Doomsday: History's Most Dangerous Podcast

Hello and welcome to the Doomsday: History’s Most Dangerous Mailbag: Part IV. Together we’ve seen an awful lot of $@!# across time and space and it’s only natural that you would have questions – so here is your chance hear them answered. Maybe learn something a little gross, maybe a little interesting. This is my chance to publicly answer some of the friendly, odd and occasionally gross questions...

Hello and welcome to the Doomsday: History’s Most Dangerous Mailbag: The Threequel. Together we’ve seen an awful lot of $@!# across time and space and it’s only natural that you would have questions – so here is your chance hear them answered. Maybe learn something a little gross, maybe a little interesting. This is my chance to publicly answer some of the friendly, odd and occasionally gross ques...

When I say “sporting disaster” most immediately think of that time your team crapped the bed so hard. Well today, we’re going to make a new memory that’ll make your old memory feel more like a page out of your dream journal.  On this episode: we’ll explore the blood smeared history of NCAA college football; you’ll learn the quickest way off a building; and we’ll discuss what to do if your brain ca...

Hello and welcome to the Doomsday: History’s Most Dangerous Mailbag: The Sequel. That's right - a second episode in the books as promised. Together we’ve seen an awful lot of $@!# across time and space and it’s only natural that you would have questions – so here is your chance hear them answered. Maybe learn something a little gross, maybe a little interesting. This is my chance to publicly answe...

No one loves work functions, but office booze cruises are worse because there’s no sneaking out early. But you’ve probably never been on a work cruise so bad it led to the death of 635,000 people? In this history changing episode: you’ll learn the death-cries of different presidents, we’ll learn how a cannon can have more than one business-end, and we’re going to play the worst game of ship-board...

Hello, and welcome to the very first in an on-going series, Doomsday: History’s Most Dangerous Mailbag! Together we’ve seen an awful lot of $@!# across time and space and it’s only natural that you would have questions – so here is your chance hear them answered. Maybe learn something a little gross, maybe a little interesting. This is my chance to publicly answer some of the friendly, odd and occ...

Florida deputies once pulled over a weaving driver. His excuse was he’d been drinking and then was this squirrel in his shirt that kept biting him. Oh, the things you’ll see on Florida’s roadways. Or won’t… In this very special 1980’s themed first-time-in-Florida episode: we’ll find out how seatbelts help prevent blood stains; we’ll see what happens when you drive underwater; and we’ll have a spec...

In this very special return episode, we’re going to discuss the concept of “what goes up must come down”. They’re never really specific about where or in how many pieces. On today’s episode: we’ll discuss the most blood-thirsty game of roulette ever. You’ll see what happens with 7,500 Dodge Caravans worth of fuel explodes within walking distance. And you’ll learn why you should never put your kids...

We’re returning to the airwaves by heading back to Victorian England in this very special end-of-year Christmas minisode, so bring your hip waders, and your breathing apparatus – there will be feces. On this very special mini catch-up-sode: I’ll explain to you why this year earned a feces-themed minisode. I’ll do it while reminding you why Victorian England sucks so bad. And although you won’t lea...

When you see All-purpose flour at the store, you know it can make everything from breads to cookies to cereals? Well did you also know it can make explosions? On this episode: you’ll discover how bloodthirsty the French are about their favourite food; you’ll see what happens when you ride through a machine Charlie Chaplin style; and you’ll learn what to do if a limb ever became two dimensional. I...

On today’s very special episode, you will hear a tale of love and heroism unlike anything we’ve ever told. But at the same time, you’re going to hear about people riding over waterfalls in rubber balls and barrels and jet-skis. So yeah – it’s an emotional mixed bag of an episode. 

 On this episode: we’ll discuss the blood thirstiest natural wonder in the world – and it’s not the one you’d think;...

If you hate the idea of horses being injured as I do, then let me say right off the bat that there will not be a single horse injured during this episode. I promise they are pretty much the only things NOT getting hurt in this episode. Welcome to the Happy Valley Race Course. The unhappiest Happy Valley in the world. 

 On this episode: we’ll discuss Britain’s atrocious people skills; you’ll hear...

On today’s episode, we’re going to play the biggest game of the floor is lava in California history. But there won’t actually be a volcano in this story. That would make so much more sense. 

