We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about Frank Slide. In the middle of the night in 1903, part of the town of Frank was buried under a rock slide in 100 seconds.

Ep 121 Mini Failure 35 New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel

13 days ago 13m 21s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about the partial collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans. During construction, the northern section of the building col

Ep 120 Mini Failure 34 Juliana Bridge Crane Collapse

20 days ago 12m 38s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about the Juliana Bridge crane collapse in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands. A poorly planned lift that had little to no consid

Ep 119 Mini Failure 33 Sudbury Effect

27 days ago 14m 11s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about the Sudbury Effect. Undoing a century of damage, little by little and what went from green and lush, to black and barren,

Ep 118 Mini Failure 32 PFOA/C8 Contamination

Apr 28th, 2024 14m 3s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about PFOA/C8 Contamination (Dupont Scandal). PFOA has been poisoning living creatures in the Ohio river basin for decades. One

Ep 117 Mini Failure 31 Asbestos

Apr 21st, 2024 16m 11s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about asbestos. Deadly little fibers that are in seemingly everything and can lay dormant for decades before wreaking havoc.Or

Ep 116 Mini Failure 30 Bhopal Gas Leak

Apr 14th, 2024 14m 30s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about the Bhopal Gas Leak disaster in India. Due to malfunctioning safety systems and a lack of safety culture, many people wer

Ep 115 Mini Failure 29 Minamata

Apr 7th, 2024 10m 23s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about Minamata Disease. How one small Japanese town suffered from decades of mercury poisoning.Original Air Date: October 30,

Ep 114 Mini Failure April Fools Bonus - Airplane!

Mar 31st, 2024 17m 58s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.Based on the movie Airplane!, this week’s mini failure is a bonus episode about the harrowing events of Trans American Flight 209. Trans American Flight 2

Ep 113 Mini Failure 28 Love Canal

Mar 24th, 2024 13m 17s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about the Love Canal. After a decade of dumping toxic waste, the location was a bad spot to put a school. Even the chemical com

Ep 112 Mini Failure 27 Exxon Valdez

Mar 17th, 2024 17m 59s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about the Exxon Valdez. The second worst oil spill in US waters that took decades to clean up.Original Air Date: October 2, 20

Ep 111 Mini Failure 26 SS Sultana

Mar 10th, 2024 19m 9s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about the SS Sultana. A steamship that exploded and sank on the Mississippi River in 1865, claiming the title of the worst US m

Ep 110 Mini Failure 25 Gretna Rail Disaster

Mar 3rd, 2024 22m 22s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about the Gretna Rail Disaster. Too many trains, some of them knowingly unsafe, water cooler chatter about the war, and an unof

Ep 109 Mini Failure 24 Texas Padre Ocean Tower

Feb 25th, 2024 17m 34s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about the Ocean Tower. It was a 31 storey luxury condo tower that was demolished in 2009 after finding significant structural c

Ep 108 Mini Failure 23 Ronan Point

Feb 18th, 2024 20m 54s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about Ronan Point. A bad fitting and a lit match led to the collapse of the SE corner of this tower block in east London, UK.O

Ep 107 Mini Failure 22 Johnstown Flood

Feb 11th, 2024 24m 58s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about the Johnstown Flood AKA that Great Flood of 1889. After heavy rainfall, the poorly maintained South Fork Dam failed, grea

Ep 106 Mini Failure 21 Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire

Feb 4th, 2024 20m 48s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about the Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire. A completely preventable fire that took the lives of hundreds and changed the shape of

Ep 105 Mini Failure 20 Dreamworld’s Thunder River Rapids Ride

Jan 28th, 2024 16m 41s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about Dreamworld’s Thunder River Rapids Ride in Australia. A failing pump caused a fatal accident on what was supposed to be a

Ep 104 Mini Failure 19 DOT-105 Rail Car Chlorine Release

Jan 21st, 2024 14m 58s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about the DOT-105 Rail Car Chlorine Gas Leak. An old rail car and ineffective maintenance procedures led to the release of 81,0

Ep 103 Mini Failure 18 Millenium Tower

Jan 14th, 2024 23m 44s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about the Millenium Tower in San Francisco, which has been sinking and leaning since it was completed in 2009.Original Air Dat

Ep 102 Mini Failure 17 Minnesota Metrodome

Jan 7th, 2024 16m 28s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about the Minnesota Metrodome. A combination of a pressurized structure and a fabric roof requires a lot of maintenance to keep

Ep 101 Re-release Apollo 1

Dec 31st, 2023 39m 50s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about Apollo 1. What was meant to be a non-hazardous test for the first crewed mission to the Moon, turned out to be a devastat

Ep 100 Re-release Kursk Submarine

Dec 24th, 2023 41m 8s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about the Kursk Submarine (4:30); a Russian Submarine that sank during a naval training exercise (13:40). The recovery of the s

Ep 99 Mini Failure 16 Seattle Kingdome

Dec 17th, 2023 13m 45s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about the Seattle Kingdome. A venue that had design issues from the start; poor design, leaks, and some really bad baseball and

Ep 98 Mini Failure 15 London Beer Flood

Dec 10th, 2023 12m 51s

We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.This week’s Mini Failure is about the London Beer Flood. A giant wall of beer smashed the brewery wall and sent a huge wave of beer down London streets.Or