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| The Dictionary Wars! with Gabe Henry | 11 Nov 2025 | 01:12:25 | |
Remember 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, England, with the hip words that were being edited and added to their lexicon. The antagonistic pair of nations on the brink of the Revolutionary War were always competing to prove their superiority and independence in small cultural battles, and words themselves were no different. More Gabe Henry: Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell Produced + edited by Miranda Zickler More You're Wrong About: linktr.ee/ywapod | |||
| Introducing: The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall | 28 Oct 2025 | 00:41:10 | |
Listen 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 children, sacrificing babies, and infiltrating North American society on a massive scale — yet these thousands of alleged Satanists were nowhere to be found. In this all new series, host Sarah Marshall explores the tangled web of the Satanic Panic, in a journey that will take you everywhere from Victoria, B.C. to rural Kentucky to San Antonio, Texas. This is a show about the people who experienced the panic in real-time — the believers, the skeptics, the bystanders, and the wrongfully-convicted. More You're Wrong About: | |||
| Coyotes! with Lulu Miller | 24 May 2025 | 01:16:22 | |
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 the coyote. From pre-colonization to our modern backyards, through the wild west and the streets of San Francisco, award-winning NPR science reporter and YWA Maligned Animal correspondent Lulu Miller takes our pack on a journey toward a better understanding of these resilient creatures.
More about Lulu Miller: Visit Christine E. Wilkerson's website
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| Winter Book Club: The Amityville Horror Part 1 with Jamie Loftus | 20 Dec 2021 | 00:53:18 | |
Sarah tells guest host Jamie Loftus about the Amityville Horror, how it’s a Christmas story, and why buying murder furniture might not be such a great idea. Support us: Where else to find us: Sarah's other show, You Are Good [YWA co-founder] Mike's other show, Maintenance Phase | |||
| Reconstruction with Jamelle Bouie | 06 Dec 2021 | 01:02:08 | |
Jamelle Bouie explains to Sarah what the Reconstruction era was, why it remains relevant today, and how this history lesson is one that could get some high school teachers into legal trouble due to passage of anti-CRT laws. Support us: Bonus Episodes on Patreon Where else to find us: Sarah's other show, You Are Good Support the show (http://patreon.com/yourewrongabout) | |||
| True Crime with Emma Berquist | 22 Nov 2021 | 00:52:46 | |
Emma Berquist stops by to tell us about how true crime doesn't have to make us better people, and in fact may be more harmful to us than we realize—but we don't let her in, because we don't want to get KILLED! Content advisory: This episode contains some brief descriptions of a violent knife attack. Emma's article, "True Crime is Rotting our Brains" Emma's Twitter Bonus Episodes on Patreon Where else to find us: Sarah's other show, You Are Good | |||
| Ed and Lorraine Warren with Jamie Loftus | 08 Nov 2021 | 01:05:39 | |
Special Guest Jamie Loftus tells Sarah about Ed and Lorraine Warren (of The Conjuring and Annabelle fame). Topics of interest include Connecticut as a locus of scary happenings, New England uncles, and psychic communication with a tearstained Bigfoot. Here's where to find Jamie: Support us: Where else to find us: Sarah's other show, You Are Good [YWA co-founder] Mike's other show, Maintenance Phase | |||
| Catherine the Great with Dana Schwartz | 25 Oct 2021 | 01:00:34 | |
Special guest Dana Schwartz tells Sarah about Catherine the Great. Topics of interest include the very not great life of serfs, the accidental flattening of women via the girl-bossification of history, and a very solid Bertie Wooster reference. Here's where to find Dana: Support us: Where else to find us: Sarah's other show, You Are Good [YWA co-founder] Mike's other show, Maintenance Phase | |||
| Mike Lives in a Downtown Hotel | 11 Oct 2021 | 00:21:58 | |
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| Bonus: The Great Protein Fiasco | 27 Sep 2021 | 01:10:51 | |
From our friends at Maintenance Phase, the story of how Nestlé executives, global health institutions and a very racist white lady seeded a nutritional myth we're still living with today. Where else to find us: | |||
| The McDonald's Hot Coffee Case | 13 Sep 2021 | 01:13:05 | |
Mike tells Sarah how a tragic story became a national punchline and a decades-long moral panic. Digressions include a sympathetic psychic, a paternalistic principal and a manure mishap. Mike appears to be unaware of the difference between a cousin and a nephew. Where else to find us:
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| Re-Release: Dan Quayle vs. Murphy Brown | 06 Sep 2021 | 00:52:26 | |
While our next episode's in the oven, enjoy this gem from the YWA vault! Where to find us: | |||
