This Is A Disaster

It's all fun and games until Steven Spielberg brings you his precious property to turn into a video game.  In the early 1980s, Atari was unstoppable... but the little brown extraterrestrial did his be...

25 Aug 202036min

Our special guest drops by for a two-part series about the slow-burn disaster happening all around us.  What's a greenhouse gas?  Are we in an ice age?  Will the poles melt and send us spinning off in...

19 Aug 20201h 3min

In 1958, Los Alamos National Laboratory was buzzing with new and exciting ways to eradicate humanity and leave the Earth a desolate, radioactive wasteland. Turns out we've been nuking ourselves willin...

11 Aug 202031min

When you're known as the meanest tub-bassist around, you're bound to attract all kinds.  Sometimes it's a self-proclaimed Harmonica Jesus who stumbles into being the head of a cult.  Charles Manson ma...

5 Aug 202054min

In 1969, the Woodstock festival became the stuff of legends.  In 1999, the Woodstock festival became infamous.  In 2019, the Woodstock festival became... nothing.  With fifty years of colossal brand r...

28 Jul 202045min

What's so cool about Patreon anyway?  Here's a free bonus episode from our series of micro disasters that come out every two weeks!   What's the worst thing that has ever happened as a consequence of ...

24 Jul 20209min

There's gotta be a better way to go east than going east, or at least that's what Franklin thought when he set sail for the fabled Northwest Passage.  Maybe if you're going to risk life and limb on an...

22 Jul 202049min

We're not going to get into the specifics, but if you combine ammonium nitrate and some other nasty things on a repurposed warship, you've got a floating time bomb.  Nobody told the spectators in the ...

14 Jul 202028min