4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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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 watched.
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Website
Twitter
Small Game [book]
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Where else to find us:
Sarah's other show, You Are Good
[YWA co-founder] Mike's other show, Maintenance Phase
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https://www.blairbraverman.com/
https://twitter.com/blairbraverman
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/small-game-blair-braverman?variant=40090251100194
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
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0:00.0 | The second they said brave, I was like, oh no, they're going to rhyme it with cave. |
0:17.0 | Welcome to your wrong about the podcast. We're increasingly we are talking about shopping and survival. |
0:23.5 | Apparently my two main interests. I didn't realize until now, but it has become clear. |
0:29.0 | With me today's Blair Braverman. Hello Blair. Hello Sarah. Hello, you're wrong about. |
0:36.0 | You recently came and talked to us about the crash and survival of flight 571 in the Andes, |
0:44.0 | which has been of the episodes that we've released in the past couple of years or really ever, |
0:51.0 | is one of the ones that people have really freaked out about the most in a positive way, obviously. |
0:57.0 | I've been freaked out how. The response that I love to see about it is like, |
1:01.0 | people essentially saying some variation of like, I was surprised by how deep my emotional response was to this. |
1:09.0 | Or like, I laughed, I cried. There was a jump scare. You know, people who listen to this show and who come back |
1:16.0 | because they love it, love it for different reasons. But I think that this was like the kind of storytelling |
1:22.0 | that highlights the humanity of the people that it's about, which is just like always rare. |
1:27.0 | Okay, well, I don't know. I mean, I think it's not that rare over here. |
1:31.0 | It's part of your big project is taking caricatures and turning them into real people, |
1:35.0 | which is why your show is so moving. And I'm happy to be part of it. |
1:39.0 | Yeah, and I'm so happy to have you back. |
1:41.0 | We are going to be doing something today, which kind of merges an area where I feel some kind of sense of stability |
1:50.0 | as a speaker because I've been researching it and obsessed with it for so long, |
1:54.0 | which matches up with what I think of as one of your areas of expertise. |
1:59.0 | So we're going to talk about survival situations when they connect with media circuses |
2:05.0 | and we're going to talk about three of them. |
2:08.0 | Three of them. Oh, boy. Three whole circuses. It's a three ring circus, I guess. |
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