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Mary Toft Giving Birth to Rabbits - She stuffed a rabbit WHERE? - Bad Ideas

Fri, 29 May 2020 17:56:26 +0000

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 animals. It really was disgusting and you should fear for the people involved. We cover this grand conspiracy that fooled the medical world for a short while.

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Payday Loans - Predatory Loans Meant to Create a Cycle of Debt with 1000% interest - Bad Ideas

Fri, 15 May 2020 17:55:46 +0000

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 turn into 400 to 1900 percent loans. It's a predatory industry that needs to be heavily reformed or abolished. On Bad Ideas we take a look at this toxic industry and show why it is indeed a bad idea.

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The Great Salad Oil Swindle - Bad Ideas

Fri, 08 May 2020 12:32:39 +0000

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 De Angelis was the biggest holder of salad oil in the world; at least on paper. And the paper that SAID it came from American Express, so it COULDN'T be wrong, could it? Despite the fact that Tino had a number of shady business deals in his past banks were more than willing to continue to lend him money as long as American Express said he had oil to back the loans. American Express was more than willing to continue to say he had the oil because Tino was literally the only profitable account on the books in their fledgling warehousing division. No one really cared that strange calls were coming from an anonymous whistleblower saying that Tino was fudging the numbers on how much oil he had by huge margins. And he might have gotten away with it all, if only he hadn't gotten involved in trying to corner the oil futures market.

The Fistula Fad - King Louis the XIV's Fistula Fashion - Bad Ideas Podcast

Fri, 01 May 2020 15:56:40 +0000

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 dissenters. After that he would repair King Louis's fistula and retire in wealth. After the surgery the people of France wanted to show their support. Some wore bandages, but others had barbers give them the same surgery even when they didn't need it.

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Ouya: What Happened to the Kickstarter Console?

Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:40:41 +0000

The Ouya was one of the biggest Kickstarter success stories, so what happened? This one actually shipped and everything! Julie Urhman Ouya's CEO pitched the return of indie games to the television in an era when it looked like maybe all the indie developers were shifting focus to the mobile market. Unfortunately for Ms. Urhman mobile turned into a horror world of ads and paid upgrades and the Playstation 4 embraced the indie developers like never before leaving no real place for the little Ouya to go.

The Story Behind The Charge of the Light Brigade - Bad Ideas

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 13:01:51 +0000

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 part of the Crimean War, which was an attempt by England and France to keep Russia from expanding into Turkey in the 1850's. The early Crimean War effort was headed up by Lord Raglan, who, from everything I've been able to discern was not a terribly good leader. In the Battle of Balaclava, shortly after landing near Sevastopol, Lord Raglan ordered his cavalry to stop the Russians from making away with some guns they had captured from the allies. But his instructions were vague and the cavalry failed to act quickly. Then he sent more commands, this time by the hand of one, Louis Nolan. Nolan gave the wrong information to the Light Brigade, either to prove a point about how great cavalry was, or completely by accident. We can't know because he died almost immediately. Shortly thereafter many of the men of the Light Brigade would meet the same fate.

Martensville Satanic Panic - When Satan Comes to Town - Bad Ideas

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 20:20:07 +0000

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 so many accusations without evidence? Was the satanic panic real?

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

Fri, 03 Apr 2020 23:05:09 +0000

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 it is mistakenly called Spanish Flu, how it started in America, and how it affected World War 1. We also compare it with what is happening right now with Covid-19.

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Aqua Dots: The Toy that was Recalled for Containing a Date Rape Drug - Bad Ideas Minisode

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 13:25:54 +0000

Aqua Dots (also known as Bindeez) was a toy bead that was accidentally coated with a chemical that synthesizes into something called GHB, a sedative commonly used as a date rape drug. The Chinese factory that manufactured the beads for the Australia-based Moose Enterprise toy company swapped out the safe chemical 1,5 pentanediol for the less expensive but far more dangerous 1,4 butanediol. Naturally some kids put the beads in their mouths, and several became dangerously ill.

WeWork Collapse - How Andy Neumann Destroyed WeWork - Bad Ideas

Fri, 20 Mar 2020 15:12:54 +0000

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 went into freefall. Thousands are being laid off. It is only a matter of time before the complete collapse happens.

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"Mad" Mike Hughes: The Life and Death of the Flat Earth Rocket Man

Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:41:07 +0000

"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 trying to prove the earth was flat, as he claimed, or was he simply trying to make a name for himself by doing something spectacular and dangerous? We may never know the answer for sure, but this is the story we do know.

Xu Xiaodong Exposes Fake Martial Arts and Loses Everything - Bad Ideas

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:53:03 +0000

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. Especially those that use qi, death touches, or other mystical forces in their supposed martial arts. After defeating 17 such people, Xu has been ostracized, broken down, and bullied by the Chinese government and the martial arts community. Instead of admitting that they are using flawed combat systems, they are doubling down. He is banned from using public transportation, flying, trains, his gym, and all social media. He's been doxxed and his family faces death threats. Follow us as we venture into the sad story of Xu Xiaodong's fight for truth.

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Understanding the Sand Creek Massacre | Bad Ideas

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 11:50:09 +0000

The Sand Creek Massacre was an atrocity, an attack on Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians who had surrendered to the United States military in a desperate bid for peace. John Chivington (whose name still graces the road near where the massacre took place) with full knowledge of the situation led a band of untrained men to the area and set them loose on the camp, where they indiscriminately killed men women and children alike. Silas Soule stood against the assault by refusing to take part in the massacre and by testifying against Chivington at the hazard of his own life. This is the story of true evil, and the story of the good that stood against it, no matter the cost, no matter the result.

The AAirpass - American Airlines Offered a Lifetime of First Class Tickets and it Backfired

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:21:00 +0000

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 end up costing American Airlines millions. People like Steven Rothstein would go on an average of more than one flight per day. Eventually the airline would strip people of their passes in sad and awkward ways.

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Thomas Midgely Jr. and the Deadly Invention of Leaded Gas - Bad Ideas

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:27:25 +0000

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 knock, but they all involved selling LESS OIL (gasp). Also GM couldn't patent them. If only we could have known at the time that lead was a deadly poison. Oh, wait, we did.

