This Is A Disaster
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This Is A Disaster
A podcast about disasters and the music they make us listen to.
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Episode 57: The SS Viking Explosion
Craig from Canadian History Ehx is back to tell us a harrowing tale of how not to handle explosives. Sometimes you club the seal, sometimes the seal...
Episode 56: The Yodogo Hijacking
Plan A: Have the hijackers sit in a chair trap. Plan B: Land in a fake Cuba. Plan C: Anyone got any other ideas?
Nuclear Norm's song p...
Episode 55: The Almonte Train Disaster
Maybe if you're going to take a break, don't leave the "everything's ok" alarm on.
Peter's song pick:: In The Mood by Glenn Miller
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Episode 54: Def Leppard
Sometimes you just need a hand to get by. No need to get up in arms. Some people are just armed and dangerous.
Peter's song pick:: Go...
Episode 53: (Sex, Lies, and Nuclear Meltdowns) The SL-1 Disaster
When picking the staff to run your brand new nuclear reactor, would you say you'd want "stable" people that "get along", orrr...
Nuclear...
Episode 52: The Bull Island Music Festival
Will they ever learn? Let me guess, not enough food? Minimal accommodations? Cowmicide? Wait, what was that last thing...
Peter's s...
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[Update] This continues to be a disaster!
Peter and Leigh reconvene in the studio IN PERSON FINALLY, discuss the upcoming season, and even get into a mini-disaster!
If you like w...
Episode 51: The 1979 Fastnet Race
In the final episode of this "season", we revisit disaster on the open ocean. Inclement weather, over three hundred yachts, the history of boats, and...
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Episode 50.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Byford Dolphin Incident
Just because something happens quickly, doesn't mean it can't be horrific. The most dangerous job in the world meets fatigue, to catastrophic ends. ...
Episode 50: Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy
You thought overwrought endeavours were limited to videogames? Where do you go now... that you've written Sweet Child O' Mine and November Rain? Axe...
Episode 49.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] 1904 Olympic Marathon
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, or at least maybe finish a marathon. Things could have gone a whole lot better for the rag-tag band of comp...
Episode 49 - Duke Nukem Forever
Our special guest Try-All Andy returns for the story of the trials and tribulations that went into producing a sequel that was over a decade in the ma...
Episode 48.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Death in Space
As harsh a place as space can be, there have been surprisingly few deaths in space. Not to worry! Leigh found some for us. Soviet cosmonauts, Soyuz...
Episode 48 - Edmonton Tornado, 1987
Craig from Canadian History Ehx returns to once again rob us of sleep. What's the most damage mother nature could possibly do in one hour? Edmonton,...
Episode 47.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] One Hungry Juror
Not all disasters happen on a global scale. Leigh tells the story of his experience on jury duty, with its highest highs and lowest lows. Criminal f...
Episode 47: Phil Spector
Ever wanted some of your favorite songs ruined by the story of the man behind them? Leigh makes it real hard to separate the man from the art. The R...
Episode 46.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Yellow Fleet
Peter tells the harrowing tale of that time a group of ships got stuck in the Suez Canal... and it's probably not the time you're thinking of. Salty...
Episode 46: Kowloon, City of Darkness
Been a while since you've felt crowded? Nuclear Norm tells the story of a dystopian cyberpunk fever dream that existed in the heart of Hong Kong. Op...
Episode 45.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The WOOZ, Less Than A-MAZE-ing
What better way to unwind after a long day of wandering through a mall than paying to get lost in a labyrinth? Misguided endeavors, maze-like working...
Episode 45: Apollo 13
By 1970, flying to the moon was boooooooring... at least, if you asked the People of Earth. Nothing like a spot of near-death to revive public intere...
Episode 44.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] TIDAL
As a follow-up to his Tragedy Tuesday about the Pono Player, Leigh brings us up to speed on TIDAL, the "audiophile" streaming service. Less disaster,...
[Announcement] End of the First Era
Peter and Leigh announce the end of the first phase of this disaster and our triumphant return in April 2021! A temporary pause in our regular weekly...
Episode 43.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Curious Case of Adolphe Sax and his Saxophone
If the history of the saxophone's invention had a soundtrack, it certainly wouldn't be smooth jazz. An inventor that just wouldn't quit, despite the...
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Episode 43: [Album Autopsy] Garth Brooks in... The Life of Chris Gaines
In this edition of Album Autopsy, Try-All Andy joins us as we are collectively baffled by a supposed radical departure in musical genres. An album no...
Episode 42.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Pono Player
What do you get when you go on a quest for high-fidelity portable audio, but forget to bring the design sensibilities? Neil Young's Toblerone Player....
Episode 42: The Laki Eruption
In the late 18th century, the Netherlands really had it out for Iceland. Maybe it was all the red-hot magma, acid rain, and sulfur-filled air, courte...
Episode 41.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Third Wave Experiment
Why teach a class about 1930s German's descent into fascism when you can just show the whole school how it's done? Not-so-secret salutes, rigorous di...
Episode 41: [Album Autopsy] Lulu
Leaning into "... and the music they make us listen to" from our tagline, Leigh and Peter discuss where universally panned albums went wrong. In this...
Episode 40.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Station Nightclub Fire
In a time after hair metal was king, Great White were still carrying the flame... unfortunately, it was right into a venue filled with highly flammabl...
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Episode 40: [Ruinous Rewind] Plague of Athens
A new feature is born! With our shift to one major disaster a month (in addition to regularly scheduled Tragedy Tuesdays), we'll be trying out new fe...
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. Church burning, stabbing, b...
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 1871. It wasn't even the worst fire in Octob...
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 urine cakes to dogs and cracking eggs into Venus glasses...
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, they turned their talents t...
Episode 37.5: [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! Sorry, you've never heard of them? Ma...
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 about one of the most devastating of Earth's ancien...
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 aisles? Armrests tha...
[Announcement] Contest One Winner!
What? An episode on a Friday?? We come to you to talk Skittles and announce the winner of our first-ever draw!
Our sincerest thanks to...
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 why they might never change their...
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 the early 1980s, Atari was unstoppable.....