When people go wrong, the spotlight melts them faster. These episodes explore crimes, courtroom chaos, PR disasters, and unforgettable headlines. We have A LOT of episodes - get started here! Ep 10 Part 1 – OJ & Nicole Simpson Ep 18 - Part 1: BFFs Gone Wrong - Bernie Tiede Ep 18 - Part 2: Our Favorite Demon Hunters - Ed & Lorraine Warren Ep 24 - Part 1: Impossible that she did it, Impossible that she DIDN'T do it - Lizzie Borden Ep 36: Bruiser Brody: Beyond the Ring - Unraveling the Legend of Wrestling's Wildman Ep 155: Don't go chasing waterfalls in Honduras - Lisa Left Eye Lopes Ep 165: Hot Coffee Comin' Up - Poor Stella Liebeck Ep 168: Everybody's Baby - Baby Jessica & her Well Ep 175: Just stop watching award shows - Psychology of celebrity obsession Ep 189: The worst/best time making a movie - The Island of Dr. Moreau Ep 197: Gotta Have High Hopes - The DeFeo Family Ep 203: Couple Breaks in the chain! - Hands Across America Ep 206: Our new departure time is in 18 years - Mehran Karimi Nasseri
When people go wrong, the spotlight melts them faster. These episodes explore crimes, courtroom chaos, PR disasters, and unforgettable headlines.
Ep 10 Part 1 – OJ & Nicole Simpson
Ep 18 - Part 1: BFFs Gone Wrong - Bernie Tiede
Ep 18 - Part 2: Our Favorite Demon Hunters - Ed & Lorraine Warren
Ep 24 - Part 1: Impossible that she did it, Impossible that she DIDN'T do it - Lizzie Borden
Ep 36: Bruiser Brody: Beyond the Ring - Unraveling the Legend of Wrestling's Wildman
Ep 155: Don't go chasing waterfalls in Honduras - Lisa Left Eye Lopes
Ep 165: Hot Coffee Comin' Up - Poor Stella Liebeck
Ep 168: Everybody's Baby - Baby Jessica & her Well
Ep 175: Just stop watching award shows - Psychology of celebrity obsession
Ep 189: The worst/best time making a movie - The Island of Dr. Moreau
Ep 197: Gotta Have High Hopes - The DeFeo Family
Ep 203: Couple Breaks in the chain! - Hands Across America
Ep 206: Our new departure time is in 18 years - Mehran Karimi Nasseri
He lived in an airport for 18 years. His story inspired The Terminal
, but the real tale is stranger, sadder, and more bureaucratic.
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Doomed to Fail is a podcast that brings you historical stories
>> Taylor: Hello and welcome to Doomed to Fail. We are a podcast that brings you historical stories. Some are disasters, some are failures, some are famous, some are not famous, all sorts of things. And we kind of, because of that, don't have a niche, which is like murder to a podcast. But I think we are telling a story, a common thread of humanity and history and how we got to where we are.
We have over 200 pop culture episodes available on iTunes and elsewhere
So today I'm going to tell you about some of our pop culture episodes. We have over 200 episodes. They're available anywhere you listen, and they're all ad free, so there's tons to binge on. So if you like something in this realm, maybe you'll like something another one. Because, you know, history is gossip. That's it. Okay, so starting at the beginning, when you hear our theme song, we have the reading of the verdict in the O.J. simpson trial. So you can revisit that with us in episode 10, part one, O.J. and Nicole Simpson. So we actually couldn't believe we got to episode 10. We were like, this is crazy. Episode 10, I did the Kennedys. Because that's the other half of our theme song. So let's listen to that one. Then we have episode 18 about Bernie Teed. So he was a man who met an older woman, and I don't think their relationship was, like, intimate, but it was very weirdly best friendly. And he ended up murdering her. This is in pop culture because it actually is a movie with Jack Black called Bernie. I haven't seen it, but, like, learn about it. Episode 18, the other half of episode 18. Because we used to do it in two halves, now we don't. But the other half, episode 18, is about Ed and Lorraine Warren. I mean, could you imagine two more prominently pop culture folks? I actually was just at the movies and there's another conjuring and it said, be prepared for the end. And I'm like, how dare you end this franchise. Patrick Wilson will live forever, even though he's absolutely nothing like Ed Warren, who is a charlatan and not. Not a sexual predator. Just not, not a good man. Very, very not good man. But it's a cool story. So episode 18, part 2, Ed and Lorraine Warren. They're from the Conjuring and medieval horror. All of that. Episode 24, Part 1 is on Lizzie Borden. This is pop culture to me because this is like, how did I know about this murder? In the 80s when I was a child, you know, we sang the song. It scared the crap out of me. I don't know if she did it. I was so for my whole life. And this is like when I told Farz this, who's my co host, he was like, why do you think about this? And I'm like, how. What part of America did you grow up in? Because I feel like it's such a big part of my initial foray into horror and mystery and all of that. But I thought she did it right after reading a book on it and doing a little bit more research, whatever that means. I don't know. There's like a whole extra set of rooms in the attic that is not mentioned in anything that I've ever seen. And the uncle is like very, very suspicious and a man who's stronger than her. And it was so hot and they weren't eating, which is so also interesting because there's this part of the story where she goes outside and eats like four pears off the pear tree. And people are like, that is so weird. Why would she do that? And I'm like, because she was starving. Because the only food they had in the house was this like two month old stew that they kept just reheating because it was so hot. And they kept closing all the doors. Everybody was sick. And it's just. I don't know, maybe she poisoned them but didn't axe them. What do you think? Tell me. I could talk about it more. I've just talked about it for three minutes. Listen to the whole episode 24. Then episode 36 is on a wrestling star, Bruiser Brody. So Bruiser Brody was a big star in the WWE and he ended up getting murdered in Puerto Rico. And it's kind of a mystery and actually very, very sad. So you can listen to that. Don't we skip a ton of.