Albania's Ponzi Rebellion and Civil War - When Ponzi Schemes Destroy an Economy

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 19:06:58 +0000

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.

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How Hype Ruined the Segway - Bad Ideas

Fri, 24 Jan 2020 14:35:06 +0000

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 cops? At least part of the answer can be found in the over-hyping of this machine in the early 2000's. With tiny pieces of information "Steve Jobs says it'll be bigger than the PC!" the internet fabricated all kinds of theories, obsessing over what would turn out to be a fancy scooter. This is the story of how hype helped kill the Segway's chances of changing the world.

Fordlandia - Ford's Failed Company Town in Brazil - Bad Ideas Podcast

Fri, 17 Jan 2020 09:00:00 +0000

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 of the amazon, leading to death, vice, riots, and not a whole lot of rubber.

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William Walker's One Man Invasion of Nicaragua | Bad Ideas

Fri, 10 Jan 2020 20:00:15 +0000

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. He was the most successful of the "filibusters" men who tried to conquer territory in other countries to add to the number of slave states in the United States. His first attempt was an invasion of Mexico which didn't go so well, but it made him popular enough to convince some Nicaraguans to invite him to come and try to invade THEIR country.

The Vasa - Sweden's Massive Gunboat, and Even Bigger Mistake

Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:50:01 +0000

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 of their military might, but instead it found the bottom of the sea on its maiden voyage. For 333 years it rested until it was salvaged and set up in a museum.

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Burning the Gavle Goat: Sweden's Giant Straw Yule Goat Keeps Getting Destroyed - Bad Ideas

Fri, 20 Dec 2019 11:34:56 +0000

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 and cold in Sweden where the Gavle Goat lives. It destroys hundreds of man-hours of labor. But people keep doing it anyway. For fifty years Swedes in the small town of Gavle have been putting up their giant straw goat around Christmas time, and despite their best efforts to protect it people keep burning it down. This is the story of the Gavle Goat.

New Coke - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 17:08:12 +0000

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 that mistake.

The Poyais Scheme - Gregor MacGregor's Fake Country

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 19:20:13 +0000

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 modern day Honduras this notoriety would help him promote and sell huge swaths of land and securities. The only problem was, his country didn't really exist.

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John Law and the Mississippi Bubble | Bad Ideas

Fri, 29 Nov 2019 18:59:50 +0000

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 to France in 1720 convinced the Duke of Orleans to put him in charge of basically the entire French economy. He printed paper money, started a company, and set his sights on profiting from an unexplored area in the New World. Everything was great right up until everything was terrible.

D.B. Cooper's Copycats - Incompetent Hijackings Gone Wrong

Fri, 22 Nov 2019 16:11:51 +0000

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 changed his demands to several cheeseburgers.

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Microsoft Bob - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 15 Nov 2019 21:09:00 +0000

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 suite is, you're unlikely to buy a software suite, especially when it won't run on your dinky computer. Also, something something Clippy something Comic Sans.

Heaven's Gate - Marhsall Applewhite's Suicide Cult

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 16:02:08 +0000

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 would ride a ship hidden behind the Hale-Bopp Comet into a new life of ascendance. Unfortunately the only way to do this was castration and eventual suicide.

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Apple III: The Computer with a 100% Failure Rate | Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:21:18 +0000

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 for hobbyists, nerds who wanted to play around with computer stuff, but now BUSINESSES were using it for SPREADSHEETS. Imagine the horror. Something had to be done to rescue those poor businesses from the terrible terrible clutches of the Apple II, and the thing Apple decided to do was to release a computer that didn't work. Like AT ALL. Because that's what businesses like.

China's Social Media System – Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 18:36:26 +0000

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 details on just a few of the things you can lose by not being a complete model citizen.

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The Zimmerman Telegram - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:07:27 +0000

In 1917 the Germans needed to stop America from getting into World War I. So they asked Mexico to attack. Without considering whether Mexico had the means or will to do so. And without realizing that the British had their telegraph lines bugged. It did not go well for them.

Curtis Howe Springer and The King of Quacks: The Fraud of Zzyzx

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:08:24 +0000

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 having several degrees and became a radio minister to hock his own vitamins and panaceas that didn't work.

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The Affairs of Warren G. Harding - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 04 Oct 2019 15:16:52 +0000

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 was trouble for the Republican Party. WHY? Because the woman he had been cheating on his wife with, brought his many MANY letters to the blackmail the ENTIRE PARTY into sending her on vacation to Japan, because SHE found out he was cheating on her with ANOTHER woman. Yeah.

The Devils of Loudun - Urbain Grandier and the Possessed Nuns of Loudun

Fri, 27 Sep 2019 02:00:00 +0000

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 political murder in which 17 nuns were coerced into pretending to be possessed and under his control.

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The Battle of Cannae: Underestimating Hannibal and Ignoring Fabius - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:03:10 +0000

Hannibal of Carthage was one of the most brilliant military strategists the world has ever seen, but when he crossed the Alps into Italy, Rome thought they could take him. But one man tried to warn them not to go head to head with Hannibal; Fabius Maximus knew Hannibal would destroy the Roman army if attacked head on. He tried to stop Rome from directly confronting Hannibal, but it's really hard to get people excited about your strategy of hanging around annoying Hannibal until he gets bored and leaves. So Rome decided to ignore Fabius and attack Hannibal directly at the Battle of Cannae.

Star Citizen - The Most Expensive Crowdfunded Vaporware of All Time

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 17:58:54 +0000

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 a game that will probably never be released. With a target launch date of 2014, we're already 5 years past promised dates and every few weeks the goal posts get moved a little further.

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Napoleon's Invasion of Russia - Special Guest Alex Tuna from the Unranked Podcast

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 21:05:08 +0000

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 Unranked Podcast joins us to talk about it.

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

Fri, 30 Aug 2019 19:54:48 +0000

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 now it was time to turn the page and write new brighter history with a car that would look to the future. That car, they thought, was the Edsel. You probably know how that turned out. But this is the story who fought for and against the Edsel and why it was such a disaster.

The Salem Witch Trials - Mass Hysteria in Massachusetts

Fri, 23 Aug 2019 18:12:55 +0000

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. Hundreds more were accused. We dig deep and talk about ergot poisoning, hysteria, and how teenagers might be causing hangings out of boredom.

