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Episode 39.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Norwegian Black Metal
For a music scene that generated such awesome bands, the Norwegian black metal community sure were a bunch of miscreants. […]
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Episode 39: The Peshtigo Firestorm
The Great Chicago Fire wasn’t the worst fire ever to hit the United States. It wasn’t the worst fire in […]
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Episode 38.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Witchcraft Trial of Sarah Good
Things got a bit hairy in Salem in 1692… let’s just say it wasn’t a good time to be feeding […]
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Episode 38: Darby Crash
In the late 1970s, two friends got straight-As in fruit-eating and crystal meth. Luckily for the trajectory of punk rock, […]
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Episode37.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Jim Shooter’s New Universe
When the going gets good, Marvel got weird. Forget Iron Man and Thor, it’s time for Nightmask and Star Brand! […]
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Episode 37: The Great Tangshan Earthquake
In the time it takes you to read this, the city of Tangshan shook apart in 1976. Peter tells Leigh […]
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Episode 36.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] British Airtours Flight 28M
It usually takes a disaster to change regulations… case in point British Airtours Flight 28M and the Boeing 737. Ultra-narrow […]
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Episode 36: Climate Change, Part 2
Nuclear Norm comes back to finish what he started, this time telling us about why some people distrust science, and […]
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Episode 35.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Legendary E.T. Landfill
It’s all fun and games until Steven Spielberg brings you his precious property to turn into a video game. In […]