The American Taliban
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
“He’s been punished even more than the American prison system can aspire to punish anyone”: Mike tells Sarah how John Walker Lindh became a terrorist in the media, a freedom fighter in his own mind and something between the two in reality. Digressions include “Newsies," Bruce Willis and “Candide.” Sarah sneakily reveals her lifelong affection for Howard Stern.
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| 0:00.0 | It's just like random chance that causes you to do backpacking versus Taliban. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome to You're Wrong About. |
| 0:18.0 | The show where we take you to the backcountry of history, the forgotten trails and cabins, |
| 0:27.2 | and leave you up craggy mountains, and then we all have a mountain house dinner. |
| 0:31.7 | Are you saying that because you're in Vermont? |
| 0:33.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.7 | Are you literally looking at the window and composing a tagline? |
| 0:36.5 | Yes, I'm sitting here drinking milk from a glass bottle right now. |
| 0:41.0 | I am Michael Hobbs. |
| 0:41.9 | I'm a reporter for The Huffington Post. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm Sarah Marshall and I am a writer slash dog sitter currently at work on a book about the |
| 0:50.0 | Satanic Panic. |
| 0:51.0 | And today we're talking about the American Taliban, John Walker Lind. |
| 0:55.5 | Was he called the American Taliban at the time? |
| 0:58.0 | Oh my God. |
| 0:58.6 | This was a cover story in Newsweek that ran in early 2002 with his face on the cover and the |
| 1:05.5 | giant headline American Taliban and it was a huge deal. |
| 1:08.9 | Newsweek and Time Covers and People magazine are like the fossils of deciding our cultural |
| 1:15.6 | sort of eras. |
| 1:16.6 | You know, it's like, oh, it's the Nancy Caraghan Zoic. |
| 1:18.9 | Yay. |
| 1:20.5 | So, okay, Newsweek calls this the American Taliban. |
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