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How do whales sleep? Sarah takes a quiz about the secrets of the deep, administered by Ocean Corespondent Brianna Bowman. Digressions include David Attenborough, Moby-Dick, and that halibut at the Anchorage airport (the one on the way to baggage claim). Produced + edited by Miranda Zickler More Bria

A little Halloween treat from the YWA team 🖤 The Open Window by Saki read for you by Sarah Marshall Produced + edited by Miranda Zickler

How do you leave a man after becoming notorious for staying by his side? Lolita correspondent Jamie Loftus is back for the third and final part of this book club series on Mary Jo Buttafuoco’s 2009 memoir Getting It Through My Thick Skull—with guest appearances by the not one, not two, but three TV

What was Joey and Mary Jo Buttafuoco’s marriage like, anyway? In this middle section of our book club trilogy, Sarah and Lolita correspondent Jamie Loftus find out, with help from Mary Jo Buttafuoco’s memoir Getting it Through My Thick Skull, written with Julie McCarron. Pre-Order Jamie's new book "

What happens when you are forced into the public eye because of someone else’s immorality? In 1992, a 37-year-old housewife named Mary Jo Buttafuoco barely survived an attack by a gun-wielding 17-year-old girl named Amy Fisher. Amy accused Mary Jo’s husband, Joey, of statutory rape. Joey denied ever

In 1976, a transgender tennis player named Renée Richards won a landmark New York Supreme Court case and a victory for trans rights in professional sports. In 2026, YWA sports correspondent Julie Kliegman is publishing a biography of her. In honor of their new book, Finding Renée Richards: The Groun

By popular demand: the fully realized iteration of a corn-related inside joke just for you, dearest listeners. Brought to you by YWA house band Magpie Cinema Club in collaboration with noted genius Chelsey Weber-Smith of American Hysteri Click here to download the track free from Magpie Cinema Club'

What would Satan cook? Sarah and kitchen correspondent Sarah Archer read listener mail sent in response to their Food Trends episode and chat about the many joys of celery, the recipes of Rosemary’s Baby, Nora Ephron’s prescient essay, and the unpasteurized past. Digressions include the world’s larg

What isn’t a doll, really? For this episode, uncanny correspondent Chelsey Weber-Smith joins Sarah to revisit the dolls of their February bonus, and to hear your letters about the dolls of your past. Together they discuss tales of Barbie Wars, Edinburgh coffin dolls, and dolls made out of knees. Als

Can the power of love ever conquer the love of power? When Leonard Kip Rhinelander, the heir son of a wealthy New York real estate family, met a working class girl named Alice Jones in the 1920s, it became a passionate romance for the ages. That is, until the Rhinelander family found out about Alice

Do orcas really hate millionaires? And if so, why don’t they vote? Deep sea correspondent Brianna Bowman is here with the answers to these and other burning (bubbling?) questions, plus a submarine trip down memory lane. While reflecting on their expansive Keiko series, they also discuss killer whale

Don’t our dolls deserve to be creepy too? Inspired by her newfound interest in dolls that have their own dolls, Sarah and urban legend correspondent Chelsey Weber-Smith of American Hysteria dip into the history of our relationship to these sometimes unnerving little friends. They discuss Thomas Edis

What actually makes a movie “bad”? In this bonus episode, Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson of the film podcast Unspooled tell Sarah the story of what many consider to be the worst film of all time: the 1987 adventure comedy Ishtar. From the movie’s chaotic production to its perplexing public ridicule,

One of the Peg Bracken-isms that lives in my brain goes like this: many of the recipes we rely on most “were copied from batter-spattered file cards belonging to people who had copied them from from other batter-spattered file cards, because a good recipe travels as far, and fast, as a good joke.” I

Is the thing we call the Christmas Spirit actually more paranormal than sentimental? It sure used to be, when a big part of the Victorian Christmas tradition was sitting around a crackling fire and telling scary ghost stories. For this two-part series, Sarah and American Hysteria’s Chelsey Weber-Smi

