History's Greatest Dumpster Fires

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Your friendly neighborhood emu loving history nut, Kara, teleports us back to Mrs. O'Leary's cow that supposedly knocked over a gas lamp and caused one of the worst BBQ disasters in American history. In 1871 Chicago was like any other booming American city, replete with enough combustible materials and a grossly deficient fire brigade, that one has to wonder how Chicago made it this far without burning down prior. Kara will explore why Mrs. O'Leary was blamed for the disaster; what happened prior to that fateful day; how the city actually burned; how the rich faired better than the poor (just like any other disaster); and how the city rebuilt itself from the ashes. Yet no one thought to rename the city Phoenix...

Warning: a lot of super creepy 1870's children's dolls were destroyed in the fire and to be honest I'm ok with that 

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In this episode Ed and Kara dive into the electrifying world of nuclear powerplants. Love'em or hate'em, nuclear powerplants are a fact of life and they generate reliable electricity for decades... until something goes wrong. This episode will look at how these masterpieces of human engineering can literally blow up and what happens to the environment and the people living nearby when thousands of pounds of radio active fallout blankets everything. Dumpster fires don't get much more dramatic than nuclear powerplants failing. 

What self respecting podcast about nuclear powerplants would be complete if we don't cover Chernobyl, but we'll also look at Three Mile Island and Fukushima.

Caution: your hosts are not responsible if you feel like you have radiation poisoning after listening to this episode. False symptoms could include:

• Upset stomach
• Nausea 
• Skin irritation
• Loss of hair
• Strange growths (including extra digits or limbs)
• Bone marrow 
• Necrotizing tissue
• Sensitivity to light
• Digits or limbs (even the extra ones) randomly falling off
• Hemorrhaging from nose, mouth, ears, eyes, and rectum
• Random bouts of unrecoverable death
• Government cover ups
• And the worst symptom yet... excess taxes 

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Exciting times await Kara and Ed as they finally introduce the pilot episode for The Day's Dumpster Fire, where we don't celebrate humanity's successes, but it's most fantastic failures.
 
In this pilot episode, the duo explains what the show is about and more importantly what to expect. They have plans ranging from using machine guns to wipe out emus in Australia that fails catastrophically to why Winston Churchill thought that sending in a massive naval fleet into a narrow channel of water filled with underwater mines and surrounded by massive amounts of artillery on the land was a good idea. 

The goal for this podcast is to sit back, relax, and bask in the glory that you too have made the best laid plans and they've blown up in your face, but at least they weren't as bad as what this show conveys!

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We all know the name, we all heard the stories and the legends, the beauty, and the greatness of Cleopatra. Only problem is that history has confused this leader and failed her biography  time and time again. In this episode, Kara looks into the life of Cleopatra and the misconceptions surrounding key moments in her life. Ultimately, Cleopatra's life has been told and retold by generations of scholars who tend to see things with all the educational acumen of the "Y" chromosome. 

The story of Cleopatra has been a dumpster fire for centuries and hopefully Kara can help extinguish this inferno once and for all.

Note: no one carrying a "Y" chromosome was injured during the making of this episode. 

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In this second episode, Ed explores one of the most disastrous military campaigns in modern history. A young Winston Churchill and First Lord of the Navy, comes up with a brilliant, unflappable plan to use the mighty British Navy in the early days of WW I to take over the Dardanelles Strait and knock out the Turkish army in one fowl swoop. This plan of attack was ambitious and perfectly thought out, until 10 minutes after the battle starts, Churchill ends up sinking a majority of his ships and stranding tens of thousands of men in a desolate wasteland for months... ultimately costing Churchill his government career. 

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In this episode, our very own Emu expert, Kara, takes us back in time to the Australian wilderness where farms and homesteads were being overrun and destroyed by insurgent Emus who were really just looking for a bite to eat. Buckle up as Kara tells the harrowing tale  of the Australian government declaring war on thousands of Emus and heroic acts of a few soldiers with machine guns in the early 1930s.

Let's just say, Emus have a lot of grit and gave these soldiers a run for their money! 

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