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Rabbits in Australia - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:24:15 +0000

The history of rabbits in Australia goes back as far as the first attempts to colonize the continent. It's understandable why the settlers would have brought the animals along; they multiply quickly and they're pretty good eating. Unfortunately the downside is that they multiply quickly and they're pretty good AT eating. Australia has been battling the rabbit scourge for nearly 150 years. This is the story of that battle.

Belle Delphine's Bathwater - Buying a Twitch Star's Bathwater - Bad Ideas

Fri, 09 Aug 2019 18:16:44 +0000

This week we talk about the strange phenomenon of people buying Twitch and YouTuber Belle Delphine's bathwater. It might be a good idea financially for her, but the people drinking it are not quite so smart.

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The Disappointments of the Space Shuttle - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 02 Aug 2019 15:56:47 +0000

The Space Shuttle is an iconic part of American space flight history. Unfortunately it was a victim of compromise, cost-cutting, and politics from the very beginning.

Franz Reichelt and his Parachute Suit - Bad Ideas

Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:54:01 +0000

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 invention, he dove from the Eiffel Tower and crashed into the frozen dirt below.

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McDonald's vs Supermac's: How McDonald's Lost the BIG MAC Trademark

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:20:07 +0000

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 not, was business as usual. But the battle turned into a war when McDonald's tried to take the trademark for one of Supermac's signature dishes, the Snack Box. Supermac's next move was, quite frankly, unbelievable. They filed a claim with the courts that McDonald's was not using the BIG MAC trademark. But what was even more unbelievable was that McDonald's LOST that battle in court. This is the story of that case, and how McDonald's failed to prove that they were using the BIG MAC trademark.

Tanacon - Tana Mongeau's Failed Revenge on Vidcon

Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:57:06 +0000

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 event manager Michael Weist.

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CED: When Video Went Vinyl - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 05 Jul 2019 17:56:12 +0000

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 development for decades by that point. When RCA started researching the technology it made sense to try to tap the home video market with new technology, but by the time the product was actually released the market was already pretty well tied up by better and more advanced products. CED's only redeeming quality was price, and being the cheapest wasn't enough to save it (or RCA) from crushing failure.

The Fall of the Khwarezmian Empire - Don't Kill Genghis Khan's Messenger - Bad Ideas With Al and Tony

Fri, 28 Jun 2019 17:00:44 +0000

Sometimes you pick a fight with the wrong person. The Khwarezmian Shah, Muhammad the 2nd, decided that instead of accepting a trade deal he would behead the messengers of Genghis Khan. Little did he know that this would lead to the destruction of his entire empire and set off a chain of events that would change the middle east forever.

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Bat Bombs: Weird Failed Weapons of World War II - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 07 Jun 2019 12:47:28 +0000

Despite sounding like something Batman would use, bat bombs were a very real thing that the army (and later navy) experimented with during World War II. They were the brainchild of Dr. Lytle S. Adams who was in Carlsbad Caverns when the war broke out, looked around him and said, "Well these tiny flying things look like they might be able to win the war." They weren't. But it's an interesting story anyway.
Some sources we consulted:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080531082803/http://www.afa.org/magazine/1990/1090bat.html
https://www.7dayadventurer.com/tag/dr-lytle-s-adams/
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/old-weird-tech-the-bat-bombs-of-world-war-ii/237267/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

The Unabomber - Ted Kaczynski's Terror Campaign to End Technology

Fri, 31 May 2019 04:01:00 +0000

Theodore J. Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was the sole perpetrator of a string of attacks lasting decades. He would mail bombs to people involved in technology hoping to incite a revolution to return to humanity's wild roots, as well as to exact his revenge on society. Obviously, this is a very bad idea.

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Chernobyl - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 24 May 2019 12:39:38 +0000

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 blow that started the final breakdown of the Soviet Union. This is an examination of what caused that disaster, both the technical failures and the human mistakes that contributed to the meltdown.

The SS Bessemer - A Victorian Age Cure for Sea Sickness - Bad Ideas

Fri, 17 May 2019 17:33:58 +0000

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 voyages so he made a room inside of a ship that was on gimbals and hydraulics. It was a great idea until it made the ship unable to steer and it crashed into the pier of Calais. Twice.

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Sunn Classic Pictures: Family Values, Twisted History, and Ancient Aliens - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Sat, 11 May 2019 13:33:02 +0000

Sunn Classic Pictures' history spans little more than a decade. They started out with the goal of making family friendly entertainment, movies that middle America could take their kids to on a Saturday without having to worry about the profanity and violence that seemed to be on the upswing in Hollywood at the time. Between knowing their market, and having a clever distribution strategy, Sunn Classic Pictures did pretty well for themselves. But then they found out about ancient aliens, and things started to slide from family friendly to fake news.

Ignoring Ignaz Semmelweis - Doctors Refusing to Wash Their Hands

Fri, 03 May 2019 21:55:03 +0000

Ignaz Semmelweis was one of the first physicians to realize that he could save lives by washing his hands. This mid 1800s discover should have taken over the medical establishment by storm. Instead Semmelweis was met with skepticism, incredulity, ridicule, and ignorance. WASH YOUR HANDS, DOC.

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The Sinclair C5: Clive Sinclair's Little Car that Couldn't - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 16:25:47 +0000

Clive Sinclair had nothing to prove by the time he was set to release the Sinclair C5. He had produced the worlds first pocket calculator, and the first personal computer that could be bought for under £100. Now he was bringing his genius to bear on the automotive world. This is the story of how that went wrong.

NXIVM: Keith Raniere's Self Help Cult - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 19 Apr 2019 22:20:01 +0000

In this episode we take on NXIVM, the sex cult run by Keith Raniere that stole millions from its members and is currently being dismantled in court. While not a conventional religious cult, it became a cult of personality as the members were forced to do worse and worse things. Sarah Edmondson spoke out about the cult and started a chain reaction that would take down actors, billionaires, and more.

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Zip to Zap: The Party that Almost Destroyed a Town - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:24:42 +0000

The Zip to Zap started off as a lark, a small getaway planned but North Dakota State University students in 1969. They planned to drive to the tiny town of Zap, based on nothing more than the fact that the name sounded funny, and have a little spring break fun. But then the story hit the news and things started to get out of hand. This is the story of the Zip to Zap, a party that got so far out of hand the National Guard was called to break it up.

