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Friends. It’s time we said goodbye—at least until some Qatari billionaire offers to foot the bill. But first, we need to make an episode so bad that no one will miss us. And also figure out who the biggest loser we’ve ever covered is. Follow along with our All Time Loser bracket here! [SPOILER WARNING] Bracket results Follow us online for more from us in the future: Adam: @madam_mcshane on Instagram/Tiktok @adamcshane on Twitter Joey: @joeybednarski on...

One day The American Journal of Losers will be taught in high school classes as the textbook example of the depths of misery to which human beings will sink, but for now that honor goes to the Stanford Prison Experiment: Phillip Zimbardo's wacky summer camp for wayward boys. Adam McShane, Joey Bednarski, and Cosmo Nomikos are stand up comedians based out of Chicago, IL. AJL is part of the Lincoln Lodge Podcast Network: https://www.thelincolnlodge.com/podcasts

Eek! The A-SCARE-ican GORE-nal of BOO-sers has taken over once again! This time with strange little gray men from outside this planet who are here to stick to metal objects in our holes. Good thing the three brave hosts of the podcast can be described as “skeptical to the point of being uninterested in this story”. Adam McShane, Joey Bednarski, and Cosmo Nomikos are stand up comedians based out of Chicago, IL. AJL is part of the Lincoln Lodge Podcast Network:...

The three coolest guys you've ever heard of are back to tell the tale of the Confederate spy from Canada who become infamous for a botched insurance fraud scheme that killed 80 people and ruined a perfectly good barrel of caviar! Adam McShane, Joey Bednarski, and Cosmo Nomikos are stand up comedians based out of Chicago, IL. AJL is part of the Lincoln Lodge Podcast Network: https://www.thelincolnlodge.com/podcasts

Lives are risked, secrets are revealed, and friendships are betrayed on this exciting, no holds barred, episode about the near-ghost town of Centralia, PA; whose five remaining residents make their home above a fire that has been burning for over sixty years! Adam McShane, Joey Bednarski, and Cosmo Nomikos are stand up comedians based out of Chicago, IL. AJL is part of the Lincoln Lodge Podcast Network: https://www.thelincolnlodge.com/podcasts

If you ever hear a bad episode of this podcast, it’s because we made it bad on purpose to get an illegal cut in from some guy named “Money Malone” or whatever; just like the Chicago White Sox did in 1919 when they intentionally threw the World Series to profit off an illegal sports betting apparatus. Adam McShane, Joey Bednarski, and Cosmo Nomikos are stand up comedians based out of Chicago, IL. AJL is part of the Lincoln Lodge Podcast Network: https://www.thelincolnlodge.com/podcasts

Check out Cosmo's Music here! No need to put away your Bible after your pre-podcast prayer because this week we're doing a classic listicle style episode about the top three biggest losers in the Good Book! Or at least, the ones that Joey remembers from Catholic school. Source: Da Bible Adam McShane, Joey Bednarski, and Cosmo Nomikos are stand up comedians based out of Chicago, IL. AJL is part of the Lincoln Lodge Podcast Network: https://www.thelincolnlodge.com/podcasts

The arrest of Patricia Campbell Hearst and the consequences of her actions (very few, she is rich!) Sources: American Heiress- Jeffrey Toobin The Radical Story of Patty Hearst - CNN Adam McShane, Joey Bednarski, and Cosmo Nomikos are stand up comedians based out of Chicago, IL. AJL is part of the Lincoln Lodge Podcast Network: https://www.thelincolnlodge.com/podcasts

We follow as Patty AKA “Tania” robs a bank and then goes on the run for over a year! Sources: American Heiress- Jeffrey Toobin The Radical Story of Patty Hearst - CNN Adam McShane, Joey Bednarski, and Cosmo Nomikos are stand up comedians based out of Chicago, IL. AJL is part of the Lincoln Lodge Podcast Network: https://www.thelincolnlodge.com/podcasts

In 1973 newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped by a ragtag guerilla group. Two months later, she helped them rob a bank. And here's the big twist: everyone involved in this story was also a huge loser. Sources: American Heiress- Jeffrey Toobin The Radical Story of Patty Hearst - CNN Adam McShane, Joey Bednarski, and Cosmo Nomikos are stand up comedians based out of Chicago, IL. AJL is part of the Lincoln Lodge Podcast Network: https://www.thelincolnlodge.com/podcasts

When Joey loses his precious research notes about presidential hopeful and climate change doomer Al Gore, he’s left with no choice but to ask the world’s least reliable (but most confident) search engine. This is a crossover with the Adam Asks Chuck Podcast. You can listen to the full archive of episodes wherever you get your podcasts. Sources: Charlie's beautiful brain Corrections from Wikipedia Adam McShane, Joey Bednarski, and Cosmo Nomikos are stand up comedians based out of...

