Doomed to Fail

By Taylor Pineiro, Farz SokhansanjComedy True Crime History

Doomed to Fail episodes

December 29, 2025 Re-Release - Ep 90 - Echoes of the Sky: Amelia Earhart's Enduring Influence
Let's end the year with a re-release of our girl Amelia!

Be brave.
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55 min
December 22, 2025 Ep 230: Turn the music up, or else! - The Axeman of New Orleans
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.
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42 min
December 15, 2025 Ep 229: The downfall of society - Black Friday
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!
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32 min
December 08, 2025 Ep 228: Pull a comb through your coal black hair - Zoot Suit Riots
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 servicemen from a deeply segeragated American South in town.

Tensions are high! The fashion among young Mexican men is the Zoot Suit - oversized jackets, big pants, and lots of flair. It makes them easy targets for racially targeted vigilante groups of servicemen to let off some steam. No white men were arrested; about 600 Mexican (and a handful of other non-white people) were arrested. Surprisingly, nobody died!
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46 min
December 02, 2025 227: Don't try the punch - Sidney Gottlieb & MKUltra
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=e&hvrand=1797291272736522472&hvtargid=kwd-813245151278&hydadcr=22536_13821197_8233&mcid=b8bb19d08331358680d1db8c8161b8af&tag=googhydr-20&ref=pd_sl_81f3pp8mjh_e
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43 min
November 24, 2025 Ep 226: Deadliest Mutiny Ever - Batavia
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!
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43 min
November 17, 2025 Ep 225: Gambling Away Millions - Terrance Watanabe
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!
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37 min
November 10, 2025 Ep 224: Crowd Chaos - The Hillsborough and Happy Valley Disasters
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 food stands with open flames.

Finally, we'll talk about how you can stay safe in a crowd, from knowing your exits at all times to making sure you have a few centimeters in front of your chest free for breathing.

HILLSBOROUGH
Hillsborough tragedy: a reconstruction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCFuQLUD-LQ
Hillsborough Disaster: How it Happened in 1989 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6kAtdwNJ5s
Hillsborough: anatomy of a disaster - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYNeoTXe-SE
15 Darkest Moments in Sports History -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-fg7OADzsk
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37 min
November 03, 2025 Ep 223: Too Short to Fail - Quibi
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 their TVs in a way that they hadn't been in ages.

Right - That was Quibi - phone only shows that launched right before we were all stuck inside due to Covid! A spectacular failure from Meg Whitman & Jeffrey Katzenberg.
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31 min
October 27, 2025 Ep 222: Blame it on the Rain - Milli Vanilli
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 stars Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus - how they found each other in 1980s Germany, rose to superstardom under the heel of the villain Frank Farian, and their very public fall from grace. It's a deeper story than you thought, but girl, you know it's true.
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56 min

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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?