The Hitler Diaries - Forgeries of the 20th century - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 05 Apr 2019 16:40:24 +0000

The Hitler Diaries were supposedly the most intimate thoughts of Adolf Hitler. Instead they just turned out to be the forgeries of Konrad Kujau just trying to make money. The journals would be bought by gullible collector Gerd Heidemann and published by Stern Magazine for millions. Unfortunately they were claimed as authentic before laboratories could determine they were amateurish fakes.

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The Bone Wars: Cope & Marsh & the Fossil Feud - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 20:25:44 +0000

Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope were paleontologists who made amazing advances in a golden ago of fossil discoveries in America near the end of the 19th century. But their competition between each other left a dark mark on the field of paleontology and left both men broke and broken by the ends of their lives. This is the story of the Bone Wars.

Roar - The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made - Bad Ideas

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:06:32 +0000

Tony and Al take a deep dive on Roar, the most dangerous movie ever made. Noel Marshall and Tippi Hedren worked together to create a movie with more than 100 lions, tigers, and other enormous animals. With more than 70 hospitalizations and more than 100 overall injuries its a wonder no one was killed.

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The Great Emu War | Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Sat, 16 Mar 2019 00:38:11 +0000

The Great Emu War was a real conflict waged between real soldiers and real emus. An emu is a bird. The Emu War took place in the darkest years of the Great Depression in a place that is already an insane place to live, Australia. Some poor soldiers that had managed to survive World War I went home to Australia; they were given land to farm that wasn't good for farming, the economy went sour, and then the government screwed them over. And THEN the emus showed up.

Time Cube - Gene Ray and the 4 Simultaneous Day Theory - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 08 Mar 2019 19:01:49 +0000

Gene Ray is the wisest man to ever live and he changed our view on physics and how the universe works. In his infinite wisdom, he showed us the four part day and how the American education system hides it. We also dig deeper into just who Otis Eugene Ray was as a person and the life of Pyramid0rz founder Richard Janczarski.

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That Time John Lilly Tried to Teach Dolphins to Speak English | Bad Ideas With Al and Tony

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 13:25:02 +0000

John Lilly had a dream. He knew dolphins were smart, maybe almost as smart as people, he knew that dolphins could communicate with each other, and he knew that dolphins sometimes mimicked human speech sounds. If they could communicate each other, maybe they could communicate with us. Maybe the could be taught to speak the English language. Maybe if THAT happened they could send a representative to the United Nations.
So that's what John Lilly set out to do. And THEN things got WEIRD.

Theranos - Elizabeth Holmes's Faux Medical Testing Company - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 18:46:51 +0000

Elizabeth Holmes was supposed to be the next Steve Jobs. She was supposed to save us billions in medical testing and move us into an era of self care and diagnostics the likes of which we had never seen. Instead she became the millennial Madoff and stole billions over technology that never even got close to working.

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The Pyrrhic War | Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 15 Feb 2019 20:42:38 +0000

Pyrrhic victory is a term that means "we won, but maybe it wasn't worth it?" Today on Bad Ideas we go back to the original Pyrrhic victory "won" by Pyrrhus in the Pyrrhic War. Greeks against Romans! Elephants against horses! Wisdom against weapons.

USS William D. Porter - The Most Incompetent Naval Vessel in Navy History - Bad Ideas with Tony and Al

Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:29:26 +0000

The USS William D. Porter, or Willy Dee as it's sailors called it, was the most incompetent ship in the fleet during World War 2. In accidents that would include accidental depth charge explosions and accidentally sending a torpedo at Franklin Delano Roosevelt, you can see why this particular ship ended up on Bad Ideas.

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The Aral Sea Disaster - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:56:31 +0000

The Aral Sea was once the fourth largest body of water in the world. Today it has all but disappeared, leaving the area around it ecologically devastated. In this episode we explore the decisions and mistakes that led to this massive environmental disaster.

TempleOS and Terry A Davis's Delusions - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:09:28 +0000

Terry A Davis believed himself to be God's chosen programmer. He believed that his new operating system was the temple of Solomon as foretold in the bible and that he was God's high priest. He was also a schizophrenic with delusions of grandeur. Today Al and Tony dig deeper into this tragedy.

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The Green Label Game Jam - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 18 Jan 2019 01:55:31 +0000

Game Jams are a cool time for game makers to get together for a couple days and try to pound out a game in a very short amount of time. They've been around for a while, but in 2014 someone decided to document the process for TV. It...did not go well.

Sources:

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https://web.archive.org/web/20140401003428/http://msminotaur.com/blog/?p=187

https://web.archive.org/web/20140401022637/http://soundselfgame.com/?p=302

Drug Smuggling Gone Wrong - Cocaine Breast Implants, Body Stuffing, And More - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 16:25:50 +0000

This week Al and Tony take a deep dive into the world of drug smuggling gone wrong. We talk about failed border jumps, bad cocaine breast implants, smuggling alcohol into Saudi Arabia with just tape and a robe, plus many more.

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Olympics Triplecast: "Fixing" the Olympics with Pay-Per-View - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 15:44:08 +0000

Network Olympics coverage is terrible, and has been for a long time. These days we can get around that with internet streams of of the events as they happen, but in 1992 if you wanted to watch the Olympics you had to watch NBC's delayed overproduced feed. That is, until a New York company had an idea: Why not bring the REAL Olympics to America's living rooms, live and uncut, as a pay-per-view event? This this the story of that idea and how it failed.

John Chau's Missionary Work on Sentinel Island - Bad Ideas with Tony and Al

Fri, 28 Dec 2018 18:12:20 +0000

John Chau was a young American missionary who found out the hard way that trying to bring the gospel to isolated and uncontacted tribes might be more dangerous than expected. Once he set foot on their beach wearing a speedo and throwing fish, things started to go very wrong.

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Threatin: How a Fake Band Played Itself - Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 21 Dec 2018 14:24:59 +0000

Threatin made headlines earlier this year after the new broke that they were playing to nearly empty rooms, despite apparently having a massive following on Facebook and YouTube. What quickly came to light was that this was a venture built on fake followers, paid YouTube views, and a mountain of fictitious organizations that all existed to inflate the apparent fame of one man: Jered Eames. This is his story.

