Episodes

This is a formal request for all Disaster Hour listeners: Please wash your hands after defecation, urination, and all other bathroom activities. In this one, Ian and Liv talk about the case of Mary Mallon, aka Typhoid Mary, w...

In this one, Ian and Liv start the new year off with another 1800s steamboat disaster. Unstable boilers, faulty repairs, ignoring safety regulations, explosions, all on the good ol' Mississippi! This one has it all. Southboun...

Remember that time the world stopped in its tracks to watch coverage of the missing OceanGate submersible? In this one, Ian and Liv are joined by two of Ian's closest friends: first time guest host Katie, and returning guest ...

In this one, Liv and Ian talk about a circus fire that resulted in the death of over 100 people, and injured hundreds more. And that doesn't even begin to broach the subject of arson and intrigue surrounding the fire's victim...

Part 2 of Life's a Circus features not only the story of Topsy the Elephant, but Liv's oldest sister and Ian's first first cousin Tricia! (First first, as in the first 1st cousin Ian ever had.) In this one, the crew talks abo...

In this one, Ian and Liv talk about a train wreck in 1918 that tragically killed 86 members of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. To no surprise, this entire disaster could have been easily avoided. Also, Liv remembers being awake...

In this one, the disaster is a human stampede that takes place in Russia in 1896 at the coronation celebration for Nicholas II. Did you know you can be smothered in crowed while still standing? Also, Liv has romantic feelings...

Happy Halloween! For this holiday special, Ian covers a series of UFO abduction stories, and Liv inserts logic into each situation. Also, if you stick around for the full episode, you'll find out what happens when Liv and Ian...

In this one, Liv and Ian are joined by Dylan (aka Ian's best friend) while they talk about the tragedy of Port Royal in 1692. A Jamaican island is decimated by not only an earthquake, but also by the following tsunami. Ian al...

In this one, Ian and Liv talk about a disaster in which public transportation in Shenyang, China, electrocuted passengers to death. Also, Liv's guessing game is stellar. Ian unlocks a new achievement in soup.

In this one, Ian and Liv discuss an incident where over 50 exotic animals escaped their enclosures at a private residence, and were roaming free in the rural town of Zanesville, Ohio, in 2011. Among these animals were lions, ...

In this one, Ian and Liv talk about an oil rig that drills into a salt mine beneath a lake, which then causes the lake to drain into the salt mine, dissolving the mine, which creates a giant vortex of water that massacres the...

In this one, Liv's sister/Ian's cousin Alexa joins the podcast to talk about the time a beached whale was found dead in Oregon in 1970, and state workers tried using a thousand pounds of dynamite to blow up the whale's rottin...

In this one, Ian and Liv discuss the myriad of ways a person can be killed by alcohol. More specifically, how a burning river of whiskey devastated the streets of Dublin in 1875. Fun fact: if you drink alcohol of a certain pr...

Are you someone who enjoys amusement parks, but are bummed out by modern rules against violence and public intoxication that the parks enforce? Then boy, if you were alive during the 80s, Action Park would've been the place f...

In this one, Ian and Liv talk about a bridge that collapsed in Dixon, Illinois, in 1873. Filled with people at the time of its demise, the Dixon Bridge collapse was responsible for the death and injuries of many citizens of D...

War. Polio. Heat waves. What could make this worse? Sharks. In this one, Ian and Liv talk about a series of shark attacks that occurred on the beaches of New Jersey during the summer of 1916. How many sharks were involved? Ho...

In this one, Ian, Liv, and special guest star Joe (Liv's dad and Ian's favorite uncle) joins them in talking about this one of the worst maritime disasters in history. In the summer of 1945, with the end of World War II just ...

Ian and Liv take a few minutes to plan out their next five episodes! Liv picks episodes from a bowl at random. Also, did you know Disaster Hour has a listener in Malaysia? If that's you, you're awesome. High five (we mean it)...

Pro tip: if you find a glowing substance in a lead canister, don't distribute the substance to your friends and family. In this one, Ian and Liv talk about a radiation exposure in Brazil, in 1987. So many questions, and so ma...

What's one of the most important aspects of flying an airplane? Not flying your plane into another plane. In this one, Ian and Liv talk about the Tenerife Airport Disaster in 1977, where two passenger planes, Pan Am 1736 and ...

Nature is always coming up with clever ways to rid the Earth of humans. In this one, Ian and Liv talk about a lethal cloud of carbon dioxide that is released from a lake in Africa, which smothers and kills almost everyone wit...

It's a Special Holiday Episode! For episode ten, Ian and Liv celebrate the Fourth of July by talking about a NINE different fireworks disasters! Each of these stories involve fireworks, most involve alcohol, and all of these ...

Disaster strikes in Cleveland again! In this one, Ian and Liv talk about a marketing event by the Cleveland Indians in 1974, where beers were sold for 10 cents a piece at a Tuesday night Indians game. Much to nobody's surpris...