4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Mike tells Sarah what makes older Americans more vulnerable to misinformation — and who is delivering it to them. Digressions include "Supernatural," the Rachel and a fake university in Pennsylvania. We recorded this episode before the election but tried not to make it too obvious.
Here's the article Mike wrote with all the research he did for this episode:
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0:00.0 | There's just something that Americans love about a protagonist who's recently been fired. |
0:19.5 | Welcome to Your Wrong About. The show where we hear about Michael Hobbs' research process. |
0:25.9 | I was going to say welcome to Your Wrong About where sometimes our episodes match the premise of our show. |
0:33.2 | And sometimes they're just what Mike has been working on. |
0:35.7 | You know, something that people have pointed out since the beginning is that quite a few of our episodes |
0:41.9 | could just as easily be called, you've never heard of. |
0:44.4 | Yeah, you're basically right about, but let's talk about it anyway. |
0:47.6 | So like, I don't really think a show needs to literally live out its premise. |
0:52.4 | You know, those kids on salute your shorts did other stuff. |
0:58.1 | I am Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for The Huffington Post. |
1:00.4 | I'm Sarah Marshall and I'm working on a book about the Satanic Panic. |
1:03.7 | And if you want to support the show, we're on Patreon at patreon.com slash Your Wrong About where you can |
1:08.9 | find cute bonus episodes and we're in lots of other places. |
1:12.6 | We're in lots of other places like we're Exama. |
1:17.0 | So today we're talking about an article that I have been working on. |
1:20.3 | I'm excited about this. I love talking with you about your articles. |
1:24.0 | So much that I interrupted you. What is it now? |
1:26.0 | I'm sorry. I mean, the article basically came about because over the last couple of years, |
1:31.8 | I have been watching my fellow millennials losing their parents and their grandparents to Fox News. |
1:39.3 | Yeah. One of my best friends over the last year has been slowly losing |
1:42.6 | first his father and now his mother and they're no longer speaking. |
1:46.2 | So I set out to interview people and find out what the patterns were in this and then also talk |
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