Got an episode idea?

Anything around how Classical Antiquity is put on a shiny white pedestal and has been coopted by the alt right white nationalists! You’re Wrong About Stoicism, boys. 💅🏼 ps luv u Sarah

I’d love to hear an episode on ADHD diagnosing and the stimulant shortage. It’s a very complex and sensitive issue, and your episode are always so well-researched and presented very thoughtfully. I am a mental health RN and I’ve witnessed first hand the explosion of diagnoses and subsequent stimulant prescriptions. Many people are being diagnosed incorrectly—through no fault of their own (mostly)—which is making it harder for those who truly have the disorder to get adequate treatment.

Hi Sarah: the Brontës, Charlotte and Emily.

Correction: Joycelyn Elders. Sorry about the misspelling.

Jocelyn Elders. Black female attorney general under Clinton. She was forced to leave office after talking about masturbation as safe sex. I don't understand how she hasn't been more discussed (or discussed at all!) in the decades since the 90's. Love the show so much.

If suggestions are still be taken here, I’d love to hear your take on Joan Crawford and Mommie Dearest. I have really appreciated the balance you’ve struck in your discussions of people and particularly famous women who are absolutely deserving of criticism but to whom the response feels either disconnected or disproportionate to the thing they actually deserve criticism for. I feel like Crawford and Mommie Dearest are very much in this vein where I think there should’ve been more discussion of the broader context and society which allow for and encourage abuse and less… making an over the top and inaccurate movie to basically fun of Joan Crawford (and eventually Faye Dunaway) when that was really largely what people wanted an excuse to do. Plus, I think there’s a lot to talk about in terms of the legacy of Joan Crawford and the film having very little to do with Crawford as a person or an actress, and very little to do with, say, awareness or empathy around child abuse, and instead it’s all campy jokes about wire hangers that if anything make a mockery of actual abuse dynamics. Love the show!

Millenials? Extended adolescence? Generational identity as a whole? Maybe that's not specific enough or maybe the concept of generational identity is inherently meaningless? But as a millenial I feel like we've gotten gaslit our whole lives and criticized by other generations as being lazy and ineffectual.

Omg- I would love a YWA about Mensa.

Feminists burning their bras in the 60s... I just heard a historian saying no bras were burned?!? Help us, Sarah - is it true?

Idk if this has been said since there’s over 1,000 comments haha. But I just learned about the Hosana Church scandal in Louisiana, and it genuinely took me a second to find sources that suggested it was a satanic panic case — like there’s a whole 20 minute vice doc on it that treats all the claims totally credulously?? So anyway, Sarah, I’d love your research skills and take on that one!

Please an episode about Julianne Koepcke with Blair 🥺

ANTHRAX

Israel Keyes.

Amanda Knox!!

Buddy Cianci - Beloved Providence Mayor, and convinced felon.

I’m a journalist and would love to share my expertise about the CIA’s drug tests with LSD. The program called MK-ULTRA is the inspiration for so many movies and conspiracies about shady government experiments. I’ve co-authored a book that includes MK-ULTRA and other Cold War stories called "The Last Honest Man," due to be published in May 2023. https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/james-risen/the-last-honest-man/9780316565134/ If interested, please message my account here or the email I sent Sarah. My wife and I are huge fans of your podcasts, and I would love to share my expertise. Please consider anytime you want me to talk about spies. I researched the entire Cold War for my book.

Love island UK season 1 or 2 is an insane social experiment. Reality TV in general, what's going on there?

ABC family’s “Secret life of the American teenager”

Has YWA (or a friend of the show) covered “Participation Trophies” yet?

Charles Cullen!

I would love to hear episode about the manufactured panic about the American school system started during the Regan administration. This panic planted the seeds of providing public funds for private type education that are with us today (vouchers and charter schools. There is an excellent book about this topic-The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, And The Attack On America's Public Schools by David C. Berliner (Author), Bruce J. Biddle (Author).

This post has over 1000 comments on it so probably there's been someone who has had the same idea, but I'd like to suggest the Christian moral panic around Pokemon. It has a lot of the usual Satanic Panic-isms that have shown up in other episodes, but Pokemon's status as an import from Japan means that there's also another layer of racism and xenophobia that can be looked at.

Courtney stodden!

After listening to your outdoors focused episodes I'd be interested to hear your take on the 1967 Glacier Park bear attacks; the so called "Night of the Grizzlies". It's an interesting mixture of workplace malpractice, Western colonial ignorance, and the beautiful power of strangers helping strangers that seems up YWA's alley! (I'd also argue its a story that serves as a prime example that we would rather blame women and women's bodies before we hold government agencies accountable for their mistakes)

Casey Anthony case!!

Hellen Keller!

phineas gage! maybe as a sequel to the kitty genovese episode. another one of psychology's maligned figures

Sally McNeil!!

& this is pretty heavy / has been mentioned in satanic panic eps, but the rise of anti-semitism in pop culture?

also: sylvia plath could be fun

an ep about periods would be super interesting! so many myths and misconceptions! like i think the opinions of like general science changed recently about if periods really sync? & if young uterus-havers getting their periods earlier is actually something to be concerned about? (maybe this is more maintenance phase territory!)

i know this is an old post but! i think an episode on michelle carter would be really interesting. i had my own “you’re wrong about” for her since i very much accepted a lot of the vitriol surrounding her trial. i feel like the more i learned about both of them, the more i realized that they were both incredibly troubled teenagers and the amount of hatred that the media/social media had toward her is pretty sad. (also i just listened to your gabbie hanna bonus episode and the idea of a trisha paytas bonus episode was alluded to and that sounds pretty interesting. i, too, love a deep dive into youtube drama)

Katie Price!

Re-posting this with clarification. I feel like the ozone layer emergency and how we remember it is spiritually akin to the y2k crisis. I.e. the whole world sprung into action to avert crisis so effectively that now, people talk about it as a “nothing burger” and use it against climate alarmists. Growing up in the late 90s I never fully understood it so I’d love to hear YWA do a deep dive on the topic.

Lindy Chamberlain, dingos, and "trial by common sense"! Everyone knew that it couldn't have been a dingo I'm surprised by how many people still don't know she and her husband ended up acquitted and the evidence is really strong that a dingo DID do it

Something with the people of the Americas pre-columbus/pre-colonization please and/or about Vodou/Voodoo

You’re Wrong About … doing your own research. A show where we go past the wasteland that is Google’s page 2 search results. It’s obvious there’s A LOT of research involved around topics for the show and for the writing work you do and how you take the research and turn it into a narrative placed in context of how we view the world. I adore the podcast AND I am fascinated by unseen labor that makes it possible. One of the first things that drew me to the show was Mike and Sara being smart and talented researchers and writers who are also very real and charming people working through the what they thought they knew in order to expand their knowledge with grace, intellectual humility, humor, and respect. All of that is hard, messy, and time consuming. It’s also so, so important. In an age of “do your own research!!” I’d love to see process content that shows what goes into preparing for episodes, the research process, and specifically how we might be better able to identify, ask good questions, embark on quality research, and try to debunk our own assumptions and misconceptions so we can learn more about the things we’re wrong about in our own lives and around topics outside the scope of the show. I’d love to see the invisible work made visible so we can truly appreciate and celebrate Sara, Mike, and all of the amazing guests of the show while maybe learning to become better versions of ourselves as well. Thanks for continuously flinging yourself out there, Sara, in spite of how how awful internet people can be sometimes.

The Duggars and the IBLP. Looking at how all of the IFB mini cults popped up in the 80’s as a result of the satanic panic would be so interesting!!

Hi Sarah! Could you do an episode about toxic shock syndrome? Coming of age in the mid 00s I was terrified of TSS. But I have a feeling it wasn’t super common. What was the reason behind all the warnings?

I can't remember where it was you guys talked about fan fiction but I just got so mad learning what a spec script is lol. so fan fiction is how you become a professional TV writer? and we don't tell the kids how sick it is that they're building that skill we just tease them for liking things ok

Children dying in hot cars. Fun topic, I know. It's one of those terrible things that can happen to literally anyone, but people face that much more backlash specifically because no one can imagine how it could happen to them. Washington Post did a great article on it called Fatal Distraction.

Do gays really gentrify neighborhoods. I’m gay btw and I may have gentrified a neighborhood

More OJ!

Fleetwood Mac! The drama, the tea!

Wondering your take on Amy Winehouse

Snooki from Jersey Shore was unfairly maligned.

A Mother Theresa episode would be really interesting! There’s a lot of “she was actually very bad” and “she was actually very good” information that flies around.

I’d love a classic Satanic Panic episode about Johnny Gosch and the Franklin Scandal. There’s the Netflix documentary on the conspiracy Noreen believed and a really good underlistened to investigative podcast from a few years ago (Faded Out - Season one) that interviews his dad and puts together a completely non satanic, local crime conclusion. It debunks a lot of the media, like America’s Missing Children documentary, and satanic narratives around kidnapping. I know this is months late and you and Chelsea already discussed this, but I am reading Michelle Remembers and thinking about ritual abuse.

Invite Classicist/Comedian Natalie Haynes on to talk about You're Wrong About Women in Greco-Roman Myth? Its kinda her whole thing and she has a book on Medusa coming out next year. She also does a BBC4 show called "Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics". Would be amazing to listen to your conversation.