 On this episode: we’ll discuss the difference between evacuating your home and evacuating your body; we’ll find out why you don’t mix crude oil with electricity; and we’ll discover a weather phenomenon stran...

Depending where you live or grew up, there’s probably some dark moment of local historical injustice you’re not overly proud of. On this special bonus not-so-minisode, we’re going to check out mine! On today’s special extra not-so-minisode: you will finally learn why you hate clowns so much, you’ll find out why early Toronto had so many teeth on the ground, and we’ll discuss fighting techniques in...

If you think going to the bank can be a hassle, and always wondered what’s the difference between flammable and inflammable, have we got a story for you. 
 On this episode: you’ll hear about the worst bank deposit in aviation history; you’ll learn why you should never parachute without practice; and you’ll learn the medical effects of reverse-telescoping your legs into your abdomen. When I say we’...

A lot of people have fears about flying: turbulence, engine failure, the sheer this-is-too-heavy-to-stay-in-the-air of it all, but we’re going to tell you a story about a whole new way to die in the air you didn’t even know about. 
 On this episode: you’ll hear about people being reduced to burning tatters; you’ll learn why your $200 IPod Shuffle is more dangerous than lightning; and we’ll even ma...

We always say the only upside of a disaster is the legacy of safety from the lessons learned – but not today. I don’t want to spoil the surprise here, but I think you’ll find today’s story, most riveting 
 On this episode: there will be your typical mutilations, manglings and scissorings; you can try to imagine being repeatedly cut in half but in three dimensions; and we’ll play a game of Would Yo...

You know the story about the guy who started with a paperclip and traded up to a Porsche? This episodes like that, but replace paperclip and Porsche with cancer, and here we go. On this episode: not a lot of heist stories turn into full-on nightmares, so this is our first sort of cross-over crime/disaster episode. We’re going to talk about non-sexual swelling and burning, we’re going to see a punc...

Today, we’re going to make you afraid of water, and invertebrates, and working. We’ve covered a lot of Bad Day at Work episodes, but this is by far the worst one we’ve ever done, and we don’t mean just by blood volume. We mean by pure existential horror. Enjoy! 
 On this episode: we’re going to explore a job so difficult, there are less than 400 people on the planet who can do it, you’re going to...

No matter what the scariest thing you’ve ever seen on Halloween, it was a baby food sampling party compared to what we’re about to talk about. On this episode: you’re going to hear about people crushed under concrete two feet thick; a particularly instructional kind of trauma; and the generous help of volunteers trying to straighten out twisted limbs to make people appear more comfortable. 

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If you’ve ever watched someone using drugs while going to the bathroom on a train, you’ve seen some pretty egregious stuff, but I can promise you’ve never seen anything like this before. It’s the Malbone Street Disaster of 1918 On this episode: you’re going to hear about people performing acrobatics through a cacophony of sharpness. And debatably, it only gets worse from there. And it all takes pl...

Do you like mountain roads, claustrophobia, and not breathing well? Well, have we got a road trip for you. We’re visiting Afghanistan, but we’re not visiting it for the breathtaking beauty - we’re visiting for the unrelenting brutality. On this episode: you’re going to hear about just about every bad thing that can happen behind the wheel; you’re not going to hear a lot of impact injuries; and the...

Today we’re going to cover a ghost story, which is cool, but most of the ghosts are women and children, so actually I actually would have been more comfortable starting with a child labour joke. On this episode: you’re going to hear a lot about bosses and employees and employee rights and work-life balance, and in our history of bad day at work episodes, this one is special. That said, you’re goin...

You’re about to hear a story about the most unique and deadly natural disasters to ever hit the US that no one was allowed to talk about. An amazing story that started out as a draft. On this episode: this is the first story we’ve done where the resulting damage can be compared to laser damage from space; so you know you’re going to hear about a lot of people Hereditaried and bisected; and a whole...

Elephants make a trumpeting sound to indicate excitement, aggression or distress, and it’s loud enough to hear up to six miles away. You know where you don’t want to hear it? Six feet away. On this episode: we’re going to explore several new ways to die, most of them bloodless; you’re going to find out how to out-smart one of the smartest creatures on the planet; and this will be the second time y...