You're Wrong About

Weekly reconsideration of historical figures and events commonly misunderstood AI summary

Sarah Marshall Visit website › History · EN · 274 episodes · latest 2026-11-10 · explicit

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Sarah is a journalist obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.

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Death! with Becky Robison

2026-11-10 · 1 hr 30 min

How do we do what we have to do at the worst possible moment? Death correspondent Becky Robison, the author of My Parents Are Dead: What Now? A Panic-Free Guide to the Practicalities of Death, tells Sarah about the most…
Halloween Listener Special

2026-10-23 · 1 hr 1 min

What does Halloween mean to you? For this listener submission episode, we asked you to send in your favorite Halloween memories and you delivered the spooky, the funny, and the heartfelt, showing that this schlocky…
Halloween Pranks with Chelsey Weber-Smith

2026-10-13 · 56 min

Choose wisely: trick or treat? Starting in the late 1800s, the spooky and goofy version of Halloween we know today became a time of ruckus and sometimes dangerous pranks by kids and teenagers that caused widespread…
The Crocodile Hunter with Brianna Bowman

2026-09-29 · 2 hr 19 min

Crikey! How does a man decide to wrangle giant reptiles for a living? For this episode, ocean correspondent Brianna Bowman shares the life story of Australian icon Steve Irwin, the beloved Crocodile Hunter who captured…
Back to School with Gabe Henry

2026-09-15 · 1 hr 14 min

Who will you be this year? No matter your age, it’s likely that your body remembers the school calendar, and with the blooming aisles of binders and pencils and backpacks, it’s easy to feel like a nervous, hopeful kid…
Ballet with Megan Burbank

2026-09-01 · 1 hr 13 min

Megan Burbank’s gotta dance. The centuries-old dance style known as ballet has been stereotyped in our modern world with images of refined, wispy, frighteningly disciplined young women fighting viciously for roles in…
"Heaven is for Real" with Adrian Daub

2026-08-11 · 1 hr 25 min

If your four-year-old told you about a trip to heaven, would you believe them? For a pastor named Todd Burpo, the answer was yes. In 2010, his book Heaven Is For Real—co-authored by Lynn Vincent—became a runaway…
Lightning Round! with Chelsey Weber-Smith

2026-07-28 · 1 hr 7 min

Send your submissions for our Halloween Listener Spectacular (scary stories or Halloween nostalgia) to sloppyandalive@gmail.com before August 31st! How many maligned women can you name in 30 seconds? For this episode,…
What I Love: A Listener Summer Special

2026-07-14 · 58 min

How do I love thee? For this special episode, we asked you to send us a voice message about something you love. From gas station coffee to tap dancing to rocks to the inner lives of rats, you answered—and showed us that…
The JFK Assassination Part 2 with Mackenzie Joy Brennan

2026-06-30 · 2 hr 31 min

But seriously, who really killed JFK? For part two of the JFK Assassination series, law correspondent Mackenzie Joy Brennan takes Sarah through the conspiracy theories that have surrounded the tragedy to see how the…

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Oldest episode in feed: 05/2018 · over 8 years
Typical length: 1 hr 8 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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