Doomed to Fail - Can you recommend a Pop Culture podcast?

Episode Date: July 25, 2025

When people go wrong, the spotlight melts them faster. These episodes explore crimes, courtroom chaos, PR disasters, and unforgettable headlines.Ep 10 Part 1 – OJ & Nicole SimpsonA brutal double murder, a televised Bronco chase, and the most infamous trial of the 20th century. Whether he did it or if he did it—America was never the same.Ep 18 - Part 1: BFFs Gone Wrong - Bernie Tiede A friendly funeral director in a small Texas town becomes a beloved companion… and then a murderer. But the town still kind of loves him?Ep 18 - Part 2: Our Favorite Demon Hunters - Ed & Lorraine WarrenAre they paranormal pioneers or con artists with crucifixes? We dive into the legends—and lawsuits—of America’s most famous demonologists.Ep 24 - Part 1: Impossible that she did it, Impossible that she DIDN'T do it - Lizzie BordenShe definitely didn’t do it. Or she definitely did. Either way, she changed true crime forever.Ep 36: Bruiser Brody: Beyond the Ring - Unraveling the Legend of Wrestling's WildmanA pro wrestling legend murdered in the locker room. Was it a beef gone bad—or a cover-up by the wrestling world?Ep 155: Don't go chasing waterfalls in Honduras - Lisa Left Eye LopesFrom platinum hits to house fires to waterfalls, Left Eye lived—and died—on her own chaotic terms.Ep 165: Hot Coffee Comin' Up - Poor Stella LiebeckA spilled cup of McDonald's coffee became the most misunderstood lawsuit in America. Here’s what really happened.Ep 168: Everybody's Baby - Baby Jessica & her WellA toddler trapped in a well for over two days. The whole country held its breath—and the cameras kept rolling.Ep 175: Just stop watching award shows - Psychology of celebrity obsessionWhy do we care so much about famous people? Parasocial relationships, public meltdowns, and what award shows reveal about us.Ep 189: The worst/best time making a movie - The Island of Dr. MoreauThe behind-the-scenes meltdown of this film is more unhinged than anything in the movie. Brando, Kilmer, and chaos in the jungle.Ep 197: Gotta Have High Hopes - The DeFeo FamilyBefore The Amityville Horror, there was the real-life massacre. One night. Six dead. One son who claimed he heard voices.Ep 203: Couple Breaks in the chain! - Hands Across AmericaAn attempt to form a human chain across the U.S. to fight poverty. Cue: confusion, sunburns, and a lot of people standing alone in fields.Ep 206: Our new departure time is in 18 years - Mehran Karimi NasseriHe lived in an airport for 18 years. His story inspired  The Terminal, but the real tale is stranger, sadder, and more bureaucratic. Join our Founders Club on Patreon to get ad-free episodes for life! patreon.com/DoomedtoFailPodWe would love to hear from you! Please follow along! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doomedtofailpod/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doomedtofailpod  Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/@doomedtofailpod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@doomed.to.fail.pod Email: [e-mail] 

Hello and welcome to Doomed to Fail. We are a podcast that brings you historical stories. Some are disasters, some are failures, some are famous, some are not famous, all sorts of things. And we kind of because of that don't have a niche, which is like murder to a podcast. But I think we are telling a story, a common thread of, humanity and history and how we got to where we are. So today I'm going to tell you about some of our pop culture episodes. We have over 200 episodes. They're available anywhere you listen and they're all ad-free. So there's tons to binge on. So if you like something in this realm, maybe you'll like

something another one because, you know, history is gossip. That's it. Okay. So starting at the beginning. When you hear our theme song, we have the reading of the verdict in the O.J. Simpson trial. So you can revisit that with us in episode 10, part one, OJ. and Nicole Simpson. So we actually couldn't believe we got to episode 10. We were like, this is crazy. Episode 10, I did the Kennedies because that's the other half of our theme song. So listen to that one. Then we have episode 18 about Bernie Teed. So he was a man who met out older woman and I don't think their relationship was like intimate, but it was very weirdly best friendly and he ended up murdering her. This is in pop culture because it actually is a movie with Jack Black called Bernie. I haven't seen it,

but like learn about it, episode 18. The other half of episode 18, because we used to do it in two halves, now we don't. But the other half of episode 18 is about Ed and Lorraine Warren. I mean, Could you imagine two more prominently pop culture folks? I actually was just at the movies, and there is another conjuring, and it said, Be prepared for the end. And I'm like, how dare you end to this franchise? Patrick Wilson will live forever, even though he's absolutely nothing like Ed Warren, who was a charlatan and not a sexual predator, just not a good man, very not good man.

