So much losing...it's gonna take us two episodes to cover it all. Part 1 of our Bay of Pigs excursion lets us set the groundwork for the Guatemalan Coup, the United Fruit Company and the CIA frameworks from the American side as well as the rise of Castro in Cuba and his heroes welcome he received in American in 1959....part 2 is gonna be nuts...but you have to understand the how and the why to truly appreciate all the losing. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy...
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Join us as we explore all things "Losery" about General William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil war hero or villain depending on who you talk to..his life is wild...oh yeah and and a familiar voice returns to the show behind those 1s and 2s. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Nov 17, 2020•1 hr 25 min
This week we're open field tackling the little known but highly interesting Battle of Wabash aka St. Clair's Defeat...you know you fucked up when they name your blunder after you. Lots of familiar names in this one but lots more unfamiliar ones...Enjoy! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Nov 02, 2020•1 hr 26 min
Witches, demons and more this week as LP, Myself and my Sister Kerri and her wife (both probably witches) are in studio to talk about the fateful events that took place in Salem in 1692....it's our final Halloween episode of the month and we think you're gonna like it! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Oct 25, 2020•1 hr 15 min
This weeks "Loser" is a building, a system and a horror factory known as Eastern State Penitentiary. ESP is still standing, just outside of Philly and housed some of the most infamous prisoners of all time. Stories of torture, escapes and the gloom and doom design all add to the mystique of this one of a kind structure. My sister Kerri, fresh off parole, sits in for LP. Enjoy. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-m...
Oct 18, 2020•1 hr 10 min
LP dives deep while Ming and I try to keep it light and tell the horrifying story of the fate of the SS Morro Castle....we learned nothing from TITANIC apparently!!! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Oct 12, 2020•1 hr 11 min
Agent 355 is the code name of one of the most successful spies in the history of America....their identity was never exposed...or was it? We tackle the story in style. It involves George Washington, prison ships and hangings...so you know it's good. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Oct 05, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Uncle Paulie steps in for LP and we're talking about the great Chicago Fire and how it all got pinned on a poor old lady and her cow! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Sep 29, 2020•47 min
You've heard of Navy SEALS but do you know their backstory? Ming joins us as we tell the origin of the SEALS and then the story of Richard "Demo Dick" Marcinko...the first commander of Seal Team 6. The story takes the usual wild turns in a heartbeat. Marcinko is a fascinating man with a unique, occasionally troubling but all around INTENSE story. Enjoy! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr 16 min
AUDIO ISSUE CORRECTS QUICKLY! Our FB LIVE Feed was very fun but here is the audio for those that missed out. Thank you for making the show what it is...guest and honorary "Loser In Chief" Comedian Mark Riccadonna joins us for a recap. Also shout out to our boy Mike Harrington of Gas Digital for helping us remaster the sound! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Sep 18, 2020•1 hr 41 min
You know the names...you don't know the story of the most intense rivalry in the history of the auto industry. It gets intense fast and we have to crack jokes nonstop to try and mitigate the chaos. Thanks to Ming and Kahuna for letting us go long enough to tell this story the right way...enjoy but beware...this one divides by zero. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 49 min
Comedian and Pal the hilarious Mike Cannon joins us via zoom to talk about the wild story of MK Ultra. Check out Mike's movie "Timing" on Amazon Prime, his podcast "Irish Goodbye" and his two great comedy albums. We covered MK Ultra in its own episode but Mike has a deep well of knowledge on all things "Conspiracy". Enjoy! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Aug 27, 2020•52 min
Thomas Paine is possibly the most beloved and forgotten man in World History. His writings legitimately changed the course of human history. He was celebrated, destitute, imprisoned, nearly executed and more. His lists of friends and enemies includes majority of the most famous people in history and his story just simply needs to be told more...enjoy! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Aug 23, 2020•1 hr 45 min
Mary Surratt lived a relatively normal life until the American Civil War...then she got tangled up in a web of spies, espionage and even had a small and controversial role in the assassination of President Lincoln...get a load of how this nice Catholic girl from Maryland went from Innkeeper to death row as Cousins Maggie and Megan join us for the story of Mary Surratt and the Booth Conspiracy. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priv...
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 20 min
Nazis, CIA Agents, The Grateful Dead, Unabombers and tons of LSD....is this a party or a government program? Turns out...it was both. There was murder, cover ups, torture and all sorts of chaos during this decades long project to test certain substances on the knowing and more often on the unknowing. Enjoy the wild tale of Project MK Ultra. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Aug 11, 2020•1 hr 25 min
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was one of the worst tragedies in the history of New York City...and somehow our guests Chris Covert and Ken Krantz made it okay to laugh at. The disaster spawned true reform for working conditions in America, the labor movement took on a new chapter and even those crazy old Roosevelts got involved. A truly irreverent take on an important topic...this one had us laughing big time. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https:...
Aug 05, 2020•1 hr 17 min
Ming Chen in the house with guest and comedian Max Antonucci as we tell the gruesome but entirely true story of the Summer of 1916 Jersey Shore Shark Attacks.....4 people would die horrific deaths, was it a great white shark? a bull shark? A pissed off sea turtle? The Germans? All this and more while we unpack the true story that inspired the novel and later masterpiece film "Jaws".....enjoy! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priva...
