The Day's Dumpster Fire

Send us Fan Mail Hey everyone!   Due to Ed's inability to actually figure anything out. This episode is coming to you a bit later than normal.    In this episode, Kara is regaling everyone with stories revolving around people in history who ever tried to "elevate" their lives with gun powder that China invention in year... ... ... something or something.   Anyways, humanity (at leas...

Send us Fan Mail Hey everyone!   In this episode, Ed makes everyone feel better about themselves by talking about the first ever massive oil tanker crash / spill in history. Yes that is correct in that we're talking about the Torrey Canyon oil tanker tanker that was supposed to be the pinnacle of technology for the day. This ship was also expanded to twice its size only to run aground off the...

Send us Fan Mail It turns out that Ed doesn't know how to hit the "upload" button on Sunday when everything is supposed to be published. So it's a day late but not a dollar short.   Deja is back and she's got a banger episode that will be a two parter! In this episode, Deja is going to dive into the writings of Salmon Rushdie who is one of the most controversial writers of...

Send us Fan Mail Hey there!   Guess whose back? Deja's back, Deja's back, Deja's back.... But in this episode no one is talking about a monster... but maybe Salman Rushdie...   Salmon Rushdie wrote a book that landed himself on the wrong side of a huge sect of Islam... and it was exclusively accidental. Rushdie wanted to write a book that took a rather fevered dream / humorous appro...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ed addresses that question you might have about why gas pumps say "unleaded gasoline only." Well, it turns out some people in the 1920s thought that adding lead to gasoline helps your car run smoother and overall better. Even though most people since ancient Romans understood that lead isn't good for the body. In the 1920's all that valid conce...

Send us Fan Mail Hey everyone!   It took a hot minute and a ton of feedback, but Kara and Ed got the long anticipated second part of, "Leaded Gasoline" episode.    In this episode, Ed dives into the absolutely insane story of how one man named, Claire, was able to bring down the crazy stupid leaded gasoline empire.    Be sure to absolutely alienate everyone you know and get them to subsc...

Send us Fan Mail Hey Everyone!   Kara and Ed are back behind the microphones (albeit Ed's pop filter technique still isn't working... you'll hear it when you hear it; meanwhile Kara's $30 budget special is going strong... ) with a new episode revolving around Henry VIII and his puss filled leaky thigh. Kara dives into why being married to Henry VIII is a really bad idea. In fac...

Send us Fan Mail They finally made it! The original episode 20 was a recording nightmare and instead of Ed throwing his laptop out the window, our resident nerds re-recorded a new one. This time the right boxes were checked so it actually recorded.    But yes! Episode 20 in all its glory is out in the wild. In this episode, Kara and Ed break down the famous Salem Witch Trials of 1692. While the re...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Years Eve from everyone at The Day's Dumpster Fire!    In this episode, that has absolutely nothing to do with New Years Eve, Ed finally remembers that he needed to finish off his part 2 of his Hubble Needs Glasses episode from weeks ago. That is exactly what this episode is about. He explores how a tiny defect barely visible to the human eye can cause a 2.4 meter t...

Send us Fan Mail We've all seen the movie 300   which means we're all experts on the battle of Thermopylae... Thermopolis... Thermopylae... or however it's spelled. We all know how 300 Spartans, with amazing muscles and abs, were able to fend off the thousands of men at the hands of the evil God-King Xerxes...  Xerxes... Zercksies... or however it's spelled. It is a story that...

Send us Fan Mail Heyo!   Kara and Ed are back and they are trying a slightly different format... they both will have a segment instead of one person hogging the entire episode. In this episode Kara dives into the craziness of the expedition to find King Tutt's tomb in the 1920s and 1930. The moral of the story: DON'T SHAVE YOUR FACE AFTER IT HAS BEEN BITTEN BY A MOSQUITO! Meanwhile Ed wi...

