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🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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"It just seems like capitalism masquerading as religion": Sarah tells Mike how a horror movie resurrected a ritual and established an industry. Digressions include “Avatar,” the NFL and the ethics of book publishing. The final five minutes are an unintentionally concise description of the core moral principle of this show.
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0:00.0 | The first time this has happened for us where I was like, |
0:02.8 | I've always thought that the priest from the exorcist is pretty sexy. |
0:05.8 | And you're like, I don't remember what he looks like. Send me a picture. |
0:08.5 | And I texted you a photo and you're like, |
0:10.9 | yeah, that's true. New frontiers. This first time has ever happened. |
0:13.6 | I really like Greek guys. |
0:25.4 | So welcome to You're Wrong About the podcast where we remember the history. |
0:29.5 | So you don't have to. I like that. |
0:31.6 | Is that we're like a cloud? What? |
0:34.6 | We're the cloud. Oh, like the cloud, not a cloud. |
0:37.7 | Whatever. The cloud, a cloud. No, it's just a bunch of servers and like |
0:41.8 | California somewhere, right? It's not really any kind of a cloud. |
0:45.7 | No, it's like big gray boxes next to a Wendy's somewhere. |
0:49.8 | Welcome to You're Wrong About the big gray boxes next to a Wendy's somewhere. |
0:53.2 | I am Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for the Huffington Post. |
0:56.0 | I'm Sarah Marshall and I'm working on a book about the Satanic Panic. |
0:59.0 | And today we're talking about exorcism. |
1:01.6 | Yes, we're getting into my book wheelhouse. |
1:04.1 | Yeah, I'm very nervous to find out what I'm wrong about about exorcism. |
1:08.8 | I'm always afraid of when we do these topics that it's going to turn out, |
1:11.5 | but it's like, it's real and it works and that I'm going to have to update my entire world view. |
1:15.6 | I have bad news for you. |
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