228 episodes
You're Wrong About You're Wrong About
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4.6 • 19.3K Ratings
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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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Vicki Morgan Part 2
Eve Lindley returns for the conclusion of the bad romance of Vicki Morgan and Alfred Bloomingdale, plus the continued adventures of Vicki: smuggling cash into Europe, moving into a bargain basement Playboy mansion, sailing to Hawai’i with a queer princess, and driving George H. W. Bush around LA. Digressions include Kim Cattrall (obviously), Wonder Woman (bittersweetly), and phone scams of the 70s (naturally). Our content warnings this episode are for physical and mental abuse, substance addiction, overdose, and murder. We talk about how Vicki got every prize except the one she really wanted—security—and talk about the Vicki we see in ourselves.
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The Hot Mess Express Spectacular!
“I felt that empathy like it was directed towards me, and it helped me feel like my unhappiness was enough.” On our fifth anniversary, we asked for your stories about what You’re Wrong About has meant to you. Here they are.
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We Need to Talk About the New York Times with Tuck Woodstock
“What if you were writing a profile on someone named Janet and I was your editor, and I was like, ‘I’m sorry, for balance, find someone who wants to kill Janet’?” This week, Tuck Woodstock, host of Gender Reveal, takes us on a journey through the New York Times’ coverage of trans issues—and in the end, he points the way to a better future.
You can find Tuck / Gender Reveal online here.
You can find an episode transcript along with citations here.
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100% of profit generated via Patreon and Apple Podcast Subscriptions between May 15 - May 31, 2023 will be split between the following organizations:
TASSN
Southern Trans Youth Emergency Project
Kind Clinic
Black Trans Women Inc
Gender Reveal Grant & Mutual Aid Programs
Where else to find us:
Sarah's other show, You Are Good
[YWA co-founder] Mike's other show, Maintenance Phase
Links:
https://www.genderpodcast.com/
http://patreon.com/yourewrongabout
https://www.teepublic.com/stores/youre-wrong-about
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Call for Anniversary Stories
You’re Wrong About is five years old, and we want to hear your stories about the show!
Listen here for details, and submit your file to bimboanniversary@gmail.com
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Vicki Morgan Part 1 with Eve Lindley + Hello from tour!
First: here is your April bonus, only two days late. "So this is maybe not an uplifting episode of the podcast," Eve says, and she's right. This is part 1 of the story of Vicki Morgan, whose story exploded into tabloids in the early '80s and who is largely forgotten today. It's a story that implicates the millionaires who helped usher Ronald Reagan into the White House, and helps us see--in Eve's words--"the price that some people are willing to pay for what they feel is security." Plus palimony, fur coats, and Lee Marvin.
This is a difficult episode in many ways, and we hope that you listen with care. We touch on mental, physical, and sexual abuse, on abuse perpetrated against sex workers, and on sexual relationships between minors and adults and all the abuses that come with them. (And Nancy Reagan is in the sidelines, which can't really help.) I tried to give appropriate trigger warnings within the episode, but the whole picture is one of abuse from all sides, and it may not be the right listen for you at this moment. If that's true, we see you and we support you, and we recommend this fabulous video that we had nothing to do with as an alternative entertainment this month.
Plus: We are on tour!! I'm writing this post from a train that is taking me and the fabulous Jamie Loftus, my co-host and co-conspirator in these shows, from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, where we are performing tomorrow night, before our final dates in Washington, DC, Boston, Burlington, and Montreal. Already in the 'burgh are Carolyn Kendrick, You're Wrong About's producer, my sometime co-host, and the musical genius whose love songs hold our live shows together, and Alex Steed, my You Are Good co-host and our tour manager for this adventure. Some of you have already seen us perform, some of you will soon, and it's hard for me to put into words what doing these shows has meant to me, except that every time we go out onstage, I feel like we are all sharing a bubble of safety and security and compassion that I hope you feel as you head out of the theater, back home, and into the rest of your life. And someday, I hope to share that space with each and every one of you.
Let me just tell you one last thing: at one show, a wonderful listener gave me a fortune cookie that they said made them think of the podcast. It said:
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."
And we can.
Love,
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Debi Thomas with Leslie Gray Streeter
In 1988, twenty-year-old American figure skater Debi Thomas headed to the Calgary Olympics to face off against East German juggernaut Katarina Witt. In the process, she became the first Black American in history to medal at a Winter Olympics. Then she disappeared from the sport. Where did she go, and who wasn’t there to catch her when she fell? This week, Leslie Gray Streeter tells Sarah about growing up watching Debi skate, where she is now, how her sport and her country failed her, and just how many people are missing from the stories we tell and the dreams we dream.
You can find Leslie online here.
Debi returns to the ice
Debi cover of TIME
Support us:
Bonus Episodes on Patreon
Donate on Paypal
You're Wrong About Spring Tour
Buy cute merch
Where else to find us:
Sarah's other show, You Are Good
[YWA co-founder] Mike's other show, Maintenance Phase
Links:
https://lesliegraystreeter.com
https://youtu.be/CHUI3QpYnl4
https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19880215,00.html
http://patreon.com/yourewrongabout
https://www.teepublic.com/stores/youre-wrong-about
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/yourewrongaboutpod
https://www.podpage.com/you-are-good
http://maintenancephase.com
Support the show
Customer Reviews
A favorite
One of my favorite podcasts. It's well written, researched, and commentary from Sarah and her guests is entertaining. I cherish the early episodes with Michael and enjoy the guests in newer episodes.
M e h
The show lost its footing after Micheal left, and it just never found it again. When Michael was still on, you’d come away from an episode having learned a lot. Lately, I might listen to an episode that seems pretty entertaining in the moment but has absolutely no staying power in my brain. Sarah doesn’t seem to really like deep research, which is fine, but it’s also just not the same podcast. Episodes with Blair Braverman are an exception—she seems to bring her own research.
I still listen but only to about 1 out of ever 4 episodes.
Still fantastic
The recent negative reviews all have something in common — an aversion to the trans content. We can all read between the lines and tell what these reviewers really mean, and I honestly doubt whether any of them were listeners all along. You’re probably just ending up on some kind of transphobic blog posts or something and it’s bringing out the losers.
Keep on keepin on, Sarah and Carolyn. Y’all are fantastic and have made some of my favorite episodes lately. I pay-subscribed specifically for the Fleetwood Mac ep and haven’t been disappointed! Happy to give you my money :)