Doomed to Fail

By Taylor Pineiro, Farz SokhansanjComedy True Crime History

Doomed to Fail episodes

July 28, 2025 Ep 213: A Good Thing Exists - Morgan's Wonderland
Today, in good news, Farz tells the story of San Antonio's kindest philanthropist, Gordon Hartman! Gordon created Morgan's Wonderland - an amusement park that makes attending amusement parks possible for people with disabilities. We'll talk about the mission of the park, the cool rides they created to make sure that everyone can ride safely.

Learn even more at https://morgans.org/
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25 min
July 25, 2025Can you recommend a Pop Culture podcast?
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
A brutal double murder, a televised Bronco chase, and the most infamous trial of the 20th century. Whether he did it or if he did it—America was never the same.
Ep 18 - Part 1: BFFs Gone Wrong - Bernie Tiede

A friendly funeral director in a small Texas town becomes a beloved companion… and then a murderer. But the town still kind of loves him?
Ep 18 - Part 2: Our Favorite Demon Hunters - Ed & Lorraine Warren
Are they paranormal pioneers or con artists with crucifixes? We dive into the legends—and lawsuits—of America’s most famous demonologists.
Ep 24 - Part 1: Impossible that she did it, Impossible that she DIDN'T do it - Lizzie Borden
She definitely didn’t do it. Or she definitely did. Either way, she changed true crime forever.
Ep 36: Bruiser Brody: Beyond the Ring - Unraveling the Legend of Wrestling's Wildman
A pro wrestling legend murdered in the locker room. Was it a beef gone bad—or a cover-up by the wrestling world?
Ep 155: Don't go chasing waterfalls in Honduras - Lisa Left Eye Lopes
From platinum hits to house fires to waterfalls, Left Eye lived—and died—on her own chaotic terms.
Ep 165: Hot Coffee Comin' Up - Poor Stella Liebeck
A spilled cup of McDonald's coffee became the most misunderstood lawsuit in America. Here’s what really happened.
Ep 168: Everybody's Baby - Baby Jessica & her Well
A toddler trapped in a well for over two days. The whole country held its breath—and the cameras kept rolling.
Ep 175: Just stop watching award shows - Psychology of celebrity obsession
Why do we care so much about famous people? Parasocial relationships, public meltdowns, and what award shows reveal about us.
Ep 189: The worst/best time making a movie - The Island of Dr. Moreau
The behind-the-scenes meltdown of this film is more unhinged than anything in the movie. Brando, Kilmer, and chaos in the jungle.
Ep 197: Gotta Have High Hopes - The DeFeo Family
Before The Amityville Horror, there was the real-life massacre. One night. Six dead. One son who claimed he heard voices.
Ep 203: Couple Breaks in the chain! - Hands Across America
An attempt to form a human chain across the U.S. to fight poverty. Cue: confusion, sunburns, and a lot of people standing alone in fields.
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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10 min
July 21, 2025 Ep 212: Death at Dutchman's Pass - The Great train wreck of 1918
Let's go back to a time when trains weren't automated and there was A LOT of room for human error. We talk about the 'Swiss Cheese Model' of disasters all the time and this is a classic case. Late trains, overcrowded passenger cars, neglecting to look at a log book, having the "go" sign up when it should have been "stop" - this case has it all.

