bsnsHistory

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.

bsnsHistory is a history podcast hosted by bsnsBasics, with 190 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #26261

  Business Blooper: Buried by a Bonding Rule

  Sep 18, 202613 minS1

  Some empires don't collapse from a bad product. They collapse from a rule nobody read closely enough. Through the late 1980s and early 1990s, Ray Loewen built The Loewen Group into the second largest funeral home company in North America, buying up small, family-owned funeral homes across the United States and Canada while deliberately keeping their local names on the door. In 1995, a contract dispute with Biloxi funeral home operator Jeremiah O'Keefe went to trial in Jackson, Mississippi, and a jury returned a $500 million verdict, the largest in state history. Unable to post the $625 million appeal bond required under Mississippi law within seven days, Loewen settled for $175 million, a sum the debt-heavy company could not absorb. The Loewen Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 1999. From bsnsBasics, this is bsnsBloopers, the weekly podcast that unpacks the business decisions that sounded smart, until they weren't. Hosted by Ron Trucks. New episodes every Friday. Another lesson from bsnsBloopers, the podcast that proves even smart ideas can blow up. Visit us at www.bsnsDAILYpodcasts.com

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  Episode #26260

  When Fans Renamed A Spacecraft

  Sep 17, 202610 minS1

  NASA wanted to name its first space shuttle Constitution. A woman who'd already saved a canceled TV show with 116,000 letters got a phone call asking her to do it again. On September 17, 1976, NASA rolled out its first Space Shuttle orbiter, Enterprise, at Rockwell International's facility in Palmdale, California, with the original Star Trek cast in attendance. The name change came after Bjo Trimble, who had organized the 1968 letter-writing campaign that saved Star Trek from cancellation, led a similar effort urging President Gerald Ford to rename the shuttle after the fictional starship. Over 200,000 letters later, Ford ordered the change, giving NASA a wave of public enthusiasm it never had to pay for. This is bsnsHistory, the daily podcast about the moments when business quietly reshaped the world. Written and hosted by Ron Trucks. Research and editing by Rodney Russ. Sound design by Angela Cahoy. Music by Cody Martin and Soundstripe. For more daily business stories, visit www.bsnsDAILYpodcasts.com

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  Episode #26258

  Spinks Kept the Belt. ABC Wanted Ali.

  Sep 15, 202610 minS1

  Seven months after losing his title in one of boxing's biggest upsets, Muhammad Ali stepped back into the ring against the man who beat him, and the broadcast deal built around that rematch said everything about who the real draw was. On September 15, 1978, Ali faced reigning heavyweight champion Leon Spinks at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, in a rematch ABC paid a record $5.3 million to broadcast live. Ali won a unanimous decision after fifteen rounds, becoming the first fighter in history to win the heavyweight title three times, while the broadcast itself drew an estimated 90 million viewers across roughly 80 countries. The episode traces how the media deal around the fight treated Ali, not the defending champion, as the true commercial center of the event. From bsnsHistory, the daily podcast about the moments when business quietly reshaped the world. Written and hosted by Ron Trucks. Research and editing by Rodney Russ. Sound design by Angela Cahoy. Music by Cody Martin and Soundstripe. For more daily business stories, visit www.bsnsDAILYpodcasts.com

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  Episode #26257

  The Eleven Days Parliament Had to Delete

  Sep 14, 202610 minS1

  A diplomat's personal irritation with mismatched dates on his own letters ended up rewriting an entire nation's calendar. On September 14, 1752, Britain completed its switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, a change championed in Parliament by Lord Chesterfield, whose smoother public performance won him credit for work that actually belonged to the mathematician George Parker, Earl of Macclesfield. Wednesday, September 2, was followed directly by Thursday, September 14, deleting eleven calendar days overnight and forcing Parliament to quickly pass a second law protecting wages, rents, and interest payments from the gap. The famous stories of angry mobs rioting in the streets don't hold up, that legend traces back to a satirical painting of an unrelated election two years later, but the disruption to everyday financial life was real, and it's part of why the UK's tax year still starts on April 6 today. This is bsnsHistory, the daily podcast about the moments when business quietly reshaped the world. Written and hosted by Ron Trucks. Research and editing by Rodney Russ. Sound design by Angela Cahoy. Music by Cody Martin and Soundstripe. For more daily business stories, visit www.bsnsDAILYpodcasts.com

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  Episode #26254

  Business Blooper: A Shortcut Straight Into the Desert

  Sep 11, 202614 minS1

  Some product launches fail quietly. This one sent people into the desert. On September 19, 2012, Apple released iOS 6, replacing Google Maps with its own mapping app across every iPhone. Within days, the new app was riddled with errors, mislabeled landmarks, warped roads, entire towns missing from the map. By December, the glitch had turned dangerous, with Victoria Police in Australia rescuing multiple drivers who had been directed into a remote national park while trying to reach a town forty three miles away. CEO Tim Cook issued a public apology on September 28, an almost unheard of move for Apple, and the company spent years rebuilding its mapping data from scratch. From bsnsBasics, this is bsnsBloopers, the weekly podcast that unpacks the business decisions that sounded smart, until they weren't. Hosted by Ron Trucks. New episodes every Friday. Another lesson from bsnsBloopers, the podcast that proves even smart ideas can blow up. Visit us at www.bsnsDAILYpodcasts.com

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