Richard Stanley's The Island of Dr. Moreau - A Production Doomed

Fri, 14 Dec 2018 08:38:02 +0000

This week our heroes take on The Island of Dr. Moreau. Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer couldn't even keep this flop from tanking. in fact they actually worked to make that happen. We cover the weirdness of Skip the Warlock, the improbable path of Richard Stanley, and so much more!

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Universal vs. Nintendo: Clash of the Kongs | Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 07 Dec 2018 16:43:33 +0000

Nintendo had a hit in 1982. America LOVED their arcade game Donkey Kong. But Universal City Studios wanted a piece of Nintendo's pie, so they sued, alleging that Donkey Kong was just a rip-off of King Kong. This is the story of that legal battle, and how it shook out for the two giant primates and their respective owners.

Smell-O-Vision: For When A Movie Truly Stinks - Bad Ideas #66

Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:20:35 +0000

Smell-O-Vision is a mostly failed technology for movies that has been around since the 1930s. Wether it is cost, lingering scents, or a whole myriad of other problems, the technology never took off. Al and Tony detail the weirdness that is Smell-O-Vision.

The Yarmouth Bridge Disaster | Bad Ideas with Al and Tony

Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:12:28 +0000

In 1845 in Yarmouth England a crowd of people were gathered on a bridge to see a clown. But the bridge failed and hundreds of people fell into the waters of the River Burr. This is the story of that disaster it's aftermath and its causes.

Swatch .Beat - The Failure of Internet Time - Bad Ideas #64

Fri, 16 Nov 2018 17:38:33 +0000

The Swatch company wanted to change time as we know it. Using 1000 beats in a day, they would get rid of pesky seconds, minutes, and hours. No longer will we be held under the yoke of the 24 hour system! And it'll be on Swiss international time.

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The Apple of Eris and the Judgement of Paris | Bad Ideas #63

Fri, 09 Nov 2018 16:42:29 +0000

TECHNICALLY speaking the Judgement of Paris is not a thing that actually happened in history, but we can still learn something from the choices various characters in the story made. Unfortunately we'll probably NEVER be able to understand why so many artists over the years were interested in painting three beautiful naked ladies.

Foodfight - The Worst Animated Movie of All Time - Bad Ideas #62

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 17:21:02 +0000

When the evil Brand X comes to town, only Dex Dogtective can stop the supermarket from being laid to waste. And only Tony and Al can tell why this monstrous piece of garbage actually exists. Foodfight is a movie from 2012 from director Lawrence Kasanoff. It features Charlie Sheen, Wayne Brady, Hillary Duff, Eva Longoria, Jerry Stiller, and so many more stars that it should have gotten some attention from that alone. Alas, this bomb, Kasanoff's version of Casablanca, never even had a chance.

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Building the Sydney Opera House - Bad Ideas #61

Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:50:44 +0000

The Sydney Opera House is an icon of 20th century architecture, but getting it built was a process fraught with mismanagement and infighting. This week on Bad Ideas we delve into the history of how this incredible monument got built, both the amazing challenges that were overcome and the poor planning that made the project even more difficult.

The Killdozer - A Colorado Rampage - Bad Ideas #60

Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:26:51 +0000

In which we talk about Marvin Heemeyer builds a 53 ton war machine to take out the town of Granby, CO. What starting out as a zoning dispute turns into a rampage.

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The South Seas Bubble: History's First Stock Market Bubble - Bad Ideas #59

Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:42:33 +0000

In 1720 a rash of market speculation (or stock-jobbing as it was called at the time) swept through England. Everyone, it seemed was desperate to get their hands on stock in The South Seas Company. Within the span of a year the bubble had rapidly expanded and even more rapidly burst. But what was The South Sea Company, what caused the bubble, and what does any of it have to do with Louisiana? All these questions and more are answered in this episode of Bad Ideas!

Project Alpha - James Randi's Hoax to Disprove Parapsychology - Bad Ideas #58

Fri, 05 Oct 2018 09:45:00 +0000

In the late 1970s parapsychology was in full swing. Scientists sought to prove ESP, telekinesis, and many other psychic phenomena. James Randi, Steve Shaw, and Michael Edwards sought out to prove that magicians and illusionists needed to be on hand to make sure that even scientists couldn't be duped by psychics. Project Alpha is their story about a long con in which they duped scientists for more than 21 months into thinking that they were genuine psychics.

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The Osborne Effect - Bad Ideas #57

Fri, 28 Sep 2018 13:18:31 +0000

How did the Osborne Corporation go from being an industry leader in the "luggable" computer market, to going bankrupt less than five years later? This is the story of the Osborne Effect, the miscalculation that is commonly believed to have sunk the Osborne Corporation, and why it doesn't tell the whole story of this once promising company's failure.

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/20/no_osborne_effect_at_osborne/

https://web.archive.org/web/20050618022709/https://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050616.html

Bad Birth Control - The Worst Birth Control Methods in History - Bad Ideas #56

Fri, 21 Sep 2018 17:01:33 +0000

Today Al and Tony cover the worst methods of birth control mankind has come up with. Everything from crocodile dung to bronze rings and weasel testicles has been tried. Listen to find out more!

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The Love Canal Disaster | Bad Ideas #55

Fri, 14 Sep 2018 13:22:05 +0000

In 1890 William T. Love had a dream of a city powered by electricity, and supplied by ships that would traverse the canal he intended to build around Niagara Falls. But things went badly for Love, and he had to abandon his dream with the town unbuilt and the canal only partially dug. But what started as a hole in the ground would turn into one of the most horrifying environmental disasters in U.S. history. This is the story of the Love Canal.

Sources:

http://myamericanodyssey.com/dumped-on-the-messy-truth-about-love-canal-ny/

http://articles.latimes.com/1993-05-16/news/mn-35999_1_love-canal

Attachment Therapy and Rebirthing - Bad Ideas #54

Fri, 07 Sep 2018 15:14:53 +0000

There's a lot of obscure therapy out there, but few that are as blatantly child abuse as attachment therapy and rebirthing. Al and Tony dive into this pseudoscience and cover the death of Candace Newmaker and her killers Connell Watkins and Julie Ponder.

