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List - 50 Worst Inventions From July 15th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I have a list, you do. It's Radio from Hell
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  Speaker 1: with another list because people love a good list. X
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  Speaker 1: ninety six. I'm not sure when I put this in
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  Speaker 1: my list file, but it's from a play from an
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  Speaker 1: outfit called The Merge. The Complete List of fifty Worst
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  Speaker 1: Inventions Ever Worst Inventions. Yeah. Now we're not obviously going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to go through all fifty of them.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just skim through some of them. The number
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  Speaker 1: one worst invention. And I don't know if they're you know, categorized.
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  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I think it's just a list,
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  Speaker 1: not a rank. No rank, Yeah, thank you. Number one
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  Speaker 1: segue the segue invented by Dean Kaman. You know that
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  Speaker 1: little scooter thing. I don't think it was really I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it worked. It was supposed to be the biggest thing ever. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and it just so. The marketing was bad, it says.
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  Speaker 1: Despite its innovative design, the same Way failed to gain
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  Speaker 1: widespread adoption due to its high price, bunky size, and
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  Speaker 1: limited practicality.
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  Speaker 2: And they can just use a scooter, an electric scooter.
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  Speaker 1: Number two the baby cage and invented by Emma Reid.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, indeed it was a cage. It was invented
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  Speaker 1: in the nineteen thirties in London. A cage to keep
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  Speaker 1: your baby in? What's to keep the baby? Say? How
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  Speaker 1: does a mom go take a shower?
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  Speaker 3: Exactly?
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  Speaker 1: The base is not a bad invention. This this cage.
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  Speaker 1: It has a top and it's made with wire. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's all You didn't say that, it's all made. It's
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  Speaker 1: made like a you know, a wire cage. Pop up ads,
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  Speaker 1: I agree, they're annoying Ethan Zuckerman, and they've gotten worse
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  Speaker 1: and worse and worse. And every day when I try
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  Speaker 1: to go to news sites and things, they say, well,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to disable your pop up ad blocker
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  Speaker 1: or we won't let you look at this. So I guess,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I guess they have to make money. Number
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  Speaker 1: five is vapes. Yeah, invented by somebody named han nick
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  Speaker 1: Uh crocs Oh. I agree with this. Yes, invented by
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  Speaker 1: Scott Siemens, George Baker, and lind And Hansen crocs. I
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  Speaker 1: They're they're terrible. They're made with non biagradable material called
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  Speaker 1: crows light. Yep. They so they will be in the
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  Speaker 1: landfill forever. Yep. Let's see single use coffee pods.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, terrible invention. I extremely popular and revolutionized.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but still so Like you go to an airbnb
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  Speaker 1: like I did this weekend in Moab, Yeah, and there
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  Speaker 1: were several people staying in the same house. And one
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  Speaker 1: of the people when we got there, had been she
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  Speaker 1: had been there for a while. She said, I had
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  Speaker 1: to have some coffee, and I this is the only
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  Speaker 1: thing with these coffee pods, and and I had to
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  Speaker 1: have one. And I felt.
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  Speaker 2: Terrible about it, apologizing, Yeah, but I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I felt I felt terrible.
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  Speaker 3: The the coffee pod technology just came along and just
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  Speaker 3: swept the industry. And if you look at the history
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  Speaker 3: of coffee consumption in America, it was it was the
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  Speaker 3: drip coffee maker, the mister Coffee changed everything.
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  Speaker 1: But then these came along.
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  Speaker 3: And what was innovative about these is that if somebody
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  Speaker 3: wanted flavored coffee and then the next person in the
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  Speaker 3: office didn't want flavored from a whole pot, you don't
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  Speaker 3: have a whole pot of flavored coffee.
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  Speaker 1: And they and there again, So what's so bad about that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the pods themselves are again bad for the environment.
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  Speaker 3: If they could come up with a reusable one or
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  Speaker 3: a biodegradable.
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  Speaker 2: One are some that are recyclable, really, yeah, save them
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  Speaker 2: and mail them back technically.
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  Speaker 1: And then they throw them away at the company. Allegedly
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  Speaker 1: they just throw them away a couple of things. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, we don't need to dwell on these. Smartphones
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  Speaker 1: and social media among the worst inventions of all time.
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  Speaker 1: I don't I just tell me about smartphones.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know about worst inventions. Social media certainly
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  Speaker 3: is warped to the nation.
