You're Wrong About

From our friends at Maintenance Phase, the story of how Nestlé executives, global health institutions and a very racist white lady seeded a nutritional myth we're still living with today.

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Mike tells Sarah how a tragic story became a national punchline and a decades-long moral panic. Digressions include a sympathetic psychic, a paternalistic principal and a manure mishap. Mike appears to be unaware of the difference between a cousin and a nephew.

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• Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis 
• Java Jive: Genealogy of a Juridical Icon
• Newsweek’s “Lawsuit Hell” story
• Retro Report’s “The Misunderstood McDonald's Hot Coffee Lawsuit
• Adam Ruins Everything’s “The Truth About the McDonald's Coffee Lawsuit”
• Swindled’s “The Lawsuit”
• Susan Saladoff's "Hot Coffee" documentary
• McTorts: The Social and Legal Impact of McDonald's Role in Tort Suits
• Legal Urban Legends Hold Sway
• Revisiting The United States Application Of Punitive Damages: Separating Myth From Reality
• Six Myths of Capping Pain and Suffering Damages
• The Monster In The Television: The Media's Contribution To The Consumer Litigation Boogeyman
• The Beginning And The Possible End Of The Rise Of Modern American Tort Law
• Debunking Medical Malpractice Myths: Unraveling the False Premises Behind "Tort Reform"
• Blocking the Courthouse Door: How the Republican Party and Its Corporate Allies Are Taking Away Your Right to Sue

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While our next episode's in the oven,  enjoy this gem from the YWA vault!

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This week, the defense hires Alan Dershowitz, Marcia Clark questions witnesses and Jill Shively tries to get a salad. Digressions include narcissism, "Hard Copy" and the dad from "The Wonder Years." Susan Herman, the voice of reason in our Charlie Rose clip, is the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School.

This episode includes descriptions of domestic violence.

Clips:
The Charlie Rose panel
The first day of 'prelims'

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This week we debunk Mike Warnke right out of his cabin and into the lake, using Cornerstone Magazine’s long overdue exposé as our guide. Digressions include "Star Trek," a classic New Yorker cover and Ariana Grande. We definitively conclude that the Bible endorses cancel culture.
This episode, we’re sorry to say, includes detailed descriptions of domestic abuse.

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We finish our San Bernardino joyride through Mike Warnke’s 1972 “memoir” with a hex, a horrible crime and a Satanic celebrity cameo. Digressions include digressions include Billie Eilish, wicker men and today’s completely new and not at all throwback panic over critical race theory.

This episode includes a wildly fake but nonetheless disturbing description of a sexual assault.

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We continue our journey through Mike Warnke's 1972 "memoir" about his rise through the ranks of Satan Inc.  This week, Mike gets a promotion, attends a regional conference and dabbles in some light human trafficking. Despite filling this book with his wildest imaginings, he cannot conceive of a non-patriarchal institution.

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Sarah and Mike return to Camp You're Wrong About for another Satanic Panic story hour. This time we're talking about Mike Warnke's 1972 "memoir" about joining a demonic cult and the California hedonism that made him do it. Digressions include thrift stores, "Firestarter" and unjust Best Picture winners.

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Mike and Sarah have big feelings about an enduring debate. Digressions include “Carrie,” party planning etiquette and Whole Foods cafeterias. Sarah’s sound quality changes midway through because she moves from a McDonald’s parking lot to a Hardee’s parking lot.

Special thanks to Meredith Clark and Allissa Richardson for helping us with the history section of this episode!

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• Natalie Wynn's "Canceling" 
• Drag Them: A brief etymology of so-called “cancel culture”
• The Long and Tortured History of Cancel Culture
• The strange journey of ‘cancel,’ from a Black-culture punchline to a White-grievance watchword
• Why Attacking ‘Cancel Culture’ And ‘Woke’ People Is Becoming The GOP’s New Political Strategy
• Tales From the Teenage Cancel Culture
• Generational Cycles in American Politics, 1952–2016
• It’s Not Callout Culture. It’s Accountability.
• An Incomplete (but growing) History of Harassment Campaigns since 2003
• The State of Online Harassment
• “Did We Create This Monster?” How Twitter Turned Toxic 
• Morally Motivated Networked Harassment as Normative Reinforcement
  
  

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Mike tells Sarah about an impending conflict, a dissident singer and America's first internet-enabled cancellation. Digressions include "Freedom Fries" and 1990s record company shenanigans. The co-hosts harmonize for the first time; Mike struggles not to call the Chicks by their former name.

Content note: This episode includes misogynistic, racist and fatphobic language.

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• The Chicks' "Ready to Run" video
• Karen Pittelman's "Another Country"
• James Dickerson’s “Dixie Chicks: Down-Home and Backstage”
• Elites, Masses, and Media 
• Too Famous to Protest: Far-Right Online Community Bonding Over Collective Desecration of Colin Kaepernick, Fame, and Celebrity Activism
• Blacklists: The Dixie Chicks Controversy 
• Chicks in the Wilderness
• Chicks In the Line of Fire
• The Dixie Chicks Were Cancelled For Criticizing The President. Now, They’re Heroes.
• We’re Changing The Way We Do Business: A Critical Analysis Of The Dixie Chicks And The Country Music Industry
• The Country Connection: Country Music, 9/11, and the War on Terrorism
• Free Expression After September 11th: An Online Index
• Freedom Under Fire: Dissent in Post-9/11 America
• Exploring Iraq War News Coverage and a New Form of Censorship
• The LSE's analysis of the Freedom Fries controversy
• Destroying The Dixie Chicks – Ten Years After
• AOC’s Anti-Fans
• Racial Profiling And The War On Terror: Changing Trends And Perspectives
• Man Eats Dogs: The Hot Dog Stands of Chicago 

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