Did you know that June 30th is International Asteroid Day? Possibly because of a massive explosion in Siberia on that day in 1908. While Russia was revolting (the first time), the Tungusic people of Eastern Siberia watched as the sky was torn in half by a column of fire. Celestial police, this history of asteroid spotting, meteors on their way to meet us, and a nuclear solution.
Leigh's song pick:: The Last Act of Defiance by Exodus
https://open.spotify.com/track/0T4d6Pn20ar2JB1jI4MVKs
Peter's song pick:: SacrotecH by Substep Infrabass
https://open.spotify.com/track/0CiaYBwLKjjACQ8aoYqdSK
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Episode 43.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Curious Case of Adolphe Sax and his Saxophone
Episode 43: [Album Autopsy] Garth Brooks in... The Life of Chris Gaines
Episode 42.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Pono Player
Episode 42: The Laki Eruption
Episode 41.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Third Wave Experiment
Episode 41: [Album Autopsy] Lulu
Episode 40.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Station Nightclub Fire
Episode 40: [Ruinous Rewind] Plague of Athens
Episode 39.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Norwegian Black Metal
Episode 39: The Peshtigo Firestorm
Episode 38.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Witchcraft Trial of Sarah Good
Episode 38: Darby Crash
Episode 37.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Jim Shooter's New Universe
Episode 37: The Great Tangshan Earthquake
Episode 36.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] British Airtours Flight 28M
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Episode 36: Climate Change, Part 2
Episode 35.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Legendary E.T. Landfill
Episode 35: Climate Change, Part 1
Episode34 .5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Cecil Kelley's Radioactive End
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