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You're Wrong About

D.C. Snipers Part 3

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Culture, Politics, History

4.623K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Mike tells Sarah about the indoctrination of Lee Boyd Malvo and the beginning of the sniper attacks. Digressions include Jonestown, Greek tragedy and something called “creepy crawling.” The episode begins with a lengthy meta-discussion of true-crime tropes and whether we are playing into them. The final section includes a detailed description of a suicide attempt.

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0:00.0

Why do we need a special day that we have with everyone else who's in a relationship in the country?

0:03.8

It's just annoying to get a restaurant reservation.

0:05.6

Because the heteropatriarchy wants you to buy a jewelry fucking idiot.

0:19.1

Welcome to your wrong about where every horror story is also a tragedy.

0:24.9

Okay. Is that too obvious? Do we know that by now?

0:28.8

That was hard. All that different of concepts.

0:30.8

Yes, they are. When people go see Nightmare and Alam Street, they're not, they don't bring tissues.

0:38.2

You don't see horror movies. That's true. I don't.

0:40.9

The implication is that you're going to go to like just have your heart pound.

0:44.9

Yeah. Not to come out thinking about early childhood development.

0:49.2

Whereas we try to instill in our listeners a sense of shock and sadness.

0:55.1

Yeah, that's our personal brand. So show for sad people or people who don't feel sad enough already.

1:02.0

I am Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for The Having and Post.

1:04.4

I'm Sarah Marshall and I'm at work on a book on a satanic panic.

1:08.1

And we're on Patreon at patreon.com slash your wrong about.

1:11.7

And our listeners have been creating a number of incredible designs,

1:16.2

including one based on Calvin and Hobbs.

1:18.3

Where I am Hobbs. Yeah.

1:20.3

And today we are embarking on part three of our deep dive into the DC snipers.

1:29.3

And I also I feel a little bit weird about this episode because we're now entering like the true

1:35.2

crimeiest part of this story, which as a person who doesn't actually listen to a lot of true crime

1:42.4

stuff, we're getting into the part where we have to tell you facts rather than feelings.

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