Sometimes the pop culture we love just teens hits differently in retrospect.

Maybe it's a tabloid story we couldn't get enough of or an illicit student-teacher relationship

on our favorite show. We're Suzy Banna-Karim and Jessica Bennett,

posts of the new podcast in retrospect, where each week we'll revisit a cultural moment from

the past that shaped us and probably you to try to understand what it taught us about the world

and our place in it. You're the first person that I've talked to about this for years and years.

Listen to in retrospect on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you find your

favorite shows. Season 2 of the Unimaginable hones in on individuals who have led unimaginable lives

by following their instinct from guests like Tyco YTT to your vision of what you're trying to do.

It's just more pure. The family is more pure and the success is more pure. This season delivers

behind-the-scenes conversations about the many roads to success. Listen to the unimaginable

on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

We're supposed to learn from our own mistakes that other people's errors can be

instructive too from efforts to control the weather that went disastrously awry to the untimely

death of the Segway boss. History is a treasure trove, mishaps and meltdowns that can teach us all.

I'm Tim Harford, host of cautionary tales, the podcast that mines the greatest fiascoes of the

past for their most valuable lessons. Listen to cautionary tales on the iHeart Radio app Apple

Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. It's the radio segment that doesn't have time for

a funny intro today. Too busy working on its cagals.

$4,09,000. $5,000. You're going to want to swipe right on laser stories.

Then we're read weird news stories around the globe just like everyone else does.

Except we have a laser. And those other minute men just don't. This first laser story is out of

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