Tom Cruise on Oprah’s couch with Willa Paskin

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

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

4.6 • 23K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Willa Paskin (of Slate's Decoder Ring) brings Sarah back to 2005, when Tom Cruise jumping on a couch became the talk of the town.

We will return to Amityville (part 3 of 3) next time!

Here's where to find Willa:

Decoder Ring

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Tom Cruise on the couch notes

Oprah episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=930BhfJxFxU

Tom Cruise Kills Oprah meme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRbhE3GRiUE

Amy Nicholson's revelatory piece reframing Tom Cruise and the couch jump: https://www.laweekly.com/how-youtube-and-internet-journalism-destroyed-tom-cruise-our-last-real-movie-star/

Rich Juzwiak piece on the meaning of the couch jump: https://www.gawker.com/5912665/gone-and-back-tom-cruises-couch-jumping-remembered

New York Times hand wringing about the event:

A few other interesting, what it all meant pieces:

Where else to find us:

Sarah's other show, You Are Good

[YWA co-founder] Mike's other show, Maintenance Phase

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https://www.podpage.com/you-are-good
http://maintenancephase.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0	To me, there's kind of a bittersweet lost worldness to it. I feel like it's the way people maybe used to feel when they were like in my day
0:07.2	We got eyes from the iceman and they cut it out of lakes
0:20.4	Welcome to your wrong about the show where we talk about great moments and daytime TV history
0:26.8	With me today is Willa Paskin from decoder ring. Hello. Hi. I'm so happy to be here. Thank you so much for being here with us
0:36.9	I love your show
0:38.9	so much and let's become
0:41.6	A thing with my friends lately. I've been listening to just a bunch of episodes and celebration of your coming here because you're not gonna quiz me on them
0:49.3	And so it's become a joke or I'm like I listen to a decodering the other day about how music used to be made or something
0:55.9	That's a good one. And I like to listen to any other shows and it's like not right now
1:01.8	I have to say I'm sure that people tell you this joke a lot but I have this
1:06.3	Fantasy that one day you'll be like today on decoder ring North Dakota. What is it? Should I do that? I would do that
1:13.3	I feel like that would be a good April fool
1:15.2	Because sometimes I like to think that you're also saying decoder ring. I do say decoder ring
1:20.4	I have a problem with it actually like I I notice it especially when I do ads
1:25.4	Because it's when I say the name the most and I think it's my New York accent
1:28.9	It's very hard to say decoder ring ring right? So I just say decoder ring
1:33.6	It's like in the princess bride where he has to be like you will not find her common now
1:39.2	Decoder ring you have to just be a prince to do it. Yeah, I try I try to really enunciate
1:44.8	I feel like our
1:46.4	Podcasts they want to be holding hands and I feel like anyone who's I you're wrong about listener
1:51.6	If you haven't listened to the decoder ring catalog there's just like a whole new theme park for you to discover
1:57.4	I'm really mixing metaphors either theme parks and hold hands
	...

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