Episode 155 digs down into the psychology of celebrity obsession
There's probably some that are pop culture between 36 and 155. But episode 155 is on Lisa Left Eye Lopez from TLC. I learned a little bit more about how she passed away and her life and legacy in that one. Episode 165 is about Stella Liebeck. And you probably have not heard her name, but you know her story. Stella is the woman who spilled McDonald's coffee on her lap. There's so many interesting things here, right? The coffee was school scalding. It was so hot it fused parts of her body together. She had insane burns in her area. And then when far as and I were talking about this, he was like, well, why would you have a cup of coffee between your legs? And I'm like, that is very something I would do. I Would pull it between my legs and put the sugar in, blah, blah, blah. But also the car that she was in with her grandson did not have cup holders. Cup holders were not standard in cars the whole time we had cars. Which is super interesting. It also kind of just reminded me, like, how do people consume food differently? I guess I skipped Bonnie and Clyde, but there's Bonnie and Clyde. We have an episode on them as well. But I always think about, this is ridiculous. I. If you're listening to this, please, I don't know, send me an email and say, I heard this, I heard your rant. Doomed to failpodmail.com but when Bonnie and Clyde were killed by the police, she was holding a hamburger. And so she was holding just like one hamburger. So they would go to the. They would go and get like, not like a meal, but like a hamburger, you know, like the sandwich. And then they also started to not invent but like necessitate taking food out. Like take out food that wasn't a thing. So they would go to restaurants and be like, can we borrow your plates and we'll bring them back. And they would. It's just fascinating that that time period. So I don't know, put by Search Body and Clyde. We have that too. I don't know how I got there. Cup holders. Just things that are standard. Okay. Episode 168, baby Jessica. Also, as a child of the 80s, do you remember when Jessica fell into a well, it's actually kind of a pipe in her aunt's backyard in Texas. And it was international news for a good day or so as we tried to get her out and we did. And she is good and she's a grown up and she is married and she has children and she is thriving. So all of that is good. Episode 175 Fars digs down into the psychology of celebrity obsession. He's definitely like, I'm not watching a reward show. Kind of gu. And so we talk about, you know, crazy things people have done in the name of celebrity. Episode 189 is the making of the movie the island of Dr. Moreau. Oh, you. If you haven't seen it, listen to our episode, then watch the movie. I watched it after recording this episode with me and oh my goodness, it is ridiculous. It is Val Kilmer and Marlon Brando and everyone just, just seems awful. There's like a director who disappeared into the woods. There's just. It's so funny. You can picture Marlon Brando in this film if you picture him with like his face Painted white. It's. It's wild. So listen to that one. And then episode 179, High Hopes. The DeFeo family. This ties us back to the Warrens because we know the Warrens are not real. Like, demons aren't real. The Warrens are charlatans. But they. One of the things that they worked on was the Amityville Horror case. And, you know, I think that the family in the Amityville Horror was making it up, obviously, but there was a real murder in that house. So before the Lutz family moved into the house in Amityville, New York, the DeFeo family was murdered by their son. And it is. He used the demons told me to do it defense, which, like, we don't believe, but also, like, he could have been. You know, I believe that he might have thought that if he was schizophrenic for real. Also, it's just kind of mysterious how he could have killed six people with a shotgun and not have someone here. So listen to that. Episode 203, Hands Across America. I. It goes back to, like, celebrity obsession and celebrity philanthropy, which was another big thing in the 80s. So hands across America was an idea that you could hold hands from one side of America to the other. Kind of sponsored by Live Aid, etc. And it's just fun. They didn't do it. They didn't go all the way across. And then finally, episode 206, I'm kind of doing things that, like, became movies. But this is a story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who is the person who stayed at Charal de Gaulle Airport for 18 years. So his story is in that Tom Hanks would be the terminal, which is way romanticized because really, this man should have just signed some papers and left. It's kind of bizarre. So that's a handful of pop culture episodes. They dig into history, they dig into murder, they dig into all sorts of different things. I hope you like them. Please let me know what you'd like us to talk about. Doom2felipodmail.com doom2felipod at all the socials. And thank you. I appreciate you.