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Live 10ish Appearance (Knock Knock, Brandon's Dead)

So I accepted an invitation to appear on the 10ish Podcast's 250th Live Episode and thought I would share it with you. The theme of the episode was remembrance of Highlights include my remembrance of Brandon Coffman, one of the original hosts who we sadly lost to cancer a few weeks before the death of my father. In the first ten minutes, you will be able to see me eat an entire hotdog in tribute to Brandon – friend, father, podcaster, hotdog enthusiast. 

EARLY & AD-FREE: The Frank Rockslide Disaster of 1903 | Episode 66

You ever wish you could just take all your worries and bury them away? Well have we got the episode for you…

On this episode: we’ll see what the loudest possible way to wake up is; we’ll learn how rocks can actually work better than scissors; and we’ll learn the three most powerful ways to eradicate evidence of, well, anything.

This is the first episode we’ve done where the site of the catastrophe later became an annual sporting event recreating the event. The Frank Rock...

The Dinner Bell for Hungry Ears – it rings

Hey everybody, just letting you know I'm looking to have the next episode up TODAY. I've just been under the weather for the last week and luckily recorded right before it all started.

I've decided to provide a few teases to lube your ear holes.

First, this episode will take place in Canada; land of my birth and the place I keep all my stuff.

And as for the topic, I’ve always said explosions are like magic erasers for evidence – which is true, but I believe the top 3...

Your Patreon Dollars at Work (PG&E edition)

Who would have thought learning about an intense level of corporate irresponsibility, bloodshed and horror would be so fun. I thank you all for helping make our longest episode ever possible.

Sincerely, if you like this show enough to help assist it financially, I want you to thank yourself. We are all in this together.

Unrelated: the next four episodes are listener requests...

EARLY & AD-FREE: The PG&E Toxic Fire Disasters of 1996-2023 | Episode 65

What I’m about to tell you in this episode will sound like nonsense – shocking, highly flammable nonsense – unless you’re from California

On this episode: we’ll learn all about what it’s like to work at what I’m hoping is the worst utility company anywhere in the Americas, we’ll take a look at some of the most backwards and evil business accounting of all time, and we’ll learn what happens when a sidewalk explodes beneath your feet

There is ...

Thank you all (also, what the hell am I looking at)

You won't know what you're looking at, and that's fine. It's a return to form. It's progress. It's a new episode, being compiled and edited on a laptop that till all-too-soon knew the cool touch of death, but that you all helped fix it.

Cause and effect: no computer means no episodes, and without you, that's exactly where we'd be. If not for you, this new episode might have been weeks away. I'm endeavouring to have it to you the beginning of the week.

I thank you, and you can t...

I have the power of death in my fingers! (sigh)

As a tease, I will be mentioning the 401 in the next episode. If you don't know it, here in Ontario we have the 400 series of highways, and the 401 is the largest of them all. Largest of all highways in general. It is considered the longest, busiest and deadliest highway in the world - sorry LA drivers, but it's true.

You'll remember this time last year a fuel truck driver had a medical issue, skidded across all active lanes of the thing close to where I live and detonated on impact wi...

EARLY AND AD-FREE: The Seveso Disaster of 1976 | Episode 64

We’re going back to Italy! But it’ll be hard to enjoy all the flavours and sites with your eyes and tongue swelling out of your head!

On today’s episode: we’ll learn all about Russia’s almost cartoonish fascination with murder, we’ll learn the best way to get that full-body boil-look, and we’ll learn all the ways your cleaning products can make you not make think so good

The last time we were in Italy we had a Tetraology of Terror, our very first interactive disas...

Welcome New Patr(e)ons!

I want to thank and welcome any and all new faces to the behind-the-scenes of the Doomsday Podcast: History's Most Dangerous Patreon Page!

Last night I put out a Hail Mary pitch to regular listeners with a short 2024 update piece that highlighted a few of the things you only find through the Patreon feed. I'll be working to get this setup for Spotify and Apple listeners, but one thing at a time.

I wanted to encourage them to become supporters for fear that I'm...

EARLY AND AD-FREE: The Great Kansas Grasshoppapocalypse of 1874 | Episode 63

What hops downstairs, alone or in pairs, enough to block out the sun? Nothing good, I promise. I hope you brought your appetite for destruction – because this episode is going to bug you.

On this episode: you’ll learn the horror of insect biomass, we’ll learn that some problems can only be solved with a knife and a fork, and you’ll need them because we are facing our very first extinction level event.

And because you’re listening to this on Patreon, we will also discu...

This is what healing looks like

Oddly, once you hear it you will see how awful and despiriting a time the people in our next episode had it. It will definitely make you feel a little better about your own situation for a bit. As a teaser, our story begins in the Old Testament with the 10 plagues of Egypt, and it just gets weird from there. And on topic, let me know if you're interested in eating a cricket.

Somebody put a bullet in 2023. Bring on 2024.

I can't thank you enough for your support during this time. It wasn't the easiest death, and I was with him every moment of the journey – and it has affected me deeply. I was already in a poor mental headspace with personal concerns, and his passing really just laid it all bare. Buuuut, his passing also changed the way I think about the show.

My dad was like a surrogate father for a lot of people who never knew what it was like to have one of their own. He was supportive to a degree ...

My father, Eugene Choma, 1935-2023

It is with the deepest sadness and thankfulness for the life he shared that I tell you that today I lost my father, Eugene Choma. He fled the Russian Army from his homeland in Ukraine to lead a life of hardship and adventure and profound love in Canada. The story of his life is too hard to capture here and my heart is too broken to try. I love him deeply and will miss him forever. With his encouragement, I will return to the show quickly, but for now I need to be with my mother who is also de...

Coming soon...

Just need a reliable and trust-worthy printer and away we go.