A video (maybe a series) on - Dan Schneider at Nickelodeon, and then how that goes into Amanda Bynes Conservatorship and then Bam Margera’s conservatorship, and then you get into - Lima Jeremovic and the Amanda Rabb case which i IMPLORE you to look up I promise it’ll tickle your interest!

Elizabeth Holmes!

Also, please do a Menendez brothers episode or series.

I need more OJ!

Sinead o Connor

The moral panic of video games making people violent / sexually active / unchristian / liberals or other things that the conservatives hate.

The NRA—what it initially started as, the Cincinnati Coup, and how that changed it into what it is today.

P.S. I would listen to Blair Braverman and you talk about any topic of your mutual choosing any time forever. The dynamic between you is riveting.

Gamergate with Natalie Wynn (who has publicly raved about you on her Patreon)

Hurricane Katrina always seems to come up when I read about the topic of elite panic and the false idea perpetuated by authority figures that 'ordinary people' can’t handle crises without breaking out into violence. So much misinformation was spread around with false claims of violence and r*pe occurring in the relief centers and racist media figures condemning “looting” (i.e. salvaging food from flooded grocery stores before it spoils so people don’t starve). Just an awful microcosm of the US’ issues with authoritarianism and racism and misinformation, especially stemming from elites in times of crisis

three mile island and the nuclear power panic

A book club on some of the literature produced by the ISSTD would be interesting. They are still the major propogaters of DID (multiple personality disorder) bunk theories, and the way they hide conspiratorial thought under a veneer of science is fascinating/horrifying. I'm doing an ongoing research project on their impact on internet wellness culture and can recommend some, but Richard Kluft's 'Shelter From the Storm' is especially awful and depressingly recent⛓️

Jane Fonda + POW and Vietnam War

Monopolies that are good at hiding the fact that they’re monopolies, like eye glasses or diamonds where they control the whole market for something not that valuable

If this is still the place to put these requests: on the topic of Maligned Women of the ‘90s… Sinead O’Connor?

Domestic abuse and how entangled it seems to be with masculinity. Writing from Australia and have been watching the public's literacy around this change during the pandemic. Jess Hill is an expert here, published a book a few years ago that won a dozen high profile awards. https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/see-what-you-made-me-do The chapter on masculinity literally blew my mind. Also covers 'where to', and we've new Respectful Relationships curriculum programs emerge recently: https://www.vic.gov.au/respectful-relationships Could be a follow-up to the DC Sniper and OJ series (or maybe as a way back into that one).

I'd love if you talked about 'personality tests'. I had to do an online mini-personality test as part of a job application process, one of those stupid 'pick which word you identify with...there is no wrong answer'. Then they list a bunch of single words, with absolutely no context. What the hell is that supposed to demonstrate? Why is this even being used this way? Also, why resumes? Some of the conventions are so nonsensical (e.g. listing 'core competencies'). There has to be a better way to get a job.

You mentioned Theranos in the Martha Stewart episode and I would love if you did an episode on that if that's not too trendy. I didn't follow the story, in part because I felt like it would be impossible to get a clear picture of what happened from news articles calling Elizabeth whatever-her-name-is a sociopath. I would also be really interested to hear your thoughts on some of the popular public intellectual/pop science writers and storytellers like Malcolm Gladwell, Jonah Lehrer, Jon Ronson, Michael Lewis etc.

ones i second: communism + the red scare, recycling + the rise of zero waste brands + marketing, sex work + FOSTA/SESTA + the Earn It act, ayn rand, shakespeare, the satanic temple + the church of satan (comparisons, debunking, motives, history), unions, tiger king / carole baskin, psychedelics + drugs in general, death + the funeral industry

ones i haven’t seen yet: -tiktok challenges, such as tide pods, blue whale, blackout, momo. the moral panic + fast spread, if any of it really happened, + the general concern over kids’ internet usage & safety -ME/CFS, chronic fatigue syndrome: the ongoing research, history, the ‘im tired too!’ jokes, doctors’ incompetence + dismissal in diagnosis, the connection with long covid -disability benefits + rights: assumptions, history, joking about disabled people ‘having it good,’ how bad the benefits actually are, losing your benefits if you go over the money amount limit + how if you get married that limit goes for both of you + how many disabled people don’t get married because of this

Miranda rights and what the 5th amendment entails. A lot of shows and movies don’t really give a good idea of how they actually work. Also how the rights have changed over time, such as the decision of Berghuis v. Thompkins

The role of police. Just listened to a radiolab podcast on this that was soooo enlightening!

if you do the lasting impact of hippie backlash, please mention how hippies were the unexpected result of government drug testing, something politicians understood they had almost created or at least catalyzed in a lab. from the earliest days of the hippie movement the government was aware they were combatting the effects of psychedelics. And that's not new, the Spaniards tried to completely wipe out any tribes they found with the use of psychedelics as part of their religion, witches used belladonna, Native Americans struggled for years in court for the right to use peyote, anthropologist Marlene Dobkin de Rios has researched this pretty deeply and produced great texts.

Hear me out - Sid and Nancy

California prop 65

I’d love to hear Sarah break down her thoughts on Criminal Minds (or any other crime TV show).!

Sarah! I’m a huge fan of YWA and I want to say thank you. The world feels less dark and impending when you’re distracted by the art of a great podcast. Having watched the series Big Love and Under The Banner Of Heaven, I want to recommend covering the FLDS, Mormonism and it’s relationship to the state of Utah. Lots to unpack there. Be well xxx

I loved the little side pivot on the latest episode about the dyatlov pass about how/why people are so judgemental about parenting. I’ve been watching the rise of snark subreddits about various mom influencers. It is a very fascinating subculture, especially the Maia Knight and Alice and fern subreddits. These are both mom tik tok stars who live off of monetizing their children, and along with that have some alarming neglectful behavior they post about. The snark forums talk about this but also go crazy into mom shaming and slut shaming and all this other stuff and it is. Interesting. Would love to hear your thoughts Sarah!

The myths and inaccuracies about Jack the Ripper. Hallie Rubenhold would be a brilliant guest.

Balloon boy!

Would love to hear Sarah's thoughts on the new season of stranger things and the whole satanic panic component of it! Maybe as a bonus episode or something?

Liza Minnelli

Actually curious. What retoric is used to not amend the second amendment. Does the anti camp use bogus numbers? Are the politicians not held accountable? I'm really curious. We are starting to hear more about gunviolence in the Netherlands and it's baffling to me how this can keep on existing in this way. I know it's a loaded subject but I hardly understand why it's even a loaded subject.

Recycling!

2nd Jocelyn Elders

Jocelyn Elders, please

Oh also! The Amber Heard Johnny Depp situation. I'm hearing so much from all sides that it's impossible to figure out what's happening

The hymen. It’s the vaginal corona now. It doesn’t break or pop. Some scientists in Europe figured it out. I think they did a Ted talk.

Charles Manson!

I'd love one that looks into popular charities or fundraisers that don't actually raise funds/help people. I remember finding out how little my troop got for girl scout cookies and organizing direct-action fund donation instead of involving little brownie bakers as the middleman

Werewolves! Or an episode on a variety of Halloween monsters (besides ghosts, witches, and demons since you've covered those) like what you did with exorcisms. Werewolves stick out to me in particular for our conception of 1) mental health 2) serial killers 3) anxieties surrounding agrarian society re: relative isolation and existing in a space we know has been taken from wild animals 4) masculinity 5) vagrancy interweaved with all of the above. Other monsters with potentially fertile ground for discussion include! Vampires (crumbling/dead aristocracy), sea monsters & aliens (vast depths of unexplored space, colonization), banshee (...women? and barn owls)!

Balto

I know I’m WAY late to the game but I cannot find the debunking episode of the Summer Camp Book Club “Michelle Remembers.” Was it ever released? I know it was a while ago… but at least one listener still yearns for the debunking episode. If it has been released and I’m wrong, please, dear person reading this comment, let me know and I’ll resume my hunt for the episode! Sarah, you’re a treasure. Come visit your fans in Scotland soon!

William wallace

Teal swan

Baby Jessica and Baby M

Waco!

Amber Heard

sylvia plath!

ok last one — asexuality! angela chen would be a great guest!

also maybe this is more of a maintenance phase suggestion, but something about reduced effectiveness of emergency contraceptives for people of different body sizes & BMIs?! (i mean we know BMI is kinda fake but it’s used in research) lots of conflicting info on this online but it is obviously v relevant! https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/ask-experts/whats-the-weight-limit-for-plan-b

something about CPS (child protective services) & foster care — there are some great recent pieces on this in mother jones & a new book called “torn apart “ by dorothy roberts. so many harmful misconceptions!!!

“Breast cancer awareness”

I have vague memories from the 90s of just about weekly safety recalls on popular toys and a mini panic that would follow every time. Wonder if there’s fruit in that for an episode.

Would love to hear more of the OJ trial. As someone with ADHD myself, I understand how overwhelming it must feel to try and dive back in now! We love you and your work! So no pressure!

I recently learned there have not been any human remains found at the Kamloops Indian Reservation School. I remember there being all this media and mea culpas from politicians. I can’t find any information on any movement forward on this. Have you heard anything?

