Kurt Cobain and “Copycat Suicide”
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2018
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Special guest Candace Opper tells Mike and Sarah about how the death of a rock star changed the field of suicidology (which is a thing). Digressions include eating disorders, car crashes and the insane grimness of the term “family annihilation.” The cringe-worthiness of Mike’s teenage years reaches new depths.
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| 0:00.0 | What would you like to do first? I was thinking that since Candace has been listening to the show. Oh no. |
| 0:06.0 | Sorry. |
| 0:08.0 | Condolences for your hours. Michael! |
| 0:21.0 | Welcome to You're Wrong About. A podcast that |
| 0:25.0 | fills a void in your life when you're a mom and don't have time to research all the things that you were obsessed with as a kid. |
| 0:33.0 | And so your friend's ceremonial research is it for you. |
| 0:37.0 | Or your friend Michael Hobbs does. |
| 0:39.0 | My friend suggested a tagline this morning he said we're debunk mates. |
| 0:44.0 | That's amazing! |
| 0:46.0 | Oh, we sleep in our debunk beds. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for The Huppington Post. |
| 0:51.0 | And I'm Sarah Marshall and I'm a writer for Buzzfeed and the New Republic and also the believer. |
| 0:56.0 | So we have a special guest today. Candace Oper. Candace, do you want to just tell us a bit about yourself? |
| 1:01.0 | I'm Candace Oper. I have published some essays in various places. |
| 1:05.0 | Garenica, LitHub, Creative Notmfiction. |
| 1:09.0 | But my big news is that I've been working on manuscript for several years. |
| 1:13.0 | And it recently got selected by Cheryl Strayed to be published with a small press out of Arizona called Coray. |
| 1:20.0 | Press it won their annual memoir contest. |
| 1:24.0 | Oh my god! Congratulations! |
| 1:26.0 | Can you say what it's about? |
| 1:28.0 | Oh, it's not top secret at all. |
| 1:30.0 | And it's very related to what we're going to talk about today. |
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