Daily News | Sarah Marshall, host of the podcast ‘You’re Wrong About,’ talks pop culture myths and her upcoming Philly show
” scandal in Luzerne County, in which two judges sent thousands of children to for-profit juvenile detention centers in exchange for millions in kickbacks.She’s often attracted to stories that reveal that type of darkness. One of her favorite set of episodes was a
on the 2002 D.C. snipers, detailing how one of the men behind the sensational killings became a serial killer effectively as cover for the fact that he wanted to murder his ex-wife. Since the show’s inception, Marshall and Hobbes have created “a kind of cartography of media dread — [mapping] how such narratives of fear take hold in media and hang on even when they are supported by little evidence,” New York Times columnist Farhad ManjooMarshall credits Philly with some of the original creative energy behind the show; when she lived here, she found herself gathering material for some still-nebulous future project.
“Philly was the first place I lived when I wasn’t in academia, when I wasn’t strapped to a track that was going to take me to the preordained end result,” she said. “It was a place where I learned to stop being a high achiever. That sounds like an insult, but it’s not.”
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