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.
Episodes
40 episodes
Episode 39. Napoleon Bonaparte's Greatest Blunder Fire Part 2
If you're seeing this episode in your pod catcher and you haven't listened to Episode 38. Napoleon Bonaparte's Greatest Blunder Fire Part 1, be sure to do that before listening ...
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Episode 38. Napoleon Bonaparte's Greatest Blunder Fire Part 1
In this episode, Ed opens the book on one of history's most iconic military leaders, Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon is most famous for his wars that were so uniquely titled that they became known as the "Napoleonic Wars." For most of his reign, i...
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1:35:32
Episode 37. Transatlantic Telegraph Fire
Hey there! Today's episode is going to check all the boxes that go into classifying something as a legit historical dumpster fire. Is there a huge problem? Check. Is there a plan to solve that problem? Check. Does humanity plan out the solution...
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1:49:38
Episode 36. Kink Louis XVI Fire Part 2
Hey everyone! The gang is back this week to conclude the story of one of the most useless monarchs in French history, King Louis XVI. Everyone knows that Louis lost his mind in the end (actually he lost his head and by extension his mind went w...
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Episode 35. King Louis XVI Fire Part 1
Finally the trio are back together again in the bedroom turned into a janky recording studio. With some of the issues of trying to figure out how a mixer works behind Ed, the group can focus on more ambitious projects... like a multipart explor...
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1:33:17
Episode 34. Fad Diets Fire With Special Guest Elara
Hey everyone!After a brief pause in the month of July, Ed finally figured out how to use the fancy new mixer. Many episodes were recorded in July, but Ed messed them all up... who would have thought something intended to improve life an...
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1:57:26
Episode 33. Ferdinand Kerfuffle Fire
Somehow Ed and Deja were able to meet in person and record together in the same room while Kara lives on the opposite end of the Phoenix metropolitan area. However, it took them over an hour and half to figure out how to set up a microphone.&nb...
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Episode 32. Terra Nova Fire Part 2
The time as come to share the rest of the events that befell Robert Falcon Scott and his crew between January and March of 1912. If you have not listened to Episode 31. Terra Nova Fire, you might want to go back take a listen to that episode be...
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Episode 31. Terra Nova Fire Part 1
After a brief hiatus due to Ed always struggling with editing software and a few temper tantrums, the gang is back with an episode like no other. In this episode, Ed dives into the Terra Nova ship / expedition in the 1910s, where t...
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Episode 30. Caligula on Fire
In this episode, Kara comes out swinging with one of the most strangest dudes in all of human history... Roman Emperor Caligula. In four short years, Caligula reshaped the glam-life of the ultra wealthy and put together a rather st...
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Episode 29. An Eye For a Book Fire Part 2
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 hug...
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1:23:48
Episode 28. An Eye For a Book Fire Part 1
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...
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1:37:46
Episode 27. First Oil Spill Disaster Fire
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 tanke...
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1:22:07
Episode 26. Firing Fireworks Fire
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 ...
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1:07:10
Episode 25. Dumb Ways to Music Fire With Special Guest Deja!
Hey Everyone!Kara and Ed decided that they need to spice things up a bit and bring on a guest. So they found a lady by the name of Deja to liven things up. As it turns out, Deja has a bit of a pop culture / music background (as well as ...
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1:58:06
Episode 24. I love The Smell of Lead Part 2
Hey everyone!It took a hot minute and a ton of feedback, but Kara and Ed got the long anticipated second part of, "I Love The Smell of Lead" episode. In this episode, Ed dives into the absolutely insane story of how one man...
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Episode 23. I Love The Smell of Lead Part 1
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 thou...
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Episode 22. Persia's Bottleneck Battle Fire
We've all seen the movie 300 which means we're all experts on the battle of Thermopolaye... Thermopolis... Thermopolae... or however it's spelled. We all know how 300 Spartans, with amazing muscles and abs, were able to fend...
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1:37:04
Episode 21. Hubble Needs Glasses Fire Part 2
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 we...
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1:09:11
Episode 20. Which Witch Was it Fire
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.
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1:38:38
Episode 19. Henry's Wives' Demise Fire
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 aro...
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1:42:35
Episode 18. Hubble Needs Glasses Fire Part 1.
Guess who's back! 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 intre...
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1:23:49
Episode 17. Oppie's Demon Core Bonus Episode Fail Fire
In what was suppose 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 Man...
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1:58:35
Episode 16. Valley of the Dumpster Fires
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 Tu...
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1:39:54
Episode 15. Bottom of the Genetic Barrel: King Tutankhamun Fire
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 ...
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