What do greed, bad business decisions, a terrible movie tie-in, and a New Mexico landfill have in common?

The Video Game Crash of 1983.

In this episode of Are You Sh!#ing Me?, Brett dives into one of the biggest business disasters in entertainment history. Atari was printing money, arcades were packed, and video games seemed unstoppable. Then the industry collapsed almost overnight.

Discover how a flood of low-quality games, too many competing consoles, and the infamous E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video game helped wipe out nearly 97% of the North American gaming market. Learn why millions of unsold Atari cartridges ended up buried in the New Mexico desert and how Nintendo used the industry's biggest failure to build a gaming empire.

It's a story filled with corporate arrogance, rushed deadlines, spectacular mistakes, and one of the greatest comebacks in pop culture history.

Grab a beer and join Brett for another edition of Something I Learned While Avoiding Real Responsibilities.

Are you sh!#ing me? Nope. This one actually happened.

Cheers!

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The Parental Advisory sticker on your favorite album? Yeah — that came from four Washington wives, a Senate hearing, and one very unfortunate Prince song.

In this SILWARR, Brett breaks down the moment the U.S. government decided words in music were a national threat — who started it, which artists got caught in the crosshairs, and why the whole thing spectacularly backfired.

Short, sharp, and slightly unbelievable. This one happened. All of it.

Are You Sh!#ing Me? — Something I Learned While Avoiding Real Responsibilities.

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A Belgian inventor walks into a fancy London party in the 1770s with a world-changing invention, a master plan, and absolutely zero regard for physics. What happens next is either the greatest product launch fail in recorded history — or the most spectacular party entrance anyone has ever attempted. Either way, someone's paying for the damage.

Are You Sh!#ing Me is the show where history's most unbelievable true stories get the appreciation they deserve. Host Brett raises a glass to the legends who swung big, missed spectacularly, and somehow never made it into the textbooks.

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