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The Fistula Fad – King Louis the XIV’s Fistula Fashion – Bad Ideas Podcast

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 into the butt cheek. Charles-François Félix, a barber, was chosen to do the surgery. He took six months to practice, repairing and also causing holes in 75 prisoners and…

May 1, 2020 in Podcasts, Videos.

Martensville Satanic Panic – When the Media Convinced a Nation of Satanic Daycare – Bad Ideas

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 completely paranoid. When satan comes to town will you believe the kids? Or is it the cops who are lying? What happened to cause the satanic panic? Why are there…

April 10, 2020 in Blog Posts, Podcasts, Videos.

Spanish Flu and Morale Laws – How to Hide a Deadly Pandemic – Spanish Flu vs Coronavirus

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 morale laws made it so that the news couldn’t report on this extremely deadly flu, leading to the deaths of up to 100 million people. We also look at why…

April 3, 2020 in Blog Posts, Podcasts, Videos.

WeWork Collapse – How Andy Neumann Destroyed WeWork – Bad Ideas

Why did WeWork collapse? Well Andy Neumann’s company would end up crashing and giving him the biggest golden parachute of all time. WeWork built itself into a massive hole of liability and debt while paying huge amounts of cash to purchase unrelated companies. When their S1 filing showed how much they were losing, the company…

March 20, 2020 in Blog Posts, Podcasts, Videos.

Albania’s Ponzi Rebellion and Civil War – When Ponzi Schemes Destroy an Economy – Bad Ideas

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. With offers of 100 percent per month interest, who could say no? Well, when the entire economy collapsed the people rebelled against the new regime. || More Human…

January 31, 2020 in Blog Posts, Podcasts, Videos.

D.B. Cooper’s Copycats – Incompetent Hijackings Gone Wrong

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. We cover stories about the more than dozen people who tried to pull the same heist as Cooper, but failed miserably. Most notably, Glenn Tripp who got drugged and…

November 22, 2019 in Blog Posts, Podcasts, Videos.

The Edsel: the Fascinating History of Ford’s Famous Failure – Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

http://traffic.libsyn.com/badideas/Bad_Ideas_-_Edsel.mp3 When Ford created the Edsel they were finally recovering from the disaster of World War II, and the mismanagement of the elder Henry Ford who had become paranoid and unreliable in his later years. A group of men known as the Whiz Kids had helped turn the company into a lean, efficient company, and…

August 30, 2019 in Podcasts.

Tanacon – Tana Mongeau’s Failed Revenge on Vidcon

Tana Mongeau is a youtuber who was spurned by Vidcon one too many times. After being justifiably angry, she decided to run her own convention to compete directly with Vidcon. Tanacon would be less than two miles from the venue. Unfortunately she did this in under a month and with the very definition of failed…

July 12, 2019 in Blog Posts, Podcasts, Videos.

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