Welcome to Spirits podcast of Boosy Dive into Mythology, Legends, and Folklore.

Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.

I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. And this is episode 298 with the fabulous, the spooky, the podcast extraordinaire, Sarah Marshall. Sarah,

welcome to the show. Thank you so much. I am spooky. That's true. Not everyone notices that,

but it is definitely true. Yeah. Our listeners are creepy and cool, so you are in good company here.

Good. So, Sarah, can you like just for people who maybe have not heard of you who are

listening to the show, can you tell us a little bit about like who you are and what you do?

Yeah. So I host a podcast called You Wrong About that I started in spring. We started recording it in

March. We started releasing it in May of 2018. So it is a Taurus. And I've been doing the show solo for the past

six months and also co-host a podcast called You Are Good with my friend Alex Deed, which is a

feelings podcast about movies. And I would say that both in their own way are about modern mythology

that we often don't think of as sex.

And specifically, you're wrong about, you know, the first episode we ever did was on the satanic panic.

And one of the themes, as the show grew up, has been moral panics, which we're certainly living in an age of.

And essentially, you know, my read of a lot of them is that you'll hear an absolutely absurd conspiracy theory, you know, often these days aligned with QAnon in some way. And you may be someone to whom it is obviously completely untrue and absurd, which is great. I'm proud of you for feeling that way. And but then I think what's also going on is hopefully we can look at these obvious fictions

and try and figure out what are people expressing about what they're actually afraid of and

how can we somehow use that information. Yeah, that's awesome. I think then my first question for

you is what about those topics first interested you?

Like you could talk about the satanic panic because I know in college that was something that really interested me.

But what was it that you were like, oh, this is a trend that we should be talking about?

Yeah. I mean, with the satanic panic, I was first drawn to it.

I think I first knew it by name probably, initially, is something that just affected sales of heavy metal music. I remember watching the decline of civilization part two, the metal years, which is a wonderful kind of tongue-in-cheek documentary about the metal scene in L.A. in the 80s, and there's,

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