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A podcast about the worst ideas in history. Albert Berg and Tony Southcotte take on some of the biggest historical flops, mistakes, and blunders. From Cop Rock to the Yugo.
Mary Toft was a British woman with the magical ability to give birth to rabbits. Or rather rabbit parts. And cat parts. And chunks of other...
Payday loans are a loan you can get when you leverage your next paycheck for cash today. Usually there is a small fee but they can quicky tu...
Soy Bean oil doesn't SEEM like the kind of thing that could crash the entire American Economy, but in 1963 that's almost what happened. Tino...
King Louis the 14th found himself in dire need of surgery to fix a fistula. A fistula is an alternative canal from the rectal cavity usually...
The Ouya was one of the biggest Kickstarter success stories, so what happened? This one actually shipped and everything! Julie Urhman Ouya's...
There's a store behind the poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade, a story you may not have heard before. The charge itself was a very small...
Martensville is a small Canadian town with a huge problem. The Satanic Panic of the 90s is hitting them in full force and making everyone co...
While we are currently dealing with Coronavirus, we take a deep look into the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Most specifically we look at how...
Aqua Dots (also known as Bindeez) was a toy bead that was accidentally coated with a chemical that synthesizes into something called GHB, a...
Why did WeWork collapse? Well Andy Neumann's company would end up crashing and giving him the biggest golden parachute of all time. WeWork b...
"Mad" Mike Hughes was a stunt man who built a rocket out of scraps and tried to launch himself as high and fast as possible. Was he really t...
Xu Xiaodong is a Chinese Mixed Martial Artist who has made it his goal in life to expose fake martial arts and kung fu practitioners. Especi...
The Sand Creek Massacre was an atrocity, an attack on Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians who had surrendered to the United States military in a de...
The AAirpass was a lifetime pass that allowed its members to fly free for the rest of their lives. While this was amazing for them, it would...
Leaded Gasoline was developed by GM to solve the problem of engine knock in the early 20th century. There were other ways to solve engine kn...
Tony takes a deeper look at the 1997 Albanian Civil War that started because a huge swath of their entire GDP was caught up in ponzi schemes...
The Segway was a revolutionary invention, and on top of that it was fun to ride. So why did it become the punchline of every joke about mall...
Fordlandia was an experiment from Henry Ford to take away the British monopoly on rubber. He decided to set up an entire city in the depths...
In his time William Walker was known as the Grey Eyed Man of Destiny, probably because the Grey Eyed Man of SUPER Racism wasn't as catchy. H...
The Vasa was a massive 64 gun 200 foot long ship in the 1600s. The massively expensive project was supposed to propel Sweden into the future...
It is NOT acceptable to set the Gavle Goat on fire. It is against the law. It makes many children sad at a time of year that is very dark an...
Once upon a time Coke thought their classic drink needed a new flavor. We all know it went very wrong. This is the story of how they made th...
Gregor MacGregor was nearly a household name in London for his antics in Central America and the army. When he tried to create a colony in m...
John Law invented modern monetary policy when he saw the Dutch trading money on paper rather than with physical coins. He took his big ideas...
D.B. Cooper might be a legendary criminal who may or may not have survived his skyjacking, but the men we detail here are truly not Cooper....
Microsoft Bob was the software suite for people who don't know what a software suite is. Unfortunately when you don't know what a software s...
This week on Bad Ideas we dive into the Heaven's Gate Cult, a millenarian group led by Marshall Applewhite. The group believed that they wou...
Apple computers had a good thing going with the Apple II, but they had a problem. It was being bought by BUSINESSES! The Apple II was meant...
China's new social media system is a tyrannical monstrosity that aims to control the lives of its billions of citizens. We give you the deta...
In 1917 the Germans needed to stop America from getting into World War I. So they asked Mexico to attack. Without considering whether Mexico...
Curtis Howe Springer was one of the last medicine men and a quack who operated for decades in the deserts of California. He lied about havin...
Warren G. Harding is frequently ranked by historians as the worst U.S President of ALL TIME. But even before he even became president, he wa...
Urbain Grandier was a priest in France during the 1600s who was burned at the stake for being a witch. Unfortunately for him it was more a p...
Hannibal of Carthage was one of the most brilliant military strategists the world has ever seen, but when he crossed the Alps into Italy, Ro...
Star Citizen is a three game 300 million dollar effort without an end in site that has players spending as much as 3000 dollars per ship for...
This week dive deep into Napoleon's invasion of Russia and how you waste 600,000 soldiers over a badly made embargo. Alex "Tuna" from the Un...
When Ford created the Edsel they were finally recovering from the disaster of World War II, and the mismanagement of the elder Henry Ford wh...
The Salem Witch Trials were a bit of hysteria in Salem Town and Salem Village during 1692. 20 people were hung, crushed, or died in prisons....
The history of rabbits in Australia goes back as far as the first attempts to colonize the continent. It's understandable why the settlers w...
This week we talk about the strange phenomenon of people buying Twitch and YouTuber Belle Delphine's bathwater. It might be a good idea fina...
The Space Shuttle is an iconic part of American space flight history. Unfortunately it was a victim of compromise, cost-cutting, and politic...
Today we talk about Franz Reichelt. a man who tried his hardest to make a parachute suit for aviators in 1912. To prove the value of his inv...
Supermac's and McDonald's battle started when McDonald's filed an objection to Supermac's planned expansion in the EU. That much, like it or...
Tana Mongeau is a youtuber who was spurned by Vidcon one too many times. After being justifiably angry, she decided to run her own conventio...
RCA released the CED (aka Selectevision) in 1981 at the height of the format wars, but the "video on a record" format had been in developmen...
Sometimes you pick a fight with the wrong person. The Khwarezmian Shah, Muhammad the 2nd, decided that instead of accepting a trade deal he...
Despite sounding like something Batman would use, bat bombs were a very real thing that the army (and later navy) experimented with during W...
Theodore J. Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was the sole perpetrator of a string of attacks lasting decades. He would mail bombs to...
Chernobyl is one of the more important man made disasters of the 20th century. It was the culmination of all our nuclear fears, and arguably...
The SS Bessemer is a paddle steam ship from the 1870s that noted inventor Sir Henry Bessemer. Bessemer was tired of getting sea sick on his...