298: Examining Urban Legends and the Satanic Panic (with Sarah Marshall)

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From the Satanic Panic to the urban legends of our youth, we talk to podcaster Sarah Marshall of You’re Wrong About to get her takes on creepiest and coolest ways urban legends have changed the world. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Content Warning:</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode contains conversations about or mentions of QAnon, Satanic Panic, pedophilia, sexual abuse, child abuse, animal death, bugs, racism, gore, poisoning, anti-semitism, grooming, transphobia, and homophobia.  </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Guest</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.remembersarahmarshall.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Sarah Marshall</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">is a writer, podcaster, and media critic focused on setting straight our collective memory—or at least getting to the bottom of why we believe and in turn define ourselves by popular narrative and myth. She is the co-host of the popular modern history podcast</span> <a href= "https://yourewrongabout.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">You’re Wrong About</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, which has been highlighted in the New Yorker, the Guardian and Time Magazine. Her writing has appeared in the Believer, Buzzfeed and the true crime collection Unspeakable Acts. She loves Portland, Oregon, Philly and Las Vegas in that order, and it has been rumored that she is writing a book about the Satanic Panic. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Housekeeping</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Recommendation</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">: This week, Amanda recommends</span> <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/822/9781250219398"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Bodyguard</span></em></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">by Katherine Center.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Books</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Check out our previous