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Mark Rothko and the Harvard Murals | Bad Ideas #53

Fri, 31 Aug 2018 11:06:51 +0000

When Harvard commissioned Mark Rothko to paint a mural for their new building it probably seemed like a good idea. But shortly after the famous artist delivered his work the brilliant colors had already begun to fade. Why? That's the story we're telling this week on Bad Ideas.

Some of this episode information came from:

Mark Rothko: a Biography by James E. B. Breslin: https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Rothko-Biography-James-Breslin/dp/0226074064#customerReviews

Watching Them Turn Off the Rothkos By Louis Menand: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/watching-them-turn-off-the-rothkos

Mount Pelée and the fall of St. Pierre - Bad Ideas #52

Fri, 24 Aug 2018 20:28:32 +0000

Mount Pelée bubbled and smoked over the town of St. Pierre, but there were elections happening in the town. Would it be better to evacuate the whole city on the off chance the volcano decided to erupt? Or should town officials downplay the danger and try to keep the town safe? Considering the show, you can guess which was chosen. This episode covers the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée and aftermath that followed. It was the worst volcanic disaster of the 20th century, and one of the worst natural disasters on record.

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How History's First Mooning Killed 30,000 People | Bad Ideas #51

Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:02:27 +0000

Mooning. It's an offensive but largely harmless act most of the time. But the first recorded mooning in history resulted in the death of between 10,000 and 30,000 people. Albert tells that story this week on the Bad Ideas Podcast.

Source: The Wars Of The Jews Or The History Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem Book II Chapter 12-1 http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus/war-2.htm

Dashcon: Ball Pits and Mismanagement 101 - Bad Ideas #50

Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:49:42 +0000

Dashcon was one of the most mismanaged attempts at a convention in history. Other than memes about ball pits, the con was an absolute disaster that bordered on fraud. This first attempt at a Tumblr convention would go down in history as an epic example of outright incompetence.

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Night Trap: The Twisted Tale of the Game that Helped Launch the ESRB | Bad Ideas #49

Sat, 04 Aug 2018 04:29:10 +0000

In 1985, engineers at Nolan Bushnells Axlon company started development on a new type of video game console codenamed NEMO. Bushnell, the creator of Chuck E. Cheese, and founder of Atari had a vision for a new kind of video game console. At this point nearly all consoles used cartridges to store the games. This meant the games could be highly interactive, but lacked realism due to the limitations of computers at the time. NEMO would be different. Inspired by games like Dragon's Lair that used pre-animated footage recorded on a LaserDisc, Axlon began developing a game console that would run on VHS tapes.

The idea was that the tape could be encoded with multiple video tracks that would run simultaneously alongside each other. The player could choose which track to switch to, and that choice could relay information to the game system. Eventually the console was renamed to Control Vision.

Axlon realized it didn't have the resources to develop the Control Vision to its fullest potential so they went looking for partners. They settled on Hasbro. The toy company was dominant in media and merchandising in the 1980's and they seemed like a natural fit for something like the control vision.

It's important to understand exactly what kind of "video games" you could play on the Control Vision. The prototype game created to pitch the idea was called Scene of the Crime, a game where you switched between different video surveillance footage feeds and tried to catch a thief. The "game" was only four minutes long, but it made use of live action video, something no video game had ever done before.

With Hasbro on board, production went ahead on the first game for the system, Night Trap.

Night Trap was originally conceived as a game where killer ninjas break into a billionaire's mansion, and it was the player's responsibility to use his state of the art security system to stop the baddies from killing the gaggle of college girls partying there.

However Hasbro had objections to this idea. Ninja violence was imitatable which meant that Hasbro could be accused of encouraging kids to karate chop their siblings.

So the ninjas were changed to vampires. BUT because biting was also an imitatable act they couldn't have teeth. Hasbro was even concerned about the vampires moving too quickly.

So the game designer, James Riley came up with a workaround. The vampires were sick and toothless, hence the slow movement and lack of biting, but they still needed blood, so they carried around a device that would clamp around their victims neck and drill into their neck with a needle draining them of blood. These vampires were called Augurs.

Despite the fact that this was arguably a FAR more disturbing concept than ninjas karate chopping people to death, it was NOT imitatable, which meant it got the pass from Hasbro.

So Night Trap went into production. It was tricky going because no one had made a game like this before. It was like shooting a movie except the script had to accommodate everything that was going on in each room simultaneously, and the actors had to time their actions perfectly so if they left one room they would appear in the next room at the same moment. There were also challenges with how the film would be shot. James Riley originally envisioned a visually darker game, but because they weren't yet sure how much the video would have to be compressed, he decided to shoot everything brightly lit to make it easier to see even if the video ended up being highly pixelated.

The originals though were shot on 35mm film by cinematographer Don Burgess who would go on to be nominated for an Oscar for his work in Forest Gump.

As Night Trap went into production Hasbro started to get nervous. They had signed on to the project in hopes of developing games, but now they seemed to be in the movie business, and they weren't ready to put in that kind of investment. They pulled out of the deal to make the Control-Vision console shortly after the shooting had been completed leaving Night Trap without a console.

It seemed like Night Trap was dead in the water. But then a new possibility emerged. Sega, home of the Sassy Hedgehog and dedicated to doing what Nintendon't was about to release a peripheral to their smash hit Sega Genesis console called Sega CD.

At a time when floppy disks held 1.44 Mb of data and an entire computers hard drive might not be bigger than a couple gigabytes, CD-Roms with their wopping 800 megabytes of storage were the wave of the future. A game system that used CD Rom could include full motion video, and Night Trap seemed like a natural fit. The footage had to be compressed somewhat, but it could all fit on a single disc.

On October 15, 1992, five years after the footage in the game had been filmed Night Trap was released was the Sega CD.

Initial reviews for the game skewed mostly negative. Although the full motion video elements were seen as revolutionary, the gameplay elements didn't pass muster with most player. Night Trap was stuck conceptually in between being a movie and a game and it represented the worst of both worlds.

Night Trap might have simply fizzled out and died as a largely forgotten footnote in the history of gaming. But the early 90's were a time when video games were using more and more graphic violence and the moral panic about what this kind of content might be doing to the children of America made its way straight to the halls of Congress.

The Sentate held a hearing into the dangers of video game violence. Featured were the games Mortal Combat and Night Trap.

