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Invading Bachelor/ette Nation with Megan Burbank

Megan Burbank is here for the right reasons. Sarah Marshall has never watched an episode of the Bachelor, and needs someone to be her guide and local fixer in Bachelor Nation. And in this bonus episode, two friends venture into the complex, often troubling world of one of the longest running reality shows in America.

From exploring the series as a weird social experiment, to watching contestants building friendships through trauma bonding, to feeling exhausted just by the idea of datin...

Adapting the Stepford Wives with Sarah Archer

A very special election day episode for the rushed, sloppy, irritated, and alive. There are two movie adaptations of Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives, and midcentury scholar Sarah Archer came by to talk about both of them--and why this story just keeps getting more relevant.

Extra credit reading/viewing:

Premilla Nadasen's "From Widow to 'Welfare Queen': Welfare and the Politics of Ra...

A Massive Seance pre-sale link

Pre-sale goes live today at 10a Pacific. Here is the link to each of the venues!

Remember to use the code GHOSTWATCH.

Tickets will be on sale to the public on Friday!

Pre-Sale announcement for A Massive Seance

What could possibly go wrong when two skeptical podcasters try to summon a ghost?

Join Sarah and Chelsey Weber-Smith (of American Hysteria, of course) 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 ...

Somerton Man with Candace Jane Opper

In 1948 an anonymous man died on a beach in Australia*, and we are wondering about him to this day. Was it murder, suicide, Cold War intrigue, or something even more mysterious? (Content warning for discussion of suicide throughout this episode.)

*South Australia, even

For our October bonus episode, dear friend of the show Candace Jane Opper—who I fail to introduce in any way—comes to discuss the theories we c...

Merch Refresh! Tell us what to make

It has been, oh, 200 years since we added any new designs to You're Wrong About's TeePublic site, and I miss it. It's very obviously time to come up with some new ideas, but that's where you came in: the (frequently listener-designed) shirts and things Mike and I used to add to the store were almost always inspired by little moments or phr...

Mazes and Monsters with Adrian Daub

Welcome to our Satanic Panic TV Movie Club! This 1982 movie (and the Rona Jaffe novel it's based on) was such a big part of the Dungeons & Dragons episode Adrian and I did that it seemed like we just had to talk about it here.

Mazes and Monsters is streaming on a ton of platforms (at least in the US), and there are also a few YouTube uploads. So please watch along with us if you feel like some '80s cheese, and let us know what your favorite parts are.

Satanic Panic Book Club: Rosemary's Baby and its cursed sequel, Son of Rosemary, with Sarah Archer

Rosemary's Baby has a sequel--published thirty years later and telling a tale of Rosemary emerging from a coma at the eve of the new millennium--but why doesn't anyone ever talk about it? Tradwife correspondent and Midcentury Kitchen author Sarah Archer is here to help us explore two books where the devil is in the details of domestic life for American women, and where too many twists are jus...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz audiobook!

Guess what? We made an audiobook for you. Something about telling the tales of George Michael and Britney Spears made me think about this tale of another kid in the big city. I loved recording an audiobook of A Christmas Carol for you last December, and this was a delight as well. This book is at least 25 times stranger than I remembered, and in the best way. Fandom theories and queer theory reads are very welcome below.

Chapter Timestamps:

Intro 0:00 

Chapter 1: The Cy...

Britney Goes Forth

Here it is: the fourth and final chapter of our Britney Spears saga, guided by the wonderful Eve Lindley. And Britney Spears is free to fly, fly away.

Extended Cut: George Michael with Marcus McCann, Part 2

Let's go outside in the sunshine.

(Part 2 of 2!)

Here is a Carolyn's Cut of today's episode! You can buy Marcus McCann's book, Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path, here.

Britney the Third with Eve Lindley

She's everything, and he's just Kevin.

Part three of our four-part celebrity book club spectacular is here!

Extended Cut: George Michael with Marcus McCann, Part 1

He turned a bright spark into a flame.

(Part 1 of 2!)

Here for your listening pleasure is a Carolyn's Cut of today's episode. 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.

Extended Cut Hoax Spectacular! with Chelsey Weber-Smith

Here is a longer version (Carolyn's Cut, if you will) of today's episode, featuring even more hoax goodness--plus a Nessie theory I personally find very persuasive.

