The Day's Dumpster Fire
In this podcast, Kara and Ed regale history's greatest mess ups. They do not celebrate humanity's successes but its most fantastic failures! This show is not dedicated to those who have accomplished incredible things, but to those who have accomplished incredible things and how they royally screwed things up in the process.
You might ask why they are doing this podcast: it's because you've botched up the best laid plans and you know what? THAT'S OKAY!
Let this show help you navigate the mishaps that you have come across where there is no clear answer available.
So sit back, relax, and listen about people who messed up way more than what you could of possibly imagine.
Episodes
79 episodes
Movie Ratings (Pt. 1): The Rise of the Movie Industry and Its Early Scandals - Episode 78
What does it take to be a great filmmaker? If you ask Jordan Peele, Danny Boyle, or George Lucas, you’ll get completely different answers. But what happens when the art of filmmaking collides head-on with the sledgehammer of censorship?I...
Iran Contra Scandal: America's Botched Arms Deal (Pt. 2) - Episode 77
This is part 2 of a two part series of The Day's Dumpster Fire's Iran Contra Affair. If you are just joining us, it is highly recommended that you listen to part 1 which can be found
Iran Contra Scandal: America's Botched Arms Deal (Pt. 1) - Episode 76
Our President, Donald Trump has joined a long list of presidents in the 20th and 21st centuries who have embroiled America in the Middle East in yet another conflict. We here at The Day's Dumpster ...
France's Ballroom Fire of 1393: Roasting a King Alive - Episode 75
Ever suffer from a brutal case of FOMO? We’ve all been there: you get left off the guest list for the party of the year, or plans fall through at the last second, and you’re left sitting at home drowning in a sea of resentment, wondering why th...
The Dutchman's Curve Disaster: Tennessee's Deadliest Train Wreck - Episode 74
Ever feel like your life is completely off the rails? Like you’re stuck on a runaway train, heading full steam into a dead end, and there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop it?Take a deep breath. Today, Ed is flying solo while Kara...
The Bat Bomb of WWII Pt 2: How the Army Torched a Brand New Base - Episode 73
Ever feel like your biggest, most ambitious ideas are just a little too wild for the world to handle? Like you’re pouring your heart and soul into a project, only to wonder if you’ve completely lost your mind?Take a deep breath and give ...
The Bat Bomb of WWII Pt 1: How the Army Torched a Brand New Base - Episode 72
In today's episode, Ed decided to go down a different kind of dumpster fire. Instead of a large volume of people being killed or injured or thousands of people losing their retirements due to sketchy accounting practices. The Bat Bomb of WWII i...
Enron's Downfall: How a Fortune 500 Company Implodes - Episode 71
In today's episode, Ed takes us down memory lane to one of the biggest business fraud cases of the 20th century. Enron was a company that was the product of two major gas businesses that merged together with a vision to change how t...
Flixborough Chemical Fire: How Making Nylon Incinerated a Factory - Episode 70
Ed is back for another "recent" historical dumpster fire in which a chemical that manufactures a chemical necessary for nylon production explodes in the largest non-WWII explosion in British history. They Nypro Flixborough chemical facility was...
Bangladesh Bank Robbery: How Cyber Attackers Tried to Steal $1 Billion - Episode 69
In today’s episode, Ed is back with a dumpster that can be traced back to the last decade instead of the last century. Kara’s monumental time travel into the
The Great Depression (Pt. 4): America Rebounds as the World Declines - Episode 68
The time has come! We thought we'd never get there, but Kara's PhD scholarly review of the Great Depression comes to its climactic end in this episode. This is quite possibly Kara's most ambitious episode yet and this doesn't even include all t...
The Great Depression (Pt. 3): Roosevelt's New Deal to the Rescue! - Episode 67
Welcome back for Kara's part 3 of her exploration into one of America's most influential dumpster fires in history, the Great Depression. In Par...
The Great Depression (Pt. 2): How Hoover Made it So Much Worse! - Episode 66
In this episode, Kara continues her investigation of the Great Depression. In the Great Depression Part 1, Kara dug into the various factors that caused...
The Great Depression (Pt. 1): The 1929 Crash and the Rise of the Hobo - Episode 65
In this episode, Kara is taking us way back to her favorite time period... when everything went to crap or in other words the Great Depression. She starts off with one of the most tremendous dumpster fires of the 20th century which was the stoc...
Deepwater Horizon (Pt. 2): How to Clean up the World's Worst Oil Disaster
It might be a few days late, but not more than $70 billion short. In part two of the Deepwater Horizon dumpster fire, Ed describes the ecological, economical, and legal fallout from the Deepwater Horizon explosion back on April 20, ...
Deepwater Horizon (Pt. 1): How Oil Demand Destroyed an Oil Rig
After Kara's eight week long marathon of talking about Prohibition (Kara had been researching this four part series since July!). Ed has decided to get off th...
Prohibition (Pt. 4): Rise of Organized Crime... and Its Downfall - Episode 62
We have finally come to the end of Kara's anthology of everything prohibition related. Kara has taken us from the origins of the prohibition movement and its relationship to the suffragette movement, to the colorful bootleggers and wild charact...
Prohibition (Pt. 3): How Prohibition Shaped the Culture of a Generation - Episode 61
Kara is back in the third installment of her ongoing Prohibition series. In this episode Kara paints a picture of how American culture was changed and adapted to the new restrictions of alcohol being band. Many people conformed to the amendment...
Prohibition (Pt. 2): Congress Cracks Down on Alcohol - Episode 60
In this episode, Kara expands on Prohibition and how it started to affect society and all the different ways people tried to skirt around the 18th Amendment. She dives into how the Federal government tried to crack down on the sale and consumpt...
Prohibition (Pt. 1): America's Love/Hate Relationship with Alcohol - Episode 59
In this episode, Kara dives into the beginnings of one of the greatest dumpster fires in American history. What started off as a noble movement to make men better men and to eliminate a societal toxin, turned into a decade of insanity, crime, a...
Disasters of the Dead: How to Explode a Royal Corpse and Blow up an 80-Ton Whale - Episode 58
After a bit of a break, Kara and Ed are back on the mic with a real "banger" of an episode so to speak. Our hosts are trying something different where they both put in their own contributions to the idea of how things go bad even after death.&n...
The Hindenburg Disaster: How to Burn up a Blimp Without a Match! - Episode 57
Ed and Kara are back this week with a beast of an episode for you. It's been a long time coming, but Ed has finally dug into one of the worst air disasters of the 20th century, the Hindenburg fire! The Hindenburg was the largest dir...
1904 Olympics: Cheating, Chasing Dogs, and Doping With Strychnine - Episode 56
In 1904, the city of St. Louis won the bid to house one of the new Olympic games. In this episode, Kara is diving into the wild and whacky events that took place in these games including women racing to win a pound of tea and marathon runners b...
Movie Busts: How Waterworld Became the Most Expensive Disaster in Hollywood History - Episode 55
In this episode, Ed is going back to his childhood from the 90's to talk about one of his favorite movies: Kevin Reynolds' and Kevin Costner's epic fill Waterworld.Waterworld came out in 1995 and was touted as the most ...