Night Trap was singled out because of a scene in which a woman in a nightgown was captured and killed by the Augurs. The senators at the hearing argued that this and other elements in the game promoted violence against women.

Sega, responded to the controversy by creating the Video Game Rating Council to judge whether games contained objectionable content and marking the box with a clear indication of their rating. This would later be replaced by the industry wide Entertainment Software Rating Board.

The other result of the hearing was that sales of Night Trap went through the roof.

Night Trap went on to be released for a variety of other consoles with increasing quality of video as storage quality expanded.

And that should have been the end of the story.

But in 2014, the Night Trap team put together a Kickstarter, trying to raise the money to re-release the game. The kickstarter saw initial enthusiasm, but eventually fizzled out without reaching it's goal. But the idea was out there. Night Trap. In HIGH DEFINITION. It was possible with the original footage recorded.

So in 2016, a programmer named Tyler Hogle created a mobile version of Night Trap just for fun, and released footage of the game anonymously. Excitement about the footage led to Hogle getting in touch with James Riley. Riley gave Hogle the HD master footage he had, and together they put together an HD Re-release of Night Trap.

Balloon Boy - We Did it For the Show - Bad Ideas #48

Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:50:48 +0000

Falcon Heene's wild ride across the foothills of Colorado captivated the world for a few short hours, but was it a hoax? Let's take a deeper look at the Balloon Boy adventure in what truly is a Bad Idea. Was Richard Heene a fraud or did he actually think he lost his kid to a home made UFO test gone wrong?

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Shark Fin Soup: The Fascinating History of a Devastating Dish - Bad Ideas #47

Fri, 20 Jul 2018 12:42:29 +0000

Shark Fin Soup is a traditional dish often served at Chinese weddings to indicate the bride is marrying into a wealthy family. Unfortunately, shark fin soup brings high costs for more than just wedding planners. This week Bad Ideas explores the history of shark fin soup, the dangers it poses to our future.

Sources:

Shocking Graphic Shows Just How Many Sharks Are Killed EVERY HOUR

Dominique Mosbergen - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/sharks-killed-per-hour-infographic_n_2965775.html

Shark-Fin Soup and the Conservation Challenge

Krista Mahr - http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2021071-2,00.html

Shark Finning: Sharks Turned Prey

Caty Fairclough - https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/sharks-rays/shark-finning-sharks-turned-prey

Press Your Luck With Michael Larson - What do you mean it's not random? - Bad Ideas #46

Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:52:13 +0000

Never underestimate the power of a man with a lot of time on his hands and a VCR. Michael Larson was looking for gameshows to play where he could maximize his winnings. After months of studying, he went on Press Your Luck and proceeded to trounce their supposedly random game.

Was he cheating? Or was he just too good? Let us know @HumanEchoes.

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The Lost Cause of the Confederacy: History as Written by the Losers - Bad Ideas #45

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 12:49:34 +0000

The Lost Cause of the Confederacy was a tool in the shape of a history lesson. The American Civil War had just ended, but war is a bitter and terrible thing, and so the country that had so nearly been split in two by war tried to find a way to mend the terrible wounds they had inflicted on each other. The South needed a way to pick themselves up and go forward with pride despite their loss, and the North needed a way to see their Southern members as brethren once again. And so the Lost Cause of the Confederacy came to be, a lie with enough truth to make it palatable, used to paint over the bitter truths of the war.

Joanna Southcott - Prophetess of Doom - Bad Ideas #46

Fri, 29 Jun 2018 05:40:16 +0000

Joanna Southcott was a millenarian cult leader who happens to share a last name with one of our hosts. During the 1800s she predicted the doom of the world and species, sold seals to save souls, and managed to get "pregnant" at the ripe old age of 63 while still being a virgin. Al and Tony dive deep into Southcottism and the English UK cult headed up by Joanna Southcott.

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The Tsar Tank: Russia's WWI Behemoth Trench Buster - Bad Ideas #45

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:36:27 +0000

In 1915 World War I was in full swing. Trench warfare had locked all sides into bloody fruitless seeming unending conflict. Russia had been struck especially hard by the brutal breakout of the war, in part because they weren't prepared militarily to face the German military's machine-like precision. And so it was that a Russian Military engineer Nikolay Lebedenko decided to try to build a solution to problem of trench warfare.

Lebdenko reasoned that a vehicle with large enough wheels would simply be able to roll over the trenches and fortifications. He built a prototype of his vehicle and brought it before Nicholas II the Tsar of Russia at the time. Nicholas was fascinated by the vehicle. He and Lebedenko spent hours that day playing with the wind-up model, running it over obstacles like piles of books with ease. Nicholas was so excited by the design that he immediately commissioned Lebedenko to begin work on a full scale prototype of what would eventually become known as the Tsar Tank.

The construction of the prototype took place under incredible secrecy. The parts for the vehicle were sourced from various factories that produced battle ships and other large machines for Russia, but no single factory knew what the parts they were making were for. The budget for the project was 250,000 rubles, an astronomical sum at the time.

Lebedenko and his men assembled the tank in the solitude of the Russian wilderness.

The prototype looked a little like a child's tricycle in reverse. There were two wheels on the front of the Tsar Tank that rose thirty feet off the ground. The wheels were spoked like bicycle wheels. Each wheel was driven by engines the Russians had salvaged from a downed German Zeppelin. The rear of the vehicle was supported by a single, much smaller wheel about five feet in diameter. Mounted on the vehicle's chassis was the body of the tank, a kind of armoured pod that stuck out of the top and bottom of the tricycle body bristling with machine guns that could be used to clear the enemy from the field.

The Tsar tank powered up and began it's maiden trek across the Russian countryside. The 60 ton behemoth rolled easily over the uneven ground, it's huge wheels rolling over a tree in its path and snapping it like a matchstick. The tank then thundered onto what was known as a corduroy road, a road made of logs that had been tied together to keep travelers from sinking into swampy ground. The tank rolled to the end of the corduroy road and off into the swamp.

But once it was off a solid surface the tank ran into trouble. It got stuck in the mud, and when a 60 ton giant tricycle gets stuck in the mud it REALLY gets stuck in the mud. The Russians tried to retrieve the vehicle, but to no avail. The Tsar Tank was dead.