Send us Fan Mail In what was supposed to be a bonus episode for the hit release of Christopher Nolan's movie, Oppenheimer , Ed and Kara took a deep dive into J. Robert Oppenheimer's life and the various events that brought him up to the infamous Manhattan Project. In this episode, everyone gets to look into what made Oppenheimer such a genius as well as a good leader, but more importantl...

Send us Fan Mail Fat Batman and Asthmatic Robin are out of a life inducing exile after a long bout of Murphy's Law saying, "Hold my beer, and watch this!" Being an adult is hard and "adulting" takes up a lot of time. Now our intrepid hosts are back and Ed is once again nerding out on sciencey things. All the while Kara sits patiently while Ed tries and fails to bring out h...

Send us Fan Mail Hey there! Have you ever wondered what was the meaning of life? Why ducks float and yet small rocks don't and other mysteries??? Well, neither did your hosts. In Part 1 of Custer's Last Stand, Ed and Kara looked at who George Armstrong Custer was and how he rose through the ranks to ultimately get absolutely wrecked on the plains of Southern Montana. In this episode, Ed...

Send us Fan Mail Hey there! Have you ever wondered what the meaning of life is? Why ducks float and yet small rocks don't, and other mysteries??? Well, neither did your hosts. In Part 1 of Custer's Last Stand, Ed and Kara looked at who George Armstrong Custer was and how he rose through the ranks to ultimately get absolutely wrecked on the plains of Southern Montana. In this finale, the...

Send us Fan Mail Hey everyone!   Have you ever seen that famous black and white film footage of that giant hydrogen-filled blimp on fire with the guy in the back ground screaming, "Oh the humanity!" and thought to yourself, how did this happen to the famous Hindenburg blimp?   Well today's episode won't even come close to answering any of that... That will be another episode so...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Fathers' Day everyone!    In this special episode of The Day's Dumpster Fire, Ed and Kara don't mention a single thing about Fathers' Day and instead dive right into the absolutely insane incident known at at the 1919 Boston Molasses Flood.    Ever heard of the the phrase, "Slower than molasses on a January morning" or something of the sort? Wel...

Send us Fan Mail Hey Everyone!   In today's episode Kara is going to paint a picture of King Tutankhamen. This guy was named Pharaoh when he was only 12 years old and was immediately charged with the responsibility of fixing his entire country's religious SNAFU's left over from his dad. He also had to rebuild economies, temples, boats, and the military... A pretty tall order to ask...

Send us Fan Mail 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 gun...

Send us Fan Mail 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 per...

Send us Fan Mail We all know the name, and we've all heard the legends of her beauty and greatness. The only problem? History has completely butchered her biography time and time again. In this episode, Kara dives deep into the life of Cleopatra to dismantle the massive misconceptions surrounding her reign. For centuries, her story has been told and retold by generations of scholars who viewe...

Send us Fan Mail Ed and Kara dive into the electrifying world of nuclear power plants. Love 'em or hate 'em, they are a fact of life, generating reliable electricity for decades... right up until the moment something goes horribly wrong. In this episode, we look at how these masterpieces of human engineering can literally blow up and what happens when thousands of pounds of radioactive f...

Send us Fan Mail Your friendly neighborhood emu-loving history nut, Kara, teleports us back to 1871 to investigate the ultimate historical scapegoat: Mrs. O'Leary's cow. Legend says this rule-breaking bovine knocked over a lantern and sparked one of the worst urban disasters in American history—but did it really? At the time, Chicago was a booming city built almost entirely out of highly...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, your hosts Ed and Kara look at how something so simple and mundane as BREAD could potentially kill you back in the day. Granted, today's bread shouldn't cause much harm, but that wasn't the case for Victorian-Era England! While coal powered the factories, bread powered the workers—and it's wild to see how much the daily loaf was altering the pr...

Send us Fan Mail Hey All! In our very first multi-part episode, Kara dives into the world of everyone's favorite childhood game, The Oregon Trail . So many people from the 1830s through the 1870s thought it would be a good idea to pack up what they could and march out west in hopes of finding gold, land, and even furs... However, what they actually found was impassable terrain, dysentery, sta...