This Is A Disaster

Your record label releases seminal albums by Joy Division and New Order, and is instrumental in the founding of a musical movement... how could you possibly screw that up?  Leigh tells us exactly how ...

13 Aug 201939min

Beneath beautiful, serene, idyllic Mount St Helens lay the molten rock that would forever change the face of the mountain and Washington state.  A dormant volcano is dormant... until it isn't.   Leigh...

7 Aug 201952min

What's the laziest you've ever felt? Peter tells the story of a particularly disastrous two days on the tallest mountain on earth. If you've ever had trouble getting up off a couch, this story will am...

30 Jul 201926min

Peace, love, and a 12-foot-tall fence. When the organizers describe their venue as "defensible", maybe think twice about buying a ticket. Fyre doesn't hold a candle to the original disastrous festival...

24 Jul 20191h 29min

A cautionary tale about vetting the band you're booking for your live broadcast.  Leigh tells the story of how The Replacements nearly ended up blackballing an entire record label from  Saturday Night...

16 Jul 201931min

The prophecy foretold Quetzalcoatl's devastating return from the east, in the form of a pale-skinned and bearded man. Little did the Aztecs know how right the prophecy was...   Leigh's song pick:: Cor...

10 Jul 201951min

Bill and Vivian Swanson got a whole lot more than they bargained for on their fishing trip to Lituya Bay.  If you thought high ground might save you from a megatsunami, think again...   Peter's song p...

2 Jul 201917min

In our first Film Fiasco feature, we discuss one of the greatest science fiction disaster movies of all time: Sunshine.  Plus, a super special guest drops in to tell us all about the science behind th...

26 Jun 20191h 21min