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Mike tells Sarah how liberal magazines turned a "kids these days" moral panic into a national crisis. Digressions include Law & Order, Dave Foley and swimming pool etiquette. This episode contains detailed descriptions of sexual assault, mass shootings and suicide.

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• John Wilson’s The Myth of Political Correctness
• Jon Weiner's Historians in Trouble
• Neil Gross’s Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?
• Political Correctness: How The Right Invented A Phantom Enemy
• The Fraying Of America
• The Rising Hegemony of the Politically Correct
• Are You Telling Me That I'm Politically Correct?
• Are You Politically Correct?
• The Rising Hegemony of the Politically Correct
• There Is No Campus Free Speech Crisis: A Close Look at the Evidence

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Bob Shapiro is on a mission from God, F. Lee Bailey joins the Dream Team, and we get in our DeLorean to meet two of the most notorious Florida Men of the '60s: Carl Coppolino and Murph the Surf. Digressions include Linda Evangelista, Patty Hearst, "The Commitments" and the upside of peaking in your 50s.

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Special guest Cassie da Costa tells Mike and Sarah how Vanessa fell from grace and picked herself back up. Digressions include Stephen Sondheim, Rush Limbaugh and Joan Rivers. The tyranny of abs is discussed at length.

Here's Cassie's episode of You Must Remember This and her website!

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Mike reached new levels of rantiness on his other show and we wanted to make sure all our beloved debunkmates knew. PLUS: A special announcement!

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Mike tells Sarah how a 20-year-old singer, actress and French horn player became Miss America with less than six months of practice. Digressions include Ted Bundy, Stephen King’s “It” and a bonus debunking of the "bra-burning feminist" trope. We're sorry to say that this episode includes a description of child sexual abuse. 

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Clips! 

• Opening musical number
• Vanessa introduces herself
• Talent competition
• Swimsuit
• Vanessa wins!

Links!

• Sarah's Miss America piece!
• Vanessa and Helen’s memoir, “You Have No Idea”
• Margot Mifflin’s “Looking for Miss America”
• Vanessa Williams, Whitney Houston and Hollywood’s Misogynoir Problem
• Vanessa Williams: A Beauty Queen’s Crown of Thorns
• Miss America--The Inside Story
• First Black Miss America Finds Unforeseen Issues
• Ain’t I a Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race 
• Life with Daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant
• 'A Felony Just to Own': The Sleazy Story Behind Penthouse’s Most Controversial Issue
• There She Goes, Miss America
• Most Famous Miss America In History
• 1989 People magazine article
• In Black and White
• Putting on a Happy Face

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Sarah's other show has a special guest! Maintenance Phase co-host Aubrey Gordon visits Why Are Dads to talk about Christopher Nolan, trash masculinity and the dwindling number of non-problematic superheroes.

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To tell the story of the "dream team" we must begin by going back to the future. This week we learn why O.J. Simpson fired the man who defended John DeLorean and why a briefcase of cocaine isn’t always a smoking gun. Digressions include Bob’s Big Boy, Margaret Thatcher and the Fonz. 

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• 1970 GTO Humbler commercial 
• 1981 DeLorean commercial
• Howard Weitzman on John DeLorean in 2013 
• The "better than gold" tape 
• John DeLorean Reinvented The Dream Car. Then He Totaled It.
• Delorean is Freed 
• Key Witness Against DeLorean Begins Testimony 
• Government Paid Informer 

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Mike tells Sarah the real reason Congress called a bunch of rockers to Washington D.C. Digressions include cartoon violence, sleeveless tees and Trixie Mattel. Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" and Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" are dissected at length. 

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Links! 

• The hearing transcript 
• Dee Snider's memoir
• Frank Zappa's memoir
• Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music
• Music-Evoked Emotions—Current Studies
•  Don’t Let The Man Get You Down: Rock and Roll and The Development of The Parents’ Music Resource Center
• Save the Children: The Parents’ Music Resource Center and Media Activism
• Highway to Hell: Laws, Lawsuits, and Moral Panic over Heavy Metal Music
• The Parents’ Music Resource Center: From Information to Censorship
• “Leer-Ics” or Lyrics: Teenage Impressions of Rock 'n' Roll
• 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
• The Effects of Violent Music on Children and Adolescents
• A Comparative Historical Analysis of Post-war Moral Panics and the Construction of Youth from 1938 to 2010

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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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