Side A Frosty the Snowman – The Ventures Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy – Travis Tritt Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree – The Partridge Family The Christmas Song – King Curtis Santa’s Got a Brand New Bag – Gary Walker and the Boogie Kings Santa Baby – Madonna Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar-Plu

We're putting together an episode made up of audio recordings from listeners that encapsulate the place they call home, to let us in on what makes it special (and, maybe, what we're wrong about.) Send your submissions to sloppyandalive@gmail.com before end of day December 7th to be part of the YWA f

Pi for the holiday Accompaniment by Magpie Cinema Club

Can’t someone finally tell us once and for all if it’s okay to drink our own pee? Using your questions, Sarah has created a board of Jeopardy categories (including Potent Potables) for Survival Correspondent Blair Braverman, who bestows her wisdom on how to best survive and thrive during a bout in t

Our holiday special needs YOU! Send an audio recording (three minutes or less) that encapsulates the place you call home to sloppyandalive@gmail.com by December 1st and you may be included in the tapestry of aural postcards to be released next month.

Who isn’t a bimbo? A writer declared 1987 the Year of the Bimbo, and for this episode, Sarah tells bimbology professor Jamie Loftus about the etymology of the word, the surprising history of the people—and animals—who have been given the moniker, and the trifecta of women who became synonymous with

What’s a murderer supposed to do without his mommy? In the second part of this two part bonus series, law correspondent Mackenzie Joy Brennan continues the annoying saga of Idaho Guy up to the present day: his pre-trial imprisonment experience, the surprise plea, and a powerful victim impact stateme

Why are murderers so embarrassing? In part one of this two-part series, law correspondent Mackenzie Joy Brennan takes us through the 2022 murders of University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin as well as the investigation into the killer, an infamous

Who’s afraid of Cassandra Peterson? In this bonus book club episode, Hollywood correspondent Eve Lindley revs up her fog machine and takes us on a journey through the prop tombstones of the 2021 memoir “Yours Cruelly, Elvira.” From her teen years spent as the youngest showgirl in Vegas through her t

Our survival correspondent Blair Braverman has dogsledded solo through thousands of miles of frozen wilderness, completed the toughest dogsled races in the world (including the Iditarod), and been a survival expert—and contestant—on Naked and Afraid. Now’s your chance to ask her anything you want! B

Did this story really happen or is it…Beyond Belief? Sarah and Chelsey Weber-Smith conjure up some haunting 90s nostalgia by revisiting a weird-kid TV classic: Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, a show that provided watchers with a handful of mysterious stories and asked them to guess if they were true

What’s that sound?! Leaving the campfire and trekking into the dark woods, Sarah confronts her childhood Bigfoot-phobia by following the footprints of America’s favorite cryptid with fellow investigator Lulu Miller. Sarah does her best to scare Lulu with the famous Patterson-Gimlin film and wonders

For many of us, house cleaning is a daunting, unpleasant affair, but for You’re Wrong About editor Miranda Zickler, it is a love language. Continuing the Peg Bracken Book Club tradition set forth by our I Hate Cookbook episode with Sarah Archer, we discuss The I Hate to Housekeep Book, a tongue-in-c

Jawbone. Basket. Jumprope. Chelsey Weber-Smith is the host of American Hysteria

What happens when a billionaire reality tv star inserts herself into the dress and legacy of the most iconic bombshell of the 21st Century? In 1962, Marilyn Monroe commissioned fashion designer Jean Louis and freshly graduated design student Bob Mackie to create a one of a kind flesh-colored soufflé

We're talking about a teenage girl's memoir of drugs, survival, and escape--a book that freaked out German-speaking kids and parents about as much as Go Ask Alice did for Americans. Only this time, the story is true. (Plus! Your responses to my post asking about what's making you feel excitement and

All of the news feels equally terrifying. I know that you and all the other people reading these words right now are going to do wonderful things this week: in your community, in your work, in your brains and your hearts, and in the way you take care of yourselves and each other. And, as so many of