But it's a cool story. So episode 18, part two. Ed and Lorraine Warren, they're from The Conjuring Ammon Evil Horror. all of that episode 24 part one is on lizzie borden this is pop culture to me because this is like how did i know about this murder in the 80s when i was a child you know we sang the song it scared the crap out of me i don't know if she did it i was so for my whole life and this is like when i told far as this he was like why do you think about this and i'm like how what part of america did you grow up in because i feel like it's such a big part of my initial

foray into horror and mystery and all of that, but I thought she did it, right? After reading a book on it and doing a little bit more research, whatever that means, I don't know. There's like a whole extra set of rooms in the attic that is not mentioned in anything that I've ever seen. And the uncle is like very suspicious and a man who's stronger than her. And it was so hot and they weren't eating, which is so also interesting because there's this part of the story where she goes outside. and eats like four pears off the pear tree. And people are like, that is so weird. Why would she do that?

And I'm like, because she was starving because the only food they had in the house was this like two-month-old stew that they kept just reheating because it was so hot and they kept closing all the doors. Everybody was sick and it's just, I don't know, maybe you should poison them, but didn't ask them? What do you think?

Tell me, I could talk about it more. I'm just talking about it for three minutes. Listen to the whole episode 24. Then, episode 36, is on a wrestling star, Brewzer Brody. So Bruce or Brody was a big star in the WWE, and he ended up getting murdered in Puerto Rico. And it's kind of a mystery and actually very, very sad. So you can listen to that. Then we skip a ton.

There's probably some that are pop culture between 36 and 155, but episode 155 is on Lisa Lefteye Lopez from TLC. I learned a little bit more about how she passed away in her life and legacy in that one. episode 165 is about Stella Lebeck and you probably have not heard her name but you know her story Stella is the woman who spilled with Donald's coffee on her lap there's so many interesting things here right the coffee was scalding it was so hot it fused parts of her body together she had insane burns in her area and then when far as I were talking about this he was like well why would you have a cup of coffee between your legs and I'm like that is very something I would do. I would pull it between my legs and put the sugar in, blah, blah, blah, but also the car that she was in with her grandson did not have cup holders. Cup holders were not standard in cars the whole time we had cars, which is super interesting. It also kind of just reminded me, like, how do people consume food differently? I guess I skipped Bonnie and Clyde, but there's Bonnie and Clyde. We have an episode on them as well, but I always think about, this is ridiculous. If you're listening to this, please, I don't know, send me an email and say I heard this. I heard your rant.

doomed to failpod at gmail.com but when Bonnie and Clyde were killed by the police she was holding a hamburger and so she was holding just like one hamburger so they were going to they would go and get like not like a meal but like a hamburger you know like the sandwich and then they also started to

not invent but like necessitate taking food out like takeout food that wasn't a thing so they would go to restaurants and be like can we borrow your plates and we'll bring them back and they would It's just fascinating that time period. So, I don't know, search, body, and glad we have that, too.

I don't know how I got there. Cup holders, just things that are standard. Okay. Episode 168, baby Jessica. Also, as a child of the 80s, do you remember when Jessica fell into a well? It's actually kind of a pipe in her aunt's backyard in Texas, and it was international news for a good day or so as we tried to get her out. And we did, and she is good. and she is a grown-up and she is married and she has children and she is thriving so all of that is

good episode 175 far as digs down into the psychology of celebrity obsession he's definitely like i'm not watching a reward show kind of guy and so we talk about you know crazy things people have done in the name of celebrity episode 189 is the making of the movie the island of dr moreau oh you if you haven't seen it listen to our episode then watch the movie i watched it after as far as recorded this episode with me and oh my goodness it is ridiculous it is a vall kilmer and marlin brando and everyone just seems awful there's like a director who disappeared to the woods there's just it's so funny um you can picture marlin brando in this film if you picture him with like his face painted white um it's it's wild so it's that one and then episode 179

high hopes the de feo family this ties us back to the warrens because we know the warrens are not real. Like, demons aren't real. The warrens are charlatans. But they, one of the things that they worked on was the Amnadiville horror case. And, you know, I think that the family in the Amnadivil horror was making it up, obviously. But there was a real murder in that house. So before the Lutz family moved into the house in Amnadeville, New York, the Defeo family

was murdered by their son. And it is, he used the demons told me to do it defense, which like we don't believe. But also, like, he could have been, you know, I believe that he might have thought that if he was schizophrenic for real. Also, it's just kind of mysterious how he could have killed six people with a shotgun. I'm not going to have someone here. So, listen to that. Episode 203, Hands Across America. I, it kind of goes back to, like, celebrity obsession in celebrity philanthropy, which was another big thing in the 80s.

So Hands Across America was an idea that you could hold hands from one side of America to the other. kind of sponsored by live aid, et cetera, and it's just fun. They didn't do it. They didn't go all the way across. And then finally, episode 206, I'm kind of doing things that became movies, but this is the story of Mehran Karimi Naseri, who is the person who stayed at Cheryl de Gaul airport for 18 years. So his story is in the Tom Hanks movie, The Terminal, which is way romanticized, because

really, this man should have just signed some papers and left. It's kind of bizarre. So that's a handful of pop culture episodes. They dig into history. They dig into murder. They dig into all sorts of different things. I hope you like them. Please let me know what you'd like us to talk about.

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