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You're Wrong About

The Stepford Wives

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

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

4.623K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Sarah tells Mike about the real-life conspiracy written between the lines of a 1970s horror novel. Digressions include "Rosemary's Baby (again), Disney World (of course), a brief history of the American pharmaceutical industry and a long recipe for stew.

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Sarah's other show, Why Are Dads
Mike's other show, Maintenance Phase


Links!

  • "She Touched Me" from "Drat! The Cat!" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G69_Fx_YVuU
  • The Carousel of Progress- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmrSiJTMf7s
  • The Magic Worlds of Walt Disney – National Geographic August 1963 -- https://disneyavenue.wordpress.com/category/national-geographic-aug-63/
  • "More Work for Mother" by Ruth Schwartz Cowan https://www.google.com/books/edition/More_Work_For_Mother/9YM1tAEACAAJ?hl=en
  • "The Age of Anxiety" by Andrea Tone https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Age_of_Anxiety/sgkXBQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=age+of+anxiety&printsec=frontcover
  • "The Battered Parent Syndrome" ad for Milton - http://www.bonkersinstitute.org/medshow/fembps1.html
  • "The Magic Bullet" by Heather Radke, on Miltown - https://www.topic.com/the-magic-bullet
  • "The Family That Built an Empire of Pain" by Patrick Radden Keefe, on the Sackler family -- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain
  • "Dopesick" by Beth Macy https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dopesick/23BBDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=dopesick+macy&printsec=frontcover
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Why is it Mother's little helper?

0:01.8

It's because Mother needs to be tranquilized.

0:04.4

[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪

0:18.1

Welcome to You Wrong About.

0:19.6

The podcast that tells you about real moral panics

0:22.2

and occasionally the fake housewives that inspired them.

0:25.9

Ooh.

0:26.7

Eh?

0:27.5

Huh.

0:28.2

Well, that's not the direction I'm going in,

0:30.8

but I appreciate you're trying to end up with me.

0:33.2

I have no idea what this episode is about.

0:35.5

I was flailing.

0:36.3

I find it interesting that you think

0:38.3

the stuff for the wives inspired a moral panic.

0:42.0

Oh yeah, because I guess it's the other way around.

0:43.9

Well, I don't know what we're talking about.

0:45.6

We'll get there.

0:46.4

We're going to get, that's the,

0:48.1

welcome to You Wrong About.

0:49.4

The show where Mike tries to do a tagline

0:51.4

summarizing the reveal of the episode

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