EARLY AND AD-FREE: The Arctic Shipwreck Disaster of 1854 | Episode 62

It’s been a while since we did an episode with such cartoonish levels of bloodshed and awful behaviour. No joke. This is next level inhumane nonsense here, folks.

On today’s episode:  We’ll see what happens to the body after spinning around an ocean-going paddle wheel, we’ll see how much woman and children were worth in a disaster before the 1900s, and you’ll find out how bizarre it feels to be stabbed while presumedly waiting to sexually assault drowning victims.
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EARLY AND AD-FREE: The Kyshtym Nuclear Disaster of 1957 | Episode 61

This episode contains fart jokes about radiation victims. Viewer discretion is advised.

On today’s episode: we’ll watch POWs compete for food in a House Hunters International style format, we’ll visit some of the more irradiated places in eastern Europe, and we’ll learn the difference between a burp and a fart explosion-wise.

And because you listen to this episode as a Patreon member,  we also looked into dead cold war spies, the Instagrammers of the Siberian Maldiv...

Quick note from Halloween

I wanted to do the whole DIY Chewbacca but I would have died of dehydration 20 mins into it. Work being work, what I did end up doing was taping giant google eyes over my own and entertaining children at the door. My version of entertaining is open to scrutiny.

Imagine going to the door and being greeted by a google-eyed goon that can't see a thing, wrongly guesses everything to how many of you there are, what you're wearing, and where you're standing. Then he drops handfuls of candy ...

EARLY AND AD-FREE: The Nigeria Airways Disaster of 1991 | Episode 60

You’ve flown on planes that were late. You’ve flown on planes that experienced turbulence. You’ve even flown on planes with unruly passengers, but I’m willing to be you’ve never flown on a plane that melted.

On today’s episode: we’ll do our best not to end up headless in prison, you’ll learn the most disturbing thing to ever unintentionally fall from an airplane in aeronautic history, and we’ll find out if Canadians are actually evil. ALSO, because you are listening as...

Coming in hot and fast (thank you for your patience)

The newest episode has been delayed as many ways as possible, but it has been recorded and editing has begun! And the Patreon version comes with a few extra tangents

•   why maps suck
•   flat earthers
•   the world-changing power of informercials
•   the Great Oman Cyclone of 1970
•   I'll teach you how to become rich
•   and we touch on about a half dozen other ways people have died surrounding the...

Running a little slow

Hey everybody, I wanted to apologize for the slow release of the next episode. I kind of got distracted, but I will avenge the timeline. Off topic, did anyone actually receive their prison shivs? This message took five minutes to type. Signing off for now. 

Blame Bob (and bless his sweet heart)

Poor Bob got cut pretty bad and needed a little surgery the other night, which if you've spent 8+ hours sitting in a hospital - human or animal - you know it's a real time-suck. I may be a behind on the next episode. BUT you should also know that the next Patreon-only episode will touch on a side disaster or two, effectively making it a multi-disaster episode!

Oh, and Bob is on the mend but the pain killers are making his back legs wobbly.

When we found Bob, he'd spent most of h...

Just a quick note of appreciation

A lot of strange circumstances all had to fall into line to make this possible - same way as I explain disasters as being a strange set of circumstances falling into place at the right time to create something awful - this worked to create something hilarious. PLUS, I got to take a public swing at the Jays, who treat playoff games like they present an anaphylactic shock risk. If this had been a month later, I would have called out the Maple Leafs.  

The little podcast with the big advertisement

I'll explain this all more, but that is a former Vice President of Marketing for Disney Canada who wore a homemade sandwich board and the actual digital billboard about eight stories tall. I worked with Greg as a client for over a decade and now he's hocking my podcast in the city square like a minstrel of old. Actually, if you've never heard of Terry Fox, this is a man who single-handedly changed how Canada views cancer. Greg here has raised hundreds of thousands for the annual Terry Fox Run...

Disney Canada + Doomsday | One Day Only!

This Thursday afternoon, in the heart of Toronto's Yonge/Dundas Square, the President of Disney Canada will be wearing a billboard of the attached image for the podcast, and we'll have one of the giant digital billboards as well. It's a really long story, and I only have about half of it so far, but you'll be the first to know what happens.

Drugs and knives and mail, oh my

That's right, the shivs are in the mail! But I'm not one to gloss on about what a strange statement that was, so instead I will share a tale from my past that includes Canada Post, the police, the wrong kind of drugs and a party gone weird.

At my very first professional job, we did marketing, and after two-and-a-half years the bosses decided to celebrate with an unusual anniversary party. For the occasion, an unusual invitation was required. The joke was supposed to be that you keep th...

EARLY AND AD-FREE: The Empire State Building Disaster of 1945 | Episode 59

By popular demand, we are staying in the Depression Era and doubling down on the disaster. We’ve done blended and mixed disasters before, but welcome to our very first two-fer plane and elevator episode.

On today’s episode: you’ll hear about the highest stakes game of keep-away ever, the worst kind of airline fuel to use as shampoo, and you’ll hear about a woman who broke a table in half with her face before setting a world record for not dying. And speaking of tid bits and tang...

The next upcoming episode (tree ring edition)

Editing is in process, but I can show you this so far. The top row is background tone. The middle row is the voiceover track for the episode. The bottom track is just Patreon content. 

Doomsday Fights Shrinkflation with BIGGER EPISODES

With everything shrinkflationing out of control and the average Joe getting squeezed at every turn, let me do my part by offering my Patreons actual more for their dollar. Doomsday on Patreon gives you new episodes quicker and add-free, but longer! By my math, the next episode of Doomsday will be 20% longer on Patreon than traditional feeds.

On the next episode, Patreons will also hear: 2023-10-06 18:57:33 +0000 UTC View Post