Al Qaeda is not famous for being like, you know, what are your ideas?

What have you been any pet projects?

There are no bad ideas in brainstorming. Welcome to the wrong about. I'm Sarah Marshall and today we are joined by Miles Klee to talk about why we all have to take our shoes off at the airport unless it's a day where they're like no keep your shoes on you idiots.

I was excited to do this topic first of all because it's great to have Miles on the show

he's a wonderful writer and second of all because I've long wanted to do

episodes that talk more about America's alleged war on terror in the early 2000s, the time when millennials were growing up and GenZ was being born,

and our government was up to a lot of things that it really felt like they weren't telling the truth about. It's a big story. It's hard to find a finite point of entry,

but the story of the quote-unquote shoe bomber and the state of heightened fear that seemingly everybody was in in the period

immediately after September 11th is one of them and it turns out that this is a true you're wrong about and that much of what we think we remember is wrong and what we don't remember is the best part of the story.

We have a bonus episode for you up right now where our January guest Megan Burbank talks with me about the new movie May December and coming out soon we have a new bonus the the first of a multi-parter, with our friend Eve Lindley talking about

Brittany Spears's memoir, The Woman and Me. And we're really exploring both Brittany and all of our Brittany feelings.

Thank you so much for being here with us. We got a flight to catch.

Welcome to your wrong about the podcast where you learn why you haven't been able to correctly go through airport security in 20 years I think and with me today is Miles Clee.

Hi, Sarah.

How's it going?

It's so good to have you here and we're starting off the new year fresh and funky.

I guess by the time this comes out it'll be February, but this is one of the first year wrongs about that I'm recording in 2024 and I feel

really excited that we're doing an episode that to me feels like it's about

the height of the war on terror which is something I've always wanted the show to me

more about but don't have the intestinal fortitude to research myself.

Yeah, it gets pretty gnarly.

This is sort of the beginning of the war on terror.

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