Chick tracts!

A look at the TV shows like Hard Copy and Current Affairs to see which stories they covered and how they fit into the maligned women of the 90s story?

Koni 2012. Did this ever exist? Was he a real person? Were children actually being kidnapped and trained as war soldiers across Africa?

Please continue toe oj Simpson trial series! I don’t care if it ever ends but I would love to hear more.

You should gather the You’re Wrong About Cinematic Universe, where you discuss movies which have covered topics you have also covered, and, discuss how much the movie aligns with the spirit of You’re Wrong About

I'd love to see you expand on the police psychic theme and talk ghosts! could do known hoaxes or Bell Witch or trace the history of ghost belief in the US

did you guys ever finish oj simpson??

I’m not well read enough on this have an opinion, but something about the Depp/Heard trial makes me feel like there’s a YWA episode in the works.

Abortion and criminalizing pregnancy! Imani Gandy or Jessica Mason Pieklo would be great guests. Or, if you're feeling really saucy, Renee Bracy Sherman would be excellent.

Simulation Hypothesis

Michelle Carter

Prince/The Artist I'm a new patron so apologies if this topic has been suggested already, but would love an episode on Prince's name change. People gave him so much shit about it but he had really good reasons for doing it! I remember all the press around it painting him as some kind of diva artist rather than actually talking about the shady record deal stuff. Love the show! ❤️

The complete misunderstanding of "stages of grief" (..anger denial bargaining etc...) We have taken her research so far in the wrong direction. I know I know it isn't pop culture related, but I think you could do a beautiful job debunking this misunderstanding and why it matters to the core of us as humans

Check out what my home state is up to. https://wacotrib.com/news/national/texas-state-troopers-who-dont-shrink-waists-could-be-pulled-off-duties/article_4371da68-d43d-5b28-8212-f6c49721684b.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_Waco_Tribune-Herald&fbclid=IwAR3dG7cJTA0-wz2TdEA0WgECeiIVSfLJdE4O7ypIPfEx66Qmc7KiBlPUN38 The people who run my state are set on making it the worst place to live. I guess they don’t really “back the blue,” as much as they claim to.

Have you heard of folie à deux and the 2016 Tromp family case from Australia? Something seemed very odd about that case.

Rosemary’s baby, Britney Spears, Epstein, Hugh Hefner, Mendez Brother’s, Scott Peterson, Marilyn Monroe, Julia Childs, Scientology, Lea Remini, Mike Rinder, Valley of the Dolls

Lead and it’s supposed link to the 70/80s crime wave and our parents voting for Reagan.

How about Munchausen by Proxy convictions? Sally Clark, and others...

I recently watched this documentary called Sons of Sam: Decent into Darkness that followed a reporter investigating the possibilty of accomplices in the Son of Sam murders. It had serial killers, satanic cults, wildly speculative reporting, connections to the post office, and references to snuff films! It was like a YWA greatest hits. I'd love to hear the YWA take on David Berkowitz, Maury Terry, and the satanic cult conspiracy theories around this case.

Would LOVE something about over population/feasibility of having kids and future populations’ forecasted viability. My corner of the internet has lately been a lot of discourse on the “ethics” of having children now, assuming that the earth will be untenable in the near future. Some eco-activists are painting a picture that it’s unethical to have children and put a greater strain on the extractive capitalist system. Are we really handing off a dead planet to our children and grandchildren?

I guess MSG is ok in food now? Why the myth and what’s the accompanying social panic? I’m assuming some sort of capitalist trade war?

Please do an episode on Jodi Arias. I’m from AZ and this case was huge. I’m not saying she didn’t kill him, but the narrative that was portrayed about their relationship leading up to the murder was inaccurate and spun in a way that was meant to preserve Travis’s mormon golden boy image and blame Jodi not only for his murder, but for him having sexual desires and doing things seen as “sin” in the church. Not to mention his entire friend group seemed to bully her. I’m not saying there’s any excuse to murder someone, but the story is much more complex than what the media portrayed and I don’t think it’s fair to say she was just a “woman scorned” or that it was “fatal attraction”. He wasn’t squeaky clean and neither is the mormon faith.

Tila Tequila! she is an original myspace celebrity who got an MTV reality show and had a huge following (the idea of reality tv show's in the US might be a whole episode in itself). She eventually dropped out of popularity and it appears she has a mental illness as of now, which seems to be influencing/ spiraled her into the alt-r unhinged content where she as of today talks about on her youtube series. There is a lot to unpack about her rehab, treatment in the public eye, mental illness, and how we as a society process and digest someone being engulfed in a radical ideology. I think it's always heartbreaking in the era of the internet seeing someone publicly record themselves in a time where maybe she should be getting help - but also grappling with feeling zero sympathy because she has adopted extremely problematic rhetoric.

Dolphins. Hear me out they’re scary, they’re deadly and they have creepy dead eyes!

More OJ trial!

Romance Novels! They are a maligned genre that can be intersectionally feminist actually! And an artifact and expression of women exploring what it means to be a woman in the world. There are tons of feminist romance novel podcasts whose hosts would make great guests. (I will throw out the name Jen Prokop but there are lots of great folks.)

Recycling! Birth Control! Jimmy Carter! What people can do with college/grad degrees in liberal arts!

I just stumbled across Dr. Bronner on Twitter today and it seems like there is A LOT there to unpack

Cigarettes or the anti-smoking movement! A lot of countries still consume tobacco heavily. It will be interesting to see if“anti-smoking” culture is uniquely American.

Teal Swan

Heidi Fleiss

I’d love an episode about the recording industry and record label contracts. So many people don’t know how often artists get taken advantage of and how much label executives can interfere with the creative process.

Ayn rand fever with the rightwing

Ally McBeal!

No Child Left Behind!!!!!!!

Dogs

I'm so curious to know what you think of Netflix "documentaries". I recently watched bad vegan and the tinder swindler. It seems like they are trying to warn people about these terrible men but they sensationalize the stories in such a way that the public just ends up criticizing the female victims and they don't discuss abuse and manipulation in a serious way. And they are so drawn out, with so little useful footage. (maybe that's all true crime? I haven't watched much.) I know you talked about tiger king a while ago which was the same director as bad vegan. And it's masquerading as prestige TV but it's not!!

Minimum wage - how it started, its actual purpose, and how people got so comfortable with it not being enough money to live on

Sex offender regitries

Continuing the criminal justice theme you've plumbed so well recently with Josie Duffy Rice, I'd love to hear an discussion with criminal psychologist Dr Julia Shaw (@drjuliashaw on Twitter) from the BBC podcast Bad People. Very similar level of nuance and empathy to YWA, and it would be a perfect fit!

This might be niche, but Dr. Frederic Wertham is a polarizing figure in comic book history bc he caused a moral panic in his book Seduction of the Innocent! He contributed to a lot of censorship—but also helped desegregation and contributed to racial justice??

The Rosenbergs!!

Please bring Michael Hobbes back on as a guest host to finish the OJ trial I need this

Please do an episode about Serial season 1 with Josie Duffy Rice!

I LOVE when you do a 'book club discussion' on bad/popular at one-time books 📚 . My favorite!

Richard Jewell. Remember him? Got pinned by the whole world for setting off a bomb at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. I remember how they made that poor guy sweat in front of the camera, red cheeked, just a security guard alone facing a world united in outrage.falsely accused. I remember feeling like his weight had something to do with people picking on him. Then collectively everyone realized he couldn’t have done it, and blithely moved on without apologizing. Don’t remember how he was proven innocent. Poor guy.

Sorry this is so late, hopefully you still see it Sarah - I think an episode on women's sports (or even just women's basketball) would be wonderful. There are the current problems the sport has with keeping folks out based on arbitrary definitions of "being a woman" that always manage to impact black athletes the most; the history of the sports (women couldn't make chest passes in basketball because people thought their boobs would deflate!!), and all of the myths on women's sports not being profitable (how can you be profitable with no investment!? And when owners are specifically fighting to keep their teams in the red!?).

Just listening to the Reply All episode on the TikTok trend "absolutely devious lick", and all I keep thinking is "Sarah, are you HEARING THIS!?" Moral panic about teenage mischief spread through social media that was started by one guy, who thinks he's an expert on teens, sharing rumours in his very popular Facebook page. An episode about the constant panic surrounding teenagers and the internet, and the irony that the real threat is adults and the internet, would be delightful.

It always bugged me that Nikola Tesla is made fun of for supposedly falling in love with a pigeon around the time he died. He was bedridden and poor, and if the pandemic has taught us anything, social isolation can cause us to have strong feelings about things we might not expect. He seemed to be a generally mythicized or misunderstood person and might be a god episode

There’s a book called The Dungeon Master by the private investigator hired to find the kid who’s disappearance was blamed on D&D. Turned out the story was very different

This is pretty light hearted but the otherkin community. What started as a tradition in spiritual communities and somehow became a tumble cringe point of people identifying as “factive” which is being an otherkin of a real person

I have a question. Why has Jarod Leto continued to enjoy Hollywood success when actors with similar reputations have been shunned. My understanding is that he is a sexual predator. Am I wrong?

