Imagine you have a lot of money and months of free time, so you decide to climb the highest mountain we've got. That's good for you, but if you die there, you stay there, and recently, there's a line to the top.

In this re-release, we'll discuss the first time, tragic times, and the sherpas who keep the whole thing going. Aren't they the heroes?

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Remember the 1950s? We don't either, and it wasn't like, ideal for women and minorities... but there WAS this idea of a place you could go to get away - think Palm Springs now (if you ignore all the unhoused people, which you should not, someone should do something about Palm Springs).

ANYWAY - here's a re-release of a time when men tried to create a paradise by changing nature, and they absolutely did not.

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Let's go back to our Volcano Series for Natural Disaster Week! Today, we'll tell the story of how Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. We'll cover what type of volcano, the warnings of doom, the cities themselves, how Nero sent help, how they were discovered centuries later, and how climbing Mt. Vesuvius is hella boring.

This was part 2 in our 7 part series that you can find anywhere you listen!

Ep 38: Volcanoes Pt 1 - Mt. Toba's Echo: Journey into Earth's Cataclysmic Past

• A prehistoric eruption so massive it may have nearly wiped out humanity.

Ep 42: Volcanoes Pt 2 - Time Capsule of Tragedy: Exploring Pompeii's Frozen History

• Mount Vesuvius destroys—and preserves—an entire Roman city in one day.

Ep 46: Volcanoes Pt 3 - The Silent Summer: Tambora's Echo in Time

• An eruption in 1815 caused global famine and the “year without a summer.”

Ep 51: Volcanoes Pt 4 - Krakatoa: Exploring the Tectonic Plates Beneath the Cataclysmic Eruption

• One of the loudest sounds in history, an eruption that reshaped the map—and the climate.

Ep 59: Volcanoes Pt 5 - Mud, Fire, and Ash: The Mt. Pelée Eruption

• In 1902, a pyroclastic flow annihilated the city of Saint-Pierre in seconds.

Ep 66 - Volcanoes Part 6 - George Vancouver, this is it!: The Eruption of Mt. St. Helens

• When the mountain blew in 1980, it was one of the most iconic eruptions of the 20th century.

Ep 71 - Volcanoes Part 7 - The End of the World - Yellowstone & Mass Extinctions

• The mother of all volcanoes—and how super-eruptions may have ended worlds before.

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Ep 38: Volcanoes Pt 1 - Mt. Toba's Echo: Journey into Earth's Cataclysmic Past

• A prehistoric eruption so massive it may have nearly wiped out humanity.

Ep 42: Volcanoes Pt 2 - Time Capsule of Tragedy: Exploring Pompeii's Frozen History

• Mount Vesuvius destroys—and preserves—an entire Roman city in one day.

Ep 46: Volcanoes Pt 3 - The Silent Summer: Tambora's Echo in Time

• An eruption in 1815 caused global famine and the “year without a summer.”

Ep 51: Volcanoes Pt 4 - Krakatoa: Exploring the Tectonic Plates Beneath the Cataclysmic Eruption

• One of the loudest sounds in history, an eruption that reshaped the map—and the climate.

Ep 59: Volcanoes Pt 5 - Mud, Fire, and Ash: The Mt. Pelée Eruption

• In 1902, a pyroclastic flow annihilated the city of Saint-Pierre in seconds.

Ep 66 - Volcanoes Part 6 - George Vancouver, this is it!: The Eruption of Mt. St. Helens

• When the mountain blew in 1980, it was one of the most iconic eruptions of the 20th century.

Ep 71 - Volcanoes Part 7 - The End of the World - Yellowstone & Mass Extinctions

• The mother of all volcanoes—and how super-eruptions may have ended worlds before.

Ep 73: Disaster in the Desert: Saga of the Salton Sea

• An accidental inland sea created by engineering mistakes. Still a toxic mess today.

Ep 74 - Get Your 'Blood's Worth': The Great Fire of London

• 1666: a bakery fire reduces London to ashes and reshapes the city.

Ep 77 - Cloudy with a Chance of Terror: Cumulonimbus

• Towering thunderclouds that can shred planes and spark terror.

Ep 78 - Ditka's Inferno: The Great Chicago Fire

• A cow, a lantern, or just bad luck—Chicago burns in 1871.

Ep 86 - Shake it like you mean it - The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

• One of the deadliest quakes in U.S. history levels the city in seconds.

Ep 89 - Fire In the Rubble: The Great San Francisco Fire

• If the quake didn’t get you, the fires afterward did.

Ep 95 - The Highest Graveyard on Earth: Mt. Everest

• The world’s tallest mountain doubles as the world’s highest graveyard.

Ep 99 - Dying in the Deep: The Blue Hole

• A diving paradise turned deadly trap in the Red Sea.

Ep 136 - Cave of Doom: John Jones & Nutty Putty Cave

• A caver gets trapped in a narrow tunnel—rescue efforts turn into tragedy.

Ep 142 - Death Lurking in the Deep - Limnic Eruptions

• Lakes that suddenly explode with CO₂, suffocating entire villages.

Ep 163: Deep Blue Something - Tom & Eileen Lonergan

• A couple left behind at sea after a scuba trip. Their disappearance haunts divers to this day.

Ep 164: Incarcerated & Fire Fighting - California's Conservation Camps

• Incarcerated people fight wildfires for pennies on the dollar.
• BONUS: Real Life Stories - Incarcerated Firefighting with Brett Crawford

Ep 196: Table for 87? - The Donner Party

• Snowbound pioneers resort to cannibalism in one of America’s darkest survival stories.