| The O.J. Simpson Trial: Runaway Grand Jury | 23 Aug 2021 | 00:51:06 | |
This week, the defense hires Alan Dershowitz, Marcia Clark questions witnesses and Jill Shively tries to get a salad. Digressions include narcissism, "Hard Copy" and the dad from "The Wonder Years." Susan Herman, the voice of reason in our Charlie Rose clip, is the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. Where else to find us: | |||
| Inventing the Teenager with Harmony Colangelo | 07 May 2025 | 01:07:54 | |
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 were—and how a boom in postwar educational films taught a generation of adolescents what not to do. http://patreon.com/yourewrongabout | |||
| Summer Book Club: "The Satan Seller" (The Debunking!) | 09 Aug 2021 | 00:58:04 | |
This week we debunk Mike Warnke right out of his cabin and into the lake, using Cornerstone Magazine’s long overdue exposé as our guide. Digressions include "Star Trek," a classic New Yorker cover and Ariana Grande. We definitively conclude that the Bible endorses cancel culture. Where else to find us: | |||
| Summer Book Club: "The Satan Seller" (Part 3) | 26 Jul 2021 | 00:46:09 | |
We finish our San Bernardino joyride through Mike Warnke’s 1972 “memoir” with a hex, a horrible crime and a Satanic celebrity cameo. Digressions include digressions include Billie Eilish, wicker men and today’s completely new and not at all throwback panic over critical race theory. Where else to find us: | |||
| Summer Book Club: "The Satan Seller" (Part 2) | 12 Jul 2021 | 00:53:38 | |
We continue our journey through Mike Warnke's 1972 "memoir" about his rise through the ranks of Satan Inc. This week, Mike gets a promotion, attends a regional conference and dabbles in some light human trafficking. Despite filling this book with his wildest imaginings, he cannot conceive of a non-patriarchal institution. Where else to find us: | |||
| Summer Book Club: "The Satan Seller" (Part 1) | 28 Jun 2021 | 00:57:48 | |
Sarah and Mike return to Camp You're Wrong About for another Satanic Panic story hour. This time we're talking about Mike Warnke's 1972 "memoir" about joining a demonic cult and the California hedonism that made him do it. Digressions include thrift stores, "Firestarter" and unjust Best Picture winners. Where else to find us: | |||
| Cancel Culture | 07 Jun 2021 | 01:21:46 | |
Mike and Sarah have big feelings about an enduring debate. Digressions include “Carrie,” party planning etiquette and Whole Foods cafeterias. Sarah’s sound quality changes midway through because she moves from a McDonald’s parking lot to a Hardee’s parking lot. Where else to find us: Links!
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| The Chicks vs. The Iraq War | 03 May 2021 | 01:30:23 | |
Mike tells Sarah about an impending conflict, a dissident singer and America's first internet-enabled cancellation. Digressions include "Freedom Fries" and 1990s record company shenanigans. The co-hosts harmonize for the first time; Mike struggles not to call the Chicks by their former name. Where else to find us: Links!
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| "Political Correctness" | 19 Apr 2021 | 01:22:08 | |
Mike tells Sarah how liberal magazines turned a "kids these days" moral panic into a national crisis. Digressions include Law & Order, Dave Foley and swimming pool etiquette. This episode contains detailed descriptions of sexual assault, mass shootings and suicide. Where else to find us:
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| The O.J. Simpson Trial: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mr. F. Lee Bailey | 05 Apr 2021 | 00:51:11 | |
Bob Shapiro is on a mission from God, F. Lee Bailey joins the Dream Team, and we get in our DeLorean to meet two of the most notorious Florida Men of the '60s: Carl Coppolino and Murph the Surf. Digressions include Linda Evangelista, Patty Hearst, "The Commitments" and the upside of peaking in your 50s. Where else to find us: | |||
| Vanessa Williams Part 2: Saving The Best For Last | 22 Mar 2021 | 01:04:37 | |
Special guest Cassie da Costa tells Mike and Sarah how Vanessa fell from grace and picked herself back up. Digressions include Stephen Sondheim, Rush Limbaugh and Joan Rivers. The tyranny of abs is discussed at length. Where else to find us: | |||
| Bonus: Dr. Oz | 15 Mar 2021 | 01:01:52 | |
Mike reached new levels of rantiness on his other show and we wanted to make sure all our beloved debunkmates knew. PLUS: A special announcement! | |||
| Is Your House Too Clean? with Sarah Archer | 15 Apr 2025 | 01:03:34 | |
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. http://patreon.com/yourewrongabout | |||
| Vanessa Williams Part 1: Becoming Miss America | 08 Mar 2021 | 01:22:05 | |
Mike tells Sarah how a 20-year-old singer, actress and French horn player became Miss America with less than six months of practice. Digressions include Ted Bundy, Stephen King’s “It” and a bonus debunking of the "bra-burning feminist" trope. We're sorry to say that this episode includes a description of child sexual abuse.