The 1968 DNC

Just listened to the "grab bag" episode and I'd like to encourage a full episode on food expiration dates! I managed a food pantry and, in addition to it being the most exhausting work I've ever done, I learned so much about poverty, hunger, and food waste. Expiration dates are part of our training -- DYK that the only foods with federally regulated expiration dates are baby foods? All others are determined by manufacturers. Here's a chart used by many food banks to decide whether to hand out that expired can of beans you donated https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Code-Dates-Extensions_New_English.pdf Anyway, a full episode on expiration dates and food waste (like, what does happen to the scraps from baby carrots, or how much trash meal delivery kits generate) would be an eye-opener to a lot of listeners.

I have been waiting for a Caroline Calloway episode for years

taylor swift sarah i know you want to

Viola Liuzzo, a maligned woman from the 60s. She was gunned down by KKK members because she was a white woman driving with a black man in the car. One of the KKK men was a COINTELPRO (another great topic) informant. The FBI fabricated and spread lies in a smear campaign about her after her death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Liuzzo

is it too vague to say detroit? like the whole city??? i love detroit so much and it gets such a bad rap from outsiders and white michiganders. my grandparents lived in detroit in the 60’s during the riots and i always got the whitewashed version about why they had to flee to the suburbs, i recently went to an exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum about the Riots and it was incredibly eye-opening and heartbreaking to see how everything went down. current day detroit is facing the growing issue of gentrification. large fancy apartments, restaurants, and businesses, have moved downtown in the past 10+ years and they’re pricing out long-standing residents. also the misreality of the “good” work of the Illich family. 💛

I'd love an episode about Elizabeth Warren!! Theres SO much misinformation about her! I feel like I'm correcting people all the time. It's really frustrating that people won't listen to me about the indigenous thing even though I'm indigenous myself. I think there's a lot here for an episode. Here are some common misconceptions: She lied about being Native American to get a job/scholarship/into college/money She "backtracked" on M4A She's a centrist She works for wallstreet instead of against it She's a secret republican She's a career politician She lied about Bernie telling her she couldn't beat trump She "stabbed" Bernie in the back by not dropping out and endorsing him. (she announced her run first) She ran for president just to split the progressive vote. She's the reason Bernie lost to Biden. I hope you see this! I'd love to hear your take on it!

The Elephant Man. There's so much to unwrap. The 1980 movie (the story most Americans are familiar with) lead people to a completely bizarre understanding that doesn't reflect on the person or the history involved with any accuracy. And oh, did I mention the name most people know him by (John Merrick) wasn't his real name (Joseph Merrick) and the reason why is a continued debate?

This may or may not be in your wheelhouse, but please please please do an ep on the useless and infuriating Daylight Savings Time. Thanks for all your brilliant work!

I'm very late, But an episode on Typhoid Mary. It's a mad story!

The “juvenile delinquency”scare in the 1950’s. The moral panic that gave us the Fonz!

As someone re-listening to the oj trial series, more oj trial series if you can possibly stand it

I think your take on Boy bands would be really interesting. Specifically NSYNC and Lou Pearlman, or other boy band related controversies

Not to follow too closely with current popular culture… I just watched the Bad Vegan and the Tinder Swindler on Netflix… But romance scamming seems like there’s some interesting history underneath!

Adam Neely guest episode!

A YWA episode about the history of astrology would be awesome.

A Casey Anthony ep!

I'd love an episode about big dairy, specifically the "got milk" campaigns and/or government cheese

Ex-vangelicals! I would love to hear from others who got out of the really gnarly evangelical churches… how they cope with the trauma afterwards… how long it takes to realize it actually WAS trauma! I feel for a long time the public perception of evangelical churches was kooky but essentially good. We were certainly wrong about that. (Former apostolic UPCI kid here)

70s/80s after-school specials

Mackenzie fierceton and institutional shushing

Hello, why not the far right movements in Europe and their link to Russia. In France their also have link to far right terrorist groups and other stuff like nazi-nostalgia. Thanks for your work <3

Late here, but the verdict just came back on the RaDonda Vaught case. I know it might not be completely common knowledge, but it’s huge in the nursing world. As a nurse, the whole thing terrifies me. I know you don’t typically do current events, but she’s a bit of a maligned woman of right now, and I really think you could do her story justice. CD

Lizzie Borden????

Would love to see a “you’re right about” rapid fire. Where you talk about things like Mary Kay Laterno’s dad being too conservative for the John Birch Society.

Les Mis! I feel like everyone thinks it's about the French Revolution, and I'm sure there's a lot to learn about the actual story

The nuclear tests on Bikini Atoll— less a YWA and more of a “you’ve probably never really thought about”

I remember you and Michael talked a lot about doing an HIV/AIDS episode - that would be my suggestion. Maybe Michael could be the guest!

I would love an episode on the concept of the “morning pages” which I recently learned came from Dorothea Brande an actual fascist married to someone who had a fascist USA magazine or newspaper. She’s also one of the figurehead of the New Thought movement which is basically like, “you can overcome obstacles by positive thinking and rise and grind”.

Taylor Swift (10 minute version) (You're Wrong About Version) feat. Dana Schwartz

I would love if there were more episodes on the OJ Simpson trial! That series was one of my favs, but loving the new setup - the guests are super interesting 🤩

Hi Sarah! Thank you for keeping the show going! Your latest episode with Laci Mosley was one of my YWA favorites to date. Can you PLEASE do more episodes with Laci?!

The death industry! Not totally a YWA, but after reading Caitlyn Doughty’s books, I realized how much I didn’t know about death, and our rights (as the deceased and as family). It feels super predatory!

I'd love a full episode on multilevel marketing! I know it's been mentioned a few times in previous episodes but there is actually a very compelling origin story to the whole thing that feels very YWA-worthy. Robert Fitzpatrick's Ponzinomics is a fabulous resource.

Super late to the game, but I just watched The Jinx on HBO — so curious about your takes on the series (especially ethics of how it was edited) & how it affected Robert Durst’s trial!

Recently heard the story of Joyce / Bernann McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming who received tabloid attention in the 70s for kidnapping a Mormon man, then later made headlines in the oughts for cloning her dog, Booger. There’s an Errol Morris documentary about her which I haven’t seen. But the story seems up your alley, Sarah.

Undercover Mothers

I am late and I know this seems random but I would love a deep dive on Maury and Jerry Springer -adjacent shows, what is the validity on the DNA and lie detector tests they provide? Why are they so entertaining and so unethical at the same time?

Scientology!

The Beanie Babies Craze of the 1990s!!

THE OJ SIMPSON TRIAL

Pablo Escobar cocaine hippos

Psychedelic Research!!!

I'd like to know whatever the hell Julian Assange's whole thing is.

Really hope you're still checking these. I'm listening to an audiobook about Franz Ferdinand and Sophie Duchess of Hohenberg, and Sophie seems like exactly the kind of history lady you (and maybe Dana) would like to learn about and I'd love to hear you talk about her.

The student movements of the 1960s/70s and specifically the Kent State Shooting and Jackson State shooting. I feel like most people agree, today, that those were bad (if they’ve heard about them). But— public opinion at the time was more mixed. Plus- Jackson State (an HBCU) isn’t talked about anywhere near enough- even though the killing of 2 students there happened only 10 days after Kent State.

OJ 🙏🙏

Morbid

maybe for a bonus episode but the west memphis 3? 3 teenagers who were convicted of killing children as a part of a satanic ritual, the evidence was really dubious and eventually released after many years in prison

Sally Hemings is a good suggestion. Also, Patsy Ramsey.

For a long time I've been thinking it would be neat if you took a look at the theory that the serial killers of the '70s and '80s had some sort of inherited traumas from their own fathers' war experiences. I randomly heard this mentioned in passing on another podcast (possibly SYSK). Today I was listening to the True Crime episode and you asked where all the serial killers have gone. Maybe there is something to this theory? Of course I'm sure it goes a lot deeper than that but I would love to hear your take. All the best!

Real housewives!

I love all the suggestions here, and just want to add: Sarah I miss hearing you tell stories on the podcast! I also understand that there are periods of having different capacity for this work, but want to say that I miss having you teach me things. <3

Pamela Anderson!

Randy Shilts, Patient O, and the AIDS crisis

Yes-Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy- a great book about the Hemings story

And I second the "Who wrote Shakespeare?" idea-so much crap out there onthis one. Again, happy to help with research.

Also-how come we have urban myths?

Also Adnan Syad. I think Serial kind of missed the boat, even though I enjoyed it.

the salem witch trials, as well as the withcraft hysterias in general. Let me know if you need any part time research help.

The Kennedy’s and rosemary

The story behind the ubiquitous Shen Yun billboards - Falun Gong, alleged organ harvesting, Chinese dance controversies, the conservative media tie in - it seems there's a lot to dig into there.

Britney Spears, Oprah Winfrey, Ke$Ha, Twilight, Kim Kardashian, Jussie Smollet, more of the OJ series!

seconding Aileen Wournos

I know y’all touched on this in a bonus episode but Carole Baskin deep dive please

Anthrax!!!!

