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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 […]
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Episode 28: Boston Molasses Flood
Special guest Karol (aka doom-rapper “garbageface”) drops by the podcast to tell us about possibly the original sticky situation. How […]
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Episode 27.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Gram Parsons: A Life Spent
How many tragic folk musicians from the 60s could there possibly be? Leigh helps answer that question with the story […]
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Episode 27: Thera, Destroyer
Some disasters reverberate throughout history. Santorini wasn’t always a ring of islands… there was a time it was the beautiful […]
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Episode 26.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Nightmare at 41,000 Feet (12,500 Meters)
When it comes to measurement, there’s the right way, and there’s the Imperial system. Sometimes when you make the switch […]
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Episode 26: The Tunguska Explosion
Did you know that June 30th is International Asteroid Day? Possibly because of a massive explosion in Siberia on that […]
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Episode 25.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Blowing Smoke Up Your Ass
There is a long history behind the idea of resuscitating a seemingly dead person… but it’s not all chest compressions […]
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Episode 25: New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot
On February 2nd, 1980, tensions came to a breaking point at the New Mexico State Penitentiary. “But wait” you cry, […]
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Episode 24.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Heron Road Bridge Collapse
In the summer of 1966, the construction of the Heron Road Bridge in Ottawa didn’t go exactly to plan. A […]