#this was like a burst of serotonin on a wet and dark friday 13th and i want the whole world to experience it

[bogkeep]

You're Wrong About was one of my gateway podcasts and is still one of my comfort podcasts - about as comforting as it gets in the Dismantling Moral Panics genre, with its astounding empathy and grounded humanity. every now and then i'll dig up some older eps i've heard twice before because i specifically need michael hobbes to tell me about fucked up shit. HOWEVER i have not heard every episode - sometimes a topic just sounds much too heavy at the moment. a lot of the time because of a generational/cultural difference - many of these names and events don't ring a single bell for me.

and yet. pretty much every time i'm like, alright, let's hear what this is about then. i am not disappointed. in fact there will likely be a delightful morsel in there that enriches my life and soul and makes me feel like the world is full of beautiful people.

all this to say i finally listened to the tipper gore VS heavy metal episodes, which is about one of the moral panics around teenagers listening to Inappropriate Music, and some hearings about putting warning labels on albums. one of the musicians invited to the hearing was john denver (i know his music!!!! i listen to it on road trips with my mom!!!) because they thought a sweet mellow country musician would SURELY be against the icky terrible heavy metal music.

BUT INSTEAD WE GOT

i am so glad to have learned about this