God, okay, well, now I'm all fired up.

Okay.

Welcome to Your Wrong About. I'm your host, Sarah Marshall. So this episode is a return to

the classic format of The Your Wrong About Book Club where we go gradually through, I think

in the past it's always been a weird 1970s claiming to be nonfiction book because that's

my comfort zone, apparently. And it's where I think a lot of important issues surface

and then I've forgotten because they're in weird best sellers that turn up in cottages

for the next 50 years. I am talking with Jamie Loftus about the Amityville horror. I'm

so happy to be talking to Jamie about this. I'm so happy to be doing something that dovetails

with the episode that we just did on Adam Lorraine Warren who are two other great based on

a true story people of the 20th century and perhaps we'll find the story to be as factual

as many of theirs ended up being if you listen to that episode and if you haven't you

should check it out. This is a multi-partisan we're going to discuss what this book is and

what it represents culturally and then get about as far as things starting to get very

serious for this family. And I also want to share with the world that the Amityville horror

is a Christmas story. It is very appropriate, seasonal viewing and reading and so we

are going to get up to Christmas Eve in the events of this book which is maybe a third

of the way into this family's one month tenure in their scary, scary house because that's

what the show is really all about is the spirit of Christmas. We have a Patreon for the show

where we do bonus episodes. We did one last month with Jamie talking about the Pinkerton

detectives. We have won this month with Eric Michael Garcia who was a previous guest in a

wonderful episode. We're going to be talking about the film Music by Sia and as you

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