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You're Wrong About

Courtney Love

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Culture, Politics, History

4.623K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Candace Opper tells Mike and Sarah how a grunge star became the protagonist in one of America's most persistent conspiracy theories. Digressions include Neil Young, protest songs and the coolest baby of the 1990s. Mike continues to mine his public school education for anatomically impossible rumors.

This episode contains detailed descriptions of suicide.

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0:00.0

But the point is that you're supposed to ignore all that and be like, this man was behaving normally in Courtney Love assaulted him with her monstrous period.

0:17.2

Welcome to You're Wrong About, the podcast that makes over your historical understandings.

0:23.4

Makes over. Is that a reference?

0:26.1

That's the only whole song I know, oh, make me over.

0:29.1

Oh, okay, see I don't know that one. See, when you have to explain it, it's very good.

0:33.1

Because I'm extremely basic, the only whole song I really know is the truly amazing cover they did of it's all over now, baby blue.

0:42.1

But that's still a Bob Dylan song.

0:44.1

Wow, Sarah. I know.

0:45.6

I am Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for The Having a Post.

0:48.1

I'm Sarah Marshall. I'm working on a book about the Satanic Panic.

0:51.1

And if you want to support the show, there are lots of ways you can do that in the description.

0:56.1

And I am rushing through this part because I want to get to our delightful special guest, Candice Opera.

1:02.1

A returning guest.

1:03.1

Yes, welcome back Candice.

1:05.1

Hi guys, thank you so much for having me back.

1:07.1

Candice is one of our favorite writers and one of our longstanding friends of the show.

1:11.1

And she is working on a book called Certain and Impossible Events that comes out this fall.

1:17.1

And she says that she struggles to have an elevator pitch about it, which in my experience is the sign of a good book.

1:23.1

This is a podcast picture, which means you can talk for 45 minutes if you want to.

1:27.1

For at least speaking, it's about suicide.

1:30.1

But it's more specifically about my experience losing a friend to suicide in the early 90s, actually, right after Kirkabane.

1:37.1

And that was what we recorded our original, you know, about a couple years ago.

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