Latest Massshootings Podcast Episodes
Bonus: The 9/11 Museum
Disaster Area - May 16, 2023 04:41 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsJennifer recounts her visit to the 9/11 Museum in New York City.
Episode 213: The Amagasaki train derailment
Disaster Area - April 28, 2023 16:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 723 ratingsEvery day we head off to work or school or wherever else we might be headed with the hope we will arrive there safely. But while we might feel like we can depend on ourselves to keep safe, sometimes our lives are in the hands of pilots, drivers, or engineers who are under extraordinary pressu...
Episode 212: The Grenfell Tower fire - part three
Disaster Area - March 15, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsIt was just a little house fire. It should have gone out in no time. In a safer building, it would have. But within an hour and a half of the first call to 999 that night, Grenfell Tower was fully ablaze. Videos: Grenfell: The Fire of London Grenfell: The Worst Tower Block Fire in London ...
Episode 211: The Grenfell Tower fire - part two
Disaster Area - March 08, 2023 17:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 723 ratingsIt was just a little house fire. It should have gone out in no time. In a safer building, it would have. But within an hour and a half of the first call to 999 that night, Grenfell Tower was fully ablaze. Videos: Grenfell: The Fire of London Grenfell: The Worst Tower Block Fire in London ...
Episode 210: The Grenfell Tower fire - part one
Disaster Area - March 01, 2023 17:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 723 ratingsIt was just a little house fire. It should have gone out in no time. In a safer building, it would have. But within an hour and a half of the first call to 999 that night, Grenfell Tower was fully ablaze. Videos: Grenfell: The Fire of London Grenfell: The Worst Tower Block Fire in London ...
Episode 209: The sinking of the SS Princess Sophia
Disaster Area - February 01, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsHave you ever been stranded in your car in the middle of a snowstorm? Now imagine there are 350 other people in the car with you, and you're all stuck in that storm in the middle of an Alaskan canal for nearly two days. People come to rescue you but can't get any closer. And with every passing h...
Episode 208: The 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision
Disaster Area - January 17, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsAh, flying in the 1950s. Fancy clothes, good food, smoking in the airplane, and the chance to see sights you’d never get to see otherwise. Two planes flying over the Grand Canyon on a summer day in 1956 should have passed by perfectly fine, and probably would have on any other day. But tragedy w...
Episode 207: The Humboldt Broncos bus crash
Disaster Area - December 21, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsOn April 6th, 2018, the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team from Saskatchewan, Canada, were on their way to a playoff game in Nipawin. They weren't expecting the semi-tractor trailer headed westbound on Highway 335 - right into their path. Videos: Humboldt: The New Season How the Humboldt...
Episode 206: The Bazar de la Charité fire
Disaster Area - December 01, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsThe start of the summer season in Paris in the 1890s could arguably be the Bazar de la Charité, sort of a rummage sale for the wealthy to benefit the poor. The height of Parisian’s female society passed through its doors each year, and May 4th, 1897, was no different. But the presence of the baz...
Episode 205: The Boston Marathon bombing - Part Two
Disaster Area - November 23, 2022 05:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 723 ratingsOn April 15th, 2013, runners in Boston were approaching the finish line of the city's esteemed marathon at ten minutes to three in the afternoon when a large explosion tore through the crowd. Thirteen seconds later, a second one went off down the street. The manhunt for the men who committed the...
Episode 204: The Boston Marathon bombing - Part One
Disaster Area - November 16, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsOn April 15th, 2013, runners in Boston were approaching the finish line of the city's esteemed marathon at ten minutes to three in the afternoon when a large explosion tore through the crowd. Thirteen seconds later, a second one went off down the street. The manhunt for the men who committed the...
Episode 203: The Nepalese royal massacre
Disaster Area - September 09, 2022 16:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 723 ratingsThe family dinner party was in full swing, despite the host needing to be carried out in a drunken stupor only twenty minutes earlier. But this is no ordinary family. This is the royal palace of Nepal, and the host - Crown Prince Dipendra - is about to return, angry and armed. Videos: Zero Ho...
Episode 202: The San Juanico disaster
Disaster Area - August 24, 2022 04:19 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsThe Mexico City suburb of San Juan Ixhuatepec was the home of poor immigrants, working-class families, dozens of large businesses, and a Pemex oil and gas company site - at least, until November 19th, 1984. Videos: Ciudadano Infraganti Explosiones de San Juanico 1984 Articles and books: Sa...
