Hoax Spectacular! with Chelsey Weber-Smith
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Sarah talks with Chelsey Weber-Smith, host of American Hysteria, about some of their favorite hoaxes—from the Loch Ness Monster to the Taco Liberty Bell—and ponder the value of pranks in a world of misinformation.
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| 0:00.0 | Because I think pranks are for people who don't have complex PTSD. Welcome to you wrong about. I'm Sarah Marshall and today I am bringing you our hoax spectacular, |
| 0:22.1 | a co-production with Chelsea Weber Smith of American hysteria, |
| 0:26.6 | which also has a brand new episode out today, which you can find, |
| 0:31.4 | wherever great podcasts are distributed. |
| 0:34.6 | Kelsey and I love to talk about urban legends, we love to talk about hoaxes, |
| 0:38.9 | we love to talk about clowning around, and in this episode we run down a bunch of our personal favorite hoaxes with |
| 0:46.1 | points of origin ranging from Taco Bell to Thomas Edison. And we also talk about what the value of |
| 0:52.2 | hoaxes and pranks are for a friend group, a culture, |
| 0:56.8 | or a society in the age of misinformation, and what it means to clown around. |
| 1:04.0 | This was a really fun episode to make. |
| 1:05.0 | We hope you have a fun time listening to it. |
| 1:08.0 | And if you want more episodes and haven't signed up yet |
| 1:11.0 | to listen to you wrong about on Patreon or Apple Plus. This is a great time to do it because we are in the middle of our four-part saga on Brittany Spears's memoir, The Women and Me, with our friend Eve Lindley. |
| 1:24.0 | We put episode one on our main feed last week so you could check it out, so give it a listen, |
| 1:28.0 | see if you want to hear more. |
| 1:30.0 | And we are putting Brittany Part 3 out on Patreon and Apple Plus this month. |
| 1:35.0 | Thank you so much for being with us. |
| 1:37.0 | Thank you for being April Fools. |
| 1:39.0 | Here's your episode. |
| 1:43.0 | Welcome to You're wrong about the |
| 1:49.0 | Welcome to your wrong about. |
| 1:50.0 | The podcast, or we have decided that we are no longer going to be a |
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