You're Wrong About

You're Wrong About

Author: Sarah Marshall Language: English Episodes: 100
Sarah Marshall, a journalist with a deep fascination for history, hosts the You're Wrong About podcast. Her focus isn't on dusty timelines, but on the stories we think we know-the sensational headlines, the infamous public figures, and the cultural moments that solidified into simplistic myths. Each episode picks apart a specific narrative, often one rooted in the recent past, to reveal the messy, complicated, and frequently misunderstood reality underneath. You'll hear her dive into figures and events from the realms of true crime, media frenzies, and societal shifts, always with a thoughtful and empathetic lens. The conversations in this podcast are less about assigning new blame and more about untangling how our collective memory can so often get it wrong. It’s for anyone who has ever questioned the official story or felt that the popular version of events was missing crucial context. Listening feels like having a detailed, compelling conversation with a friend who did all the research, guiding you through the nuances we missed the first time around. Marshall’s approach transforms topics we might have dismissed as tabloid fodder into genuine explorations of culture, psychology, and history. The result is a consistently engaging re-examination that challenges assumptions and encourages a more curious view of the world, one corrected misconception at a time.
Episodes
Juvenile "Justice" with Josie Duffy Rice [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:08:44
This week, criminal justice correspondent Josie Duffy Rice dives into America’s obsession with prosecuting children. From 19th century houses of refuge to modern day detention centers, we comb through the tangled braids…
Chris McCandless with Blair Braverman [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:14:14
This week, survival correspondent Blair Braverman tells Sarah the story of a Supertramp. In 1996, Jon Krakauer's book Into the Wild described a young man, Chris McCandless, who changed his name, walked into the Alaskan b…
Napster with Niko Stratis [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06:56
This week, a tale of two Shawns/Seans, their impossible dream, and the file sharing service that lived fast, died young, and helped create the internet as we know it. Plus, Metallica. Here's where to find Niko: Website N…
Karen Carpenter Part 2 with Carolyn Kendrick [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:39:10
In this episode, Carolyn and Sarah follow Karen from the height of her fame through her struggle to find independence, her attempts at eating disorder recovery, and finally to her death on February 4, 1983, when she was…
Karen Carpenter Part 1 with Carolyn Kendrick [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:07:06
Long ago and oh so far away, Carolyn and Sarah fell in love with Karen Carpenter when they saw her drum. We examine her meteoric rise. CONTENT WARNING: Karen Carpenter died in 1983 of complications from an eating disorde…
Baby Jessica with Blair Braverman [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:23:12
On October 14, 1987, 18-month-old Jessica McClure fell down a well in Midland, Texas. This week, Sarah tells our survival correspondent, Blair Braverman, about the community that worked to rescue her, and the nation that…
Beanie Babies with Jamie Loftus [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:20
They’re winsome and soft and so fun to cuddle/ With one of Ty’s Beanie Babies, you could never go wrong/ But they were all born from a toxic puddle/ It really was capitalism all along. This week, Jamie Loftus tells us th…
Where Have All the Preppies Gone? with Avery Trufelman [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:54
Put on your Docksiders for a stroll through history with Avery Trufelman, who shows us how Ivy style became “preppy,” and how preppy fashion escaped the campus and took over the world. We’re talking about clothing, class…
The Movie Rating System with Karina Longworth [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:08:30
How did Poltergeist get that PG rating? Podcast legend Karina Longworth, host of You Must Remember This, takes us on a wild ride through a century or so of Hollywood history, and shows us what’s been left on the cutting…
Flight 571: Survival in the Andes with Blair Braverman [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:20:52
Our survival correspondent Blair Braverman is here to tell us the story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972. Of the 45 people on board, 16 ultimately lived. Their survival ma…