Doomed to Fail

Let's talk the invention of 911 (that's 999 or 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3 if you're British). Did you know it wasn't full adopted in the US until the 2000s?? We'll go over AT&T, telephone lines, and switchboards!     You'll also hear Taylor list every time she's called 911 - feel free to share your 911 stories with us!  Join our Founders Club on Patreon to get ad-free episodes for life!  patr...

Today (amongst Heated rivalry chatter), we're talking the FBI's most wanted! The list, which is more publicity than anything, was started by who else but J. Edgar Hoover! We highlight three current fugatives who go in and out of the top ten.  Crypto Queen Ruja Ignatova ran a scam called OneCoin - then she boarded a RyanAir flight and disappeared!  Crappy husband Robert William Fisher murdered his...

Let's talk about space!! We do have small panic attacks thinking about how Jupiter is huge and always raining. But, we're focusing on the little guy - Pluto! We'll talk about when he was discovered, who he was named after, and how he got demoted.    "Pluto is a planet" - Jerry Smith Join our Founders Club on Patreon to get ad-free episodes for life!  patreon.com/DoomedtoFailPod We would love...

Hello and welcome to 2026! Let's start it out with the story of Mary Mallon, who spread Typhoid Fever around NYC in the early 1900s. For a while, Mary didn't know that she was a 'healthy carrier' of the disease. But something started happening - every place Mary worked, people got sick. She was eventually 'caught' by investigator George Soper, quarantined, let go, started cooking AGAIN, and finall...

Let's end the year with a re-release of our girl Amelia!   Be brave.  Join our Founders Club on Patreon to get ad-free episodes for life!  patreon.com/DoomedtoFailPod We would love to hear from you! Please follow along!  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doomedtofailpod/   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doomedtofailpod   Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/@doomedtofa...

What was the funnest day in American history?? For your consideration - here's the story of the Axeman of New Orelnes - maybe more than one person, maybe just one? But, one very well written person wrote a letter asking everyone in NOLA to have a Jazz band playing one March night in 1919... it might have been fun.  Join our Founders Club on Patreon to get ad-free episodes for life!  patreon.c...

We love stuff, but the idea of going to a store for that stuff sounds insane. Today, Farz will talk through the history of Black Friday - why do we do Thanksgiving when we do? Why do we like sales so much? Would you murder someone for a PlayStation (say no)?   Happy Franksgiving & Merry Christmas! Join our Founders Club on Patreon to get ad-free episodes for life!  patreon.com/DoomedtoFailPod...

Hey Pachuco! It's 1943, and we're in Downtown Los Angeles! LA's population has just grown exponentially - partly with people from Mexico brought into the US specifically to address the labor shortage after all the Japanese Americans were taken into internment camps (not good!) - and partly because the US needs every young man to join the war and there are tens of thousands of 18-20 year old servic...

Let's do some highlights of MKUltra because it is a can of worms! We'll talk Sidney Gottlieb America's 'poisoner in chief' who used LSD (and other drugs) to try to reprogram minds. Spoiler - you cannot do that.   Source https://www.amazon.com/s?k=poisoner+in+chief&i=stripbooks&adgrpid=183397944181&hvadid=779569029006&hvdev=c&hvexpln=0&hvlocphy=9031388&hvnetw=g&hvocijid=1797291272736522472--&hvqmt=...

Man we love a good mutiny! This, however, is a bad one. The deadliest one in history! It's 1628, and the Dutch East India Company is up to no good... We'll talk about the syphilis-addled brain of Jeronimus Cornelisz, who staged a mutiny, killed a TON of people, and ultimately was executed for all the wildly unnecessary shenanigans.   Grab a Dramamine and join us!  Join our Founders Club on Patreon...

What would you do if you had millions and millions of dollars? Terrance Watanabe managed to gamble away the most money in history - he came from the family that invented the catalogue 'Oriental Trading'. If you were a kid in the 90s, you know what we're talking about!   Learn about the dangers of gambling - including all the stuff you can do on your phone these days!  Join our Founders Club on Pat...

Today, we have two stories of disasters at sporting events. First, we'll talk about the 1989 Crowd Crush at the Liverpool / Nottingham Forest FA Cup game at Hillsborough Stadium in the UK. Poor planning and new leadership ended in the deaths of 97 people.   Then, we will go back to 1918 to the Happy Valley Racecourse Fire where over 600 people were killed when grandstands made of bamboo fell into...