No I did not think of an idea yes I did go though all the comments and like the OJ ones

Benghazi

What about refugee crisis? I think it would great to unpack the discourse on that, especially in light of the war in Ukraine. Other idea (extremely broad, not sure how to approach but that's your job, I guess) - American concept of freedom. I'm European, if you can't tell. 😅

I love all these suggestions. Joan Crawford/Mommie Dearest is probably the one I would be most excited about that I haven’t heard covered by other podcasts.

hi Sarah! 💖 i'm dying to hear you go off about The Satanic Temple! i felt like the netflix documentary really tried to sanitize their image and obscure some pretty ugly things that are slowly making their way around-- there are SLAPP suits and this huge alt-right connections history rabbithole! you've got to check out @QueerSatanic on twitter! so many different directions this stuff shoots off in! there are a few other things on my wishlist, i'd love to see you try to tackle the whole "tankies" argument: are they real? is it really just 'red scare 2.0' ? what is their deal? how about something on police unions? the history, or about the way they seem to be the most powerful unions around? is there any meat to a conversation about the rhetoric surrounding "small business" and how this gets tossed around in arenas like municipal politics? thank you so much for podcasting! your show has given me so much!

Please finish the OJ Simpson series!!!!!!

Manson murders

I second Casey Anthony- it was mentioned once during your Nancy Grace episodes and I’ve been dying to hear an episode about it! I feel like the Casey Anthony trial was like the millennial OJ. Tiny substory but- after the trial, two of my sisters friends started a rumor that she was hiding out in our super small hometown in Ohio (population <6,000). They emailed a ton of media companies and all of a sudden news crews were set up along all of our stoplight intersections (which is 3 to be exact 😂).

A long episode, possibly a series, analyzing the "gifted child" phenomena and associated industries. You've mentioned your own gifted schooling in the past and despite mine occurring decades earlier we could have been telling the same story, with the same disillusioned ending.

The Salem witch trials?

leo frank trial !!! full episode talking about fanfiction

Finish OJ. Aileen Wuornos. Love Canal. Joan Crawford/Mommie Dearest. Waco. Sally Hemmings.

Also as a bonus episode I want someone to explain Chelsea Hart to Sarah

As an appendium to the OJ Simpson series, I'd love to listen to an episode about the Kim K/Kanye debacle, and how we continue to excuse men's behaviour as pranks, even when it's scary

I would like to hear the continuation of the O.J. Simpson case. I was really enthralled by that deep dive😊

kinda like your anna nicole smith or tonya harding episodes of 90s maligned women, i’d love an episode about the pam & tommy sex tape. just watched the series on hulu…i had no idea it was stolen! not that i knew much about it since i was a kid, ha.

For book club, "Lisa Bright and Dark" also, in the series Six Feet Under, the character, Brenda, has a psychiatrist mom who wrote a book about her as a child called "Charlotte Light and Dark"

Shakespeare. Lotta misinformation out there.

Casey Anthony

Would like to have show about how public domain becoming more restrictive under Sonny Bono act, has hurt creative process, but maybe that's been explored enough through others. Also, in the 1970s: The books "Go Ask Alice" by anonymous and "The Minnesota Connection" [when I was growing up in the 1970s, my Mom had me really scared about the human trafficking scene described in the "Minnesota Connection" book.]

Would you ever return to OJ? I miss Paula! Love the show, take care!

Critical Race Theory!!!

A mini series about the AIDS epidemic with Michael as a guest would be my dream (although I totally understand if he wouldn't want to do that seems like a lot of work)

CRT. .all and everything please. How it's become a political target and how it has morphed into another moral panic. I could always use more facts to argue with my parents about. Love the show always! Sarah B.

The Earn IT Act (2022) is based on propaganda of sex workers and child sexual abuse material. It's the sequel to SESTA/FOSTA in forcing tech companies to increase censorship and weaken security of messages. They will be removing end to end encryption by allowing a backdoor for government bodies like law enforcement to have access to anyones online information. This is a huge violation of privacy and will increase automated censoring on sites with usual outcomes being removed LGBT content, sex education, and de-platforming sex workers. Anyone who reads please contact your rep now: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s3538

Psychoanalysis/Freud!

Stanley Milgram and his experiments on obedience to authority or zimbardo (annoys me that he’s made a career off one poorly run study)

I would love to hear Sarah’s perspective on domestic violence

This may have been done long ago, but my god I’d love to hear Sarah break down “The Stranger Beside Me.” YWA really pointed out to me that the myth of the brilliant serial killer just tends to excuse the incompetence of the police, and reading Ann Rule’s book for the first time it’s shocking how she centers the cops’ stress over that of families of murdered women, how she constantly excuses the many years that pass during Bundy’s crime sprees without ever mentioning or even questioning why LE was so incapable of stopping him. I haven’t gotten to his escape from jail yet but I can only imagine how she’ll excuse that. I had no idea Ann Rule was a cop, and how copaganda permeates so much of the true crime genre she basically kickstarted.

The lives of the rich and famous

I’d love to hear Sarah speak on prison. The for profits in particular. I think most people don’t really understand the details of our disastrous prison systems. Also Ayn Rand. And why this doesn’t work and all the issues around her theories of a society.

Hear me out- America’s Next Top Model. If you go back, especially the first few seasons, it’s an incredible little view of race dynamics and self reinforced sexism. It’s wild.

One thing that seems to be popping up in my feed more and more lately is carbon offsets, and if they really work. I'd always thought they didn't, but as with most things, it seems like it's more complicated than that. Another good one could be Gary, Indiana. It's 42 minutes from Chicago, and in theory should be a satellite city. The changing steel industry is blamed for its current condition, but racism and white flight had a huge part in the decline as well.

This is extremely broad, but Detroit and its history/hardships. I live there and love it, but so many people look down on it and have uninformed things to say about it.

I’m an episode and a half into Pam and Tommy, would love to know more about what actually happened

Pretty please Ukraine history. Israeli/Palestine history while you’re at it. Seems like everyone has an opinion but no one actually knows anything

Wolves!!!

I think Jane Fonda could be a great one!

Drugs/drug use; Hilary Agro would be a great guest host!

More OJ trial! I feel like we’ve just begun 😂

What about the Mad Cow Disease mania of the 1990s?

The misconception society has on pimps and hoes

Please debunk the misconception that I punched my aunt in the face on Christmas day 2017

Porn panic

Summer Book Read of Kathy O’Briens Trance Formation of America!!!

I would give ANYTHING to hear your takes about Helen Keller! also, the CIA’s involvement in global and domestic drug trafficking, especially crack and the Gary Webb story (a journalist exposes the cia, is absolutely demolished by all mainstream media, ends up being right, and dies from two gunshots to the head in a SUICIDE??? very on brand i think)

I’d love something about movie sets- either a deep dive into the making of something specific that was a crazy set, or more generally the issues of safety/labor rights (or lack thereof!) that have been so present lately with the death of Halyna Hutchins and the IATSE strike— our favorite movies are made in some absolutely appalling conditions! Also, totally unrelated: the controversial techniques of famous dog trainers like Cesar Millan.

American POWs allegedly left in Vietnam. In the eighties it was all over, in movies and in the black POW/MIA flags. Any evidence ?

There are some maligned/lampooned men that I would be curious to hear a deep dive on: - Brendan Fraser - Tom Green - Jesse Jackson - Howard Dean and “The Scream” - Gary Coleman - Milli Vanilli

Kissing Jessica Stein and this is for You Are Good ha

Rosie O’ Donnell

Finish OJ Simpson trial!!! 😭❤️

Onlyfans? I’m not even sure where to begin with what people get wrong about it, but would love if you had a sex worker on to talk about it. The way people think it’s easy money (it’s not), the absolute scam-level business shenanigans behind the scenes of it, the way sex workers built it but they try to act like it’s not a porn site, so many interesting threads to pull 😊

Expert witnesses Incarceration Voting Rights The Ghetto The Unemployment Rate Labor Unions Evictions Corporate Bankruptcy

Your wrong about: Up With People — the nonprofit organization tldr: a government conspiracy, a teen choir, a cult, some awfully dated music and cheesy dance moves. Exxon funded right-wing propaganda in the form of High School Musical. the original DARE but more gay and more evangelical! and with more super bowl halftime performances (i think 5).

I was just reminded of Anna Chapman, Russian spy and I think that would be an interesting topic for you. Love your episodes with Chelsey and with Jamie.

Shen Yun

Please finish OJ 😱🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

Recycling! I’m a PhD student working on environmental science, and it breaks my heart that people think recycling is the #1 thing they can do for the environment

Tawana Brawley. Curious to know what exactly happened there and where all the folks involved in that case are now—well, except Al Sharpton!

This is really late and there's so many comments already but I want to say one I'd really like anyway: Michael Jackson

Do one of Critical Race Theory. It’s become weaponized by people that have made it into a runaway train of bastardized misinformation to further conservative political nonsense.

This one is Canadian specific: Paul Bernardo and Karla holmolka

Pat Tillman. It’s always been interesting seeing how the NFL and military dismiss his manner of death and disillusionment with the war

Amanda Knox

This is a random one, but the chimpanzee that ate someone’s face off has always been an accepted story, but I think it was a case of animal abuse. Your Koko episode always gets me in my heart.

Christian Science. Every city/town it seems had a prominent CS building from the 1800s; is it still a thing?

