Alex Schmidt
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Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Historical Takeaways For What's Happening Now
History (both modern and powdered-wigged) has advice for us. → Read More
Why Pirates Were Nothing Like You Think
Thinking of being a pirate for Halloween? Well, you can keep the peg leg, but lose the gold, and perhaps consider a privateer’s charter from a European power. Historical Accuracy always goes over great at parties! → Read More
Go See The Cracked Stand-Up Show! Sincerely, Unbiased Us
Hi, friend! I'm Alex Schmidt, here with a 30-second rundown of this month's The Cracked Stand-Up Show. It's happening this Thursday at 9:00 P.M. at the NerdMelt Showroom (home of The Nerdist Podcast, Harmontown, The Meltdown With Jonah And Kumail, and more awesome stuff). And you can get a ticket here! Yes, you! Anyway, I promised you a 30-second guide. So with the clock running down, here's… → Read More
5 Mean Spirited Hoaxes Done Purely Out Of Spite
Some hoaxes are pretty harmless. Others, however, are fueled by pure revenge, designed to make a specific person or group of people look incredibly stupid. → Read More
21 Absurd Lies Companies Have Used To Sell Products
We like to think the term 'snake oil' is reserved for old-timey traveling salesman and the holistic medicine aisle of Whole Foods, but it turns out it hits closer to home than that. → Read More
6 Crime Victims Who Got Justice Through Insane Coincidences
Real crimes are sometimes occasionally solved thanks to coincidences that are so insane, it's almost as if the universe was telling the criminals that they had selected the wrong career path. → Read More
6 True Stories That Prove Local News Is Creepy As Hell
Pick up any small-town newspaper and you'll see a special section reserved for stuff straight out of a bad episode of 'X-Files.' → Read More
5 Hollywood Stories You See Everywhere (That Are Always BS)
All of us have fallen for stories like these before but there are some particularly egregious types of B.S. that shouldn't fly anymore → Read More
5 Insane Things You Experience With A Duplicate Vagina
Genitals tend to be a one-per-customer sort of affair. But sometimes, our sex organs double up, and people end up with two thingies where there should be only one ... um, thingy. → Read More
20 Asshole Ways Assholes See Things
There are a lot of frustrating people in this world and most of the time it's really hard to get where they're coming from. → Read More
6 Nightmarish Truths Behind Famously Pleasant Places
If places were people, then starting today, you'd never be able to make eye contact with these cities. → Read More
7 Fan Works So Good They Were Adopted By The Creators
It turns out there are times when a fan ascends from the unwashed masses and presents a completely self-made work that kicks the original's ass. → Read More
10 Cracked Posts Everyone Went Nuts Over Last Week
Cats really do make everything better. Well, until you die and they eat your face off. → Read More
11 Bootleg Toys That Are Completely Insane
Someone, somewhere, was trying to do the bare minimum to get around copyright law and accidentally came up with some hilariously bizarre toys. → Read More
22 Movie Survival Tips (That Will Kill You)
Look, we're just like you: Most of our life advice and goals are derived from movies. But it turns out that a lot of those movies are full of shit. → Read More
We Met Syria's War Refugees: 7 Awful Things They Told Us
We sent a writer and a photographer out to the Serbia-Hungary border to speak with a few dozen of the 3 million Syrians who have fled their homeland so far. → Read More
11 Secret Social Fears We All Share
We humans have a lot of irrational thoughts, and probably at the top of them is what people are saying about us behind our backs. → Read More
6 Insane Military Training Techniques Designed To Break You
Military training techniques vary a lot from country to country: Some are insanely elaborate, some are insanely cruel, and some are fine just being plain old insane. → Read More
5 Myths About Domestic Abuse Everyone Believes
We spoke to six different victims of domestic abuse -- male and female -- and found out that lots of these cases don't look like the plots of Lifetime movies. → Read More
6 Classic Movies That Were Saved By (Wisely) Deleted Scenes
Thanks to these films' editors for saving us a lot of head scratching. → Read More