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...
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 ...
2025-01-30 19:42:38 +0000 UTC View Post
(A playful little playlist made for you by Sarah Marshall and Carolyn Kendrick. Maybe you n...
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 epi...
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 t...
2024-11-05 18:55:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Pre-sale goes live today at 10a Pacific. Here is 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 s...
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 fo...
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 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 w...
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 ...
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 a...
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,...
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 Happe...
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 his...
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 lo...
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 th...
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...
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 Amer...
2023-10-18 18:07:29 +0000 UTC View Post
"On the night of September twentieth the S.S. Orminta, two weeks outward bound from San Franc...
2023-10-01 22:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 exte...
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...
2023-08-31 21:37:23 +0000 UTC View Post
As many of you know by now, I love talking about cheesy paperbacks with Carmen, and to my profound joy,...
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....
2023-08-01 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post