The Black Panthers

The Dust Bowl!

Wallace Simpson! Dana knows :)

Would love an episode of the Rajneeshees and of the Friedmans

Do scurvy! This is from the Wikipedia entry (not the most academic source but whatever….) - “ The knowledge that consuming foods containing vitamin C is a cure for scurvy has been repeatedly forgotten and rediscovered into the early 20th century.” Whaaaaaaaaat? We just forgot?!

In light of the new doc and YWA's love of the Bimbo, what about a Pam Anderson ep? Marilyn Monroe would be great, Lou Perlman and the boy bands of the 90s, the '27 club', McCarthy-ism, Sinead O'Connor, John Candy, so many! Really could do with a glass of JUICE though x

William Shakespeare. Possibly in a joint effort with Noble Blood's Dana Schwartz?

You're wrong about Sinead O'Connor.

Communism, feels like there’s a lot of propaganda and misinformation out there. Talk to a communist, We’re super fun I promise 😂

8000 more book clubs about anything

HELEN KELLERRRRR OMG

Also I never get sick of people debunking the Patient Zero myth from the AIDS epidemic.

I'm desperate to know what the real deal was with that Runaway Bride lady in like... 2003? I've done no research but I very much feel like we were wrong about that one.

If we could have the rest of the story of the OJ Simpson trial, that would be great! I never thought I would listen to those episodes because I’ve been OJed out most of my life, but ofc you got me hooked!

Sid Vicious & Nancy Spungen!!!!

Rebecca Black and Friday? Sarah Z has a video that goes into a bunch of this, so not sure how much there is to add, but fits into the theme of maligned young women blamed for things out of their control

I was just relistening to the Koko The Gorilla episode and you briefly mentioned Helen Keller. Would love a full length episode on that. Feels like there’s probably a lot about her that’s not widely known

Finish the OJ series. It was wonderful, but I believe that we are only on the arraignment

The clear channel's post 9/11 do not play music list

Three Mile Island

Okay bear with me... Lindsay Lohan. She was a woman of the 90's and an extremely talented young actor who was completely cancelled for addiction problems.

I really love the book clubs. This week on You are Good you mentioned 50 Shades of Grey in passing. I’d LOVE a recap of the series through your eyes. It’s place in our cultural understanding of relationships, sex, patriarchy, it’s sillyness!!!! It’s origins in FANFIC!!!!! The moral panic about it. The way it gets BDSM wrong and gave us bad understanding of it. etc etc etc, I’d love hear your thoughts on it. Thanks Sarah!!

The Menendez Brothers!

I’ve always wanted to hear one on the Manson family and the sort of “myth” that the Helter Skelter story has become. I read that book my senior year of high school and was so engrossed with it, and then come to find that it’s probably not the truth, surprise surprise

I would love to see an episode on the No Child Left Behind act and what it has done to schools, teachers, and students.

Would love to see an episode on Valerie Solanas, SCUM, and the shooting of Andy Warhol.

More OJ please Pam and Tommy

I can't imagine you're going to read this far down the list, but I do think there are a lot of interesting 'you're wrong abouts' in the world of mental health diagnosis. Such as the poor inter rater reliability in mental health diagnosis, how the diagnosis can be gendered or based on race or SES, and the benefits and pitfalls of people engaging in self diagnosis. There are also the myriad mental health terms that enter the common lexicon where the meaning shifts and changes, such as narcissism, codependency and sociopath.

Orthodontia and the obsession with making every child get braces throughout the aughts

evolutionary psychology

The victims of Jack the Ripper, Anne Boleyn, Harry Houdini, Miss World

Here’s another vote for Jon Benet Ramsey!

I NEED a YWA explainer on MSG. Yes the food seasoning.

The Donner party

PLEASE finish OJ Simpson

Brexit Michael brown's murder The collegiate Greek system Playboy The gilded age

Victor Salva

Bring on Robert Evans (and maybe Jamie too!) to talk satanic panic. Dan and Jordan from Knowledge Fight would be great guests as well :•)

Finish up the OJ Simpson trial?

Chappaquiddick. That fact that I was born and raised in Massachusetts and never learned about this event until a few years ago is wild. Or wealth privilege at its finest.

The Village people. They are so iconic and yet and know little about them.

Despite reading scathing things about him in the media, I still follow Shaun King on social media & he seems to be doing a lot of good? I always wonder how much of the info we got about him was real vs. lies spread to discredit him as a strong voice in the BLM movement. There could also be something in this about white people who pretend to be black (Rachel Dolezal) and the affects it has on the black community as Shaun King was accused years ago of faking his Blackness by conservatives.

maybe this is too recent but i'd love to find out what on earth happened with glenn greenwald

I’m not sure if you’re wanting to continue the series in this new stage of the podcast, but I figured I’d put it out there that would be interested in listening on continuation of the OJ series.

Adoption

salem witch trials!

Child Protective Services. Oregon notoriously has one of the most corrupt CPS systems in the country, and it doesn't function to help families in any state in most cases. Fun fact: CPS has an UNLIMITED legal budget, as I learned from an attorney who's represented CPS cases for 22 years (!) Their business is dragging families through court, outcomes are heartbreaking.

Titanic please!

It would be interesting to hear about our cultural view of ghosts/people who interact with ghosts - from the rise of spiritualism led largely by young women, to today's super bro-y paranormal investigators Or looking into our evolution of understanding mental health care. Side tangents (or focal points) could include the DSM, different therapies (e.g. electroshock), the theory that adhd was created by pharmaceutical companies so they could sell pills, etc.

Asexuality and have Angela Chen as the guest!

And also sorry last one PLEASE a full episode about your thoughts on the psychopath!!!!!

Oh and the trial of the Chicago 7!

Balloon boy and other viral stunts that I am vaguely aware of but never actually understood or fast fashion/scammy fashion brands posing as small creators or susan smith (I read Cornelius Eady's Brutal Imagination but never actually looked into her case)

Kelly Lane - an Australian woman who was convicted of murdering her daughter Tegan despite the fact there is no body, no proof Tegan is dead and Kelly swears she gave Tegan to the bio-Dad. There’s a lot of really interesting twists and questions about how the legal system functions!

Etsy Anthrax Human infertility/“fertility cliff” MPA/movie ratings

- Pam Anderson, in total, not just the tape. Maligned women from the 80s, 90s, and 00s is really just the best. - The rise of crack (Reagan, Oliver north, Iran contra, just say no, Gary Webb...so much) great addition/tie in to crack babies and dare. - more episode like the Lorena Bobbitt episode. - Immigration via the southern border (history of, WWII, Chicano movement, current events) - Jon Bennet - Lisa "left eye" Lopez - Milli Vanilli - one hit wonders from the 90s

Twin flames!!!!!

I just listened to an old episode where Mike mentioned a possible Mason Murders episode, now it's all I want!

Charles Lindbergh - could focus on his Nazi loyalties or his son’s abduction which perhaps shaped stranger danger in years to come?

I need the one about the police Psychics that you mentioned wanting to do once!

Adrien Brody and his snl “performance”

OH talk about the psychopath test

please please please talk about the moral panic surrounding school curriculum (banned books, sex ed, critical race theory).

Mother Theresa. The swindled podcast did an excellent break down of the myth of mother Teresa and I’d be fascinated to see Sarah Marshall and a guest unpack the person, the myth and the celebrity

Possibly something folks are already realizing they were wrong about, but I would love to see an episode or two about the Equal Rights Amendment and the disunity in the 1970s feminist movement.

the moral panic over subliminal messaging!!

I really, really want a “You’re Wrong About Malcolm Gladwell.” I’m consistently stunned by the shoddiness of his research and his gargantuan conclusions based on scant evidence.

You mentioned Debbie Thomas and the Olympics once, an episode on Katarina Witt and Debbi Thomas and the 1988 Olympics would be super interesting.

I really love your maligned women from history episodes. 💜

I think a really interesting episode could be made about Angela Davis. Many people just have a shadowy feeling about her as someone who was somehow a criminal - because that's how the media portrayed her, even though she absolutely is not - she is a professor, activist and intellectual (she worked at my alma mater) who has done many wonderful things and has a lot to say.

People have already said it but I want to be involved (and annoying!) so more OJ please

Edith Wilson!

Alcoholics Anonymous!!!

I just heard that the Supreme Court is giving the Boston marathon bomber a death sentence after all and spent some time wandering around wikipedia on the matter. Seems like there's a lot to unpack there.

The Black Panthers!

The race to the South Pole. 100%. Specifically the "heroism" of Scott. I hate it. I hate it so much. The man took P O N I E S. To Antarctica. Ponies, famous for eating very little and being great on ice, NOT. He took Burberry jackets. They're great for the London fog but do NOT work in icy conditions. He refused to use dogs ("a gentleman carries his own sled"). He made his team go all the way to the South Pole even when it was clear they were running out of rations and stamina and would probably die on the way back (which indeed they all did). Instead of doing the actual good leadership thing of turning them around before reaching the pole and saving their lives. Meanwhile Amundsen lived in Inuit communities, studied and respected their tools and knowledge, while British imperialist Scott simply even refused to entertain that ANYTHING could be learnt from people who had lived and thrived in icy conditions for millenia. Amundsen used dogs and sleds for transport and animal skins for clothing, all based on what he learnt from Inuit people. Also skis, duh. Something Scott was somehow too noble to do. Amundsen and his crew made it to the south pole and back. His entire crew survived. They even GAINED WEIGHT on the way back. Amazing. And yet in the British world Scott is still heralded for his heroism and Amundsen considered something of a non-gentlemanly cheat. SMDH. I am very passionate about this.

