Adam Tod Brown
Adam is a full-time editor and columnist at Cracked and a full time everything everywhere else. He currently runs the columnist section of the site with an iron goddamned fist and tells jokes live and in person and directly to your face all over the country. Come see him sometime!
Guest Appearances
9 Dumb & Embarrassing American Elections Nobody Talks About
You know American democracy can’t always have a ‘West Wing’ tone. Mud will be slung! Sexploits will be news! Results will occasionally be fishy! However, there is a cottage industry of people claiming the current negatives of American politics are new. They…
ListenWhat Fascist Italy Reveals About Modern America
If you ask the average American to name ten things from World War II, Benito Mussolini won’t often make the list. But “Il Duce” seized power long before Hitler, spent more than two decades reshaping Italy in his image, and coined that…
Listen12 Great Ideas America Should Steal From Other Countries
“No bad ideas in a brainstorm.” That’s a common saying that implies a darker truth: as soon as an idea leaves a brainstorm’s cocoon, and gets put into practice, it can metamorphose into a living, breathing disaster. After all, who knows how…
ListenMovies That'd Be Better From a Different POV
Most disaster movies make cannon fodder out of almost every single living person on the planet who isn't a president, a fighter pilot, or the one scientist who has the key to solving the alien/meteor/whatever problem. What about the rest of us?…
ListenThe Rise of White Supremacy in America
Sometimes finding the presidential candidate that's right for you comes down to the endorsements. Are they supported by the teachers union or local firefighters? Maybe the endorsement of the New York Times means something to you. What if a major candidate this…
ListenHow Disney Movies Program Your Mind
Think about the Disney princesses of the 1930s, 40s and 50s and what they actually accomplished in their films. Snow White: Hot girl falls asleep in the forest and is almost murdered by dwarfs until they realize how hot she is. Alice…
ListenWhy It Took 30 Years For Cosby's Victims to Go Public
Over the last decade, the internet has brought into public light some of the great social injustices hiding just beneath the surface of what we thought we knew about our society...or specifically what white men thought they knew about society. No topic…
Listen