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How We Got Here with Chris Kohler

Kohler Media

Business

Comedy

History

Frequency: 1 episode/13d. Total Eps: 10

Business history is wilder than you think.

Join finance journalist and digital storyteller, Chris Kohler, as he delves into the corporate moments that were too ridiculous to make up, but too important to ignore. The deals that collapsed empires. The decisions that accidentally built them. The scandals that still echo through every boardroom today. Tested and refined through millions of social media views, these are the stories that explain why modern business looks the way it does.

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🇨🇦 Canada - business
17/08/2026
#86
🇬🇧 Great Britain - business
17/08/2026
#25
🇨🇦 Canada - business
16/08/2026
#76
🇬🇧 Great Britain - business
16/08/2026
#20
🇩🇪 Germany - business
16/08/2026
#87
🇨🇦 Canada - business
15/08/2026
#52
🇬🇧 Great Britain - business
15/08/2026
#16
🇩🇪 Germany - business
15/08/2026
#71
🇫🇷 France - business
15/08/2026
#77
🇨🇦 Canada - business
14/08/2026
#39

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - trending
17/08/2026
#143
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🇬🇧 Great Britain - business
17/08/2026
#36
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🇬🇧 Great Britain - business
16/08/2026
#38
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🇬🇧 Great Britain - trending
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Blockbuster blew $8 billion. We’re still paying for it

Season 1 · Episode 2

Monday, May 4, 2026 • Duration 01:01:01

A complete corporate disaster.

Blockbuster stuffed up so badly that the world started walking down a path away from one-off payments and towards subscriptions. And the best part is, Blockbuster's demise was baked in from the start. It just grew so fast the problems were hard to see... for a few years.

0:00 Intro

9:10 The VCR

19:09 The War

24:42 Hello Rental Industry

28:15 Welcome To BlockBuster

36:00 Huizenga

40:27 Viacom Era

44:51 Injured By DVD

48:59 Enter The Wolf

50:43 The Collapse

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How Nazi Brothers Changed Sports Marketing Forever

Season 1 · Episode 1

Monday, April 20, 2026 • Duration 01:11:06

Adidas vs. Puma. Two brothers. One town. A feud that changed sport forever.

Adolf and Rudolf began as partners, cobbling shoes together in central Germany before a family fallout split them into bitter rivals. What followed was decades of corporate warfare, played out on the world's biggest stages, that transformed sports marketing into one of the most powerful industries of the 20th century.

Howe We Got Here

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Introducing.... How We Got Here

Thursday, April 16, 2026 • Duration 00:20

Business history is wilder than you think.

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Kellogg’s: The Disturbing Reason Corn Flakes Exist

Season 1 · Episode 3

Monday, May 18, 2026 • Duration 55:08

This episode contains adult topics and themes

Ever wondered how the world's most popular cereal ended up in your breakfast bowl?

The story behind Cornflakes is stranger than you'd think, meet John Harvey Kellogg, the man whose obsession with gut health and moral purity accidentally changed the way the world eats breakfast.

0:00 Intro

5:40 Two truths and a lie

7:30 The religious pipeline

10:40 Picking the doctor

13:35 The San

17:45 Gut Health

24:34 The anti masturbation crusade

29:41 The accidental invention

35:11 The rival next door

37:26 The brothers split

43:52 A note on more dark stuff

46:06 The end

50:42 Two truths and a lie

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How Kodak Engineered Its Own Demise (Literally)

Season 1 · Episode 4

Monday, June 1, 2026 • Duration 48:41

Kodak didn’t make a mistake. The digital camera was invented in their own building but it was missing more than film. It was missing a business model.

0:00 Intro

3:15 Two Truths & A Lie

4:15 The Man Who Gave Everyone A Camera

15:40 Advertising Done To Perfection

23:06 Welcome Steve

35:25 The Point

39:15 The Ending

44:10 Two Truths & A lie

Madmen Scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq3n2sJ43Hg&t=4s

A Long Time In Finance w/ Steve Sasson - https://open.spotify.com/episode/407q6PT4umq9BVECyJsLhy

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Hang on... was Tupperware a pyramid scheme?

Season 1 · Episode 6

Monday, June 29, 2026 • Duration 45:47

Tupperware is one of those words so common we forgot it's a brand. It's also one of the great untold business stories, with a pioneer who was deliberately erased from view.

Did she design a pyramid scheme? Not really.

There's more to it than that.

This is the story of Brownie Wise... and what it costs to build something you don't own.

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Ryanair: How The Bad Guy Won

Season 1 · Episode 5

Monday, June 15, 2026 • Duration 50:26

A cheap flight… that ends up feeling expensive.

This episode: how Ryanair and Michael O'Leary perfected drip pricing and made billions doing it.

Removing olives, lukewarm off-brand soft drinks, expensive wheelchair hire… and the hardest two truths and a lie segment yet.

0:00 Intro

5:05 Two Truths & A Lie

7:10 The Industry That Counts Olives

11:00 Enter The Accountant

16:10 The Southwest Effect

21:55 O'Leary Takes The Controls

28:02 Since When Is A Wheelchair A Frill?

35:52 The Charge Sheet - And Why It Works

41:05 The Point

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Why Are All Our Movies Ads Now?

Season 1 · Episode 7

Monday, July 13, 2026 • Duration 53:21

When we watch a movie we see 4-5 brands every 10 minutes. The advertising is hidden in plain sight and this episode goes looking for where and how that trick first came to Hollywood.

E.T. and a bag of Reese's Pieces, Lois Lane chain smoking Marlboros, Happy Gilmore’s Subway t-shirts… and Jerry McGuire taking Reebok’s money and then screwing them over. All steps on the path to the situation audiences now find themselves in - marketing campaigns dressed up as movies.

All that… plus a two truths and a lie with a twist - one "casual" mention in this very episode was a paid placement.

Check out Cool Shirtz - https://shirtz.cool/

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The Toxic Economy of Gaming

Season 1 · Episode 8

Monday, July 27, 2026 • Duration 50:05

The video game industry makes more money than movies and music combined - and it got there by deploying the greatest hits of dark consumer psychology.

Gambling, paywalls, and slowly but surely chiselling ownership out of the hands of their customers. It’s doing so well, in fact, that it’ll start growing outwards.

This episode explores the origin of modern gaming and the moments that ensured it ended up being a sinkhole for money and frustration.

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