What to Carry, What to Burn with Blair Braverman

What to Carry, What to Burn with Blair Braverman

Author: Sarah Marshall May 12, 2026 Duration: 1:04:31
Ada Blackjack wants one thing: To make enough money to bring her son home from an orphanage. But good work is hard to find in 1920s Nome, Alaska, so when four strangers come to town, looking to hire someone for a secret yearlong expedition, Ada embarks on the trip—not knowing that she’ll be the only one of them to survive. This is the first episode of YWA correspondent Blair Braverman's new podcast, What to Carry, What to Burn. To hear the second half of Ada's story (also featuring Sarah Marshall!), visit the links below: RSS feed: https://shows.acast.com/what-to-carry-what-to-burn Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-to-carry-what-to-burn/id1896260781 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhatToCarryPod Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4L7FCFQLcmG2NwPw7ayE1D More Blair Braverman:www.blairbraverman.com More You're Wrong About:Bonus Episodes on PatreonBuy cute merch Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 50

You're Wrong About
Podcast Episodes
Introducing: The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:10
Listen now to the first episode of Sarah's new 8-part series with CBC Podcasts, The Devil You Know. In the 1980s and 90s, Satan and his followers were accused of brainwashing children, sacrificing babies, and infiltratin…
Midnight Ghost Shows with Chelsey Weber-Smith [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:43:58
What do you get when you combine a horror movie audience, a spiritualist séance, and a haunted house attraction? Beginning in the 1930s and lasting into the 1960s, midnight ghost shows were ghoulishly chaotic, wonderfull…
The Auralyn with Blair Braverman [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:11:24
Are you a survival pessimist or a survival optimist? Blair Braverman surprises Sarah with a harrowing, heartening, and sometimes hilarious tale of love and endurance in the face of certain death, but you’ll have to liste…
Samantha Smith vs. the Cold War with Maris Kreizman [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:18:42
Who really ended the Cold War, Ronald Reagan or a ten-year-old girl? Eighties correspondent Maris Kreizman joins us for a heartfelt conversation about America’s Youngest Ambassador, Samantha Smith, a child who wrote a le…
The Insanity Defense with Mackenzie Joy Brennan [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:20:40
What do John Hinckley Jr. and a jazz age tuberculosis patient have in common? Legal correspondent ​​Mackenzie Joy Brennan takes Sarah through some of the strange cases that helped make—and break—the insanity defense in A…
Corn Mazes with Chelsey Weber-Smith [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:04:22
Can you find your way out of the maize? The corn maze has become an enduring attraction of the American autumnal experience, seen at touristy family farms next to pumpkin patches and haunted houses. But what are the hist…
Pee-wee Herman Part 2 with Jamie Loftus [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:47
In the second part of our series, pop culture historian Jamie Loftus takes us through the meteoric rise of Pee-wee Herman and the withering of Paul Reubens' world as dubious allegations surface that threaten to turn a be…
Pee-wee Herman Part 1 with Jamie Loftus [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:08:18
What’s today’s secret word? Paul Reubens spent years bringing to life one of America’s most beloved characters, Pee-wee Herman, an icon of joy for weirdos of all ages. In the first of this two part series, Pee-wee superf…
The Hitler Diaries with Adrian Daub [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:24:40
What happens when you’re just a little too good at forging the diaries of Adolf Hitler? And why did so many people want to read them? In 1983, the West German news magazine Stern bought sixty volumes of forged journals a…
Coyotes! with Lulu Miller [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:16:22
Who is out there behind the howling midnight parties in the distance? For generations we have coexisted in varying degrees of rivalry, conflict, and admiration with the North American canine known as the coyote. From pre…