"The Prom Mom"
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
“The criminal justice system should treat everyone like a white teenage girl whose future it’s concerned about disrupting.”
Sarah tells Mike about Melissa Drexler, the New Jersey teenager who (according to George F. Will) killed her newborn baby due to the influence of Metallica and the United States Supreme Court. Digressions include Baby Moses laws, “Citizen Ruth” and Ted Bundy’s political leanings. To the surprise of no one, we end up discussing true crime tropes in great detail.
This episode contains detailed descriptions of neonaticide.
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| 0:00.0 | In the 90s, we were like children are murderers, and now 20 years later the alarmist logic is like too many of these children are non-binary. |
| 0:11.0 | The story of the first movie is about a new story. |
| 0:13.0 | The story of the first movie is about a new story. |
| 0:16.0 | The story of the first movie is about a new story. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to your wrong about the podcast that debunks misunderstood history or tells you something you never knew in the first place. |
| 0:28.0 | Beautiful. This is a reference to the fact that once again you are just going in with no idea of what's going to happen. |
| 0:34.0 | Yes. The last couple of weeks have been a journey through the gaps in my public school education that I had no idea who anesthesia or resputin were. |
| 0:45.0 | I did not learn that in school. I learned that from cable TV. |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah, and I just think for the next couple episodes we should rename the show You're Unaware of. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm that's more accurate. I am Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for The Hovering and Post. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Sarah Marshall. I'm working on a book about the Satanic Panic. |
| 1:03.0 | And we're on Patreon and we take donations on PayPal and you can buy t-shirts and you can also decide not to support us for any reason you want because it's quarantine and it's tough and weird out there. |
| 1:15.0 | So that's chill too. |
| 1:16.0 | There you go. We still love you. |
| 1:17.0 | And even if you're listening to this post quarantine, I bet it's still tough and weird. I'm willing to guess that. |
| 1:22.0 | You know what? It's still tough and weird. It's always tough and weird. |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.0 | And today we are talking about something called the Prom Mom, which I think has something to do with a mother who killed her daughter maybe. |
| 1:37.0 | Go on. I want to hear what you think this is about. |
| 1:40.0 | That's literally it. You told me these words like a month ago and I've never heard these words in that order before. |
| 1:47.0 | Right. It's very important that if there's a crime, you need to be able to get a rhyming title out of it somehow. |
| 1:54.0 | Okay. So the Prom Mom was what the media started calling Melissa Drexler, who was 18 years old on June 6, 1997, when she and her boyfriend and another couple arrived at their high school prom in New Jersey. |
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