Just Plain Wrong

This week, the MennoBrarians watch some TV shows! The first show we review is season 1, ep 2 of Glenn Martin, DDS, a cartoon show about a family traveling the country in a mobile dentistry RV. In this episode, Glenn decides his children are addicted to technology, and that the solution is to live briefly with the Amish. 

In the second half of the episode we discuss 2 Broke Girls, season 2 episode 7. The show follows two young women living in Brooklyn. In this ep, two young Amish men visit the restaurant they work at saying they are on Rumspringa, and are recruited to build a stable for a horse. 

We also chat about if / what sitcoms could do better if they want to do an "Amish" episode, our favorite Catherine O'Hara shows/movies (it's relevant! promise!), and much more. 

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“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams. 

This week is our 125th episode of Just Plain Wrong! We celebrate by doing a snake draft of our own podcast episodes selecting 1, the episode we would re-do if we could; 2, favorite media covered; 3, favorite interview; 4, favorite overall episode. 

We also chat about Sunday evening traditions, the most popular ep from each season, and lots more.

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“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams. 

This week, the MennoBrarians decide to switch things up and talk about the movie Holyman Undercover for only a small portion of the episode, and instead chat about our recent trip to Sarasota for our annual podcast summit. We talk about bad movies - ones that are fun, like Monsturd, and ones that are not fun, like Holyman Undercover - as well as Sarasota, Pinecraft, all the desserts we ate, and much more. 

We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

If you want to help support the podcast financially, please consider joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod  or buying merch at TeePublic

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Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ 

“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams. 

This week, the MennoBrarians snake draft our favorite, most niche, and weirdest Mennonite traditions. We chat MCC Relief Sales, hymn sings, baptism, and how we draw the line at washing saran wrap. 

We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

If you want to help support the podcast financially, please consider joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod  or buying merch at TeePublic

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Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ 

“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams. 

This week the MennoBrarians chat about the Amish romance novel, First Impressions: An Amish Retelling of Pride & Prejudice by Sarah Price. We chat about our favorite P & P adaptations, and do a detailed overview of how the author "Amish-ified" the classic novel.

We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

If you want to help support the podcast financially, please consider joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod  or buying merch at TeePublic

Follow us:  

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plainwrongpod/ 

Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ 

“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams. 

This week, the MennoBrarians kick off Season 8! We celebrate the season start with a breakfast foods snake draft, some quick life updates, and chatting about some recent book and media favorites. 

We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

If you want to help support the podcast financially, please consider joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod  or buying merch at TeePublic

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Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ 

“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams. 

In this week's episode, the MennoBrarians look back on 2025 and chat about some of our favorite books and media from this past year. 

Mentioned in this episode: 

Erin’s 2025 Favorites

• The collected works of Ali Hazelwood
• Basketball, particularly the Iowa Hawkeyes and the WNBA
• Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The music of Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, and Chappel Roan

Tillie’s 2025 Favorites

• Murderbot TV series on Apple TV - 
• Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green 
• DC universe comics and movies
• In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson 

Abby’s 2025 Favorites

• Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)
• Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor (2006)
• KPop Demon Hunters & My Neighbor Totoro
• The Everlasting by Alix Harrow

We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

If you want to help support the podcast financially, please consider joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod  or buying merch at TeePublic

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Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ 

“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams. 

The MennoBrarians return for the first of our two holiday episodes, with a recap and discussion on the recently released movie, Christmas in Amish Country. You can find this movie streaming on Frndly, Philo, or live on the UpTV cable channel. In the movie, we follow Claire/Clara Stoll through her new restaurant's disastrous opening night, after which she decides to return home to Missouri and stay with her Amish family for the holidays. She's driven there by fake Lyft driver Jack who is really a reporter. 

Tune in for a full recap of the movie, along with many sidebars on weird set designs, random plot lines, and much much more. 

We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

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Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ 

“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams. 

In this episode we discuss the highlights of season 7, share some stats and also stories and corrections from our listeners. Highlights include the story of how the More with Less cookbook got into trouble with a chain of restaurants, the rise of ebikes in Mount Hope, OH, and more.

Additionally, here are some of the resources shared by Steve Nolt about the Old Order River Brethren including:

• A number of very informative books in the MHL, about Amish and other Plain groups, were written by an Old Order River Brethren author, Steve Scott.  
• The occasional medical column in Pathway’s Family Life magazine that the MHL gets sometimes has a health Q&A with Dr. Michael Sauder, who is Old Order River Brethren.
• Another OORB of note is poet G. C. Waldrep, about to retire from Bucknell University. He is a convert to the OORB.  The OORB drive cars, have never limited higher education, and haven’t spoken PA Dutch for many generations, so they are, in some ways, an attractive option for converts who have higher ed and only speak English.  Interestingly, Waldrep provided a photo of Plain hat rather that a head short for his Poetry Foundation bio.  They don’t prohibit photos, but discourage them. 

We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

If you want to help support the podcast financially, please consider joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod  or buying merch at TeePublic

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Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ 

“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams. 

This week the MennoBrarians discuss the selection chosen for us by our Discernment Committee level Patreon members: Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult, published in 2000. This book has it all: a mysterious murder, a lying Amish teenager accused of the crime, a cutthroat but disillusioned big city lawyer, and a 28 year old ph.d. student studying ghosts that turns out to be the baby's father. We chat mysteries, plot twists, and what maybe didn't hold up so well 25 years after publication. 

We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

If you want to help support the podcast financially, please consider joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod  or buying merch at TeePublic

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Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ 

“Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. 

Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal.  

Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 -6) by Abigail Adams.