Michael Jackson!

Sex work

IQ. Mike mentioned doing research about race and IQ in one episode and that made me want the concept to get the full treatment.

Country music From what I do know, it’s story is right up their alley, with plenty of racism, moral panic, and capitalism being the villain all along.

It's contemporary, but the media response to Havana Syndrome has been really interesting, regardless of whatever is true (my guess is just psychological distress impacting people with connections).

Sled dogs sled dogs sled dogs!! Blair and Q!

Dr. Kevorkian, Macauly Culkin, ivy league schools

Sarah has mentioned a few times In various episodes that she finds the concept of psychopaths to be sketchy, and questioned the validity of the Hare Psychopathy test. I would love (LOVE!) to hear a deep dive on that.

FREUD PLEASE

Dunning-Krueger effect Anton LaVey Psychedelics Baby Einstein Gifted programs (I know I’ve commented like three separate times. I just love YWA and I have a lot of feelings!)

I’m not sure if there’s much of a “you’re wrong about” aspect to Scientology, but I would be genuinely interested in hearing about it, particularly because I’ve always wondered why so many celebrities have been and are still Scientologists (Also though maybe not, it feels like they get very scary about people talking about them) CIA and LSD maybe? Everywhere I turn there’s people talking about it but it’s all contradictory info and a lot of what sounds like conjecture but idk

Eva Perón would be a very cool episode or series of episodes imo!

The story of biologist David Starr Jordan might be up your alley. It was recently explored in Lulu Miller's book "Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life"

Jessica Lynch and the sturrounding media frenzies

The Satanic Temple

I know there has been reporting on it before (I think Slate and Vox have both done articles) but a YWA centering on why the Red Cross isn't the best disaster or relief org to send money to in times of crisis. I mention this because I still regularly see news orgs including the Red Cross in lists of non-profits to donate to (including very recently b/c of the crisis in Ukraine). And what's so bad is that they've had successful campaigns around their texting to give $10 since it's so easy. The Red Cross has its place (blood/platelet donations for one) but as a first line response to disasters or crises, it is not.

I’d love to hear the truth about obsessive fandoms, it was kind of a joke on twitter but particularly with Glee I remember twitter was just starting and how influential it was to the show and how entitled everyone seemed to become. Just seems to have grown beyond that now and days.

Lots of great suggestions already... But I'd love to hear an episode about tabloid media in the early 00s. Particularly around the narrative surround the Four Horse(wo)men of Messiness at the time: Paris, Lindsey, Nicole & Britney. (Jessica Simpson excluded since her autobiography was already covered.)

the Chiropractic industry!!

Comfort animals, the "say no to drugs" campaign, MTV "rock the vote," Hugh Hefner as an impetus of the sexual revolution, and The real story behind "A League of their Own."

Plzzzzz talk about Pamela Anderson

How about The Old Testament? I thought of this b/c I'm listening to the Westboro Baptist Church episode, and if someone thinks God is generally terrible or doesn't exist, that's none of my business. But I think a lot of people don't know that Jews and many liberal Christians consider it anti-Semitic to harp on how bad the Old Testament and its God are while saying (or implying) that the New Testament is better. You can Google "supersessionism" if you want. And even if you don't do the show, could you and your guests stop saying this stuff? Sacrifices and related texts are about a third of the Five Books of Moses. So we don't love to hear them called Satanic-adjacent or whatever. Signed, a loyal but currently kind of disappointed Jewish listener

Not to bring up another true crime topic, but I think we need an updated conversation about Aileen wuornos

I would still love a Buffy episode 🥺 or just Joss Whedons cultural impact as a fake feminist who we all just assumed knew what he was talking about

Maybe the Brock Turner case and the campaign to remove Judge Persky. Many of us felt as though Brock Turner got away too lightly with such a short prison sentence, but should we be that quick to jail 19 year olds with no prior criminal history? What we might have been "wrong about" was thinking that Persky gave such a light sentence to Truner because he was a young man with a promising future, when really it's because he's a judge who isn't inclined to instantly hand out lengthy sentences. This article is what prompted me to rethink the whole thing: https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/brock-turner-michele-dauber/

ADHD!

You should do an episode on Woodstock 1999!!

More about the Pinkertons and their involvement with union wars would be incredible!

I'd love to hear something from you all about child actors and the brutal meat machine of Hollywood.

Princess Grace? Love to hear about her kids as well - seems like there is a lot to tell

Sarah- you mentioned her on You Are Good the other day in passing. You’re Wrong About on Kim Kardashian but exploring the question of: why do we love Kim? I often think Kim is our Lady Di (I know, I know) but hear me out. Would we not all cry in the streets with teddy bears if she passed?

Fiona Apple

OJ! OJ! OJ!

How about an episode about me - lol - or gen x, boring person, non existence, hermit, shut in, small life, - joking, but I am curious as to why no one as replied with - overt episode of do me, and hide behind / more stuff I like…I’m only joking- I find it nice to know - I think we love ❤️ you Sarah and we want to support you. Oh and Mike is gone, and I don’t think it’s helpful to say, bring back Mike. That seems insensitive. I think you are doing well. I feel bad - as non organized person, so many suggestions, wow, good luck girl. I enjoyed your guest appearance on the Podcast, these’s are their stories (law and order / crime writers on podcast). I like that podcast - Good luck and lots of love Again, lonely Doll, Dare Wright or Judy Garland, I still think - examples of women - similar to 90s - I like sad stuff

Madeline McCann & also Amanda Knox

Please please more OJ! I’ve listened to the series 10 times or more and am fascinated and want to hear all of Sarah’s deep dives on more! ❤️❤️❤️

Hilaria Baldwin

Pierre Elliott Trudeau French Immersion

Cowboys?

Not sure if this is a "You're Wrong About," but I would love to hear you talk to John Darnielle about his new book "Devil House" because it is VERY MUCH in your wheelhouse.

The Cambridge diet!

i would love love an episode about gender, kate bornstein has a book called gender outlaw which would make for perhaps a great bookclub or an overall episode about gender, with other great trans books!

Jeremy Corbyn

Would love to see you do an episode about animal myths with Katie from creature feature! I’ve been loving the episodes with Jamie Loftus. Also more myths about psychology/disorders like about psychopaths! I also think it would be really fun to have an episode like you’re wrong about your bra size and then talk about the history and current nonsense of women’s clothing sizes!

NFTs

DUIs!

I suggest checking out Hallie Rubenhold's Bad Women: The Ripper Retold. She looks at Jack the Ripper's victims who have been branded as prostitutes for over a century. I listened and could her Sarah and Michael's gasps and comments.

The Cuban missile crisis and how jfk is often praised for it, but that’s really mostly because nuclear war didn’t happen, as he made questionable decisions

I’d love to know more of Sarah’s thoughts about psychopaths and how they’re not a real thing. They’re the modern day boogey man and it’s wild!

The truth about Sarah Winchester, the myths and misinformation behind the Winchester mystery house.

Fanfiction 😁

Hello, I heard plenty of ppl say the trojan horse scandal/affair and I thought to myself "but there's already a podcast about it!" but it seems like there is yet another side to the story, so I wanna second all those people who are interested in ur take!!

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch! It’s absolutely true that we’re putting massive amounts of plastic in the oceans and that’s really bad, but I see a lot of misinfo about what the major sources of plastic are, what problems they actually cause, what we can do about it, etc. My guest recommendations are Miriam Goldstein, who did her PhD on the ecology of ocean plastics and now works with NGOs, or Rebecca Helm, a marine biologist and professor who’s written for The Atlantic on the topic.

Anything cult related! Scientology FLDS (fundamentalist church of Jesus chris of Latter Day Saints) Children of God

Me too movement and more maligned women!

OJ SERIES!!! Please please please

Imelda Marcos! I thought of her when you and Chelsey Weber-Smith were chatting about feeling weird about women associated with bad and arguably powerful men, and I have to believe that there is more to her than her shoe collection???

Finish the OJ series.

Soooo much we're wrong about

The private infant adoption industry!!!

The West Memphis 3!!

More OJ!

The War on Drugs, ineffectiveness of the DEA

The time is ripe for a Pam Anderson episode!

GamerGate. I feel like the topic could benefit from some more complexity than I've seen it presented with & your empathetic perspective

Canada. As nightmare-ish as the US, but we're all passive-aggressive about it, so it's much harder to decipher.

When are we getting the rest of the OJ story!!!

PEEWEE HERMAN AND THE PORN THEATRE DEBACLE!

Jane Fonda - is she a maligned woman of history? Also her context in cancel culture?

Multi-level marketing!

More true crime, OJ and general 90s topics, maligned women in general, Jenny McCarthy would be great as mentioned above too! Also topics related to psychotherapy - as a therapist most people are “wrong” about what it is and how therapists are supposed to conduct themselves. Also room for a ton of Grifty content in therapy space.

