All of the news feels equally terrifying. I know that you and all the other people reading these words right now are going to do wonderful things this week: in your community, in your work, in your brains and your hearts, and in the way you take care of yourselves and each other.
And, as so many of us are learning lately, the care we can o...
2025-02-09 19:13:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, kitchen cabinet member Sarah Archer is back to discuss Peg Bracken's 1960 masterpiece, The I Hate to Cook Book--a massive bestseller of the era that has just a little bit more to say about the housewife's role in society than it does about dinner.
2025-01-30 19:42:38 +0000 UTC
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(A playful little playlist made for you by Sarah Marshall and Carolyn Kendrick. Maybe you need some new songs to play, or a reminder of the ones you used to. Maybe you haven't heard these ones one million times in the past week. The point is...
2024-12-23 18:53:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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 se...
2024-12-11 20:02:55 +0000 UTC View Post
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:
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 t...
2024-10-17 16:19:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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, myst...
2024-10-16 17:06:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 2024-10-01 03:58:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2024-08-31 18:34:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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 You...
2024-08-26 22:33:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Sara...
2024-07-31 20:58:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2024-06-29 13:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2024-05-31 19:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2024-04-30 22:49:18 +0000 UTC View Post
She's everything, and he's just Kevin.
Part three of our four-part celebrity book club spectacular is here!
2024-04-29 01:43:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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: ...
2024-04-17 00:48:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2024-04-01 20:40:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh baby baby, how was she supposed to know?
2024-03-12 04:07:04 +0000 UTC View Post
(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 ...
2024-03-01 05:52:23 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2024-02-01 05:27:16 +0000 UTC View Post
God bless us, every one.*
*But especially Carolyn Kendrick for producing, Miranda Zickler for editing, and Jamie Loftus for Christmas spirit help.
2023-12-24 02:57:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Car...
2023-12-03 03:25:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2023-10-31 20:43:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Come one, come all to the Aladdin theater in Portland, Oregon this December 6, for a collaboration with our BFF podcast American Hysteria!
"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 ...
2023-10-01 22:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We asked, you answered. You suggested co...
2023-09-19 18:26:11 +0000 UTC View Post![Sound of Freedom with Michael Hobbes AND Human Trafficking re-release [extended cut]](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/3/wr/xu/4e9b88-019e745b-3c60-75b7-a3a4-3171acb25885.png)
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 mov...
2023-09-05 18:20:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
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 a...
2023-08-05 22:32:45 +0000 UTC View Post
"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 f...
2023-08-01 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post