Yes, real life has once again delayed the podcast! First it was the job situation. Like many people out there, my job is somewhat in jeopardy, so being able to have the energy to do something as fun as I consider the podcast was just not happening. It’s hard to focus on something you consider […]
Category Archives: Blogposts
May
15
2020
The 1918 Spanish Flu
In this, my first podcast in 10 months, I talk about an illness that gripped the world over 100 years ago, the 1918 Spanish Flu. From the origins of the epidemic to the four waves that spread across the globe, this remains one of the most deadly epidemics in human history. I touch on quite […]
Dec
20
2019
Sudden Silence, Explained
So I’d done really well with updating the podcast starting at the end of 2018, and made it a monthly thing. Not as often as I wanted, but still managed to get some good podcasts out. I even got a really good interview podcast done with Professor Daniel Aldrich about the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. […]
May
05
2019
Never Underestimate The Level of Stupidity of People In Large Groups
As of this writing, there’s been another plane crash in Russia. This time it’s a Sukoi SuperJet that’s crashed in Moscow. The plane landed with half of it on fire, and somehow the pilots were able to calmly bring the plane to a stop on a runway, where people started to evacuate. That anyone got […]
Apr
30
2019
A New Thought on Air Safety?
So the majority of the airline crashes that I’ve covered here have been based in the United States, though yes, there have been others like Tenerife, that happened overseas. In the US, airline crashes – as long as they are not the result of criminal issues like a hijacking or the like – are treated […]
Mar
11
2019
The 737-MAX8 – Exactly What Is Going On?
So what’s going on with Boeing’s replacement for the next generation of 737? One crash of a brand new airplane is an anomaly. But two? Isn’t that a bit more than a coincidence? First came the Lion Air Flight 610 crash in October 2018 that happened within 20 minutes of takeoff. And this weekend brought […]
Apr
30
2018
An Observation Regarding the Southwest Engine Explosion Flight
I’ll preface this by saying it is the inner-geek/NTSB agent in me that realized this, as it’s a bit morbid. If you haven’t heard, there was a recent Southwest Airlines flight, #1380 that operated from New York, Laguardia to Dallas Love Field on April 17th of this year. However, soon after takeoff, the left engine […]
Feb
07
2017
A Rundown of the Airport Films
If you’re into catastrophes and disasters like me, knowing about them, figuring out what happened and such, then you may also like disaster films. And there was absolutely no better decade for disaster and catastrophe films than the 1970s. From The Hindenburg to Earthquake, the 70s hold the crown, at least in my mind, for […]
Nov
29
2016
And update on a podcast
So I normally get an email from Google when bigger stories use either “Disaster” or “Catastrophe”, and today’s took me down a rabbit hole of a past podcast. It’s the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919, and believe it or not, there’s a new article from Smithsonian about the incident. If you’re interested, you can click […]
Mar
17
2016
An FYI on the Podcast Feed
Just as an FYI, it looks like the provider we used for hosting our podcast has gone belly-up! They haven’t been reachable in days now, so I’ve had to abandon them and go to another provider. I’ve imported all the episodes into LibSyn.com and changed the feed in iTunes, but you shouldn’t have to do […]
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