Bad Ideas Podcast

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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 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 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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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.