Episode 201: The 1995 Chicago heat wave
Disaster Area - August 12, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsFor five days in July of 1995, the city of Chicago baked underneath record temperatures, and behind closed doors people suffered for days - the poor, the elderly, the disabled. By the time the heat wave was over, over 750 people were dead. Sources can be found at http://disasterareapodcast.wor...
Episode 200: Trans American Flight 209
Disaster Area - July 19, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsSurely this can't be the 200th episode! It is the 200th episode, and don't call me Shirley. Videos: "Airplane!" "Airplane II: The Sequel" Articles and books: Internet Movie Plane Database - Airplane! Bulls vs. Lakers Box Score: March 7th, 1980 Airplane! script Airplane II ...
Episode 199: Apollo 1
Disaster Area - June 22, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsThere is always bound to be a first - the first person to climb Mount Everest, the first person to run a four-minute mile, the first woman to become president. But there are terrible firsts, and in this episode we discuss the first major tragedy of the American space race. Videos: Apollo 1 Au...
Episode 198: The Christchurch mosque shootings
Disaster Area - May 26, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsA man armed with semi-automatic weapons and a livestreaming camera walks into a place full of people he hates and commits a mass murder. It shouldn't be something we see more than once. But now we have.
Bonus: Disaster Area road trip Part 2: The New Yorkening
Disaster Area - May 10, 2022 03:58 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsIn which Jennifer describes her visits to disaster sites in New York City last week, including the 9/11 Memorial, the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, and the 1920 Wall Street bombing.
Episode 197: Operation Yellow Ribbon
Disaster Area - May 01, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsWe all hope that in a moment of great need, we would do the right thing. When the airspace over the United States closed on September 11th, the small town of Gander, Newfoundland, did just that.
Episode 196: The 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak
Disaster Area - April 21, 2022 05:07 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsIn fifteen minutes one Friday in April of 1967, one tornado slashed through the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn, leaving dozens dead in its wake. But it wasn't the only tornado to strike the area that afternoon.
Episode 195: The San Bernardino massacre
Disaster Area - April 13, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsIt was just supposed to be a typical office training session masked as a Christmas party - the speeches, the boring videos, the slideshows that probably could have been an email. But at 11 AM, everything changed when a person dressed all on black entered the conference room and began shooting. T...
Episode 194: The 1989 San Bernardino train wreck
Disaster Area - April 06, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsFirst, the train ran off the rails. Then, fire rained from the sky. Hell, it seemed, had come to San Bernardino.
Episode 193: TWA Flight 3
Disaster Area - March 02, 2022 17:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 723 ratingsWhen Hollywood legend Carole Lombard boarded TWA Flight 3 on January 16th, 1942, in Las Vegas, she hoped to be home in only a few short hours. She and the twenty-one other people on board only made it thirty-three miles closer to home.
Episode 192: The Erfurt latrine disaster
Disaster Area - February 18, 2022 17:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 723 ratingsWhat do you get when you have sixty noblemen in a cess pit? One of the most disgusting disasters of all time.
A quick announcement!
Disaster Area - February 15, 2022 05:51 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 723 ratingsI just wanted to share some news regarding the podcast for those of you who don't follow the social media accounts or Patreon. Nothing terrible, I promise.
Episode 191: The 2020 Calabasas helicopter crash
Disaster Area - February 11, 2022 17:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 723 ratingsWhen we all first heard basketball legend Kobe Bryant had died, the world was in disbelief. But the how of it all made everything so much more tragic.
Episode 190: The GMAC massacre
Disaster Area - February 04, 2022 17:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 723 ratingsDragging yourself into work on a Monday can always feel grim. But on June 18th, 1990, the employees at the GMAC office in Jacksonville, Florida, had something far more terrifying than boring meetings to look forward to that day.
Episode 189: Hurricane Agnes
Disaster Area - January 28, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsAnd now for Jennifer's hometown disaster - when one small hurricane turned southern New York and Pensylvania into one big muddy lake.
Episode 188: The New London school explosion
Disaster Area - January 07, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsOn March 18th, 1937, the students in the junior-senior high school of New London, TX, sat waiting in eager antipation of the end of the school day, looking forward to a three-day weekend. But the school, and many of the students and teachers inside the building, wouldn't make it to 3:30.
Episode 187: The Trolley Square shooting
Disaster Area - December 31, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 723 ratingsThe Trolley Squre Mall in Salt Lake City was a popular and historical landmark with a quaint and quirky design. On February 12th, 2007, a young man would arrive at the mall to do something no one, not even his family, saw coming.
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