Episode 32: Daikatana
John Romero went from arcade wizard, to programming prodigy, to visionary responsible in large part for classic games like Doom, Doom 2, and Quake. Unfortunately, there's only really one way to go wh...
8 Jul 20201h 33min
Episode 31.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Death of Marvin Gaye
Let's get it on: Marvin Gaye was a landmark soul and R&B artists, but his life didn't mirror the carefree coolness of his music. The perils of drug use, living in destructive environments, and arming...
30 Jun 202027min
Episode 31: The Johnstown Flood
What better place to build a fishing and country club than at the edge of a recently-compromised dam? A flood made particularly horrific by all of the debris it took with it, and Johnstown Pennsylvan...
24 Jun 202057min
Episode 30.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Lord of the Flies (For Real)
Young boys get stranded on an island, and anyone who's read the book knows the rest of the story... or do they? A group of Tongan teenagers in the 1960s acted as a real-world experiment to see whether...
16 Jun 202026min
Episode 30: The Great Chicago Fire
Hey, we heard you like wood, so we stored wood in your wood so you can wood when you wood! When they first built the Windy City, perhaps they should have considered building materials that were a bit...
10 Jun 20201h 1min
Episode 29.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Four Bad Nights: The Who, Roskilde, Hillsborough, and Ten Cent Beer Night
Bad things come in fours. Leigh tells us about a bottleneck at a Who concert, a stampede at the Roskilde festival, a human garlic press at a Hillsborough soccer match, and the perils of Ten-Cent Beer...
2 Jun 202047min
Episode 29: Brian Wilson's Smile
Leigh tackles one of his White Whales, talking about the ups, downs, and eventual collapse of the production of what could have been the Beach Boys' greatest album. Human-sized kitty litter, songs ab...
27 Mai 20201h 14min
Episode 28.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Cleveland Balloonfest 1986
What happens when you pick a fight with Mikey Mouse, and all you have at hand is two million latex balloons? In 1986, United Way of Chicago found out. A charity balloon release, a Guinness World Rec...
19 Mai 202025min
