The Exploding Ford Pinto
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Mike tells Sarah about a dying industry, a dangerous car and the Pulitzer Prize-winning article that misrepresented them both. Digressions include “Mission Impossible,” “Friday the 13th” and the naming conventions of academic articles. This episode contains a larger-than-usual number of dad jokes and a shocking revelation about Johnny Carson.
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| 0:00.0 | People want to not die, but they also want to play golf, and it's just hard to balance those priorities. |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome to You're Wrong About, where every joke is revealed as a tragedy. |
| 0:19.1 | Ooh, that's quite good and on theme. |
| 0:22.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:23.5 | I didn't even know you knew about this one. |
| 0:26.1 | I know what I've learned from VH1's I Love the 70s. |
| 0:29.7 | So I don't know if you can call that knowledge. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm Sarah Marshall and I'm working on a book about the Satanic Panic. |
| 0:37.0 | And I'm Michael Hobbs. |
| 0:37.8 | I'm a reporter for The Hovering and Post. |
| 0:39.6 | And you can support us at patreon.com slash You're Wrong About. |
| 0:43.1 | And if things are feeling tight right now and you're already supporting us there, you can unsupport us. |
| 0:47.7 | Yes, because this is an interesting time. |
| 0:50.3 | Mike, when you were a kid in the 90s, were you ever like, I wish I could live in an interesting time. |
| 0:55.1 | And now do you want to go back and talk to that kid and be like, listen. |
| 0:59.2 | First of all, the boy me its world cast is going to be interestingly. |
| 1:04.6 | Second of all, no, you don't. |
| 1:08.5 | And we're going to talk about another interesting time today, because in the 1970s, |
| 1:13.2 | yes, and it's beautiful, exploding automobiles. |
| 1:16.8 | Yes. |
| 1:17.4 | What do you remember about the exploding Ford Pinto? |
| 1:20.3 | I just know that they exploded and that this was apparently a topic of great murder for people. |
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