![]() “Something powerful happens when I am able to look at someone’s life and the surprising things they did and say, ‘Oh yeah, I could see how I could do that.’” “I often try to reclaim a story that the tabloids have found lucrative because they present someone who the public can safely mock,” Marshall, 33, says during a Zoom call from her home-slash-podcasting studio in Portland, Ore. The podcast functions as a history lesson, a media critique, and a meditation on the ephemeral nature of truth. Occasionally guests with deep expertise on a topic would join them as well. Every episode, one of the hosts would play storyteller, the other vocal listener, gasping at revelations and offering up wry commentary. You’re Wrong About happens to be both educational and hilarious. Though podcast downloads briefly dipped overall during that time, interest in comedy and education podcasts remained relatively stable, likely because people either sought funny distractions or-at least initially-saw quarantine as a time to better themselves, whether that meant baking bread, watching newly free Shakespeare performances online, or delving into the archives of history podcasts. You’re Wrong About debuted in May 2018 and exploded in the early months of the pandemic. Years later, he wrote to her again, attaching his name this time, to ask if she wanted to collaborate on a podcast about misunderstood history. It caught the attention of Michael Hobbes, who was working at a human rights organization but would soon join the Huffington Post as a reporter, and he wrote Marshall an anonymous fan letter. Marshall’s essay went viral among the media set.
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