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The Day's Dumpster Fire

A small little podcast where your hosts, Kara and Ed, look at historical and not so historical cases where we don't celebrate humanity's success but its most fantastic failures. There are always lessons to be learned in failure and humanity has run amuck with fool proof plans that immediately go sideways and fall apart shortly after executing those plans. Join us as we scour the "human-verse" in search for the most poignant, and often hilarious, failures and try to pull out what can be learned from these failures.

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The Day's Dumpster Fire

Episode 23. I Love The Smell of Lead Part 1

January 28, 2024 • Ed and Kara

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In this episode, Ed address 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 the ancient Romans understood that lead isn't good for the body. In the 1920's all that valid concern went right out the window and accumulated all that lead in the brains of millions (if not BILLIONS) of people.

Follow along where Ed and Kara address a dumpster fire so blatantly obvious both on paper and in execution, that we have to wonder why putting lead in gasoline was even considered a good idea.

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