This Is A Disaster

In 1979 Jane Fonda starred in the China Syndrome, a movie about a nuclear meltdown.  Twelve days later, reactor 2 at Three Mile Island melted down.  Our special guest Norm tells us the story of what c...

28 Jan 202037min

Every story needs context.  In part one of our two-part series on the Chernobyl disaster, we start at the dawn of the atomic age.  Our special guest Nuclear Norm gives us a "nuclear physics for dummie...

22 Jan 20201h 19min

The pinnacle of endurance motorsport is the 24 hours of Le Mans.  In 1955, Mercedez had an excellent shot at taking the crown.  Unfortunately, things didn't go to plan for Pierre Levegh, their number ...

14 Jan 202030min

In 1954, the book "I Am Legend" envisioned a future where a sole human survivor struggled against a legion of zombie vampires.  Three movies retold this story, "The Last Man on Earth" with Vincent Pri...

8 Jan 20201h 13min

Leigh tells us about a man named Jesus and raised under threat of death, with the graves dug in the basement to prove it.  The music was good... at first... but then came the bodily fluids and other e...

31 Dec 201933min

Ever regretting your choice to travel by air during the holiday season?  I bet it doesn't stack up to the passengers on the four aeroplanes waylaid in the Shanghai fog in Christmas 1946.  In an age be...

25 Dec 201949min

What's a decision that you've made that had the worst consequences?  Maybe when Pennsylvania enacted laws against burning garbage in landfills, they knew what they were doing?  Molly Maguires, abandon...

17 Dec 201922min

Christmas came early!  In this bonus content companion to "Cosmic Terror (at the End of the Universe)" (Episode 11), our special guest Norm returns to discuss the possibility of extraterrestrial life....

11 Dec 20191h 22min