Imagine you've been unstoppable - created the most popular websites and movies in the history of well, websites and movies... what would be next? You see everyone on their phone all the time out in public, and think - that's it! Shows JUST for your phone!   Sounds kind of dumb, but whatever - the only thing that could possibly go wrong would be if people were trapped in their houses and devoted to...

Read Fab's Book!  "You Know It's True: The Real Story of Milli Vanilli" https://www.amazon.com/You-Know-Its-True-Vanilli/dp/B0FP4P554H   We're back with the epic rise and fall of Milli Vanilli! We're old enough to remember, and we still delight in their smash hits!   But it's obviously also a tragic story of fame, the music industry, race, culture, and creative freedom.   We'll talk about our star...

Did this case enthrall you when you were a child?? I remember the song, and being sure she did it from the TV movie... but after researching I'm just not as convinced!  Join our Founders Club on Patreon to get ad-free episodes for life!  patreon.com/DoomedtoFailPod We would love to hear from you! Please follow along!  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doomedtofailpod/   Facebook:...

Voltaire kind of  said, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." And that's pretty much Freedom of Speech in the US. You CAN say stuff, you aren't immune to consequences, but the basic right does exist.   Today we'll talk about the founding of the ACLU, and the time that they supported the right to have a bad opinion. Join our Founders Club on Patreon to...

It's Victorian London - and if you aren't rich, things are awful. (That's actually a pattern of all of humanity and of all time if you take a second to reflect on the greed.) Imagine, though, that it's specifically the kind of awful where you are on the streets selling yourself for money in order to buy crappy booze and sleep in an even crappier rooming house if you can.   Taylor read a lot of boo...

Episodes: Ep 1 - Part 2: Mommy Dearest - Lori Vallow & Chad Daybell A doomsday cult, missing children, and murders that shocked the nation.   Ep 3 - Part 2: Trouble in Celebration - The Todt Family Murders A quiet Florida town rocked by family annihilation.   Ep 8 - Part 1: Terror in the Capital - The DC Snipers Two men who turned daily errands into fatal targets.   Ep 18 - Part 1: BFFs Gone Wrong...

Farz & Taylor met in 2013 when they started working at a startup in Downtown Los Angeles.  We understand that some people like DTLA, but Taylor personally lived in New York City for 13 years before this and has never set foot in a worse place than the area around Pershing Square. We say that because the Cecil Hotel is just a block away from where we worked, and as soon as we got into the neighborh...

In 1996, Australian weirdo Martin Bryant killed 35 people in the deadliest shooting in Australian history. He's the worst, annoying and rude, he killed his landlords and tourists, going on a spree that shocked the nation.   Australia followed up with a mass gun buyback program that has made Australia safer from gun violence, but it still has all those bugs.  Join our Founders Club on Patreon to ge...

Episodes: Ep 107 - Australia's Gun Horror: The Port Arthur Massacre The shooting spree that reshaped Australian gun laws.   Ep 111 - Michigan's own 1970s Serial Killer - John Norman Collins Michigan’s “Co-ed Killer.”   Ep 120 - South American Nightmares: Luis Garavito & Pedro Lopez Two South American serial killers whose victim counts are staggering.   Ep 123 - Trip down memory lane: What happened...

This is our most popular episode ever. We can only assume that you people are kind of gross and Google this trio often. Here's the story of young men who murdered over 20 people, tortured animals, and filmed it all.   Buckle up for this depraved tale from Eastern Europe. Join our Founders Club on Patreon to get ad-free episodes for life!  patreon.com/DoomedtoFailPod We would love to hear from...

Imagine you live on a farm in Germany. It's winter. Your maid quits because she hears footsteps in the attic, you find a newspaper from a faraway town in the yard, and there are footsteps in the snow coming towards your house, but NOT leaving???   You would, of course, be right to be scared. Let's revisit the story of the Gruber family (and their NEW maid who was only on the job ONE day) and how t...

Let's revisit one of the most famous murders of the 20th century - and a highlight from our tenth episode! So, OJ Simpson absolutely killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. It's a tragedy that there was no justice and his poor poor kids.   Anyway! Does anyone even read these descriptions?? This is the first of several murder rereleases!  Join our Founders Club on Patreon to get ad-free episod...

Oh boy do we have a lot of Murder episodes!! We started off mostly doing true crime before we pivoted to history and some true crime and other fun things! This is part 1 of three of our Murder episodes! Re-releases on the way!   Episodes: Ep 4 - Part 1: Tragedy in Manchester - the murder of Kelly Anne Bates A teenage girl trapped in one of the UK’s most horrifying abuse-murder cases.   Ep 5 - Part...