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bsnsHistory — 101 episodes

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Two Thousand Dollars and an Empire

2

Spinks Kept the Belt. ABC Wanted Ali.

3

The Eleven Days Parliament Had to Delete

4

Business Blooper: A Shortcut Straight Into the Desert

5

The Wreck That Built a Subway

6

The Bug That Got the Credit Wrong

7

Beating Donahue, Then Buying Herself Back

8

The Bank That Wouldn't Open The Safe

9

Business Blooper: When the 'Hot Donut' Light Went Out

10

The Day An Entire Country Switched Sides

11

The Machine That Never Closed

12

The Plumbing Company That Broke A Bank Monopoly

13

August 31, 2026: Inventing The Job As They Went

14

Business Blooper: The Beer That Made Milwaukee Infamous

15

August 27, 2026: The Fifth Beatle's Actual Job

16

August 26, 2026: The Sound Heard Round The World, Literally

17

August 25, 2026: From Food Lines, to College Dorms, to Gourmet

18

August 24, 2026: Missing The Start Of Something

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Business Blooper: The Future Was Loading

20

August 20, 2026: Not Enough Chairs To Grow Into

21

August 19, 2026: The Fortune Nobody Saw Coming

22

August 18, 2026: Is It Ever Going To Land On Red?

23

August 17, 2026: Four Hundred Thousand in a Field Saves Warner Bros.

24

Business Blooper: The Chip That Passed (Through)

25

August 13, 2026: The Argument That Never Settled

26

August 12, 2026: Two Different Kinds of Genius

27

August 11, 2026: Known for the Wrong Thing

28

August 10, 2026: Free, Out of Spite

29

Business Blooper: The Pants That Talked Back

30

August 6, 2026: Collaborators Welcome

31

August 5, 2026: The Wire Under the Ocean

32

August 4, 2026: The Vote Nobody Was Watching

33

August 3, 2026: A Name Worth More Than the Town Knew

34

Business Blooper: The $5 Billion Answer to the Wrong Question

35

July 30, 2026: Democracy at a Price

36

July 29, 2026: The Degenerate Form of Books

37

July 28, 2026: Eight Billion Dollars and 800 Miles

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July 27, 2026: What's Up, Doc?

39

July 24, 2026: The Last Campaign

40

July 23, 2026: The Man Who Lost Everything Except the War

41

July 22, 2026: March of the Penguins

42

July 21, 2026: The First Showdown

43

July 20, 2026: One Small Step

44

Business Blooper: The Billion Dollar Bet Nobody Watched

45

July 16, 2026: The Nickel That Changed the City

46

July 15, 2026: The Stone That Unlocked a Civilization

47

July 14, 1798: The First Time the US Government Made Criticism a Crime

48

July 13, 1930: From Boat Fare to Billions

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Business Blooper: The Man Who Opened the Skies and Lost Them

50

July 9, 1962: Thirty-Two Cans on a Shelf

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July 8, 1853: The Black Ships

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July 7, 1981: The First Woman on the Court

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July 6, 1944: When the Tent Came Down

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Business Blooper: New Coke: The Blunder That Was Maybe Intentional?

55

July 2, 1962: Small Town, Big Idea

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July 1, 1963: Five Digits That Moved Everything

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June 30, 1892: Carnegie's Other Legacy

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June 29, 2007: A Phone That Killed Several Industries at Once

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bsnsBlooper: Wait. Toothpaste Flavored Lasagna or Lasagna Flavored Toothpaste?

60

June 25, 1950: A Sunday Morning That Started the First Hot War of the Cold War

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June 24, 1717: Secrecy, Symbolism, and a Social Network That Ran the World

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June 23, 2016: Britain Votes Itself Out

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June 22, 1944: Government Writes a Check That Built the Middle Class

64

bsnsBloopers: They Built the Perfect Car… for Nobody

65

June 18, 1948: The Record That Changed What Music Could Be

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June 17, 1885: The Gift That Arrived in Pieces

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June 16, 1930: The Name Above the Door

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June 15, 1844: The Man Who Invented Everything Rubber and Died Broke

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bsnsBlooper: Grab the Wrong Tape and you’ll be Watching Nothing

70

June 11, 1982: The Movie Columbia Passed On That Became the Biggest Film in History

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June 10, 1940: The Man Who Built Black Enterprise and Lost It

72

June 9, 1973: Secretariat and the Economics of an Untouchable Record

73

June 8, 1948: The Car Born in a Sawmill

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bsnsBlooper: “How Long Have We Been Sitting In This Drive-thru?”

75

June 4, 2010: The Wizard, the Association, and the Billion Dollar Amateur

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June 3, 1990: The Death of the Man Who Built the Chip

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June 2, 2015: The Most Re-Elected President Nobody Could Defend

78

June 1, 1495: The King's Order and the Water of Life

79

bsnsBlooper: When Netflix Made A Bad Decision… and a Better Response

80

May 28, 1934: Five of a Kind

81

May 27, 1937: The Bridge That Moved the Market

82

May 26, 1907: Being Famous - Who Owns Your “You”

83

May 25, 1895: The Day His Conviction Brought Down the House

84

bsnsBlooper: Squeezing Juice Out of A Problem That Didn’t Exist

85

May 21, 1881: When Helping People Became a System

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May 20, 1932: When One Flight Wasn’t Enough

87

May 19, 1883: The Day the West Became a Product

88

May 18, 1896: Another Time the Law Drew the Lines of the Market

89

bsnsBlooper: The Logo That Needed A Do-Over

90

May 14, 1998: The Show That Didn’t End When It Ended

91

May 13, 1917: When Belief Became a Destination

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May 12, 1937: The Day Confidence Was Put to the Test

93

May 11, 1927: The Beginning of the System That Decides What Matters

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bsnsBlooper: The Car Everyone Remembers… from the Company That Didn’t Last

95

May 7, 2000: When Control Shifted Again Back to the Russian State

96

May 6, 1937: The Day Trust Fell Out of the Sky

97

May 5, 1862: The Holiday That Business Built Bigger

98

May 4, 1904: The Meeting That Made Reliability Sell

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bsnsBlooper: The Vacuum That Came With Roundtrip Airfare

100

Apr 30, 1803: The $15 Million Gamble Thousands of Miles Away

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Apr 29, 1945: The Document That Tried to Organize Collapse