Doomed to Fail

Mar 05 2025 238 ep. 47 mins 15

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Twice weekly, we bring you stories of history's most notorious disasters and epic failures. Join us as we analyze the red flags and ask the important questions. How did things go so wrong? Could these disasters have been avoided? Join us as we laugh, learn, and explore the most epic failures of all time.

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Ep 179: A Friend Till The End & Beyond - Hachikō

Mar 05 2025 23 mins

Today, we learn the adorable story of the Huskie Hachikō, who waited at the train station for his owner for years after his death. Hachikō isn't the only dog who remained loyal to his owner until his own death. There's obviously Fry's dog in Futurama & many other real-life examples. Taylor wants to remind you that she isn't anti-dog. She just doesn't want one, and she believes

Ep 178: The Miracle Worker & The Miracle - The Helen Keller story

Mar 03 2025 38 mins

Today starts our Women's History Month coverage! We remind you that nobody is perfect; women, like all genders, contain multitudes. Taylor starts off with the story of Helen Keller - from the disease that took her sight and hearing at 19 months - to an international superstar and advocate for disabled people, Socialism, and women. How did she go from her silent dark world to a gr

Ep 177: What's the worst that could happen? - The The Münster Rebellion of 1534

Feb 26 2025 38 mins

Let's travel a century or so in the future from Britain's Peasant Revolt to what happened in Germany after they had their own. It's fully the Renaissance now, but don't tell that to Anabaptist Jan Matthis; he's planning for the End Times. We're going to have a city under siege, a Preacher who (surprise, surprise) wants to be a King and marry everyone, and a lot of good old-fashione

Ep 176: Who's to say Virgin Blood doesn't stop aging? - Elizabeth Bathory

Feb 24 2025 34 mins

Let's get creepy for Women's History! Farz walks us through the tale of Elizabeth Bathory, who murdered countless peasants in her Transylvanian castle. Did she bathe in their blood to stay young?? Did she just like killing people? How many places in a castle can you hide a body??? If you live in a castle and know the answer, please email us.

Ep 175: Just stop watching award shows - Psychology of celebrity obsession

Feb 21 2025 27 mins

Let's talk about celebrities & our obsession with them. Farz will walk us through some examples, from fun things like Taylor having a Prince William poster to very scary things like someone sitting on the Queen's bed while she slept. Why do we feel connected to people we've never met, and how can they feel safe with so many strangers knowing intimate details of their lives?

Ep 174: We're men, we're men in tights (Tight tights!) - Geoffrey Chaucer

Feb 18 2025 37 mins

Poetry Professor Taylor will be walking us through the life and times of Geoffery Chaucer! Just kidding - a normal person who doesn't understand Middle English at all, Taylor, will walk us through this story today! We tie back to last week's peasant revolt to talk about how Chaucer's apartment was above the Aldgate - so he would have watched people rush into London. We also talk a

Ep 173: Revenge of the Monarch - Jamal Khashoggi

Feb 13 2025 35 mins

Today, Farz tells the story of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who dared to talk about the ruler of Saudi Arabia. After years in exile, Jamal decided to go to Turkey to get married, which sounds great, except he had an ex-wife in Saudi Arabia and a currently very much still married wife in the US. When he needed to get proof from the Embassy that he wasn't married (to the first one, un

Ep 172: What do you mean I can't wear drip? The Peasants' Revolt

Feb 11 2025 40 mins

The 1300s were rough in England. There's the plague; there's the 100 Years War, and there's serfdom. An interesting thing that happened after the Black Death killed 50% of the population was that workers were worth more - there were 50% fewer serfs, so they started to be asked to be paid more! That obviously wasn't going to fly with the Lords; you see if they paid their serfs more,

Ep 171: Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? - John Wilkes Booth

Feb 05 2025 52 mins

Here's the way to explain how famous John Wilkes Booth was BEFORE - imagine, it's 1996, you are 14, Leonardo Dicaprio is the most handsome person you have ever seen AND we just learned that he can do Shakespeare (We are are SURE that understanding Shakespeare in any way makes you smart, so you are trying) -- THEN Leo kills someone. You have to take down your Teen People pictures of

Ep 170: Another reason to fear flying - the Überlingen disaster

Feb 03 2025 31 mins

Welp. Farz likes to jostle our nerves, and today is no exception! We're going to talk about a mid-air collision - not the most recent one, but the one that happened in 2002. A DHL plane and a smaller jet collided mid-air; the smaller jet was full of Russian Children on a trip to the beach (and to make it worse, they missed their first fight; this was a second chartered one). Next