Joey tells the story of the stewardess who survived the sinking of the Titanic and two other ships before finding the story of a cat who did basically the same thing. Sources: The Incredible True Story of The Queen of Sinking Ships | Violet Jessop Violet Constance Jessop : Titanic Survivor Meet Unsinkable Sam: The Cat that Survived Three Ships Sinking in WWII Adam McShane, Joey Bednarski, and Cosmo Nomikos are stand up comedians based out of Chicago, IL. AJL is part of the Lincoln...

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Joey is so wrong about the size of France that he insisted this retraction be in the show notes. (It’s the 49th largest by area). Aside from that this is one of AJL’s least educational episodes, barely scratching the surface of a thing that only maybe happened. Cheers! Sources: The Children's Crusade set out for the Holy Land in 1212. It never arrived. | National Geographic Children's Crusade: Real Story of the Tragic Event History of the Crusades - Episode 81 Adam McShane, Joey...

The boys get into a pretty sticky situation when Joey uses the episode on a lethal food spill as a platform to attack the hardworking Italian Americans of 1919 Boston. Also a little bonus loser shows up at the end for all our DMB fans. Sources: The Great MOLASSES Flood of 1919-Reactions The Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919- The History Guy The Great Boston Molasses Flood: why the strange disaster matters today: Guardian Adam McShane, Joey Bednarski, and Cosmo Nomikos are stand up...

RIP Choco Taco. In memoriam we’ll be taking a little trip across the pond to tell the tale of Harold Davidson; the theatrical priest who, after getting defrocked by the Anglican Church, met a bizarre fate during a carnival sideshow! Sources: The Prostitutes Padre - Reverend with a Roving Eye - English Eccentrics Defrocked rector was 'unfairly vilified' | UK news | The Guardian The sad story of the Vicar of Stiffkey | Express Yourself | Comment Adam McShane, Joey Bednarski, and Cosmo...

We're changing the tried and true formula of AJL . This week Cosmo is in charge of the episode! It's kind of a new take on an old... what's that? Everyone hates the change we've made? Nevermind we're giving it back to Joey. Sorry, sorry, please don't be mad at us. Adam McShane, Joey Bednarski, and Cosmo Nomikos are stand up comedians based out of Chicago, IL. AJL is part of the Lincoln Lodge Podcast Network: https://www.thelincolnlodge.com/podcasts

On this week’s episode (of the American Journal of Losers) our parasite-ridden boys talk about infamous “Pharma Bro”, Martin Shkreli, who became the most hated man in America when he upped the price of a life-saving AIDS medication from $13.50 a pill to $750 a pill. There are new episodes of this show every week y’know! Sources: Pharma Bro (2021) The Journalist and the Pharma Bro "I'm Back" AMA Adam McShane, Joey Bednarski, and Cosmo Nomikos are stand up comedians based out of Chicago,...

There's about 800 square miles of unclaimed desert in between Egypt and Sudan in case anyone was looking to pick up a few hundred miles of unclaimed desert. Also: we get some fan mail from our neighbor! Joey's highly detailed map Sources: Welcome to the land that no country wants | Middle East and north Africa | The Guardian Va. man plants flag, claims African country, calling it 'Kingdom of North Sudan' - The Washington Post 'Kingdom Of Dixit': Indore Man Declares Himself King Of...

We're back from our summer break but mentally we're still very much at the beach. That's right, baby, this episode about the grim history of the Donner Party may as well have been recorded by King Jimmy Buffet himself! Snow? Cannibalism? Manifest Destiny? No match for a Hawaiian shirt and a winning attitude. Adam McShane, Joey Bednarski, and Cosmo Nomikos are stand up comedians based out of Chicago, IL. AJL is part of the Lincoln Lodge Podcast Network:...