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You're Wrong About

The Newsboys' Strike of 1899 (Part 1)

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

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

4.623K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Sarah tells Mike about media history, labor organizing, century-old moral panics — and the unlikely Disney musical that introduced her to all three. Digressions include Sting, "The Princess Bride" and 19th century graphic design. Both co-hosts recount their extremely millennial work histories.

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0:00.0

I feel like there's not enough attention paid in media to teen girls wanting to get into locker rooms, and this movie really expresses that.

0:08.0

Welcome to your wrong about the podcast that stares into the past and sometimes into the future.

0:30.0

I love that. I have actually changed topics on you, but that one that tagline is still relevant

0:37.0

for the topic I've landed on. Don't worry. You have seen it in the future. Wait, we're not doing the

0:43.0

psychics episode. Well, we will soon, but yeah, not at the second. We're doing something perhaps even better.

0:50.4

I am Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for The Huffington Post, who has no idea what's going on.

0:54.4

I'm Sarah Marshall. I'm working on a book about the satanic panic. I kind of know what's going on.

1:01.1

And if you'd like to support the show, we're on Patreon at patreon.com slash your wrong about,

1:05.9

and you can find us in other places. And I'm rushing through this because I want to know what we're talking about today.

1:10.4

Yay. Okay. So here's what happened with today's topic. I told you we were doing police psychics.

1:16.6

Yes. And I was researching that. And then I was like, you know, if I'm doing this, it really makes sense to

1:21.3

get start from the beginning and tell the story of the police. Well, it is time that we talked about staying on this

1:26.2

podcast. And then I thought, well, that will be a really fun and harrowing journey. But before we do that,

1:32.9

I would like us to do something on the cozier side. Okay. Because it's November and very little in

1:40.9

this world is making me happy right now. But you know, it does make me happy plants.

1:48.5

That's true. But also newsies. Oh, I want to start with some newsies background. And then we're

1:56.0

going to do the news boys strike. Okay. Now my tagline is way off. No, I think your tagline is great.

2:02.3

And you will see how apropos it is, hopefully by the end of this episode. And then we will discuss

2:07.6

its aproponist further in our second episode fabulous. Mike, what is the movie newsies? I know nothing.

2:14.9

I haven't seen it. All I know is what you have told me on various bonus episodes, which is that I

2:20.6

guess it's about little boys who sell newspapers and they sing and they go on strike at some point.

2:27.0

That's very true. Except for the script for little boys. Because while there are some little

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