On today’s episode of Bad Ideas we look at facilitated communication, a pseudoscience method used to let people with severe autism speak. It sounds like a great idea, letting the voiceless use this method to communicate, but it turns out its entirely fake and that the facilitator is the one speaking for them. More than…
it’s time for more Minecraft Let’s Play as the Drunk Block rolls on. Things become a bit more scattered in this one as Joe takes Dan on a magical tour of the realm where they see nothing really because Joe gets lost. Meanwhile Tony starts a mystery build and Al probably does some things. ||…
In which Tony gives all the reasons why someone could fall in league with a strange cult leader like Jim Jones, and details the path to drinking the Flavor Aid. One of the things that gets overlooked when talking about cults is why people join in the first place. We take a deeper look into…
This week we take on the RJ Reynolds company’s smokeless cigarette, the Premiere. We get into how making a product that literally tastes like feces is a bad idea if you want it to succeed. We also talk about modern vaping and how it is a similar idea executed much better. || More Human Echoes…
This week Tony and Albert take on the demise of Blockbuster and how they could have acquired Netflix for a mere 50 million of their current 100 billion dollar worth. We also talk about the stagnation of a business model and their inability to change with technology like Redbox. || More Human Echoes stuff: http://humanechoes.com…
The Fyre Festival was an insane mess put on by “legendary” businessman Billy McFarland. From the get go this botched island festival had problems, and it ended in massive amounts of people being ripped off, starving, sleeping in wet tents, and worse. With even the location being a lie, what could possibly go wrong? Al and…
Re-Animator is a 1985 horror film from Stuart Gordon based on the H.P. Lovecraft story Herbert West – Reanimator. It’s an amazing piece of 80s horror and has some of the strangest and most visceral horror you can find. Tony takes a deeper look, telling you about the inside facts about the movie, production, and…