Monthly Archives: July 2018

Kurt Cobain and “Copycat Suicide”

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Special guest Candace Opper tells Mike and Sarah about how the death of a rock star changed the field of suicidology (which is a thing). Digressions include eating disorders, car crashes and the insane grimness of the term “family annihilation.” The cringe-worthiness of Mike’s teenage years reaches new depths. 

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“The Godfather”

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Sarah tells Mike about how America’s favorite gangster movie is really its favorite killing-the-American-Dream movie. Digressions include the Mona Lisa, Bruce Springsteen and the tyranny of height-ism. The sound quality continues to worsen. 

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10th Episode Spectacular!

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Sarah and Mike take a break from debunking to reflect on the first 10 episodes and tell the secret history of how they met. Digressions include “Portlandia,” Snapchat and the The New York Post. The recording quality, as usual, is wildly inconsistent. 

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Sarah’s Tonya Harding essay: https://www.believermag.com/issues/201401/?read=article_marshall

Mike’s millennials article: http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/ 

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