4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Mike tells Sarah how the myth of meddling wives serves to exonerate terrible husbands. Digressions include "50 Shades of Grey," Marie Antoinette and the end of the 1960s. This episode, we’re sorry to say, contains descriptions of domestic abuse.
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0:20.4 | Welcome to your roundabout the show where we make you feel real sad about 50 years worth of sitcom jokes |
0:25.5 | What? Well I guess we're watching sitcoms on like some uncultured people |
0:32.7 | You had cable we've talked about this. Yeah, so I was really educated by Nick at night |
0:39.1 | I am Michael Hobbs. I'm a singer for the half of your post. I'm Sarah Marshall and I'm working on a book about the |
0:44.4 | Satanic panic and we are on patreon at patreon.com slash you're wrong about and we are in your hearts forever |
0:50.1 | And today we're talking about Yoko Ono. Yeah, I'm very excited about this one |
0:54.5 | I know I say that every time but I really it doesn't make it less true |
1:00.0 | I am too actually because it draws together actually a surprising number of themes that we've talked about in other |
1:05.4 | episodes that a lot of this episode ends up being about the thing that we mentioned in the victim's rights episode about like the end of the 60s |
1:12.6 | Oh, they blame her for ending the 60s. It's like was she president secretly? |
1:17.7 | I mean that would have been great. We would have been a much more well |
1:20.6 | We were a pretty absurdist country. Well, I think what's interesting about Yoko is that |
1:24.1 | She perfectly personifies exactly what non hippies hated about the hippies right that she was this perfect symbol of how |
1:33.7 | Sort of the hippie free love thing that had begun as exciting and interesting and refreshing |
1:40.4 | Sort of morphed over time into this thing that was decadent and |
1:44.6 | repellent and naive that's interesting |
1:47.2 | And so Yoko Ono who is a woman who is an Asian woman who has all of this other baggage that people are assigning to her |
1:54.7 | All of a sudden she's this did see person who's saying give peace of chance |
1:59.0 | She's saying if people were happier they wouldn't kill each other all this sort of stuff that gets coded as hippie-dippy |
2:06.0 | I say that all the time |
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