This Is A Disaster

Special guest Karol (aka doom-rapper "garbageface") drops by the podcast to tell us about possibly the original sticky situation.  How could such a sweet treat turn deadly?  Maybe by storing two milli...

13 Maj 202038min

How many tragic folk musicians from the 60s could there possibly be?  Leigh helps answer that question with the story of Gram Parsons.  You know you're hitting the rocks when Keith Richards tells you ...

5 Maj 202038min

Some disasters reverberate throughout history.  Santorini wasn't always a ring of islands...  there was a time it was the beautiful peak of a mountain island called Thera.  The archeological site at A...

29 Apr 202058min

When it comes to measurement, there's the right way, and there's the Imperial system.  Sometimes when you make the switch from one system to the other, wires get crossed and things can go south.  Was ...

21 Apr 202043min

Did you know that June 30th is International Asteroid Day?  Possibly because of a massive explosion in Siberia on that day in 1908.  While Russia was revolting (the first time), the Tungusic people of...

15 Apr 202052min

There is a long history behind the idea of resuscitating a seemingly dead person... but it's not all chest compressions and assisted-breathing. There was a time when someone blowing smoke up your ass ...

7 Apr 202028min

On February 2nd, 1980, tensions came to a breaking point at the New Mexico State Penitentiary.  "But wait" you cry, "you said you don't cover acts of malice!"  Trust us, the disaster here is the bungl...

1 Apr 202038min

In the summer of 1966, the construction of the Heron Road Bridge in Ottawa didn't go exactly to plan.  A cautionary tale about listening to the groaning woodwork, and for one worker about maybe stayin...

24 Mars 202034min