We'll also talk about how the story was lost in the ends of WWI and the Jim Crow south.
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32 min
July 17, 2025Can you recommend an Engineering Disaster podcast?
From molasses tsunamis to space shuttle tragedies, here are some of history’s most infamous engineering disasters.
Ep 20 - Part 2: Oh The Humanity!!! - The Hindenburg
A luxury airship explodes mid-air in front of a live radio broadcast. Hydrogen, hubris, and horrific design come together in one fiery crash.
Ep 26 - Part 1: Under Pressure - The Byford Dolphin & The Titan Submersible
What happens when pressurization systems fail under extreme ocean depths? People don’t just die—they implode.
Ep 61: Engineering Disasters Part 1 - The 1981 Kansas City Hyatt Skywalk Collapse
Two walkways, a design shortcut, and one horrific ballroom disaster. A case study in load-bearing failure and engineering denial.
Ep 65 - Engineering Disasters Part 2: Tragedy in Bhopal
A leak at a pesticide plant in India became one of the worst industrial disasters in history—with long-term effects still felt today.
Ep 69 - Click in and Buckle up: Roller Coaster Accidents
When thrill rides go wrong, it’s never a fun ending. We ride through the history of bolts, brakes, and very bad decisions
Ep 72 - Shopping for Disaster - The Sampoong Department Store Collapse
A luxury mall built on shaky shortcuts. Spoiler: it literally collapses during a shopping day.
Ep 93 - Disaster at Shift's End: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Locked doors. No fire escapes. Young women burned alive while trying to flee. A disaster that sparked labor reform—at a horrific cost.
Ep 96 - Doomed to Sink: The Olympic Class Ships of The White Star Line
The Titanic wasn’t the only one. The whole fleet was a floating disaster factory, with design flaws and bad luck baked in.
Ep 126 - A Sticky Situation: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
Yes, a 15-foot wave of molasses tore through Boston’s North End. It sounds funny—until you realize how many people it drowned.
Ep 132 - Swimming in the Sub-Basement: The Great Chicago Flood of 1992
A forgotten utility tunnel, a slow leak, and a very flooded downtown. Oops.
Ep 130 - Come One, Come All!: The Hammond Circus Train Wreck
Two trains, one sleepy engineer, and a whole circus trapped in a fireball. This one’s as tragic as it is surreal.
Ep 138 - Touching the Face of God: Challenger
A cold morning. A rushed schedule. And an o-ring failure that broke the world’s heart on live TV.
Ep 156: We chased waterfalls - Niagara Falls
Humans have tried to harness the power of the falls—and sometimes failed very dramatically.
Ep 167: Blood on the Water - The USS Indianapolis
A secret mission ends in disaster when the ship is torpedoed—and sharks move in. A haunting failure of communication and rescue.
Ep 200: Disaster on the Graveyard Shift - Chernobyl
A test gone wrong leads to the worst nuclear disaster in history. A chilling lesson in human error and systemic denial.
Ep 202: Ok Place, Totally Wrong Time - Not so Lucky Dragon #5
A Japanese fishing boat sails into a U.S. nuclear test site—without knowing it. The fallout changes lives and policy.
Ep 210: Do Whatever You Want!! - Action Park, New Jersey
The most dangerous theme park in America. Rides with no rules, employees with no training, and patrons with no idea what’s coming.
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10 min
July 14, 2025 Ep 211: Playing With The Devil's Venom - The Nedelin Catastrophe
Post WWII, where did all the Rocket Scientists go? Specifically, where did all the GERMAN Rocket Scientests go? Essentially, they went to the highest bidder; some, like Werner von Braun, went to the US, and others went to Russia. Today, we'll tell the story of the race to get a bigger and better ICBM - and how, in a rush to show strength, an undetermined number of people were reduced to ash in The Nedelin Catastrophe.
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33 min
July 09, 2025Can you recommend a Medieval History podcast?
Traditionally, the Middle Ages (which is easier to spell) is the time from the 5th century to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. We could also pull it a little later into the birth of the Renaissance, and we might as well bookend this with the Mona Lisa.
The space between the Nika Riots and the Mona Lisa is about 1000 years, and a lot happened.
🏛 Early Medieval (c. 500–1000 CE)
532 - The Nika Riots: In Constantinople, under Emperor Justinian, what starts as a sports riot turns into a full-blown class riot with many people being hacked to death in the hippodrome. It’s a bloody start to this brutal time period.
Ep 12 - Part 2: Ancient Sport Rivalries - The Nika Riots
890 - Olga of Kiev Born: The future Saint Olga doesn’t suffer fools—or murderers. She’ll go on to take spectacular revenge for her husband's death with fire, pit traps, and a touch of mass slaughter.
Ep 129 - Mother of Sparrows: The Vengeance of Saint Olga of Kiev
🏰 High Medieval (c. 1000–1300 CE)
1066 - Battle of Hastings: William the Bastard becomes William the Conqueror by crushing the Anglo-Saxons. Spoiler: there’s a lot of eye-stabbing and arrow-to-the-face action.
Ep 39: "I'm Alive!": William the Conqueror and the Battle of Hastings
1078 - Construction begins on The Tower of London (by William the Conqueror): Built by William to intimidate Londoners, the Tower goes on to be a prison, zoo, and execution site. It’s the most iconic “doomed to fail” Airbnb of all time.
Ep 157: Beheading the Myths - The Tower of London
Let’s pop in to talk about executions here! The racks, the spikes, the dungeons - imagine Robin Hood Prince of Thieves + The Princess Bride.
Ep 154: Off With Their Heads! - Medieval Executioners
🕯 Late Medieval (c. 1300–1500 CE)
1343 - Geoffrey Chaucer Born: The father of English literature will write The Canterbury Tales, packed with horny nuns, fart jokes, and death. Middle English never sounded so messy.
Ep 174: We're men, we're men in tights (Tight tights!) - Geoffrey Chaucer

