You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

Sarah is a journalist obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.

  1. 27 JAN

    Keiko Part 1 with Brianna Bowman

    Can a killer whale really jump that high? For kids of the 90s, the adventure movie Free Willy introduced us to magic of the orca through its charismatic megafauna star, Keiko. In part one of our series, deep sea correspondent Brianna Bowman tells Sarah about his journey from free marine mammal to imprisoned entertainer to Hollywood royalty. Together they discuss what Keiko meant to them as kids, 1990s whale-related activism, and the follies of anthropomorphic projection. Digressions include the power of horse memoirs, the importance of cartoon eyebrows, and the uncommon honesty of the flea circus.  Produced + edited by Miranda Zickler More Brianna Bowman: Brianna's Website Support Brianna's new podcast Rewilding Keiko on Patreon  Submit a voicemail with your memories of Keiko at rewildingpodcast@outlook.com (Brianna's Note: yes, Outlook! I’m a weirdo) Linkedin (Brianna's Note: yes I am a double weirdo) @rewildingkeiko on Instagram Buy her a coffee! More You're Wrong About: linktr.ee/ywapod Bonus Episodes on Patreon Buy cute merch YWA on Instagram Support the show

    2h 2m

  2. 23/12/2025

    Where I Live: The Listener Holiday Special

    “We’ve always been inventing and reinventing new worlds for taking care of each other. We just have to notice.” We asked our subscribers to send us audio postcards to encapsulate where they live, what makes it special, and what people get wrong about the place that they call home. For this holiday season, we've woven together an aural tapestry from their answers to remind one another that no matter how far apart we are, no matter what people say about the places we come from, we still share small moments of beauty, connection, and hope. Join us on Patreon or Apple+ Produced + edited by Miranda Zickler With music by Magpie Cinema Club More You're Wrong About: linktr.ee/ywapod Support the show

    1h 31m

  3. 25/11/2025

    Cold War Santa with Sarah Archer

    What happens when Santa trades his sleigh for a rocket ship? Christmas correspondent Sarah Archer tells Sarah about how the Cold War era affected the image of old Kris Kringle through the rampant consumerism and shiny new technology of a post-war economy. Digressions include Reagan’s girlypop diet, the Freudian aspects of the Nutcracker, and the thrilling history of aluminum.  Visit the YWA Instagram for visual references More Sarah Archer: https://www.sarah-archer.com/ Sarah on Instagram Produced + edited by Miranda Zickler More You're Wrong About: linktr.ee/ywapod Bonus Episodes on Patreon Buy cute merch YWA on Instagram Support the show

    1h 40m

  4. 11/11/2025

    The Dictionary Wars! with Gabe Henry

    Remember being a teen and coming up with “cool” ways of spelling common words? Well, just like the teenager it was, the United States in the 18th century was annoying their mom, England, with the hip words that were being edited and added to their lexicon. The antagonistic pair of nations on the brink of the Revolutionary War were always competing to prove their superiority and independence in small cultural battles, and words themselves were no different.  Fellow word-nerd Gabe Henry, author of Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell, joins Sarah as they chummily pun their way through the story of the 18th century Dictionary Wars, the story of the publishing battles fought between a handful of eccentric word-lovers in The US and England, all vying for the future supremacy of their own spellings. Digressions include crop circles from Unsolved Mysteries, dishonest detergent marketing, and old fashioned sock puppet accounts. More Gabe Henry: gabehenry.com Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell Produced + edited by Miranda Zickler More You're Wrong About: linktr.ee/ywapod Bonus Episodes on Patreon Buy cute merch YWA on Instagram Support the show

    1h 12m

  5. 28/10/2025

    Introducing: The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall

    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 infiltrating North American society on a massive scale — yet these thousands of alleged Satanists were nowhere to be found.  In this all new series, host Sarah Marshall explores the tangled web of the Satanic Panic, in a journey that will take you everywhere from Victoria, B.C. to rural Kentucky to San Antonio, Texas. This is a show about the people who experienced the panic in real-time — the believers, the skeptics, the bystanders, and the wrongfully-convicted.  Click here for more episodes More You're Wrong About: https://linktr.ee/ywapod Bonus Episodes on Patreon Buy cute merch YWA on Instagram Support the show

    41 min

  6. 14/10/2025

    Midnight Ghost Shows with Chelsey Weber-Smith

    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, wonderfully campy 4D theater performances that accompanied the scary movies of the era, beloved by a mostly-teenage audience who often became a part of the show themselves. Schlocky showman Chelsey Weber-Smith tells Sarah about how magicians-turned-ghostmasters used paranormal parlor tricks, gory skits, and marketing gimmicks to create a new form of vaudevillian dark comedy. As horror obsessives, Sarah and Chelsey muse about what it would have been like to attend one of these late night wacky fright fests that paved the way for the happily trashy theater camaraderie of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Digressions include the resilience of the horseshoe crab, dollar store competition, and plot holes in the movie High Tension (2003). More Chelsey Weber-Smith: Listen to American Hysteria Original music in this episode is produced + performed by Magpie Cinema Club (except for Harry Belafonte's Zombie Jamboree which is, in fact, from 1962.) Listen to their cover of Season of the VVitch Produced + edited by Miranda Zickler More You're Wrong About: Bonus Episodes on Patreon Buy cute merch YWA on Instagram Sarah's other show, You Are Good Support the show

    1h 44m

  7. 30/09/2025

    The Auralyn with Blair Braverman

    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 listen to find out the seemingly impossible circumstances our subjects had to overcome. Digressions include Sarah’s flight simulation skills, David Goggins' morning routine, and the best way to design your character in The Oregon Trail computer game. More Blair Braverman: Blair's new picture book, "The Day Leap Soared" Advice for Sarah from Blair Blair on Instagram More of Blair's work More You're Wrong About: Bonus Episodes on Patreon Buy cute merch YWA on Instagram Sarah's other show, You Are Good Support the show

    1h 11m

  8. 16/09/2025

    Samantha Smith vs. the Cold War with Maris Kreizman

    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 letter to Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov in hopes of cooling nuclear tensions. Then, Andropov wrote back. Maris and Sarah discuss the burden we place on the youth to “change the world” while simultaneously scolding them for their naivety. Digressions include the millennial urge to cut up plastic soda can rings, Christina Applegate’s SNL infomercial, and an important lesson from the Golden Girls. More Maris Kreizman: Buy the book, I Want to Burn This Place Down Subscribe to the newsletter, The Maris Review Maris on Bluesky More You're Wrong About: Bonus Episodes on Patreon Buy cute merch YWA on Instagram Sarah's other show, You Are Good Support the show

    1h 19m
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About

Sarah is a journalist obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.

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  • Creator
    Sarah Marshall
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    327
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 You're Wrong About
  • Show Website
    You're Wrong About

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