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Quibi vs. Google+: When Silicon Valley Billions Couldn't Buy Cool 08/20/2026

Quibi vs. Google+: When Silicon Valley Billions Couldn't Buy Cool What happens when you throw billions of dollars at ideas nobody asked for? We're diving into two of tech's most expensive face-plants: Quibi's $1.75 billion bet that people desperately wanted to watch movies in chapters, and Google+'s doomed mission to out-Facebook Facebook. Spoiler alert: forced adoption and celebrity endorsements can't save you from being fundamentally unwanted. /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/42496760

Top 6 Celebrity Apology Videos That Made Everything Worse 08/04/2026

Top 6 Celebrity Apology Videos That Made Everything Worse Some apologies make things better. These did not. From ukuleles to tears filmed in 4K, we're ranking the celebrity mea culpas that turned PR nightmares into full-blown disasters—complete with ring lights, calculated pauses, and absolutely zero self-awareness. /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/42311675

Kony 2012: The 30-Minute Meltdown That Changed Viral Activism 07/16/2026

Kony 2012: The 30-Minute Meltdown That Changed Viral Activism In March 2012, a documentary about an African warlord became the fastest-growing viral video of all time, racking up 100 million views in six days. Then, two weeks later, its creator was found running naked through the streets, and the entire campaign collapsed under scrutiny. We're unpacking how Invisible Children's campaign went from world-changing phenomenon to cautionary tale in less than a month. /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/42110550

Fyre vs. TanaCon: A Tale of Two Festival Disasters 06/19/2026

Fyre vs. TanaCon: A Tale of Two Festival Disasters What happens when influencer hype collides with zero planning? We're diving deep into the dual dumpster fires of Fyre Festival and TanaCon—two events that promised their young audiences exclusive experiences but instead became case studies in deception, incompetence, and secondhand embarrassment. From cheese sandwiches in the Bahamas to sunburned teens locked outside a Marriott, discover how these disasters unfolded in eerily similar yet distinctly cringe-worthy ways. /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41700640

Top 7 Failed Social Media Platforms You Forgot Existed 06/08/2026

Top 7 Failed Social Media Platforms You Forgot Existed Before TikTok and Instagram, the internet was littered with social media corpses that promised to change everything and delivered nothing but secondhand embarrassment. We're ranking seven platforms that spent millions trying to be the next big thing, only to become punchlines—complete with awkward launch videos, celebrity endorsements gone wrong, and user bases that evaporated overnight. /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41569950

DashCon's Ball Pit of Broken Dreams 05/23/2026

DashCon's Ball Pit of Broken Dreams In July 2014, thousands of Tumblr users descended on a Chicago hotel for what was supposed to be the convention of their dreams. Instead, they got bounced checks, canceled guests, and an emergency fundraiser that netted $17,000 in cash—only for attendees to be 'compensated' with an extra hour in a children's ball pit. We're diving deep into how internet optimism crashed into catastrophic mismanagement. /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41401515

Xmas worst 12/24/2025

Xmas worst Maybe it'd been better NOT to gift!? /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41089345

Best of pt2 11/26/2025

Best of pt2 Cringe Archive best of episode! /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41089350

Best of 11/11/2025

Best of Cringe Archive best of episode! /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41089355

Halloween Cringe 10/28/2025

Halloween Cringe Cringe Costumes /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41089360

Family Gatherings pt2 10/15/2025

Family Gatherings pt2 You don't pick your family con't /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41089365

Family Gatherings 09/30/2025

Family Gatherings You don't pick your family /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41089370

Bad Gifts 09/16/2025

Bad Gifts Look what I got you! /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41089375

It Just Happens pt2 09/02/2025

It Just Happens pt2 Some peoples children /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41089380

It Just Happens 08/19/2025

It Just Happens It Just Happens /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41089385

PA 08/05/2025

PA /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41089390

They Did What?! Pt6 07/22/2025

They Did What?! Pt6 /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41089395

They Did What?! Pt5 07/09/2025

They Did What?! Pt5 /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41089400

They Did What?! Pt4 06/25/2025

They Did What?! Pt4 /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41089405

They Did What?! Pt3 06/11/2025

They Did What?! Pt3 It sounded like a good idea at first, spoiler alert: it wasn't con't /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41089410

They Did What?! Pt2 05/28/2025

They Did What?! Pt2 It sounded like a good idea at first, spoiler alert: it wasn't con't /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41089415

They Did What?! 05/15/2025

They Did What?! It sounded like a good idea at first, spoiler alert: it wasn't /episode/index/show/7770ab4f-dee5-4ffc-8e14-aa3034d66d34/id/41089420

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