9 Infamous Scandals (With Crazy Details Everybody Forgot)
The Cracked Podcast
Literally Media
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Alex Schmidt is joined by the incredible Dana Gould for a trip through world-famous scandals that somehow never get a closer look. With each story, they’ll dig into the forgotten and astonishing details of those scandals that were apparently too mind-blowing for the public to remember. So throw on some headphones, and discover the ways Elizabeth Holmes, O.J. Simpson, the Enron fellas, and more infamous maniacs are much more bizarre than you realized.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there folks, welcome to another episode of the Cracked Podcast. |
| 0:14.2 | The podcast all about why Being Alive is more interesting than people think it is. |
| 0:18.7 | My name is Alex Schmidt and I'm the head of podcasting here at Cracked. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm also known as Schmidtie the clam. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm also known as Schmidtie the champ and I am also also thinking about the ceiling of |
| 0:27.7 | the cysteine chapel. |
| 0:29.6 | Yeah, you know, one of the most famous pieces of the visual art on earth, the cysteine |
| 0:33.2 | chapel, was painted by Michelangelo in the early and mid 1500s. |
| 0:38.1 | And I'm thinking about it because in an artsy way, it reminds me of our topic today and |
| 0:42.8 | our topic is infamous scandals with crazy details everybody forgot. |
| 0:47.4 | One more time that is infamous scandals with crazy details everybody forgot. |
| 0:52.3 | And to me, the cysteine chapel's ceiling is a lot like most scandalous stories because |
| 0:57.3 | scandals become just their headline. |
| 1:00.2 | Everybody knows one, maybe two bullet points about the whole OJ Simpson or Enron or Richard |
| 1:05.9 | Nixon thing. |
| 1:07.4 | And it's kind of like how most people know one or two cysteine chapel bullet points. |
| 1:11.8 | They know Michelangelo paint of the ceiling. |
| 1:14.4 | They know there's the part where God and Adam's fingers touch in the art. |
| 1:18.7 | And that's about it. |
| 1:19.7 | Those are the bullet points. |
| 1:20.7 | But the thing with that cysteine chapel ceiling is there is more to know. |
| 1:24.0 | There is more to look at and discover if you look closer. |
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