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A podcast about disasters and the music they make us listen to.
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![Episode 40: [Ruinous Rewind] Plague of Athens](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog4816472/Episode_Cover_-_Ruinous_Rewind_300x300.jpg){kind=logo}
Oct 28, 2020
Oct 28, 2020
38 min
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 features to take the place of the second major disaster. Don't think of it as losing a disaster, so much as gaining new content. This time: Ruinous Rewind with Peter and Gerri. Can Peter retell the Plague of Athens in 10 minutes? Will Gerri have new insights into a familiar tale since she, like, totally "listens" to the show? Only time, and you listening to this episode will tell!
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Theme song by Blank Sun: https://blanksun.bandcamp.com
![Episode 39.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Norwegian Black Metal](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog4816472/Episode_Cover_-_Tragedy_Tuesday_300x300.jpg){kind=logo}
Oct 20, 2020
Oct 20, 2020
49 min
For a music scene that generated such awesome bands, the Norwegian black metal community sure were a bunch of miscreants. Church burning, stabbing, blast beats, stabbing, the dark circle, and stabbing.
Leigh's song pick:: Kathaarian Life Code by Darkthrone
https://open.spotify.com/track/5gTMAY6YiojUKbOjhO1JeJ
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Oct 14, 2020
Oct 14, 2020
1hr 12 min
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 October of 1871... The second episode in our October of Sorrow features one of the gnarliest fires yet, and maybe even a "darkbar". Human torches, flaming logs, and hell on Earth.
Peter's song pick:: Chronicles of Annihilation by Our Place Of Worship Is Silence
https://opowistl.bandcamp.com/track/chronicles-of-annihilation
Leigh's song pick:: Hell by King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizzard
https://open.spotify.com/track/6XY6yBdqrphxj92fRmeT9C
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Theme song by Blank Sun: https://blanksun.bandcamp.com
Oct 6, 2020
Oct 6, 2020
38 min
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. Oomancy, divination, possession, the 17th-century legal system, and a dark prophecy...
Peter's song pick:: Arcanae Manifestia by Aevangelist
https://open.spotify.com/track/1GzGkAytLKlLgh9g3GleKX?si=g92ywjMBS0-sFGQ2rK05iw
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Sep 30, 2020
Sep 30, 2020
59 min
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 to music, gave up their real names for punk alter egos, and began wreaking havoc on stages across Los Angeles. Cast your mind back to a time when The Germs weren't just responsible for a global pandemic...
Leigh's song pick:: Lexicon Devil by The Germs
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Hl2Vuhhhh8buesoxUk1DW
Peter's song pick:: TV Party by Black Flag
https://open.spotify.com/track/4DA95pyBe6QORPGvTEuMWQ
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Theme song by Blank Sun: https://blanksun.bandcamp.com
Sep 22, 2020
Sep 22, 2020
43 min
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? Maybe sticking to what works is the best way after all. Come take a ride into Jim Shooter's mind as he steered the Marvel ship into some really strange places...
Leigh's song pick:: Tarred and Feathered by Cardiacs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVjSycDJatc&ab_channel=loudlikenature
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Sep 16, 2020
Sep 16, 2020
56 min
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 ancient disasters, with a truly staggering death toll. Earthquakes, seismology, Richter, and toeing the party line...
Leigh's song pick:: Auf Wiedersehen by Cheap Trick
https://open.spotify.com/track/4lGF1MDPkeWbOSROAxXTFS
Peter's song pick:: Tarpit Carnivore by Torche
https://open.spotify.com/track/3kw1aKvgU4HE3dVMHeUmxn
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Theme song by Blank Sun: https://blanksun.bandcamp.com
Sep 8, 2020
Sep 8, 2020
40 min
It usually takes a disaster to change regulations... case in point British Airtours Flight 28M and the Boeing 737. Ultra-narrow aisles? Armrests that don't raise up? Seats in front of the emergency exits? Yup, this all seems fine. An inferno, design flaws, and Terminator is better than Robocop.
Peter's song pick:: Ohms by Deftones
https://open.spotify.com/track/6mfrK1kvsOjiiH64Ier962
Britney Spears - Toxic But It's Change (In the House of Flies) by Deftones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13wwndvI1K4&ab_channel=WilliamMaranci
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![[Announcement] Contest One Winner!](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/4816472/This_Is_A_Disaster_-_3D_Logo_300x300.jpg){kind=logo}
Sep 4, 2020
Sep 4, 2020
4 min
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 everyone that participated, and we'll do more soon.
If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave a review!
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Theme song by Blank Sun: https://blanksun.bandcamp.com
Sep 2, 2020
Sep 2, 2020
57 min
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 mind. Petitions, angry fictitious coal miners, reverse-cherry-picking data, and a whole lot of climate denial.
Norm's song pick:: The American Dream by Walls of Jericho
https://open.spotify.com/track/2H2gDrojHBPjq9sucp94rs
Leigh's song pick:: Greenhouse Effect by Testament
https://open.spotify.com/track/1vTUW5hxptfEp83z1Pl1O2
Peter's song pick:: Baba Yetu by Christopher Tin
https://open.spotify.com/track/5fYwf17qytSuyFEnBpsq5W
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SHIRTS! Pre-order for the next run is open now until October 16th! Visit https://shop.thisdisasterpod.com and backorder your shirt!!
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Theme song by Blank Sun: https://blanksun.bandcamp.com