Mike tells Sarah how a congressional wife started a moral crusade. Digressions include Sheena Easton, Satanic rhymes and teen homicide statistics. Ozzy Osbourne's bat story is recounted in full.

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• Save the Children: The Parents’ Music Resource Center and Media Activism
• Everything you need to know about Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off a bat in Des Moines
• Highway to Hell: Laws, Lawsuits, and Moral Panic over Heavy Metal Music, 
• The Emergence of Youth Suicide: An Epidemiologic Analysis and Public Health Perspective
• The Role of Gun Supply in 1980s and 1990s Youth Violence
• The Parents’ Music Resource Center: From Information to Censorship
• Parental Advisory – Explicit Content: The Parents Music Resource Center, Conservative Music Censorship, and the Protection of Children
• Andrew Hartman’s A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars
• Trends in Premarital Sex in the United States, 1954–2003
• 'I'd Sell You Suicide': Pop Music and Moral Panic in the Age of Marilyn Manson
• A Comparative Historical Analysis of Post-war Moral Panics and the Construction of Youth from 1938 to 2010
• “Children Having Children,” the 1985 moral panic article in Time

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Special guest Eric Michael Garcia tells Mike and Sarah about the deep roots of a pernicious modern myth. Digressions include Mary Tyler Moore, British place names and supermodel dating habits. Mike finally gets to talk about Swedish statistical methods.

Here's some of Eric's work on autism and here's his book!

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This week, we put on our suits and head back to the courtroom. O.J. Simpson pleads not guilty, Marcia Clark finishes questioning Kato Kaelin and Bob Shapiro continues to furrow his brow. Digressions include "Speed," the Kuleshov effect and the intentional boringness of American law. In the final ten minutes, we talk briefly about the crime scene and Marcia’s reaction to it.

If you'd like to see the arraignment footage for yourself it's here.

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Mike tells Sarah how a troll-ish experiment turned a South Carolina teenager into one of the most maligned women of the 1990s. Digressions include Sally Ride, Anne Hathaway and, as usual, "Newsies." Mike struggles with the word "infirmary" throughout.

The pictures of Shannon we discuss in this episode are here.

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• Catherine Manegold's "In Glory's Shadow: Shannon Faulkner, the Citadel, and a Changing America"
• Susan Faludi’s “The Naked Citadel”
• Marching In Step: The Citadel And Post World War II America 
• A Judicial Blow for "Jane Crowism" at The Citadel in Faulkner v. Jones
• The Citadel's Lone Wolf, Shannon Faulkner
• Surviving the Company of Men
• Shannon Faulkner and The Citadel: The Effects of Using Litigation as an Instrument of Social Reform
• Saving The Males: The Sociological Implications of the Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel (since we recorded this episode we've learned that the author of this piece has been accused of sexual harassment. Apologies for not mentioning it on the show!)
• Single-Sex Education: New Perspectives and Evidence on a Continuing Controversy

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This week we talk about the early days of Paula and O.J.’s relationship and the celebrity cameos reach either a high or a low point. Digressions include date etiquette,  cat scams and room-temperature Diet Coke. Mike has his head in his hands for long periods. 

In this episode we discuss domestic abuse, including the violence Nicole Brown Simpson experienced and the circumstances of her 911 calls.

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This week we return to the  O.J. Simpson trial and learn what Paula Barbieri did after the Bronco chase. Digressions include fish, beef and grocery shopping while conventionally attractive. Neither co-host has a firm grasp on the meaning of the word "festive."

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• Paula on "Primetime Live" 
• The Time cover 

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Mike tells Sarah the complicated story of an over-simplified study. Digressions include Tonya Harding, "The Meg" and Kitty Genovese. The Milgram obedience studies and the "broken windows" theory of policing receive bonus debunkings.

Thanks to Thibault Le Texier for helping us with this episode! Here's his book, "The History of a Lie," and the English-language summary, "Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment."

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• The Original Study
• Philip Zimbardo's "The Lucifer Effect"
• Zimbardo's 1973 NYT article
• David Jaffee’s precursor study at Toyon Hall
• Ben Blum's "The Lifespan of a Lie"
• The Stanford prison experiment in introductory psychology textbooks: A content analysis
• The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment
• Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment: Could Participant Self-Selection Have Led to the Cruelty?
• Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison: A Methodological Analysis
• The Obedience Alibi: Milgram's Account of the Holocaust Reconsidered
•  Obedience in Perspective: Psychology and the Holocaust
• Unchaining the Stanford Prison Experiment: Philip Zimbardo’s famous study falls under scrutiny
• The Secrets of Abu Ghraib Revealed: American Soldiers on Trial

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Mike tells Sarah what makes older Americans more vulnerable to misinformation — and who is delivering it to them. Digressions include "Supernatural," the Rachel and a fake university in Pennsylvania. We recorded this episode before the election but tried not to make it too obvious.

Here's the article Mike wrote with all the research he did for this episode: 

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Sarah tells Mike about the thrilling conclusion to a children’s labor action and an overlooked Disney musical. Digressions include cronuts, carrier pigeons and Sylvester Graham’s crackers.  Both hosts agree that they love saying the word "papes."

Most of the information in this episode comes from Sarah's two new favorite books, Vincent DiGirolamo’s “Crying the News” and David Nasaw’s “Children of the City.” And here's the link to the newsboy footage we watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gatfLuD-Do

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Sarah tells Mike about media history, labor organizing, century-old moral panics — and the unlikely Disney musical that introduced her to all three. Digressions include Sting, "The Princess Bride" and 19th century graphic design. Both co-hosts recount their extremely millennial work histories.

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