Spectacular Failures

Introducing: Ripple

We have a special episode for you today. We’re sharing an episode of the new podcast from APM Studios and Western Sound called “Ripple.” The largest oil spill in American history captivated the public’s attention for the entire summer of 2010. Authorities told a story of a herculean response effort that made shorelines safe and avoided a worst case scenario. Was that really the whole picture? “Ripple” is a new series investigating the stories we were told were over. In Season One, the reporting team traveled hundreds of miles across the Gulf Coast to learn the ongoing effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill — which are still impacting many coastal residents more than a decade later. Here is episode 1! And if you’d like to hear more episodes, you can find “Ripple” wherever you get your podcasts.

Listen to This: The Loudest Girl in the World

The Loudest Girl in the World is a new podcast from  that tells the story of Lauren Ober's journey to understand what the hell it means to be on the autism spectrum and how to live life as a newly diagnosed autistic person. It's about finding yourself broken in a place you never expected to be and emerging from that place a mostly glued back together person. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Listen to This: What's Your Problem?

You may know Jacob Goldstein as the former host of the Planet Money podcast. Now, he’s combining his expertise about the money and business worlds with his passion for technology on a brand new show called What’s Your Problem? from Pushkin Industries. What’s Your Problem? is a show about people who are facing some of the biggest challenges in modern business – and the problems they have to solve along the way. Find What's Your Problem? and listen to more engaging conversations wherever you get your podcasts.

Sqirl finds itself in a jam

The Los Angeles restaurant Sqirl had lines down the block for brunches that featured its famous house-made jams on toast. But then a photo of discarded mold scraped from the jam, snapped by someone in the Sqirl kitchen, blew up the internet...and led to a reputation crisis Sqirl is still dealing with. Our sponsors this week: Bombas - Bombas.com/spectacular [http://bombas.com/spectacular] Ourcrowd - Ourcrowd.com/spectacular [http://Ourcrowd.com/spectacular] Sign up to receive our brand new newsletter, featuring weekly recommendations from Lauren and the rest of the team at spectacularfailures.org/newsletter [http://spectacularfailures.org/newsletter]. Read the transcript of the episode at spectacularfailures.org [https://www.spectacularfailures.org/]. You can follow Spectacular Failures on Twitter [https://twitter.com/FailureShow] at @failureshow and like us at Facebook.com/failureshow. We're @failure_show on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/failure_show/]. Follow Lauren Ober on Twitter [https://twitter.com/oberandOut] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/oberandout/] at @oberandout.

NYC Taxi Medallions' steep fare

Even before Uber and Lyft pulled into town, NYC yellow cabs were having a rough ride. Reckless lending practices and inflated taxi medallion prices racked up profits for the city and debt for drivers. Then, the bubble did what bubbles do.  Our sponsors this week: Policy Genius - policygenius.com [http://policygenius.com] Betterhelp - betterhelp.com/spectacular [http://betterhelp.com/spectacular] Sign up to receive our brand new newsletter, featuring weekly recommendations from Lauren and the rest of the team at spectacularfailures.org/newsletter [http://spectacularfailures.org/newsletter]. Read the transcript of the episode at spectacularfailures.org [https://www.spectacularfailures.org/]. You can follow Spectacular Failures on Twitter [https://twitter.com/FailureShow] at @failureshow and like us at Facebook.com/failureshow. We're @failure_show on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/failure_show/]. Follow Lauren Ober on Twitter [https://twitter.com/oberandOut] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/oberandout/] at @oberandout.