A Recast of ‘Spectacular Failures’

Corporate crookedness. Family feuding. Hilariously half-baked decisions. Host Lauren Ober tackles some of the most spectacular business failures of all time, and what could have been done to avoid them. Some of these stories are shocking. Some are funny. Some are just downright sad. But each one will give you a totally new perspective on big business… and big failure. From American Public Media.

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Recastable Episodes (25)

1.	Introducing Spectacular Failures	May 30, 2019
2.	A Christian theme park plunges into scandal	June 17, 2019
3.	MoviePass begins with plenty of drama	June 24, 2019
4.	Schlitz Beer goes bad, then worse	July 1, 2019
5.	A funeral industry giant keels over	July 8, 2019
6.	Kodak misses its moment	July 15, 2019
7.	Family fighting sends U-Haul on a detour	July 22, 2019
8.	The inferno that transformed American labor	July 29, 2019
9.	Lincoln Savings loses it all	Aug. 5, 2019
10.	Toys R Us goes bust	Aug. 12, 2019
11.	Trump's big gamble on Atlantic City	Aug. 19, 2019
12.	Spectacular Failures - Season Two	July 20, 2020
13.	Blue Apron wilts, then rises to a new challenge	Aug. 3, 2020
14.	Forever 21 goes from rags to riches to bankruptcy court	Aug. 10, 2020
15.	The curtain falls on a big Broadway company	Aug. 17, 2020
16.	The toxic tale of the Love Canal fail	Aug. 24, 2020
17.	Napster fought the law and the law won	Aug. 31, 2020
18.	A dairy giant gets milked	Sept. 7, 2020
19.	Pan Am hits major turbulence	Sept. 14, 2020
20.	Subprime times at Countrywide Financial	Sept. 21, 2020
21.	NYC Taxi Medallions' steep fare	Sept. 28, 2020
22.	Sqirl finds itself in a jam	Oct. 5, 2020
23.	Listen to This: What's Your Problem?	March 25, 2022
24.	Listen to This: The Loudest Girl in the World	Sept. 12, 2022
25.	Introducing: Ripple	Jan. 29, 2024