Whoopsie-Doodle: A Grab Bag of Epic F**kups

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True Crime, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Winston Churchill once said, “Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.” That’s a nice sentiment—I mean, by and large it’s good to let failure be a learning experience, to not let it discourage you from following your dreams. But…hear me out here: What if you’re just a hot mess? What if every time you go from one failure to the next, you leave a pile of bodies in your wake? Can you be a little TOO good at failure? Should you sometimes maybe acknowledge “Hey, maybe this thing I’m trying to do isn’t one of my strengths”? I think some of the people in this week’s episode would have left the world a better place if they’d thrown in the towel.Registration is now open for CrimeWave 2.0! Visit crimewaveatsea.com/CAMPFIRE to get your discount code for $100 off your cabin and a private meet-and-greet with us! The cruise is Feb. 8-12, 2027.Sources:Jon Ronson, The Psychopath TestCBC news: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/oak-ridge-st-thomas-psychiatric-treatment/IFL Science: https://www.iflscience.com/canadas-dark-history-of-giving-lsd-to-prisoners-69821Washington University: https://library.washu.edu/news/bizarre-but-true-happenings-at-the-1904-olympics-in-st-louis/Wikipedia, "Truth serum": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_serumCBC's "The Fifth Estate," episode "Psychiatric Treatment or Torture? The Oak Ridge Experiment"Hidden Persuaders: http://www7.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuaders/blog/happened-oak-ridge-psychiatric-unit/Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of BeliefSmithsonian: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-1904-marathon-became-one-of-the-weirdest-olympic-events-of-all-time-14910747/Follow us, campers!Patreon (join to get all episodes ad-free, at least a day early, an extra episode a month, and a free sticker!): https://patreon.com/TrueCrimeCampfirehttps://www.truecrimecampfirepod.com/Facebook: True Crime CampfireInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimecampfire/?hl=enTwitter: @TCCampfire https://twitter.com/TCCampfireEmail: truecrimecampfirepod@gmail.comMERCH! https://true-crime-campfire.myspreadshop.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-campfire--4251960/support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:04.8	We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie. And I'm Whitney. And we're here to tell you a true
0:09.4	story that is way stranger than fiction. We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the
0:13.9	true crime campfire. We're going on another true crime cruise to the Bahamas, y'all, and this one is going to be twice as big as the one we did last year.
0:27.1	Some of the biggest podcasts out there are going to be there. Case file, last podcast on the left, true crime garage, sinisterhood, scared to death, and obviously us, and a few others too, crime wave 2.0 is happening
0:39.8	February 8th through 12th of 2027, just a year away, and you do not want to miss it. Everybody's
0:46.7	going to be doing live shows, meet and greets, you're going to make new friends for life.
0:51.2	And look, you haven't lived till you've seen me mow through a cheesecake buffet, okay?
0:56.2	It's the sight to behold. So stay tuned at the end of this episode for more information,
1:01.2	plus all the details on how to reserve your spot and save $100 on your cabin.
1:12.9	Winston Churchill once said,
1:17.2	Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
1:19.1	That's a nice sentiment.
1:23.3	I mean, by and large, it's good to let failure be a learning experience, to not let it discourage you from following your dreams.
1:26.7	But hear me out here. What if you're just a
1:29.6	hot mess? What if every time you go from one failure to the next, you leave a pile of bodies in your
1:35.5	wake? Can you be a little too good at failure? Should you maybe sometimes acknowledge, hey,
1:41.2	maybe this thing I'm trying to do isn't one of my strengths.
1:48.6	I think some of the people in this week's episode would have left the world a better place if they'd thrown in the towel. This is whoopsie-doodle, a grab bag of epic
1:53.5	fuck-ups.
2:07.3	Case 1. The 1904 Olympic Marathon Debacle.
2:13.6	So, campers, for this one, were in St. Louis, Missouri, August 30th, 1904.
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