What went wrong? The idea of using two large wheels to cross uneven terrain is not misguided. It's the reason why mountain bikes can go places that skateboards can't. But the Tsar tank's problem was that third wheel. The third wheel rear was much smaller, and there was only one of it, and yet the weight of the Tsar Tank was distributed so that a large portion of the vehicles mass was resting on that single wheel. And when you're talking about 60 tons of tank that's going to be a problem.

Needless to say, the Tsar Tank never made it into combat, but even if it had there likely would have been another problem. The big spoked wheels in the front would have probably been vulnerable to artillery fire, meaning that even if you could work out the weight distribution problem, the vehicle likely wouldn't have survived very long on the battlefield.

Unfortunately the Tsar who commissioned the Tsar Tank didn't survive much longer either. In February of 1917 the Russian people revolted against Nicholas II and killed him and his entire family. In the years that followed Nikolay Lebedenko, the man who engineered the tank would disappear in the chaotic upheaval of the revolution. In 1923 his creating, the single largest military land vehicle ever constructed would be pulled apart and melted down for scrap.

He Will Not Divide Us: Capturing Shia Labeouf's Flag - Bad Ideas #44

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:48:12 +0000

He Will Not Divide Us, however he will inspire a legion of trolls to take on Shia Labeouf's Trump inspired art project. The unified force of trolls from 4chan would work together using technology, astronomy, and slurs to bring down the He Will Not Divide Us flag.

Set in New York, Albequerque, Tennessee, Liverpool, France, and Poland, this international tale of resistance to resistance is surely trolling on a scale never before seen.

Listen to find out who wins between the battle of 4chan and Shia Labeouf.

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Dogecoin: The Rise and Fall of the World's Cutest Cryptocurrency - Bad Ideas #43

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 15:20:15 +0000

Dogecoin started life as a joke. Jackson Palmer, Tweeted "Investing in Dogecoin, pretty sure it's the next big thing." This was a reference to a popular meme featuring a breed of dog called a Shiba Inu adorned with Comic Sans text. Jackson was poking fun at the rapid proliferation of so-called "altcoins" cryptocurrencies that hoped to rival the success of Bitcoin.
But the response to Palmer's joke was enthusiastic and positive. Still, the joke might have ended there if not for a programmer named Billy Markus. Markus had dabbled with creating his own cryptocurrency in the past and he contacted Palmer to offer his services. Together the two men cooked up Dogecoin, an altcoin cryptocurrency inspired by a joke about how there were too many altcoin cryptocurrencies being created. Naturally it featured the clueless face of a Shiba Inu dog.
The cryptocurrency launched on December 6, 2013. By December 19, the value of the joke currency had skyrocketed, quadrupling it's value in just a few days of trading. The money based on a meme seemed to have a memetic appeal all it's own. Three days later the currency would lose 80% of its value, but by now it was at the very least being talked about in serious cryptocurrency circles. However three days after THAT on December 25, a hacker managed to manupulate a popular Dogecoin storage solution called Dogewallet and stole $12,000 worth of Dogecoin. As if that wasn't enough drama for the cryptocurrency that was still less than a month old, the Dogecoin community, led by the makers of Dogewallet launched an initiative called "Save Dogemas" to make whole those who had had their Dogecoin stolen.
This generosity of the early Doge community was not a one-off. In 2014 they led a Dogecoin fundraiser to send the Jamaican bobsled team to the Olympics, and then they helped build a well in Kenya.
But the happygolucky Dogecoin community hadn't seen the last of its share of troubles. Throughout 2014 a user in the Dogecoin reddit subreddit who called himself _Moolah started engratiating himself to community by generously tipping other community members in Dogecoin seemingly for no reason. And once he had their trust he asked them to invest in his new business venture, an online Dogecoin exchange called Moolah. But after accepting investment from the community to get the site up and running and then accepting deposits of Dogecoin into his newly created exchange, Moolah experienced a "critical bug" and many users lost the ability to withdraw their Dogecoin. The man behind Moolah was eventually identified as Ryan Kennedy, a man with a history of cons and scams.
And because of the nature of Dogecoin it was difficult to know what could be done about it. Dogecoin and other cryptocurrencies aren't "money" in the legal sense, so people who had been scammed had no clear legal recourse.
Dogecoin also suffered price manipulation at the hands of cryptocurrency "investors" looking to make a quick buck in the largely unregulated market.
By 2015 the shine had worn off of Dogecoin, and even creator Jackson Palmer said he wanted to take a step back from the cryptocurrency community.
Why?
Because he didn't care for the kind of people he saw taking an interest in cryptocurrency. "All in all, the cryptocurrency space increasingly feels like a bunch of white libertarian bros sitting around hoping to get rich and coming up with half-baked, buzzword-filled business ideas which often fail," Palmer told coindesk.com. He had also become dissallusioned with the lack of security in the world of cryptocurrency. He had created a version of cryptocurrency that had made regular people feel comfortable investing in this new kind of financial market, and the result was that many of those people had lost significant amounts of money and there was no recourse for them.
The irony is that Palmer had CREATED dogecoin to point at the flaws in the altcoin market. Even back in 2013 new cryptocurrencies were being created all the time. They were presented as investement opportunities, but they were often the tools of what are called "pump and dump" schemes where the creator of a cryptocurrency artifically inflates the price of that currency and then sells off their holdings to gullible investors. And the process shows no signs of slowing. As of March 16, 2018 there were 1,638 different cryptocurrencies.
In the end Dogecoin itself isn't the bad idea here. But it's entire history has been a lens through which we can view the problems with cryptocurrency in general and alt-coins in particular.
Cryptocurrency isn't even a good idea as an investment. At the beginning of the year the market capitalization of Dogecoin was 1.5 billion dollars. Today it has plunged along with the rest of the cryptocurrency market to where it is today at 386 million dollars.

Action Park: New Jersey's Most Dangerous Adventure Park - Bad Ideas #42

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 07:44:41 +0000

This week on Bad Ideas we dive headlong into the rapids, waves, and speedy death traps at Action Park in Vernon, New Jersey. Action Park was an adventure and water park that featured some of the most dangerous attractions seen in the united states. It even included a full loop water slide that only survived full operation for one summer.

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