A podcast about disasters throughout history - what caused them, how people survived, and how we've responded to keep those disasters from happening again.
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Episode 261: The SS Sultana disaster - Part Two (00:52:45)
On a cold April night in 1865, the calm across the waters of the Mississippi River was shattered by a sudden explosion - one which destroyed a steamboat and most of the Confederate POWs crowded on its...
Episode 260: The SS Sultana disaster - Part One (00:38:44)
On a cold April night in 1865, the calm across the waters of the Mississippi River was shattered by a sudden explosion - one which destroyed a steamboat and most of the Confederate POWs crowded on its...
Happy birthday!/Plans for the New Year (00:05:53)
It's the podcast's tenth birthday! Also, where we've been and where we're going.
Episode 259: The Big Bayou Canot rail disaster (00:54:37)
In the early morning hours of September 22nd, 1993, a cross-country train departed from Mobile, Alabama, on its way to Miami. As it headed up along the train tracks out of the city, the train didn't k...
Episode 258: The Sutherland Springs church shooting - Part Three (01:01:20)
On a sunny Sunday morning in 2017, a man in an SUV pulled up outside a small white church in Sutherland Springs, TX. The people inside would become the targets of the weapons he carried. But when he s...
Episode 257: The Sutherland Springs church shooting - Part Two (00:46:53)
On a sunny Sunday morning in 2017, a man in an SUV pulled up outside a small white church in Sutherland Springs, TX. The people inside would become the targets of the weapons he carried. But when he s...
Episode 256: The Sutherland Springs church shooting - Part One (00:52:42)
On a sunny Sunday morning in 2017, a man in an SUV pulled up outside a small white church in Sutherland Springs, TX. The people inside would become the targets of the weapons he carried. But when he s...
Bonus: The 1987 Guadalupe River disaster (00:59:38)
A week ago, the Guadalupe River in Texas overflowed its banks and swept away dozens of campers. It turns out that this is not the first time it's done so - and not the first time some of those campers...
Episode 255: The Borderline Bar and Grill shooting (01:03:10)
(Podcaster's note: The second part of the Cutter incident episode is forthcoming; I'm just trying to get it juuuuuust right. :)) November 7th, 2018, was just supposed to be another fun night of drinki...
Episode 254: The Cutter incident - Part One (01:12:03)
It would start with a headache, a fever, maybe a funny tummy. But soon enough your knee would give out, or your arm would hang limp, or you would struggle to breathe. You'd be taken to the hospital, w...
Episode 253: The 1692 Port Royal earthquake (01:18:44)
In a bustling city of pirates and wickedness, one might think things couldn't get any more dangerous. But in the Jamaican city of Port Royal in 1692, that thought would be tested, and tested hard. Vid...
Stoned History: Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 (01:18:30)
To raise money for car repairs, Jennifer answers the question you've all been wondering - how well can she talk about a disaster while ... let's say "not sober." Please help Jennifer fix her car! It t...
Episode 252: The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire (01:30:07)
It was almost the end of a typical Tuesday for workers at the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, South Carolina, in June of 2007, and several of them went out to the loading dock to smoke and kill a litt...
Episode 251: The 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision (01:35:37)
On a warm November evening in 1996, in the rural farmland not far from Delhi, the remains of two aircraft plummeted from the skies. The collision which caused them to fall is still the deadliest mid-a...
Episode 250: Cats (2019) (01:12:31)
Let us celebrate the 250th episode of the podcast by doing literally anything else but watching "Cats." Videos: Cats: The Musical Cats (2019) The Late Late Show with James Corden: Spill Your Gu...
I'm alive! + The wildfires in Los Angeles (00:21:06)
It turns out that I have not disappeared into a magical world to be romanced by a fae prince - more's the pity. Anyway, let's talk about the Los Angeles wildfire, misinformation, and knowing when you ...
Episode 249: The sinking of the Sea Wing (01:11:31)
It was a hot and muggy summer day as the steamboat Sea Wing carried passengers down the Mississippi River for what was to be a lovely excursion to the National Guard settlement near Lake City, MN. And...
Episode 248: The Camp Fire - Part Two (01:19:46)
For years, the hook holding up the power lines at transmission tower 27/222 in northern California had been wearing down bit by bit. On November 8th, 2018, the hook finally broke, and the resulting se...
Episode 247: The Camp Fire - Part One (01:02:16)
For years, the hook holding up the power lines at transmission tower 27/222 in northern California had been wearing down bit by bit. On November 8th, 2018, the hook finally broke, and the resulting se...
Episode 246: The Heath High School shooting (00:58:03)
Sometimes it feels as though Columbine was our first experience with school shootings. But it very much wasn't, as the town of West Paducah, Kentucky, can attest. Videos: Very Bad Men: Michael Carne...
Episode 245: The sinking of the SS Atlantic - Part Two (01:12:35)
In part two, we watch as the Atlantic continues to head toward the southern coast of Nova Scotia ... with dangerous consequences. Videos: The Terrifying Wreck of the SS ATLANTIC (Halifax, 1873 - 15...
Episode 244: The sinking of the SS Atlantic - Part One (00:43:36)
It's been a rough week and a half on stormy seas as you and your family make the trip from Ireland to your new home in America in March of 1873. Now finally, the ship is making a stop in Halifax to re...
Episode 243: The Kiss nightclub fire (01:12:58)
It was just supposed to be a fun college party with a great band at a popular Brazil nightclub. But once the pyrotechnics came out, Kiss turned into Hell in an instant. Videos: Inside Kiss nightclub...
Episode 242: The Itaewon Halloween crush - Part Two (01:17:02)
It was the first Halloween that the streets would be open in Seoul, South Korea, since the start of the COVID pandemic, and young people in the city couldn't wait to go celebrate in the vibrant Itaewo...
Episode 241: The Itaewon Halloween crush - Part One (00:56:35)
It was the first Halloween that the streets would be open in Seoul, South Korea, since the start of the COVID pandemic, and young people in the city couldn't wait to go celebrate in the vibrant Itaewo...
