4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Razorblades in apples, babysitters on acid, killers in backseats and "rainbow parties": In this episode, Mike and Sarah investigate the scary stories Americans tell each other and discover the actual anxieties behind them. Turn on your high beams for this one.
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0:00.0 | I would be fair one time me and my brother got super high and we put our frozen pizza in the oven without taking the plastic off of it first. |
0:06.2 | Well, but it wasn't a baby! |
0:14.0 | Welcome to You're Wrong About. |
0:15.6 | The show where we look at things that we thought were scary for one reason and it turns out that they're scary for a different reason. |
0:22.9 | Ooh! |
0:23.5 | And the different reason is always the same reason and it's that America is not great at a lot of stuff. |
0:30.2 | Spoilers. |
0:30.9 | Is that a spoiler for years too? Because it's a spoiler for mine. |
0:34.4 | I am Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for The Huffingham Post. |
0:36.9 | I'm Sarah Marshall and I'm a writer for the New Republic and Buzzfeed and a writer in residence with the believer. |
0:44.5 | And we've been looking forward to this episode for weeks now because we are talking about urban legends and all of the spooky |
0:53.3 | scary urban legends that pass around Halloween and most of them weirdly it turns out are not factually accurate. |
1:01.9 | So we'd like to talk about them where they come from. |
1:03.7 | You're a student turned out to be factually active either? |
1:06.5 | It turns out they're all true. That's the spoiler for this episode. |
1:10.0 | Yeah. |
1:10.4 | So we're going to talk about the razor blades and the apples, babysitters and acid trips. |
1:16.8 | We're going to talk about high beams and then we're going to talk about rainbow parties which are scary in a different way. |
1:22.7 | Oh boy. So I think we're going to start with the razor blade in the apple. |
1:25.1 | Yeah. I want to hear about. I'm very excited about this one. |
1:27.6 | Do you want to tell me your memory of that story? Like what is the what has there been legend? |
1:32.2 | I feel as if I have memories of teachers mentioning don't take apples, don't take popcorn balls when you're trick or treating. |
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