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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. Digressions include eating disorders, car crashes, and the insane grimness of the term family annihilation. (en)
- Special guest Megan Burbank tells Mike and Sarah about the history, limitations, and loopholes of a landmark court ruling. Digressions include Betty Ford, Maude, and naming conventions for anonymous defendants. The glories of Washington State politics are examined in depth. (en)
- Sarah tells Mike that animal behavior is an imperfect template for human society. Digressions include rabbits, Bob's Burgers, and online dating. (en)
- Mike tells Sarah that America's most devastating oil spill was not, in fact, a DUI. Digressions include Titanic, the Cuyahoga River, Jennifer Lopez, and marshmallows. Punitive damages make a triumphant return. (en)
- Sarah tells Mike about how snuff films don't exist but lots of near-snuff films do. Digressions include Basic Instinct, gymnastics, and YouTube's righthand bar. (en)
- Sarah tells Mike that shoddy policing are responsible for one of America's most prolific serial killers. Digressions include panel vans, Anita Bryant, early man, and Hannibal Lecter. (en)
- Mike tells Sarah that the TV movies of her childhood were both less and more problematic than she remembers. (en)
- Part two of the podcast's dissection of the Clinton impeachment scandal. This week: the story breaks, the House indicts, the Senate demurs, and Mike rants more than usual about the media. Digressions include Mark Fuhrman, Broadcast News, and gay porn. (en)
- Mike tells Sarah why the biggest scandal of Reagan's presidency provides more lessons about current politics than Watergate. Digressions include Mormons, Top Gun, and The X-Files. (en)
- Sarah tells Mike how a tragic story became a hacky catchphrase. Digressions include raccoon anarchists, flu remedies, and late-night Arby's. (en)
- Sarah tells Mike about the long history of white anxiety over black motherhood. (en)
- Mike tells Sarah how a close election and an even closer Supreme Court decision established the political template we're still living with today. Digressions include quarks, Ouija Boards, and moral philosophy. (en)
- Sarah tells Mike how a case of marital rape and spontaneous mutilation became a national punchline. Digressions include Ron Jeremy, Alan Dershowitz, Motörhead, and the tortures of self-reflection. Sarah reviews John Wayne Bobbitt's later works. (en)
- Mike tells Sarah that the D.A.R.E. program did not, in fact, keep kids off drugs. But that's just the beginning of the debunking. Digressions include Martin Scorsese, Iceland, and control groups. (en)
- Special guest Rachel Monroe tells Mike and Sarah what's really behind the phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid." Digressions include David Koresh, East Germany, and how flower children were the first Millennials. (en)
- Sarah tells Mike about the convoluted history of a contested term. Digressions include James Bond, Charles Manson, and rat poison. (en)
- Special guest Mike Owens tells Sarah and Mike about the debunking of the gay-bashing victim. Digressions include Leopold and Loeb, Basic Instinct, and Rolling Stone. (en)
- Mike tells Sarah about the complicated legacy of Anita Hill and the not-particularly-complicated facts of her case. Digressions include Tootsie, Garrison Keillor, and the Donner Party. (en)
- 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 New York Post. (en)
- Razorblades in apples, babysitters on acid, killers in backseats, and "rainbow parties": in this episode, Mike and Sarah investigate the scary stories Americans tell each other and discover the actual anxieties behind them. (en)
- 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. (en)
- Mike tells Sarah how a false rape allegation became a right-wing rallying cry and a left-wing conspiracy theory. Digressions include JonBenet Ramsey, 24, and The Vagina Monologues. (en)
- Sarah tells Mike how pop culture created a two-decade-long obsession with multiple personality disorder and repressed memories. Digressions include Dead Poets Society, restless legs syndrome, and the low editorial standards of the American publishing industry. The Satanic panic makes a cameo appearance. (en)
- Mike tells Sarah that America has sent the wrong messages and done the wrong things about obesity for more than half a century. Digressions include height , sweatshops, and Julianne Moore. (en)
- Sarah tells Mike about the sad reality – and the terrible man – behind the infamous Long Island Lolita. Digressions include software terms of service, the rise of beepers, and Monica Lewinsky's LinkedIn profile. (en)
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