The Challenger Disaster

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Culture, Politics, History

4.6 • 23K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

It wasn’t an accident. Mike tells Sarah how the infamous space shuttle disaster came to be seen as a white-collar crime. Digressions include the Donner Party, George Lucas and “Jurassic Park.” Both co-hosts are audibly recovering from colds.

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0:00.0	And why is it that we're sending people into space like gangbusters during this period anyway?
0:04.6	Like, what's the justification for that?
0:06.5	I realize I sound like I'm 80.
0:17.5	Welcome to You're Wrong About.
0:18.9	The show where the villain is always capitalism.
0:22.6	Oh.
0:23.2	Yes.
0:23.8	I saw the fugitive since we last recorded.
0:26.7	Okay.
0:27.0	And all I want to do is chase capitalism down.
0:30.0	To some sort of irrigation thing outside Chicago.
0:33.6	And capitalism will say, but wait, I can still be a viable system for organizing society.
0:38.9	And I'll say, I don't care.
0:41.0	And then capitalism will jump.
0:43.1	Is that our longest tagline ever?
0:45.2	Oh, that has to be.
0:46.4	By like a factor of a million.
0:50.0	I am Michael Hobbs.
0:50.9	I'm a reporter for The Huffington Post.
0:52.6	I'm Sarah Marshall and I'm a writer and residence of the Black Mountain Institute.
0:55.9	Though right now I'm in my childhood bedroom closet.
0:59.4	Because I'm home for the holidays.
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