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After Kara's eight week long marathon of talking about Prohibition (Kara had been researching this four part series since July!). Ed has decided to get off the editing couch and put together an episode of his own.

The Deepwater Horizon drill rig was one of the most powerful and highly regarded oil drilling rigs in the 2000's and for good reason. It held safety records for the longest running times of no serious accidents, it held the record for the deepest well ever drilled on the bottom of the ocean, and the Transocean crews that manned it were some of the most experienced the oil industry could supply. The Deepwater Horizon was heralded as "Lucky" because of its perpetual successes!

However, on April 20, 2010, everything changed when the drill rig suddenly exploded at around 10pm at night in a fireball that engulfed the entire rig 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana. This explosion eventually caused the rig to buckle and sink to the bottom of the ocean thus severing an oil pipeline that spewed 210,000 gallons of oil per day into the Gulf of Mexico for over 80 days. This led to the largest oil related disaster in American history.

Worse yet, this disaster cost the lives of 11 crewmen working on the rig and on top of all the environmental issues that ensued, many questions remained as to why those 11 men had to die.

In this episode Ed will explain:

• Why does the world revolve around oil (it's not just for gasoline, there are so many other reasons)
• How to we get it out of the ground, and what happens when there isn't enough land on the planet to support the demand for oil
• A very brief description as to how deep sea oil drilling works
• What was the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible drill rig
• And lastly, what events incited the most horrific oil related disaster in history

In case you want more, check out these other related episodes:

First Oil Spill Disaster - The incident involving the Torrey Canyon oil tanker running aground near England

Byford Dolphin Incident - The incident involving an explosive decompression of 4 saturation divers which killed them instantly in a gruesome manner.

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We have finally come to the end of Kara's anthology of everything prohibition related. Kara has taken us from the origins of the prohibition movement and its relationship to the suffragette movement, to the colorful bootleggers and wild characters who openly broke the law to how the music and literature of the time period was affected by it and now finally organized crime and syndicates that ultimately brought the 18th Amendment to the ground.

In this episode, Kara is going to get into the thick of mob bosses, the complex chain of people killing each with the latest and greatest of the guns of the era and how one woman figured out how to manipulate the law in such a way, she brought down the most famous mob bosses of all time, Al Capone.

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Kara is back in the third installment of her ongoing Prohibition series. In this episode Kara paints a picture of how American culture was changed and adapted to the new restrictions of alcohol being band. Many people conformed to the amendment, but others saw a golden opportunity to make a grip of money as well as "sticking it to the man"

You'll get to see what "speakeasies" were all about, how they worked, and many of the colorful figures who mixed good business sense with super shady dealing that would eventually shape the American culture of the 1920s.

In this episode you'll get an idea of how the speakeasy sparked the Jazz Age, the Harlem Renaissance, gave black men and women a platform to which they could speak their minds and messages which was rising to the surface.

Then there's the ever present "flapper" or young women you balked at the old ways of morality from the Victorian Era of modesty. They developed their own personalities, view of their bodies and how they dressed and presented themselves. Women did not have to wait for the perfect man to find them, in stead they were empowered to do it themselves.

In other words, this episode will shed light on the positive aspects that came out of the Prohibition years. In the next episode, Kara is going to describe the crime, destruction, and brutality associated with this time period in American history. Mob bosses, gangsters, gang wars, and the never ending cat and mouse cycle of the mob and the authorities are coming up next!

You can find Part 1. of the Prohibition series on Apple Podcast here or on Spotify here or anywhere else you get your podcasts

You can find Part 2. of the Prohibition Series on Apple Podcast here or on Spotify here or anywhere else you get your podcasts

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Below is a link to Langston Hughes reading his famous poem "Dream Deferred" mentioned in the episode.

"Dream" Deferred read by Langston Hughes

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In this episode, Kara expands on Prohibition and how it started to affect society and all the different ways people tried to skirt around the 18th Amendment. She dives into how the Federal government tried to crack down on the sale and consumption of alcohol to how people would figure out loopholes and straight up brazen methods of procuring, producing, and transferring alcohol into America.