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| Bonus: "The Dark Knight" | 01 Mar 2021 | 01:22:04 | |
Sarah's other show has a special guest! Maintenance Phase co-host Aubrey Gordon visits Why Are Dads to talk about Christopher Nolan, trash masculinity and the dwindling number of non-problematic superheroes. Where else to find us: | |||
| The O.J. Simpson Trial: The DeLorean Detour | 22 Feb 2021 | 00:49:44 | |
To tell the story of the "dream team" we must begin by going back to the future. This week we learn why O.J. Simpson fired the man who defended John DeLorean and why a briefcase of cocaine isn’t always a smoking gun. Digressions include Bob’s Big Boy, Margaret Thatcher and the Fonz. Support us: Where else to find us:
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| Tipper Gore vs. Heavy Metal: The Hearing | 15 Feb 2021 | 01:12:25 | |
Mike tells Sarah the real reason Congress called a bunch of rockers to Washington D.C. Digressions include cartoon violence, sleeveless tees and Trixie Mattel. Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" and Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" are dissected at length. Support us: Where else to find us:
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| Tipper Gore vs. Heavy Metal: The Case Against "Porn Rock" | 08 Feb 2021 | 01:02:05 | |
Mike tells Sarah how a congressional wife started a moral crusade. Digressions include Sheena Easton, Satanic rhymes and teen homicide statistics. Ozzy Osbourne's bat story is recounted in full. Support us: Where else to find us:
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| The Anti-Vaccine Movement | 01 Feb 2021 | 00:45:54 | |
Special guest Eric Michael Garcia tells Mike and Sarah about the deep roots of a pernicious modern myth. Digressions include Mary Tyler Moore, British place names and supermodel dating habits. Mike finally gets to talk about Swedish statistical methods. Support us:
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| The O.J. Simpson Trial: The Arraignmaker | 25 Jan 2021 | 00:47:06 | |
This week, we put on our suits and head back to the courtroom. O.J. Simpson pleads not guilty, Marcia Clark finishes questioning Kato Kaelin and Bob Shapiro continues to furrow his brow. Digressions include "Speed," the Kuleshov effect and the intentional boringness of American law. In the final ten minutes, we talk briefly about the crime scene and Marcia’s reaction to it. Support us: Where else to find us: | |||
| Shannon Faulkner & Sex Discrimination at The Citadel | 18 Jan 2021 | 01:08:32 | |
Mike tells Sarah how a troll-ish experiment turned a South Carolina teenager into one of the most maligned women of the 1990s. Digressions include Sally Ride, Anne Hathaway and, as usual, "Newsies." Mike struggles with the word "infirmary" throughout. Where else to find us:
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| The O.J. Simpson Trial: My Fair Paula | 11 Jan 2021 | 00:52:43 | |
This week we talk about the early days of Paula and O.J.’s relationship and the celebrity cameos reach either a high or a low point. Digressions include date etiquette, cat scams and room-temperature Diet Coke. Mike has his head in his hands for long periods. Support us: Where else to find us: | |||
| The O.J. Simpson Trial: Paula Escapes From L.A. | 28 Dec 2020 | 00:50:43 | |
This week we return to the O.J. Simpson trial and learn what Paula Barbieri did after the Bronco chase. Digressions include fish, beef and grocery shopping while conventionally attractive. Neither co-host has a firm grasp on the meaning of the word "festive." Support us:
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| Hoax Memoir Spectacular! | 01 Apr 2025 | 01:27:30 | |
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!). 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. Miller's Impostors https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo29203296.html
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| The Stanford Prison Experiment | 21 Dec 2020 | 01:10:58 | |
Mike tells Sarah the complicated story of an over-simplified study. Digressions include Tonya Harding, "The Meg" and Kitty Genovese. The Milgram obedience studies and the "broken windows" theory of policing receive bonus debunkings. Support us:
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| Losing Relatives to Fox News | 07 Dec 2020 | 00:55:18 | |
