![]() The prehistory of You’re Wrong About begins with a 2014 essay that Marshall wrote about the figure skater Tonya Harding for The Believer, which led Hobbes to write her a brief email. “I had listened to a lot of shows where someone pretends not to know something, but really they do know it, and I thought, we’re not doing that.” “There are so many news stories that function as allegory, and they get stripped of certain details, and then you grow new details about them in your brain without really thinking about it, like moss,” she said. ![]() And perhaps most importantly, Marshall said that she picks topics that her cohost or guest actually won’t know about before sitting down for the show, usually because they’re shrouded in misinformation. Though the name is evocative for a show that reexamines the past, what has always made You’re Wrong About feel different from many thematic podcasts is exactly how intellectual and empathetic its approach to its subjects can be. “I feel like it would be interesting to go back in time, and do a timeline where it’s called Who Am I to Say? Then see how each title does, numbers-wise.” “I think it promises a more combative experience than it ultimately delivers,” the 34-year-old told Vanity Fair from a log cabin in Wisconsin earlier this year. ![]() Sarah Marshall still isn’t sure about the name of You’re Wrong About, the podcast she has hosted for the last four years. ![]()
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