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We've said it before, and we'll say it again - divorce is an option. It's not great, people will be sad, kids will be traumatized, but it's WORSE to be the child of a murderer and not have a mom.

Today, Farz tells us about how Helle Crafts's husband, Eastern Airlines pilot Richard Crafts, thought that the best way to keep sleeping with floight attendents would be to get rid of his wife, and her body. We won't spoil it here, but it's gross (not goopy though!).

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Episodes:

• Ep 7 - Part 1: Dorian Gray-t Expectations - Oscar Wilde's wild ride
  • Oscar Wilde’s wit, scandal, and downfall - the wild ride of one of literature’s sharpest voices.
    
     
• Ep 23 - Part 1: Our Lady of the Night - Mary Shelley
  • Mary Shelley, teenage author of Frankenstein, inventor of science fiction, and survivor of endless tragedy.
    
     
• Ep 79 - Germany's love affair w/ 1st Nation culture: The story of Karl May
  • The strange case of Karl May - Germany’s most popular writer who inspired a national obsession with the American West.
    
     
• Ep 97 - A Famous British Woman is Missing!!!: It's Agatha Christie this time
  • Agatha Christie disappears for eleven days, sparking a real-life mystery worthy of her novels.
    
     
• Ep 125 - Book Hunting in The Renaissance: Poggio Bracciolini
  • Poggio Bracciolini, the humanist who scoured Europe’s monasteries to rescue lost classical texts.
    
     
• Ep 149 - The Fairytale Man: Hans Christian Andersen
  • Hans Christian Andersen, the oddball genius who gave us The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, and more.
    
     
• Ep 152 - Grammar Nerds for the Ages: The Brothers Grimm
  • The Brothers Grimm weren’t just about fairytale - they were obsessed with cataloging language itself.
    
     
• Ep 153 - Silly Rhymes, Serious Messages: Dr. Seuss
  • Dr. Seuss, beloved for his whimsical rhymes but deeply political at heart.
    
     
• Ep 174: We're men, we're men in tights (Tight tights!) - Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Geoffrey Chaucer, courtier and chronicler, and the bawdy brilliance of The Canterbury Tales.
    
     
• Ep 195: The men who wrote the Dictionary - Professor James Murray & Dr. W. C. Minor
  • Professor James Murray and Dr. W. C. Minor are unlikely partners who built the Oxford English Dictionary.

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It's 1976 - thousands of US Veterans in the American Foreign Legion meet up in Philly for a few days of meetings and camaraderie (and we assume not talking about trauma because it was the 70s).

Staying at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, hundreds of men would get sick when they returned home, and over 30 would be dead in the next few days.

What caused the Legionnaires (and some people who just walked by the hotel) to get sick? Send in the CDC (Rest in Power), shock your hot tub, and throw away your humidifiers for this medical mystery! 

Forensic Files - Season 1, Episode 7 - Legionnaires' Disease - Full Episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5fh4opyUU8

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Ep. 47: Doomed to fail species? The story of the passenger pigeon

• Once the most abundant bird in North America, they darkened the skies in flocks of millions—until humans hunted them into extinction.

Ep 179: A Friend Till The End & Beyond - Hachikō

• The dog who waited at a Tokyo train station every day for his owner, even years after the man had died.

Ep 215: Nowhere to Echo - Whale Entrapment

• When whales become trapped in icy waters, it’s a race between nature and human intervention to save them.

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What would you do if you accidentally threw away a fortune? In this episode, we dig into the story of James Howells — the IT worker who tossed out a hard drive holding thousands of Bitcoins, worth hundreds of millions of dollars today. From the rise of cryptocurrency to the landfill treasure hunt that captured global headlines, we explore how one mistake turned into one of the most expensive “oops” moments in history.

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Ep 2 - Part 2: Nero: The Fiddling Tyrant

• Rome’s most infamous emperor, accused of burning his own city and fiddling while it fell into chaos.

Ep 12 - Part 2: Ancient Sport Rivalries - The Nika Riots

• What started as a sports rivalry in Constantinople exploded into a massacre, leaving thousands dead in the Hippodrome.

Ep 38: Volcanoes Pt 1 - Mt. Toba's Echo: Journey into Earth's Cataclysmic Past

• A volcanic eruption so massive it nearly wiped out humanity. Prehistoric disaster at an unimaginable scale.

Ep 42: Volcanoes Pt 2 - Time Capsule of Tragedy: Exploring Pompeii's Frozen History

• When Vesuvius erupted, it destroyed—and preserved—an entire Roman city in a single day.

Ep 62: Mother of the Antichrist - Nero's mum, Agrippina the Younger

• Nero’s mother, power-hungry and ruthless. Some called her the “Mother of the Antichrist.”

Ep 101 - The Immortal Persian King: Cyrus The Great

• The Persian king who built one of the largest empires in history—and a legacy that still echoes today.

Ep 105 - Examining the Great Thinker: Socrates

• The philosopher who annoyed Athens so much, they put him on trial and made him drink poison.

Ep 114 - The Olympics Pt 1 - Ancient Origins to Parisian Potties

• From naked athletes to chamber-pot disasters in Paris, the Games have always been a little messy.

Ep 122 - Fire & Brimstone: Nostradamus

• The mystic who saw plagues, prophecies, and maybe your TikTok feed centuries in advance.

Ep 207: Hey Ladies!!! - Sappho

• The original rock star poet of ancient Greece. Queer icon, lyrical genius, and survivor through fragments.

Ep 216: Ancient Incendiaries - Greek Fire

• A weapon so terrifying it burned on water. Byzantine napalm that changed naval warfare forever.

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