Crop Circles with Chelsey Weber-Smith
4/1/20261 hr 14 min
What do men really get up to at the pub? For this April Fools' Day episode, Sarah tells urban legend correspondent Chelsey Weber-Smith of American Hysteria the history and the mystery behind crop circles, those sophisticated patterns left imprinted in corn and wheat fields said to be made by alien beings. For years, no one could find a rational reason for their mysterious existence as they spread across various countries; that is, until a pair of surprising culprits finally came forward to reveal their master prank. Digressions include Ramona Quimby’s dad’s alma mater, sexy adaptations of costume drama novels, and the unrivaled power of shaky cam footage.
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Produced + edited by Miranda Zickler
"Every Corn is a Glamorous Woman" is a semi-original song by Magpie Cinema Club (it's just "Rockabye")
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First 90 secondsSarah Marshall· Host0:00
There's more than one way to bend the corn, and every corn is a glamorous woman.
Chelsey Weber-Smith· Guest0:04
Every corn is a glamorous woman.
Sarah Marshall· Host0:10
Welcome to You're Wrong About. I'm Sarah Marshall. With me today is our hoaxer in chief- [laughs] ... Chelsea Weber Smith. [laughs] And today we're gonna talk about crop circles, cereologists, and extraterrestrials. And we won't meet any extraterrestrials- [laughs] ... but we will meet a lot of British people, and I think that's even more exciting in a way. Chelsea, how are you doing?
Chelsey Weber-Smith· Guest0:36
You know, I am, uh, I am of England, so I can confirm that we are freaks [laughs] [laughs] From another planet, that planet being England. Uh, here, I wanna try my, let me try my, my crop circle noise.
Sarah Marshall· Host0:51
Yeah.
Chelsey Weber-Smith· Guest0:52
Vvv. Wait. Hmm.
Sarah Marshall· Host0:54
Wow.
Chelsey Weber-Smith· Guest0:56
Did that sound cool?
Sarah Marshall· Host0:57
[laughs] Yeah. That sounded great. Is that supposed to be a flying saucer landing or- Yeah ... flying up? Okay.
Chelsey Weber-Smith· Guest1:03
Landing or sucking up- Nice ... a person. I was gonna say sucking up a baby [laughs] but I don't know how often they abduct babies.
Sarah Marshall· Host1:10
I haven't heard that specific one, but that would be cool- [laughs] ... you know?
Chelsey Weber-Smith· Guest1:14
Yeah, yeah.
Sarah Marshall· Host1:14
I mean, not for... Well, I don't know. I think the baby would have a, a great, a great day. That would be a good children's book. It would be like Babies Day Out, but he goes to space.
Chelsey Weber-Smith· Guest1:23
Yeah, or like an '80s buddy movie where the aliens are the buddies- [laughs] ... and they're like, "How'd we get this baby? We gotta watch