What was supposed to be movement that entailed women's rights and voting to making a society of men who could be trusted and be reliable, instead the whole amendment backfired horrifically and Kara's only two episodes in! She's got two more in the works involving Prohibition.

If you have not listened to Prohibition Fire Part 1. - Episode 59 be sure to check it out in the feed or wherever you get your podcasts.

Some other episodes that were mentioned that you might find interest:

Donner Party of 90 Fire

I love the Smell of Lead Fire

Britain's Sketchy Bread Recipes Fire

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SPEAKEASY STRUT
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In this episode, Kara dives into the beginnings of one of the greatest dumpster fires in American history. What started off as a noble movement to make men better men and to eliminate a societal toxin, turned into a decade of insanity, crime, and abject poverty for many.

We all know about Prohibition from the textbooks, but did you know that the movement started since before the Civil War? Did you know that the movement started because women didn't think men were bad, but alcohol turned them into something else in most cases?

Kara takes us down the origins of what would become one of the most famous constitutional amendments in modern history. Alcohol is one of the most influential contributors to the development of this nation, but simultaneously, a major detractor.

For more details and Kara's extensive show notes, check out the website. And in this episode, the Great Molasses Flood Episode is mention that is closely tied to this episode.

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After a bit of a break, Kara and Ed are back on the mic with a real "banger" of an episode so to speak. Our hosts are trying something different where they both put in their own contributions to the idea of how things go bad even after death.

Kara's going to start of with King William the Conqueror's rise to fame and subsequent death and the issues that can arise when you don't bury a portly man in a quick enough time. Let's just say it involves a burning village in the middle of a dispute of who owns the land the King is being buried, and how to squeeze a fat dude in a small coffin... it doesn't end the way you think!

Ed's contribution takes us to Florence, Oregon in 1970, where a 40 foot 8,000 dead whale washes ashore for about a week and no one knows how to remove it. So they use 200 lbs of dynamite to blow the thing into the ocean. Once again... it doesn't end the way you would think.

So take a listen and embrace the fact that you're currently doing better than William the Conqueror and a dead whale on a beach (or any of bystanders who watched what happened)

For some other episodes that you might find interesting that kind of tie into this one check these out.

The Valley of the Kings and King Tut

Byford Dolphin Incident

Boston Molasses Flood

For a complete catalog of nearly 60 historical dumpster fires, check out The Day's Dumpster Fire website!

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Ed and Kara are back this week with a beast of an episode for you. It's been a long time coming, but Ed has finally dug into one of the worst air disasters of the 20th century, the Hindenburg fire!

The Hindenburg was the largest dirigible? Blimp? Zeppelin? floaty thingy the world had ever seen. This thing was designed from the ground up to be comfortable, fast, and most importantly SAFE. Even though the thing was filled with highly flammable hydrogen gas, the Germans really did think of everything and we don't mean that in a sarcastic way... they really did think of everything.

So how in the world did the Hindenburg burn to the ground in less than 40 seconds?

The answer is in the episode! So take a listen and discover how one of the greatest technological marvels of the modern era came crashing down in the most dramatic way possible.

This episode has a ton of pictures and diagrams and what not, so be sure to check out The Day's Dumpster Fire website for all the details. You'll also get to see the back catalog of nearly 60 historical dumpster fires as well as a collection of Kara's insanely good artwork.

Be sure to send Kara and Ed an email at thedaysdumpsterfire@gmail.com for show ideas and even corrections. We here at the Day's Dumpster Fire love all feedback as it makes the whole team better so that you can get the best content possible.

In this episode, Kara and Ed talked about the following episodes that you may find interesting. All of which can be found on The Day's Dumpster Fire website!

Episode 14: The Molasses Flood Fire

Episode 26: Firing Fireworks Fire

Episodes 35 and 36: King Louis XVI

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In 1904, the city of St. Louis won the bid to house one of the new Olympic games. In this episode, Kara is diving into the wild and whacky events that took place in these games including women racing to win a pound of tea and marathon runners being denied water and only give alcohol and one dude even being poisoned with strychnine.

The 1904 Olympics was one for the history books before you know it, everything will fly off the rails. So sit back and relax with a sports drink of your choice... like brandy and enjoy the chicanery.

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