Celebrity Book Club: Britney Spears with Eve Lindley, Part 2

Oh baby baby, how was she supposed to know?

Celebrity Book Club: Britney Spears with Eve Lindley, Part 1

(Part one of four!!!)

This month celebrity correspondent Eve Lindley came by to tell us about Britney Spears' memoir The Woman in Me. 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." 

This is an exploration of Britney, of girlhood, of fame, of art, and of everything else we could fit in.  And, at a certain point, talking about Britney turns into talking...

May December with Megan Burbank

Since the beginning of time*, listeners have been asking for us to talk about Mary Kay Letourneau. And since the beginning of time, I have not quite known how to approach the topic. This podcast loves unfairly maligned women--it has no choice, because I love them--but Mary Kay Letourneau, when I looked into her story as a potential topic, always struck me as that rarest of characters: a fairly maligned woman. Maybe even an unfairly unmaligned one, if you get right down to it. And, no...

A Christmas Carol audiobook, Staves 3, 4 & 5 (the rest of the story)

God bless us, every one.*

*But especially Carolyn Kendrick for producing, Miranda Zickler for editing, and Jamie Loftus for Christmas spirit help.

A Christmas Carol audiobook for you, Staves 1 & 2

The holidays are a weird, fun, horrifying, heartwarming, exciting, exhausting, beautiful, miserable time. So we thought we'd make an audiobook for you. Here, I'm reading the first two staves--up through the journey to Christmas past--of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol for you (beautifully edited by Miranda Zickler and produced by Carolyn Kendrick). Expect the next ghosts in a couple of weeks. (This section is your November bonus, albeit a couple of days late--Santa hit some fog.)<...

Urban legends and "Urban Legend" (1998) with Chelsey Weber-Smith

Here's a full-sized treat for your candy bag: Halloween correspondent Chelsey Weber-Smith stopped by to talk about horror movie history, urban legends, Pop Rocks, and the most underrated slasher of the 90s. And along the way, we talk about why it can feel so good to be scared. 

A Massive Seance: Portland Holiday Show Presale

Come one, come all to the Aladdin theater in Portland, Oregon this December 6, for a collaboration with our BFF podcast American Hysteria!

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Paperback Book Club: Baby Island with Blair Braverman

"On the night of September twentieth the S.S. Orminta, two weeks outward bound from San Francisco to Australia, was struck by a tropical storm and badly disabled. In the general panic which followed, nobody thought of the two little girls who were traveling alone to meet their father in Australia. But, although nobody remembered her, twelve-year-old Mary Wallace immediately thought...

Paperback Book Club Poll

We asked, you answered. You suggested countless amazing options for the next paperback book club episode with me and Carmen Maria Machado (plus enough paperbacks to keep me busy for maybe th...

Sound of Freedom with Michael Hobbes AND Human Trafficking re-release [extended cut]

Today we released a conversation Mike and I had about Sound of Freedom, a movie I watched primarily so I could tell him about it and spare him the experience of watching it himself. Here is an extended cut of that journey through madness, followed by a re-release of our 2019 episode. 

I have never had a better time talking about a movie that made me so miserable.

Love,

Sarah

Attack of the 50 Foot Bimbos!

Starring Carolyn Kendrick, Jamie Loftus and Sarah Marshall

Featuring Joey Chestnut, Nancy Reagan, Anita Bryant, Karen Carpenter, Takeru Kobayashi, and Alex Steed on slides.

With Special Guest Stars Open Mike Eagle, Princess Weekes, and A BEAR.

Choose your own adventure with Carmen Maria Machado

As many of you know by now, I love talking about cheesy paperbacks with Carmen, and to my profound joy, Carmen wants to talk about more paperbacks with me.

There are seemingly endless possibilities, so we thought we'd open up the question to you all. Suggest a book you'd like us to talk about in the comments below--maybe something in the kid-setting-up-house YA vein we talked about in our last ...

Summer Book Club: Flowers in the Attic with Carmen Maria Machado

"According to the accounts, which we've recorded, there was a motorist driving a blue Ford weaving in and out of the lefthand lane, apparently drunk, and he crashed head-on into your husband's car. But it seems your husband must have seen the accident coming, for he swerved to avoid a head-on collision, but a piece of machinery had fallen from another car, or truck, and this kept him from completing his correct defensive driving maneuver, which would have saved his life. But as it w...