This week, kitchen cabinet member Sarah Archer is back to discuss Peg Bracken's 1960 masterpiece, The I Hate to Cook Book--a massive bestseller of the era that has just a little bit more to say about the housewife's role in society than it does about dinner. Also discussed: recipes including Portlan

(A playful little playlist made for you by Sarah Marshall and Carolyn Kendrick. Maybe you need some new songs to play, or a reminder of the ones you used to. Maybe you haven't heard these ones one million times in the past week. The point is, if we could send you all mix tapes, we would. Thank you s

Megan Burbank is here for the right reasons. Sarah Marshall has never watched an episode of the Bachelor, and needs someone to be her guide and local fixer in Bachelor Nation. And in this bonus episode, two friends venture into the complex, often troubling world of one of the longest running reality

A very special election day episode for the rushed, sloppy, irritated, and alive. There are two movie adaptations of Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives, and midcentury scholar Sarah Archer came by to talk about both of them--and why this story just keeps getting more relevant. Extra credit reading/viewi

Pre-sale goes live today at 10a Pacific. Here is the link to each of the venues! Remember to use the code GHOSTWATCH. Tickets will be on sale to the public on Friday!

What could possibly go wrong when two skeptical podcasters try to summon a ghost? Join Sarah and Chelsey Weber-Smith (of American Hysteria, of course) for a historical, theatrical, ecstatic spectacular for the living and dead. Hold hands with your favorite disembodied voices for a spiritualist séanc

In 1948 an anonymous man died on a beach in Australia*, and we are wondering about him to this day. Was it murder, suicide, Cold War intrigue, or something even more mysterious? (Content warning for discussion of suicide throughout this episode.) *South Australia, even For our October bonus episode,

It has been, oh, 200 years since we added any new designs to You're Wrong About's TeePublic site, and I miss it. It's very obviously time to come up with some new ideas, but that's where you came in: the (frequently listener-designed) shirts and things Mike and I used to add to the store were almost

Welcome to our Satanic Panic TV Movie Club! This 1982 movie (and the Rona Jaffe novel it's based on) was such a big part of the Dungeons & Dragons episode Adrian and I did that it seemed like we just had to talk about it here. Mazes and Monsters is streaming on a ton of platforms (at least in the US

Rosemary's Baby has a sequel--published thirty years later and telling a tale of Rosemary emerging from a coma at the eve of the new millennium--but why doesn't anyone ever talk about it? Tradwife correspondent and Midcentury Kitchen author Sarah Archer is here to help us explore two books where the

Guess what? We made an audiobook for you. Something about telling the tales of George Michael and Britney Spears made me think about this tale of another kid in the big city. I loved recording an audiobook of A Christmas Carol for you last December, and this was a delight as well. This book is at le

Here it is: the fourth and final chapter of our Britney Spears saga, guided by the wonderful Eve Lindley. And Britney Spears is free to fly, fly away.

Let's go outside in the sunshine. (Part 2 of 2!) Here is a Carolyn's Cut of today's episode! You can buy Marcus McCann's book, Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path, here.

She's everything, and he's just Kevin. Part three of our four-part celebrity book club spectacular is here!

He turned a bright spark into a flame. (Part 1 of 2!) Here for your listening pleasure is a Carolyn's Cut of today's episode. You can buy Marcus McCann's book, Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path, here. Content warning: this episode briefly discusses suicide around minute 13.

Here is a longer version (Carolyn's Cut, if you will) of today's episode, featuring even more hoax goodness--plus a Nessie theory I personally find very persuasive.

Oh baby baby, how was she supposed to know?

(Part one of four!!!) This month celebrity correspondent Eve Lindley came by to tell us about Britney Spears' memoir The Woman in Me. In this episode we get into Britney's family history, her childhood, her years of searching for stardom, and her life until the eve of "...Baby One More Time." This i