I always felt like there must be a bizarre story behind Biosphere 2, the utopian ecological research post/Mars colony prototype that 90's kids were told was *super* important.

Recycling. Learning the truth about this one hurt

Thought of this after Maintenance Phase reviewed Supersize Me-the documentary Waiting for Superman/charter schools/standardized testing

Duggar episode !!!!!

Oh! Plastic Straws!

It would be cool to hear some mental health debunking. Not sure what media stories this could be centered around, but a You're Wrong About... Bipolar disorder or ADHD could address some pop culture depictions. Billy from 6 Feet Under comes to mind.

The child pageantry industry (Jon benet)

The birth and ride of “influencers”

I'd love to hear about: - Early Psychology / Psychiatry. - Psychopaths / Sociopaths. I've picked up the take that they're dubious labels and some basic reasoning but I'd love to hear the history of how they came to be and where they go wrong.

My significant other is a teacher and the #1 "You're Wrong About" he rants about is the theory of Learning Styles. The idea that we all have a best way to learn (auditory, visual, kinesthetic) has been debunked by researchers again and again. Yet, it continues to be a bedrock of modern teacher training, education practice in U.S. schools, and adult workplace learning strategies. Teacher's are stuck trying to figure out how to teach algebra to kinesthetic learners and folks actually try to do things like learn a foreign language by "visual learning" only. Here's an article summarizing the research findings: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/learning-styles-debunked-there-is-no-evidence-supporting-auditory-and-visual-learning-psychologists-say.html https://www.educationnext.org/stubborn-myth-learning-styles-state-teacher-license-prep-materials-debunked-theory/

Sinead O’Connor !! Maybe her biography for summer book club

I really love your maligned women of the 90s episodes, I feel like it’s an incredible strength of yours to pour passion and empathy into those stories. I would be very excited to hear an episode where you talk with a sex worker (or even multiple sex workers) about various aspects and assumptions that people have about the sex industry, especially in America. As a listener from Australia I find America’s views on sex work really interestingly backward (not that we have such a great attitude toward it here). I love this show so much and I am so glad you have continued making it. It’s always a highlight of my regular listening.

I always thought the use of nuclear weapons on Japan during WW2 would make a good episode. In particular, there's a wide-spread belief among Americans that doing so actually saved lives as it made Japan surrender sooner. This looks like self-serving propaganda on the surface - "oh yeah, actually by nuking two major population centers we saved lives." But there are independent historical reasons to think it might not be true. Might be too into the historical weeds for YWA, but it's a cultural misconception worth debunking imo.

More oj

Would love to see some continuation of the “true crime” stuff. Amanda Knox, JonBenet Ramsey, more OJ, Menendez Brothers, or Leopard and Loeb would be my top suggestions!

You're Wrong About: Music Edition! - Britney Spears - Sam Cooke - Whitney Houston - Billie Holiday - Amy Winehouse - Nina Simone

The myths about Native Americans and alcoholism. I think it was taught to me (and many others) that indigenous folks have a wildly vulnerable genetic predisposition to alcoholism. Where in fact I just learned that it’s actually linked to poverty, cultural loss, and historical trauma. Hopefully this is something y’all decide to tackle! ❤️

The troubled teen industry!

Oh, also! I was on the ground of SF&F fandom during the RaceFail drama/discourse (https://fanlore.org/wiki/RaceFail_%2709) and it seems like that’s been largely forgotten, even in nerd circles. But it was a Big Deal for awhile there, and I think really laid some hostility and defensiveness groundwork for the Sad Puppies and Gamergate, which then led in twisty, complicated ways to alt-right tactics circa 2016.

It would be really interesting to see you dive into the history of the Log Cabin Republicans! The Attack Queers by Richard Goldstein is a really good book that might be a good starting off point. They're weirdly a powerhouse of queer politics, mobilizing nearly 1 million lgbt voters for Bush, while also never really gaining respect from Republicans, or from the wider LGBT movement. They have a long history going back to the 1960s with Harvey Milk and the Briggs initiative, all the way to present where they're pretty much full on white nationalists that immediately backed Trump in 2020. Very interesting and topical with the stuff in trans rights in Texas and the Don't Say Gay bill in Florida!

My dream crossover episode is you and Dana Schwartz talking about the early life of Elizabeth I, esp in regard to Thomas Seymour, because I really haven’t seen much discussion of that scandal in a way that doesn’t present her as complicit and “oh she knew what was up” way, in what seems to me to be a pretty classic sex abuse scenario; it’s just interesting to think of this person who’d become so powerful and transformative for her country, in part because of her gender and contested virginity, as a CSA survivor. “Much suspected of me/Nothing proved can be/Quoth Elizabeth, prisoner.”

Jon Benet Ramsey

Reality tv or any of the maligned women of reality tv

Some more ideas! Edward Snowden/Chelsea Manning Ellen Degeneres 2001 Anthrax attacks PATRIOT Act Hurricane Katrina Facebook/Cambridge Analytica NAFTA The Troubles in Ireland

Don't ask; don't tell.

Ghandi the misogynist and philanderer

Modern art/the commodification of the art market!

More Dana Schwartz!

Please Andrea Yates 😭

A weird and maybe entirely too niche topic but... You're wrong about cave diving. Check out the channel DiveTalk on YouTube; I feel like my internet dads Gus and Woody would be THRILLED to talk about why cave diving is totally safe if you follow the rules and know your limits.

The Rosenbergs 2002 Olympic figure skating fix Firestone scandal Milli vanilli

TV judges

The pushback against sex work is a moral panic if I’ve ever heard one. You guys touched on the topic in the human trafficking episode, but I would love to see actual it covered with the same love and nuance. There’s so much we get sooo wrong about the industry. Aileen Wuornos could be an interesting story for sure.

Amanda Knox, re-visiting Satanic Panic, crack epidemic and American government's role, and more episodes about midcentury america in line with the Stepford Wive's episode

God i just read the the titles of the articles an the first para of the book review of Tony Wilsons book. So many well known gross male journos using Schapelle as an excuse to peddle some very weird views of women.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schapelle_Corby Maligned women of the 2000s. The coverage of this has all the tropes. Bimbo. Class, Ott media interest and hype etc etc Great plot twists. I suspect everything that has ever been written about Schapelle was wrong.

I have a bit of a lighter suggestion-- corsets! Or historical fashion in general, both western and non. There are a ton of myths to bust there and a whole bunch of fashion historians who are active online and would make really engaging guests!

banned books and intellectual freedom pls pls pls

Satanic panic adjacent -- how all those folks were wrong about Dungeons & Dragons back in the 1980s

Queen Pamela Anderson. Michael should guest lol it’s a follow to the beautify narrative yall composed for Anna Nicole.

Any chance we've all been wrong all these years about Nancy Reagan? I think she's pretty awful but maybe there's more to her than what we saw when she was First Lady.

Dear Sarah, with sincere understanding that it might be hard, please, please, please find a way to end O.J. For Nicole, for Marcia, for us, and also for you❤️

diversion courts like drug courts and mental health courts. they sound like a good thing but in reality they're pretty messed

I've been reading some about Mileva Marić, Albert Einstein's first wife, and how she may have played a more substantial role in some of the theories/discoveries attributed to Einstein was reported at the time. Are we all wrong about Einstein?

OMG please bring Michael back as a guest host to talk more about the nonprofit industrial complex. I'm a teacher who used to work at a few different nonprofits including a food bank. The amount of things people are wrong about. Dear God. The one that drove me the most nuts was when food corporations would donate pallets of gum and mountain dew to kids programs and translating the weight into a "number of meals served" (which of course this kind of math helps the food bank in their quest for funding) 🙄

Mental institutions where people used to be committed, and how they've been depicted in movies vs reality.

Aliens / extra terrestrials

The foster care system

Mass shootings / school shootings

White collar crime

Michael Jackson

Betty Broderick.

Minimalism

DARE! It would be great to talk about the failures and promises of the program and how it fit into the war on crime.

Sex work

My first vote would be OJ if you’re still feeling up for it. I would also suggest neighborhood gentrification. I feel ishy about it, but I don’t know why or what can be done to make it less bad. I’m also a big Newsies lover and I used to work somewhere where there was the constant threat that I would have to be a scab. I think an episode on modern unions would be great.

I mentioned this on another comment but I’d love to hear an episode about the origins of the pledge of allegiance- it seems so strange to me that we would ask kids as young as five to swear their loyalty to our country. I don’t know if there’s a story there but I’m so curious.

I would love to hear the rest of the OJ Simpson saga!

Amanda Knox / good guest. Also, Lena Dunham & Alicia Bennet have a podcast called the C word. It’s paywall, but available via apple subscription model. I think Sarah you would enjoy and perhaps reach out. They have covered so many women, many / most unaware but well done. The episode on Dare Wright is haunting and I knew nothing about this women, but it was so well done. Judy Garland also, covered. I’m not saying do it, I just thought you would also be interested in the theme - Again, the C Word podcast with Lena requires subscription to Luminary. Free trials of subscription may be available and could give you a few days to check out some of the episodes. Hope you are well. I enjoyed most recent episode. Thanks for being you.

I think at some point you were researching police mediums? Would love to hear more about that!