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Hosted by History · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 171 episodes
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This hilarious history podcast explores the epic failures, disasters, and terrible decisions that have shaped our world, providing us with memorable lessons to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. Hosts Lev and Derek uncover the funniest blunders, scandals, spectacular mistakes, and jaw-dropping screw-ups from the dawn of time to today. Perfect for history buffs who love a little comedy with their knowledge! New episodes bi-weekly featuring famous disasters, military blunders, political scandals, and legendary bad life choices. Educational entertainment at its finest!
History hosts History's Greatest Idiots, a comedy show with 171 episodes published.
A man who sleep-walked America into the Civil War, a president whose administration was so corrupt his own Attorney General went to prison, and the commander-in-chief who escalated Vietnam while privately admitting it wa
The platforms that were supposed to connect us have spent twenty years getting progressively worse at it. Something has to give. From X (Twitter) losing half its advertising revenue since Elon Musk's takeover, to Faceboo
A futurist who designed the car-dependent world we're all trapped in, an economist who deregulated Wall Street and helped cause the 2008 crash, and the CEO of Spotify who pays artists $0.003 per stream. Meet the people w
Alexander the Great conquered the known world. Rock Hudson was Hollywood's perfect leading man. The manosphere would have disowned both of them. From Alexander's relationship with Hephaestion and Rock Hudson's closeted d
Leaders have been starting wars to distract from scandals since ancient Rome. The only thing that's changed is the technology. From Juvenal's bread and circuses and Napoleon III's catastrophic Franco-Prussian gamble, to
Mitch McConnell has been in hospital for three weeks. His office hasn't said why. This has happened before. Many times. From ancient Rome and Churchill's secret stroke in 1953, to Biden's very public deterioration on liv
The job market is broken. Here are all the things that broke it. From the post-Covid wage squeeze and AI replacing entry-level workers to the white collar recession nobody officially declared, LinkedIn's 11,000 applicati
Due to the extreme heat the UK is currently experiencing (topping out at around 102 degrees Fahrenheit during the day, 90 degrees at night, and 95% humidity), the lack of air-conditioning, my house being built to retain
FIFA has been corrupt since before colour television. And the World Cup is proof. From the ISL bribery scandal and Sepp Blatter's seven arrested executives to Qatar's migrant worker nightmare and Gianni Infantino's incre
Your chocolate bar got smaller. Your streaming service started showing adverts. Your phone slowly turned itself into something worse. There's a word for this now. This episode traces the history of Enshittification, from
Trust in institutions is at a historic low. Turns out there are about sixty years of very good reasons for that. From Watergate and Thatcher decimating mining communities, through the cash for questions scandals of the 1
Rents in Rome were unaffordable in 164 BCE. We've had 2,000 years to fix the housing crisis. Here's why we haven't. From ancient Roman insulae and the Great Fire of London to Hoovervilles, Margaret Thatcher's Right to Bu
Your outrage is worth a fortune. Just not to you. From a 3,800-year-old complaint tablet in ancient Mesopotamia to cancel culture, Tommy Robinson and Donald Trump, this is the full history of outrage: who manufactures it
The internet was built by scientists who wanted to share research. Then surveillance capitalism, social media and Big Tech got involved, and ruined it. From Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web to Cambridge Analytica,
Uber, Amazon, Deliveroo. Strip away the apps and the branding and you're left with a system of exploitation as old as civilisation itself. From ancient civilisations exploiting their populations and medieval serfdom to z
Brexit. Trump. A pandemic. A housing crisis. A culture war nobody asked for. The last ten years didn't break by accident. From the celebrity deaths of 2016 to Trump's Iran brinkmanship in 2026, this episode charts exactl
Burned out, broke, and scrolling at midnight wondering why everything feels impossible? You're not imagining it. This episode breaks down the real reasons modern life is exhausting: the housing crisis, AI killing the job
Alexander The Great called himself a god, Henry VIII airbrushed his portrait, and Nixon lost a TV debate because he was sweaty. The Cult of Personality is older and more complex than you think. This episode traces the an
From West Virginia coalfields to the longest Senate career in American history, Robert C. Byrd went from political villain to unlikely conscience of a nation. This week we trace a 51-year journey of power, shame, redempt
In 1244, a theologian met a wandering dervish in Konya and vanished from public life. What emerged was poetry so universal it outlasted empires. Jalal ad-Din Rumi fled Mongols as a child, became a scholar, then transform
Tim Berners-Lee
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Tim Berners-Lee
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Elon Musk
President Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency
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Margaret Thatcher
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George Santos
Managing Director & Head of Marketing · 180 Engineering
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Mark Millar
Superintendent · County Sligo Golf Club
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David Millar
future neurosurgeon · Concrete Institute of Australia
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William Lavelle
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