at the airport.
Read Miles Klee at Rolling Stone.
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Tiny Tim with Harmony Colangelo
This week, Harmony Colangelo tiptoes through the tulips with us.
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You can find Harmony at This Ends at Prom here!
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The âPro-Lifeâ Movement with Megan Burbank
During what shouldâve been Roe v. Wadeâs 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 rights in America, starting with the hypocrisy at its root. Is what we know as the pro-life movement a religious effort or a political movement? And how did a veneer of sincere belief conceal a toxic combination of racism and fear of paying taxes? Join us as we take out the trash â and look for the helpers who are cleaning it up.
You ca...
The Battle of the Sexes with Julie Kliegman
Sarah teams up with writer and editor Julie Kliegmanâauthor of the hotly anticipated book MIND GAMEâto look back at tennis's Battle of the Sexes, between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs (aka the Libber and the Lobber). No pigs were harmed in the making of this episode or in the Houston Astrodome on September 20, 1973.
You can find Julie (and MIND GAME) online here.Â
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The Exorcist with Marlena Williams
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 America forever. Was the set cursed by Satan himself, or plain old 70s misogyny? What makes a country going through a cultural upheaval embrace stories about the Devil? Andâthe most critical question of allâdo Ouija boards really cause possession?Â
You can find Marlena online here.
You can buy the book here.
This episode was produced by Carolyn Kendr...
Influencers with Taylor Lorenz
âThe 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.â
Taylor Lorenz, author of Extremely Online, takes Sarah on a horror- and nostalgia-filled ride through the last twenty years of internet history. Then we try to make sense of what our internet future will be.Â
You can find Taylor online here.
This episode was produced by Carolyn Kendrick.
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Cattle Mutilation with Rachel Monroe
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 after fifty years?
You can find Rachel online here.
This episode was produced by Carolyn Kendrick.
Links:
UFOs and a Horse Called Snippy
Mutilations of Cattle In Texas, Oklahoma Called Work of Cults
Six Cattle Found Dead in Texas With Their Tongues...
Amy Winehouse with Eve Lindley
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. Please listen with care. We are thankful for you, too.
You can find Eve on Instagram here.
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