The Day's Dumpster Fire

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...

Send us Fan Mail Hey all! Kara has finished part deux of the Oregon Trail Fire. In this episode, we look at all the ways fate, nature, and even internet memes sickened and killed a lot of folks who were just trying to get out west. Join us as we dive into the world of dysentery, cholera, snake bites, and even being overrun by angry buffalo (who apparently inspired the Emus in Australia) as a means...

Send us Fan Mail Hey everyone! After a brief hiatus, Ed and Kara are back with a new episode for the benefit of your ear meat...    In this episode we go back to the 80's computer technology, radiation therapy machines, and Demigorgons were all the rage. While Hawkins Indiana was being destroyed by an interdimensional being with serious "daddy issues," The Atomic Energy Canada Limit...

Send us Fan Mail Hey everyone!   Got a question for you: Have you ever had to compete against someone who you felt was inferior in every aspect only to find out that your opponent not only is smarter, faster, and more capably than you in every aspect of the competition? At what point do you realize that you're in over your head, and at what point have you realized that this competition is not...

Send us Fan Mail Hey all!   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 emu...