Mike tells Sarah what makes older Americans more vulnerable to misinformation — and who is delivering it to them. Digressions include "Supernatural," the Rachel and a fake university in Pennsylvania. We recorded this episode before the election but tried not to make it too obvious. Support us: Where else to find us: | |||
| The Newsboys' Strike of 1899 (Part 2) | 30 Nov 2020 | 00:49:18 | |
Sarah tells Mike about the thrilling conclusion to a children’s labor action and an overlooked Disney musical. Digressions include cronuts, carrier pigeons and Sylvester Graham’s crackers. Both hosts agree that they love saying the word "papes." | |||
| The Newsboys' Strike of 1899 (Part 1) | 23 Nov 2020 | 00:40:33 | |
Sarah tells Mike about media history, labor organizing, century-old moral panics — and the unlikely Disney musical that introduced her to all three. Digressions include Sting, "The Princess Bride" and 19th century graphic design. Both co-hosts recount their extremely millennial work histories. | |||
| Bonus: The "Twinkie Defense" | 19 Nov 2020 | 00:49:20 | |
Was Harvey Milk's killer really given a light sentence after claiming that junk food made him do it? Mike's spinoff podcast, Maintenance Phase, dives into the rumor and finds a very You're Wrong About twist. | |||
| The Electoral College | 16 Nov 2020 | 00:56:38 | |
Topical episode! Special guest Jamelle Bouie tells Sarah and Mike about his problematic Founding Father faves and the bewildering institution they handed down to us. Digressions include '70s lapels, "Reversal of Fortune" and the Eurovision Song Contest. The filibuster rule and the three-fifths compromise receive bonus debunkings. | |||
| Princess Diana Part 5: The Crash | 09 Nov 2020 | 01:30:08 | |
“You can be a hot mess express and still leave the world better than you found it.” In the final episode of our series, we talk about Diana’s untimely death and the everlasting conspiracy theories surrounding it. Digressions include RPGs, Madonna and Tickle Me Elmo. This episode contains spoilers for the movie “The Queen.” | |||
| Princess Diana Part 4: The Divorce | 02 Nov 2020 | 01:27:48 | |
This week, Diana leaves the royal family with her reputation intact and her title slightly edited. Digressions include "Love Actually," "Pride and Prejudice" and Marie Antoinette. Both co-hosts reveal their staunch affirmative stance on wine moms. Unfortunately, this episode includes descriptions of self-harm. | |||
| Halloween Re-Release: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill | 31 Oct 2020 | 01:04:58 | |
What if the scariest thing in America is unfettered capitalism and unaccountable corporations? | |||
| Bonus: Why Are Dads on "Terminator 2" | 29 Oct 2020 | 01:18:26 | |
Mike comes on Sarah’s new show to talk about robots, dads, the little metal hands guys and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day." An Oops! All Pop Culture episode of You’re Wrong About. | |||
| Your Joy and Resilience Stories | 26 Mar 2025 | 00:23:46 | |
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 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 couldn’t play them all, we felt inspired listening to each and every one. Support You're Wrong About: http://patreon.com/yourewrongabout | |||
| Bonus: The President's Physical Fitness Test | 22 Oct 2020 | 01:03:36 | |
Mike has a new podcast! Here's the first episode, in which he debunks the absurd Cold War trauma factory that was once administered to 75% of American children. | |||
| Halloween Special: Creepy Encounters | 19 Oct 2020 | 00:50:47 | |
This week, Mike and Sarah dissect the Creepy Encounters subreddit and how to handle our creepy feelings in an unsafe time and place. Digressions include Carol Kane, McDonald's and Uber. Sarah wonders if human traffickers have taken serial killers’ jobs. Support us: Where else to find us:
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| Princess Diana Part 3: The Affairs | 12 Oct 2020 | 01:19:35 | |
This week, Diana swaps out her husband for a Horse Dude and Mike and Sarah act out other people's PG-13 dirty talk. Digressions include shoulder pads, Billy Joel and "Seinfeld" (twice!). There's a moment 55 minutes in that is going to make you feel very weird. As with previous installments, this episode contains detailed descriptions of disordered eating. | |||