1380 - Poggio Bracciolini Born: This book-hunting humanist saves ancient texts from oblivion—right before Europe burns them again. A hero of the Renaissance, with a side of spicy gossip.
Ep 125 - Book Hunting in The Renaissance: Poggio Bracciolini
1381 - Peasants’ Revolt: Fed up with taxes and plague-era inequality, English peasants rise up and nearly overthrow the king. It ends, of course, with heads on pikes.
Ep 172: What do you mean I can't wear drip? The Peasants' Revolt

1393 - A fiery mistake at the Ball: When the king of France and his friends dress up as “wild men” with flammable costumes, one torch turns the party into a deadly inferno.
Ep 102 - The Fatal Masquerade: Bal des Ardents

1410 - First Battle of Jan Žižka: Blind in one eye and armed with war wagons, Žižka kicks off a string of battles that make him one of the only undefeated generals in history.
Ep 22 - Part 2: Czech this guy out - Medieval General Jan Žižka

1496 - The Guanches Defeated: The last resistance of the Indigenous Guanches of the Canary Islands is crushed by the Spanish, marking an early and bloody step in European imperialism.
Ep 70 - The People of Tenerife - The Lost Civilization of The Guanches
🌅 Medieval-to-Renaissance Cusp (c. 1500–1517)
1503 - Nostradamus Born: He’s born during plagues and portents—and grows up to write cryptic rhymes that somehow predict everything from Hitler to TikTok (allegedly).
Ep 122 - Fire & Brimstone: Nostradamus
1503 - Mona Lisa Started: Leonardo da Vinci begins painting a mysterious woman with an even more mysterious smile. Centuries later, we still can’t stop staring.
Ep 85 - Mona Lisa's Journey: From Workshop to World Icon
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9 min
July 07, 2025 Ep 210: Do Whatever You Want!! - Action Park, New Jersey
Oh, the sweet simplicity of an unregulated water park in the 1980s! You 100% would get injured, you might die, but you'd have an awesome time. Let's discuss Gene Mulvihill and his obsession with creating bigger, better, more dangerous water park attractions! We'll dig into the details and the danger. Strap in (actually, there are no straps, so just hang on) for a wild ride!
Sources:
Calss Action Park - https://www.classactionpark.com/
Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park
By Andy Mulvihill and Jake Rossen -
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/action-park-fast-times-wild-rides-and-the-untold-story-of-americas-most-dangerous-amusement-park_jake-rossen_andy-mulvihill/23943413/?#edition=25571824&idiq=43605203
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47 min
June 30, 2025 Ep 209: History Repeated - Israel, Iran, and Iraq
Let's dive into the history between Iran, Israel, and Iraq. You probably won't be surprised to know that there has been conflict in the Middle East as long as there have been humans.
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28 min
June 23, 2025 Ep 208: The Mayor of Castro Street - Harvey Milk
For our last story for Pride Month, let's talk about Harvey Milk. Harvey was only in politics for a few years but he was groundbreaking in that he was an out gay man who encouraged others to also come out and share who they are. We'll cover Harvey's early life in NY, his time in the Navy, and what ultimately led him to Castro Street in San Francisco!

Source - The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life & Times of Harvey Milk
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-mayor-of-castro-street-the-life-and-times-of-harvey-milk_randy-shilts/279686/?
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50 min
June 18, 2025 Ep 207: Hey Ladies!!! - Sappho
To continue our look at LGBTQ+ history let's talk about Sappho! While we cannot put modern definitions onto ancient people, we do assume that Sappho had relationships with women based on her love poems to women. She ran a school for women on the isle of Lesbos (you get it) and we are still discovering fragments of her work!
Join us as Taylor reads Farz a love poem, and he says 'Sorry, I zoned out.
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We bring you stories of history's most notorious disasters and epic failures. Join us as we analyze the red flags and ask the important questions. How did things go so wrong? Could these disasters have been avoided?