“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” - Elbert Hubbard Russian Roulette with nukes! - In Part 2 - ERIK, CHRIS, and high school history teacher, BRETT RICKETTS, discuss the KGB, JFK, Khrushchev, nuclear submarines, Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov, several close Read More
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” - Robert F. Kennedy An episode 13 months in the making! (First recorded in 2019) - In Part 1 of our coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis, ERIK and CHRIS spoke with high school history teacher, BRETT RICKETTS, about Read More
99 years ago - on June 1st, 1921, in Tulsa, Oklahoma - one of the most tragic days in American history was almost erased from history... Resources: BlackLivesMatter.com NAACP.org BailProject.org PodcastsInColor.com Clips: "Don't be a Sucker" US National Archives E.F. #6 (1945), Martin Niemöller quote "First they came..." (1946), James Read More
"When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breath, only then will you discover that you cannot eat money." - Cree Native American Prophecy On today's Earth Day (Earth Week?) Read More
Join Chris and Erik as they talk time travel! Lincoln, Woodstock, the butterfly effect, JFK conspiracy theories, and drinking with Vikings?! This one’s got it all! (Special thanks to Nichole Wilkes for the prompt!) Check out the blog that started it all at EpikFails.com Audio clips from: “Back to the Read More
We interrupt your regularly scheduled episode to bring you a special interview from the UK with medical professional and host of the podcast, “The Patient Will See You Now” - Dr. Robert Bednarz! Reporting from the front lines of "the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020", Erik and Robert discuss Read More
"Epik Fails of History" is a podcast that delves into the most epic fails of... history! Subscribe today on Anchor, i-Tunes / Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio, Podbean, You Tube, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts! Created and edited by Erik Slader (author of the "Epic Fails" history book series), Read More
A quick podcast update from Erik Slader! Event Debriefs: “Spaced Out” Comic Con at MOSH / Amelia Island’s Book Fest Updates / Edits to the podcast and blog (in progress) RIP Katherine Johnson (1918-2020) Upcoming Events: Saturday, February 29th: Jax Book Fest (Jacksonville, FL) March 5th – 8th: PODFEST 2020 Read More
“Where were you when Y2k *didn’t* happen?” December 31st, 1999 – In this (super late) New Year’s Eve 2020 Special – Erik Slader and Chris Carroll are joined by their good friend Jimmy Lester. Before ringing in the new year, we decided to take a look back at one of Read More
In this mini-episode: updates on the podcast, book signing announcements, and a mini-review of the movie “Harriet”! Upcoming Events: Saturday, January 4th, 2020 - Hall of Heroes “Spaced Out” Mini-Con at MOSH! Thursday – Saturday, February 13th – 15th : Amelia Island Book Festival Saturday, February 29th – Jax Book Read More
In this all-new anthology episode, we have 4 bizarre tales of fails brought to you by 4 very special guests! Meghan Kaminski tells us about 'Medieval cats and the Black Plague', Jim Wood talks about the Titanic and 'Engineering for Failure', Dave Austin explains the 'Year of the Three Popes', Read More
Episode 13: Friday the 13th of September, 2019 Lieutenant Commander Bill Goss - former US Navy pilot and the author of "The Luckiest Unlucky Man Alive" joins the show! Music clip: "Highway to the Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins (from "Top Gun", 1986) In memory of Jean-Paul Fouchey, help support Read More
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's historic mission to the moon, Erik and Chris kick off Season 2 with a galactic-sized space-themed episode! Skylab, Voskhod 2, failed probes, Elon Musk, super stubborn Soviet scientists, and a special guest interview with Space GAAM's Ryan Paul Thompson on some Read More
*Bonus Episode* - A special sneak peek at the fourth and final(?) book in the EPIC FAILS series - "The Age of Exploration: Totally Getting Lost"! Follow / Message Us on Social Media: E-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @ErikSlader @EpikFailsdotcom Instagram: @ErikSlader @EpikFailsofHistory All 4 EPIC FAILS books are now available on Read More
Ben Thompson returns! In this Season Finale Q and A, "Epic Fails" co-authors Erik Slader and Ben Thompson reunite to tackle the key issues, like who would win in a fist fight - Teddy Roosevelt or Benedict Arnold?, Carthaginian war elephants - pros vs cons?, and most importantly, whether or Read More
*Censored version* Warning: the following Blooper Reel contains slightly more profanity than usual... In our tenth episode, we decided to take a look back at some of the behind the scenes mishaps that happened along the way to make this show possible. Happy April Fool's! (Uncut version coming soon to Read More
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius A War Between Brothers (Part Two) The sibling rivalry continues - Chris and Brad once again steal the show as they discuss the Civil War! (Not to be confused with the Marvel comics Read More
"A War Between Brothers" (Part One) In the latest episode, its brother versus brother as Chris and Brad Carroll go head to head in an intense game of "drunk trivia" over their knowledge of the American Civil War! General Lee vs Grant, Albert Sidney Johnston, Pickett's Charge, Rutherford B. Hayes, Read More
ANNOUNCEMENTS: As a follow-up to the last episode, Erik Slader and Ben Thompson are officially rescheduled with the Smithsonian! (Saturday, May 4th - at the Air and Space Museum and the American History Museum) "EPIC FAILS: Not-So-Great Presidents" by Erik Slader and Ben Thompson - available wherever books are sold! Read More
*It's our (belated) "On Brand" President's Day special!* Erik Slader and Ben Thompson are invited out to do a book signing at the Smithsonian museums in Washington DC! - before being thwarted by the longest government shutdown in American history... because of course. (Erik documents the shenanigans along the way Read More
