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OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST:
MICHAEL HOBBES: Hello.
SARAH MARSHALL: Hello.
EISENBERG: Your pod, You re Wrong About podcast, is talking about debunking stories, urban legends, cultural figures, things that were huge in the tabloids and going through it and trying to figure out, you know, the truth or at least what influenced the story as we get to the truth. So from your listeners, have there been any of these stories that you ve talked about that your listeners have freaked out the most about?
HOBBES: One of the ones that our listeners cannot get over, which I was not expecting at all, is that one of the fun facts from when we did our Challenger explosion episode was that the Challenger did not technically explode. It was, like, a jet of burning fuel that sort of popped out of the shuttle, and it didn t make a sound. And so all of the broadcast networks that broadcast it, they added the sound of an explosion in post. We still get emails about that. Like, I cannot believe that they
You re Wrong About podcast test their knowledge about international cinematic changes.
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JONATHAN COULTON, BYLINE: This is ASK ME ANOTHER, NPR s our puzzles, word games and adding more salt and vanilla extract than the recipe calls for because why not? I m Jonathan Coulton, and here s your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: I like an almond extract. Thanks, Jonathan. We re on the line with the host of the You re Wrong About podcast, Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall. Are you ready for another game?
SARAH MARSHALL: Yes.
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EISENBERG: Excellent. OK, some movies get changed when they are distributed internationally because they need to be more culturally relevant to the country they are being released in. So in this game, you are going to tell us the title of a film based on a description of what has changed once they had it in the international market.
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In the beginning of 2020, Morayo Ogunbayo was aware that the vast majority of women did not look like Kendall Jenner. As a 19-year-old college student, she knew that to meet American culture’s body standard was to either hit the genetic lottery or have enough money to fake it convincingly. She knew that this ideal was rooted in sexist and Eurocentric beliefs about femininity, that most women fell far short of achieving it, and that that was perfectly normal.
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