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Ep. 73: The Donner Party, Part 3: The Cannibalism Episode

Spoiler alert: This episode contains entirely too much cannibalism. It's the conclusion of Ian and Liv's three-part series on the Donner Party: a group of migrating pioneers whose journey ends in the worst dinner party. Will ...

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March 26, 2025

Ep. 73: The Donner Party, Part 3: The Cannibalism Episode

Spoiler alert: This episode contains entirely too much cannibalism. It's the conclusion of Ian and Liv's three-part series on the Donner Party: a group of migrating pioneers whose journey ends in the worst dinner party. Will ...

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March 12, 2025

Ep. 72: The Donner Party, Part 2: No Food, No Hope, No Mercy

The Oregon Trail was ruthless. In Part 2, Ian and Liv get back on the Oregon Trail with the Donner Party, who has just embarked on Hastings' Cutoff. The food runs out, the desert is brutal, and the mountains are impassable. T...

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March 5, 2025

Ep. 71: The Donner Party, Part 1: Hiking Into Hell

Avoid people with tuberculosis. In this one, Ian and Liv talk about the infamous Donner Party, a group of pioneers who became stranded on the Oregon Trail, and turned to cannibalism to survive. In part 1, Ian and Liv set the ...

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Feb. 13, 2025

Ep. 70: The Princess Alice Steamboat Disaster

Even in the 1800s, nobody used their turn signals. In this one, Ian and Liv talk about a steamboat that sank in the River Thames after it was struck and split in half by a much larger boat. Of course, there was mayhem, an inv...

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Feb. 6, 2025

Ep. 69: The 1904 Olympic Marathon

The science is in: poison is bad. In this one, Ian and Liv talk about the Olympic marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics, which took place in the fine, fine city of St. Louis, Missouri. The marathon was full of unexpected obsta...

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Feb. 1, 2025

Ep. 68: The Ibrox Stadium Collapse

All sports are soccer now. In this one, Ian and Liv talk about a stadium that collapsed at a professional football match in Scotland in 1902. And by football, of course, we mean "soccer" as it's called in the United States. A...

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Harvey Butthole | March 6, 2024

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Chris | June 7, 2024

Disasters are not funny

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Human | June 16, 2024

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Ben Dova | July 6, 2024

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Oliver Muñoz | July 30, 2024

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College cook | Sept. 20, 2024

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