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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.
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Homelessness
Episode Date: May 16, 2019“We want stories that don’t exist in systems”: Mike tells Sarah what happened when Utah set out to solve one of America's most intractable proble...
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Dan Quayle v. Murphy Brown
Episode Date: May 9, 2019“Why did we make fun of Dan Quayle for misspelling the word ‘potato’ when we should have made fun of him for arguments like this?” Mike tells Sarah ho...
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Elián González
Episode Date: April 25, 2019Mike tells Sarah how a 5-year-old kid transformed a city, divided a political party and (maybe) determined a presidential election. Digressions includ...
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The Preppy Murder
Episode Date: April 18, 2019Sarah tells Mike how an aspiring rich kid became an emblem of a world he didn't belong to. Digressions include drill teams, prep schools and eati...
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The “Ebonics” Controversy
Episode Date: April 4, 2019Mike tells Sarah how a simple idea in a single school district became a nationwide racial panic. Digressions include slasher movies, Space Invaders an...
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Terri Schiavo
Episode Date: March 5, 2019Mike tells Sarah how the media, the president and the Pope turned a simple medical story into a complicated legal one. Digressions include canine loya...
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Anna Nicole Smith
Episode Date: February 20, 2019Sarah tells Mike how a poor Texas girl made herself into an icon and America made her into a punchline. Digressions include massage technique, “Death...
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Tammy Faye Bakker and Jessica Hahn
Episode Date: January 26, 2019“She only said one thing her whole life”: Sarah tells Mike how two decent women became scapegoats for the actions of one terrible man. Digressions inc...
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The Challenger Disaster
Episode Date: January 3, 2019It wasn’t an accident. Mike tells Sarah how the infamous space shuttle disaster came to be seen as a white-collar crime. Digressions include the Donne...
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“A Dingo’s Got My Baby”
Episode Date: December 19, 2018Sarah tells Mike how a tragic story became a hacky catchphrase. Digressions include raccoon anarchists, flu remedies and late-night Arby’s. Sarah&apos...
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The 2000 Election
Episode Date: December 12, 2018Mike tells Sarah how a close election and an even closer Supreme Court decision established the political template we're still living with today....
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Amy Fisher
Episode Date: December 3, 2018Sarah tells Mike about the sad reality — and the terrible man — behind the infamous Long Island Lolita. Digressions include software terms of service,...
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Roe v. Wade
Episode Date: November 21, 2018Special guest Megan Burbank tells us about the history, limitations and loopholes of a landmark court ruling. Digressions include Betty Ford, "Ma...
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The Duke Lacrosse Rape Case
Episode Date: November 14, 2018Mike tells Sarah how a false rape allegation became a right-wing rallying cry and a left-wing conspiracy theory. Digressions include JonBenet Ramsay,...
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Lorena Bobbitt
Episode Date: November 7, 2018Sarah tells Mike how a case of marital rape and spontaneous mutilation became a national punchline. Digressions include Ron Jeremy, Alan Dershowitz, M...
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Stranger Danger
Episode Date: October 31, 2018How inflated statistics, cultural anxieties and moral crusaders turned a tiny number of missing children into a decade-long political project. Digress...