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 24.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Heron Road Bridge Collapse
Episode 24: The Frank Slide (feat. Canadian History Ehx)
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Episode 23.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Hartford Circus Fire
Episode 23: Typhoid Mary
Episode 22.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Jim Sullivan vs The UFO
Episode 22: Great Blizzard of 1888
Episode 21.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Chernobyl's Mental Health Fallout
Episode 21: Chernobyl - Part 2
Episode 20.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Three Mile Island
Episode 20: Chernobyl - Part 1
Episode 19.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Le Mans 1955
Episode 19: [Film Fiasco] The Last Men On Earth
Episode 18.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] GG Allin
Episode 18: Black Christmas
Episode 17.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Centralia Mine Fire
Episode 17: We Are Alone
Episode 16.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Killing Joke: Escaping the Apocalypse
Episode 16: The Halifax Explosion (feat. Canadian History Ehx)
Episode 15.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Smalls Lighthouse
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