A Podcast with Receipts
Every slogan has an origin story and every jingle has a motive. Lies We Bought pulls apart the marketing myths and cultural conditioning behind what we eat, wear, buy, and believe, asking who actually benefited from all of it.
Hosted by marketer-turned-investigator Emily Rask, this is the show for everyone who grew up trusting the ads and is ready to finally read the fine print.
episode thirty-eight:
Stranger Danger“Don’t talk to strangers” was the first safety rule a whole generation learned, but the panic behind it took off in the 1980s on a claim that 50,000 kids a year were being snatched by strangers when the real number was closer to 100, and somehow that one statistic grew into missing children on milk cartons, a safety industry that now sells parents tracking apps like Life360, and a lost Boy Scout in the Utah mountains who hid from the people searching for him because they were strangers.
Watch on YouTube to the very end for Patreon shoutouts and some extra behind-the-scenes chaos.
