This Is A Disaster
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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 To Hell by Motorhead https://open.spotify.com/track/6fe9zK5wfW
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 Norm's song pick:: Kryptonite Smokes the Red Line by Isotope
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 song pick:: Riders On The Storm (Fredwreck Remix) by Snoop Dogg
[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 what you hear, please subscribe and leave a review!Tell your f
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 just so many reasons to never set foot in the oce
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. Deep sea diving, rapid decompression, human error,
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? Axel Rose, Buckethead, midnight pyrotechnics, and chi
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 competitors at the St. Louis Olympics. Dusty roads, a
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 making. Aliens, misogyny, pop-culture references, a
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 11, and a pesky valve...Leigh's song pick:: Ni