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  Speaker 1: But I smart smartphones. I find this phone that I
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  Speaker 1: have right here exceedingly useful all the time. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't and I'm not absorbed in it like my kids are,
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  Speaker 1: for instance, both of them, both of them constantly watching
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  Speaker 1: videos on their on their phones. Let's see plastic bags
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  Speaker 1: like zip blocks. Yeah, yeah, again, bad for the environment,
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  Speaker 1: revolutionary when I understand their usefulness. Yeah. The pet rock
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  Speaker 1: that was invented by Gary Dahl.
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  Speaker 3: I disagree that was genius. Yeah, I think that's I
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  Speaker 3: got people to buy rocks.
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  Speaker 1: It was kind of genius, wasn't it. Let's see the
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  Speaker 1: parachute coat. This was a designed in nineteen twelve by
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  Speaker 1: a German tailor named Fronds, and he thought that this coat,
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  Speaker 1: which had sort of a parachute like that you could
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  Speaker 1: jump out of a plane with it and you would
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  Speaker 1: and it would work like a parachute. No, it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't work. Let's see they say chewing gum. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: here's the banana slicer. This is specifically designed to slicer.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's the point, isn't it. Yeah, why not? You
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  Speaker 1: could take a knife and just slice it up. But no,
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  Speaker 1: we need to have a banana slicer. Diet water what yep?
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  Speaker 1: The Japanese company Saporal in two thousand and four thought
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  Speaker 1: of a thought of creating the dumbest invention ever. They
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  Speaker 1: came up with the concept of diet water that had
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  Speaker 1: everything that normal water had, added weight loss properties with
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  Speaker 1: added weight loss properties, which is funny because water already
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  Speaker 1: has zero calories. But they claimed they had added extra
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  Speaker 1: peptides which would help with weight reduction, which is nonsense, nonsense,
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  Speaker 1: but people bought it. Let's see the pet spaw. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's a nice little home spa for your dog or cat. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: smell of vision. How did that work? It not very well.
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  Speaker 1: It was a short lived invention that tried and failed
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  Speaker 1: to bring smells into your movie experience. The smell of
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  Speaker 1: Vision was only used once in one movie, till Now,
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  Speaker 1: Scent of Mystery. It was written specifically with the gimmick
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  Speaker 1: in mind and was an epic failure. It was a
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  Speaker 1: scratch and sniff card. Some it wasn't even like they
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  Speaker 1: released something did that. Some smell of Vision did that?
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  Speaker 3: The first one was a scratch and sniff card, you know,
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  Speaker 3: scratch number three.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't John Waters do a smell of vision movie? Yeah? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's see. Uh, I don't know what that is.
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  Speaker 2: I you do like though, at Disneyland when you're doing
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  Speaker 2: Soaring It over California and you go over the Orange
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  Speaker 2: groves and you can smell the oranges.
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  Speaker 1: I do like that. Yeah, that's smell a vision New Coke.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody liked it, and that's I had. But I had
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  Speaker 1: no idea why. But it wasn't necessary, No, I guess
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  Speaker 1: they thought they were worried pepsi was getting too well
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  Speaker 1: too popular.
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  Speaker 2: You guys remember the Pepsi challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they tried to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, because traditionally in the Pepsi Challenge, people said
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  Speaker 2: they liked the taste of pepsi better than coke. So
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  Speaker 2: Coke said, well, let's make coke taste more like pepsi.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to coke, you want to coke.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want a pepsi.
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  Speaker 3: But how can you miss coke if it won't go away?
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  Speaker 3: So you take it away and people miss it and
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  Speaker 3: still number one.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let's see Farmville. People love it? That game?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, people loved it.
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  Speaker 1: It's design encouraged addictive behavior, with players often compelled to
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  Speaker 1: check in multiple times a day to avoid losing progress.
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  Speaker 1: This led to excessive screen time, causing distractions from real
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  Speaker 1: life activities and reducing productivity. Oh this is a good one.
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  Speaker 1: I wish you could see the picture. The shoe umbrella.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a little attachment that you can put over
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  Speaker 1: your shoes that looks like an umbrella when it's raining.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you just make the shoes out of the
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  Speaker 2: thing that the umbrella's made out of?
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  Speaker 1: This? This is nice leather. Yeah, let's see.
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  Speaker 3: We've hope you'd enjoyed another lists with Radio from Hell
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  Speaker 3: on X ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: The next two were tanning beds and the atomic bombs.
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