Every day of the year has a story where business reshaped the world. And each day, host Ron Trucks takes you through that story - part history lesson, part trivia fun - in less time than it takes to order your Starbucks. And on Fridays? We cut loose with bsnsBloopers: the missteps, meltdowns, and epic fails that prove business doesn’t always go according to plan.
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Signup to Generate a PitchEvery day of the year has a story where business reshaped the world. And each day, host Ron Trucks takes you through that story - part history lesson, part trivia fun - in less time than it takes to order your Starbucks. And on Fridays?
Recent episodes include "Business Blooper: The Deal Jerry Yang Wouldn't Take" (30 October 2026, 12 minutes), "October 29, 2026: The Empty Chair That Let a Crash Become the Great Depression" (29 October 2026, 11 minutes), and "October 28, 2026: A Papal Bull, a Classroom, and the Word We Still Trust" (28 October 2026, 11 minutes).
bsnsHistory publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 12 minutes.
Booking probability for bsnsHistory is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. bsnsHistory requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. bsnsHistory's contact route on record: public web form.
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Episode #26303
You've heard about Yahoo passing on Google. This is the mistake that actually cost them everything. On February 1, 2008, Microsoft made an unsolicited $44.6 billion offer to acquire Yahoo, a 62 percent premium over its...
For a full year before the stock market crashed, the one man at the Federal Reserve who actually knew how to stop a panic wasn't there to do it. On October 29, 1929, now remembered as Black Tuesday, the New York Stock...
Every time you hear the word credentialed, licensed, or certified, you're looking at a trade that started nearly five centuries ago. On October 28, 1538, Pope Paul III issued a papal bull elevating a small Dominican...
A drawing did what financial records alone couldn't. On October 27, 1871, officers arrested William "Boss" Tweed, the head of New York's Tammany Hall political machine, on charges of fraud, forgery, and larceny tied to...
For decades, a company could fill a file on you with rumors, gossip, and outright fabrications, and you'd never know it existed until you were denied a loan, a job, or an apartment. On October 26, 1970, President Nixon...
Some collapses take everyone by surprise. This one had a paper trail years in the making. On January 15, 1990, Federated Department Stores and Allied Stores, the parent companies of Bloomingdale's, Rich's, Jordan Marsh...
A ten-by-ten-foot burger stand in Baldwin Park, California opened its speaker box for the first time on October 22, 1948, and the discipline behind it outlasted five different presidents over the next seventy-seven...
Episode #26294
A tree marked for removal at a Minnesota research station and an abandoned London market that hadn't sold fruit in sixteen years both proved the same unlikely lesson about produce and business value. On October 21...
Episode #26293
An engineer sitting on a Florida beach in 1948 dragged his fingers through the sand and sketched an idea nobody would know what to do with for twenty five years. On October 20, 1949, Norman Joseph Woodland and classmate...
Episode #26292
A federal judge's ruling forced the largest employer in America to change a policy it had defended for seventeen years, and someone walked through the door before the day was over to test it. On October 19, 2010, the...
Everyone knows how this story is supposed to end. This time, it doesn't. Blockbuster CEO John Antioco eliminated the company's unpopular late fees in 2004 and launched Total Access, a hybrid service that competed...
Episode #26288
Two brothers with no scientific training turned a chimney fire observation into the most talked-about spectacle in France. On October 15, 1783, in the garden of a Paris wallpaper factory, science teacher Jean-François...
Nine of America's most powerful bank CEOs walked into a Treasury Department conference room on October 13, 2008, believing they still had a choice. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson made clear they didn't, and by six...
Episode #26286
Sailors had been able to calculate their position at sea for well over a century by the time the world finally agreed on where longitude should start counting from. On October 13, 1884, delegates from twenty five...
Episode #26285
A brand-new king's son threw open his wedding to an entire city, and the gesture never really stopped. On October 12, 1810, Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria married Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and rather than...
Episode #26281
A four a.m. phone call from a sportswriter was how Curt Flood learned he'd been traded, and his refusal to accept it eventually rewrote the economics of professional sports. On October 8, 1969, Flood found out the St...
Episode #26280
Everyone knows Ford doubled wages to five dollars a day. Almost nobody knows what it actually took to keep the full amount. On October 7, 1913, Ford's Highland Park plant began assembling Model T chassis on a moving...
Episode #26279
Warner Bros. was still the smaller studio chasing Paramount and MGM when it bet its future on a sound technology called Vitaphone, and the brother who pushed hardest for that bet didn't live to see whether it paid off...
Episode #26278
A Washington courtroom forced the largest company in the world to break itself into pieces, and one of the smallest pieces eventually bought the parent back. On October 5, 1983, Southwestern Bell Corporation was...
Episode #26275
Some companies collapse over years. This one started collapsing in the middle of a laugh. On April 23, 1991, Gerald Ratner, CEO of the world's largest jewellery retailer, told a room of six thousand business leaders and...
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