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🗓️ 17 September 2018
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Special guest Rachel Monroe (re-)joins Mike and Sarah to talk about all the myths surrounding the second-biggest news event of the 1990s. Digressions include car crashes, September 11, Diane Sawyer and the terrors of teenage journaling.
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0:00.0 | I don't know what I would have done if I'd had that kind of access to Tumblr and MS Paint in my young teenage years. |
0:12.2 | Welcome to You're Wrong About, the podcast where we take events from your high school years and tell you how they didn't happen the way you think they did. |
0:20.2 | And if you're Sarah events from your elementary school years when you were also watching the news because you had an adequate number of friends. |
0:28.4 | I'm Michael Hobbs, I'm a reporter for The Having Impost. |
0:31.0 | I'm Sarah Marshall, I'm a writer for the New Republic in Buzzfeed and... |
0:35.8 | Oh, I always say some third place, but what is it? The believer? |
0:38.6 | The believer. |
0:39.4 | And we have again our special guest, our first repeat guest, Rachel Monroe. |
0:44.4 | I'm so honored to be here and I am a writer for a bunch of places including the New Yorker, the Atlantic. |
0:52.2 | And I'm writing a book which has a whole Columbine section. |
0:54.8 | Yes. |
0:55.3 | And today we're talking about the Columbine shootings which are actually the reason why I wanted to do this podcast. |
1:02.4 | Really? I forgot about that. |
1:04.8 | Columbine and the McDonald's Hot Coffee Case. |
1:08.8 | I remember the You're Wrong About Style debunkings of these events and it completely turning my entire world upside down as far as epistemology and how I thought about the media and how I thought about my relationship to history and the rest of the country. |
1:22.4 | I just thought if we got these wrong, what else did we get wrong? |
1:26.4 | And so I've been obsessed with Columbine for years just because almost everything in the particular is wrong. |
1:33.4 | The general is right, but every detail we got completely upside downishly wrong. |
1:39.4 | Yes. |
1:40.4 | But Rachel, as a fellow Columbine obsessive, do you want to tell us what you remember about the day? |
1:45.8 | Especially because I'm writing about it. |
1:47.4 | Like I so wish that I remembered the day. |
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