Jul 27, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Bram Stoker may not be American but he for damn sure is a "Loser"...the boss Mike Zapcic joins LP, the Kahuna and myself for a tell all type episode. Mike schools us up on all things Bram Stoker and Vampires and LP gives us the deep dive on "Vlad the Impaler". This was a wildly fun episode to record. Bram's life, inspirations for his masterpiece, his famous friends and more on this bad boy! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy...
Jul 20, 2020•1 hr 39 min
Fan and Friend of the Show, Dr David Warmflash joins us from the west coast for an interview about the curiosities behind the Moon landings and more. David's book "Moon: An Illustrated History" is a fantastic way to learn more about this topic...AND IT HAS PICTURES! Enjoy this bonus episode interview that Kahuna bravely did for us while going through a tropical storm! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Jul 19, 2020•56 min
Special crossover edition of "Loser" this week as stand up comic and host of "I can steal that!" Pete Stegemeyer joins forces with KP and the Kahuna to tell the story of Frank and Jesse James and their gangs brazen, never before attempted day time bank robberies. We give some backstory on the James Gang, Pete walks us through the heists in great detail and then Kahuna casts a dream movie featuring all the major players. Please enjoy and check out Pete's great podcast "I Can Steal That" on all ma...
Jul 12, 2020•1 hr 35 min
Guest, comedian and delinquent Andy Lawson returns! This week while LP is out camping in West Jersey we're talking Carl Panzram one of America's most prolific murderers and criminals in history. With a story so awful it's almost charming, Carl shows us why they called him "Rage Personified" and what an opening line tells you about about a person. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Jul 07, 2020•1 hr 16 min
This guy helped us put a man on the moon...but man does he have a shady past. Wernher Von Braun is the REASON NASA worked but he was also a card carrying member of the Nazi party! How deep does his involvement go? Was it on paper or was he doing some really bad shit? How did he wind up in America? Find out all this and more with this weeks guest comedian Chris Johnston. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info....
Jun 29, 2020•1 hr 36 min
Charles Lee was almost the biggest hero of the American Revolution...but he was kind of a jerk. He picked fights all over the place, talked trash about George Washington, got captured by the British in a whorehouse, may have committed treason and got a court martial at the Battle of Monmouth. Enjoy the wild story of Charles Lee while comedian Joe Carney lends us some "voices". See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-m...
Jun 23, 2020•1 hr 52 min
Strap in....this one is a wild, bumpy and at times overwhelming ride. Orson Welles is a man of every talent. He's been called the boy genius, the problem child, the master of the medium, the bullshit artist, the God of the Damned and a one man American Institution. His story has ZERO uninteresting parts. He feuds with billionaires, gets badmouthed by Nazis, marries Hollywood starlets, gets exiled to Europe, hoaxes half the country and makes nothing BUT Masterpieces....Orson Welles is the ICON. E...
Jun 15, 2020•2 hr 30 min
America is a democracy! Sure? We've never had a monarch! Right? Well today we're telling the story of Joshua Abraham Norton...Emperor of America and Protector of Mexico....in a 100 PERCENT true story we tell the story of the unofficial ambassador of San Francisco while we also sneak in a little history of the 49' Gold Rush. Emperor Norton is not an episode to be missed! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info....
Jun 08, 2020•1 hr 47 min
Part tall tale, part hero, part jerk but all "Loser" comes this week's installment of the podcast. Mike Fink is a hard guy to get the facts on but the stuff we did find helped us gather some ideas about the "Half man/ Half Alligator" and as we try to put together the mysterious of how a drunken river pirate brawler got a ride named after him in DisneyLand. Enjoy! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Jun 01, 2020•1 hr 1 min
BONUS: Listen to the wild plot to overthrow FDR that Smedley Butler exposed....the man legit saved America. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
May 28, 2020•23 min
For Memorial Day, we're happy to give you a mega sized episode of American Loser. LP is LIVE in studio with us for a topic we've been waiting to cover for months. At the time of his death, Smedley Butler was the most highly decorated Marine in American history. He pretty much conquered small nations, whooped asses, fixed problems, ran Philly, found a dead body part of Stonewall Jackson, earned the respect of Presidents and the hatred of another...all before joining the peace movement and giving ...
May 25, 2020•1 hr 50 min
Everyone loves mysteries and ghost stories...this one is kinda both. The curious case of the Mary Celeste is intriguing and raises the hair on your arms a little. We cover the story from the very beginning to the unconventional end with plenty of creepy stops in between. We cover the superstitions of both old and modern sailors....LP returns next week and feel free to check out our patreon to get access to our first premium episode at the end of the month! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com...
May 19, 2020•1 hr 11 min
LP calls in via skype from South Florida (we hope he will be back up here in Jersey soon) to tell us the tale of the now infamous "30 Million Dollar Sandwich"...the story supports small businesses, involves Homer Simpson and of course a wiseass from New Jersey. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
May 12, 2020•24 min
