Cracked talked to 'The Biggest Loser' Season 3 runner-up Kai Hibbard, who told us that behind the hasty weight loss, trumped-up drama, and dramatic music, there lurked a dark side.
Cracked sat down with Jo to hear about life in the shadow of religious extremism and to find out what it's like to have a dude straight up shoot you in the street. Here's what we learned.
I did something far worse, and of my own volition. I lied, I abused my body, and I psychologically abused thousands of others. That's right: I was in a weight loss infomercial.
I was brought up to be just one more weapon in this terrible faith-based arsenal, but I didn't quite hit the target. Here's what I can tell you about being a weaponized offspring.
I grew up in communist Romania under the watchful eye of despotic president Nicolae Ceausescu. I watched my country torn to tatters, and it still hasn't even halfway recovered.
Linda Almonte was an executive with JP Morgan Chase, and her only mistake was doing her job and blowing the whistle on her lawbreaking boss. For the last five years, her life has been a morass of lawsuits and private detectives.
Have you ever wondered what it's like to get so fed up with the system that you take to the streets armed with nothing but whatever random objects you can find around the house? We wondered that very thing, so we asked some people who did it.
We sat down with Katarina Urbanek, who spent her teenage years studying in Slovakia during WWII, where she also enlisted as a member of the Slovak Underground.
