September 25, 2024 • 20 mins
Together we’ve seen an awful lot of $@!# across time and space and it’s only natural that you would have questions – so here is your chance hear them answered. Maybe learn something a little gross, maybe a little interesting.
This is my chance to publicly answer some of the friendly, odd and occasionally gross questions that feed in through our various social media channels.
On this episode: I’m going to look at franchising disaster into child-friendly fare; I’ll make a very child-unfriendly choice between two equally terrible ways to die; and I’m going to make a very stomach-unfriendly choice between two equally terrible things to eat.
No spoilers, but after much deliberation, a coin tells me I’d prefer to die by wood chipper than be killed by an elephant. I also review our entire history of episodes to figure out which would be the most entertaining for children and Times Square tourists. And in the end, I eat onions. Multiple onions. Like apples.
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This is my chance to publicly answer some of the friendly, odd and occasionally gross questions that feed in through our various social media channels.
On this episode: I’m going to look at franchising disaster into child-friendly fare; I’ll make a very child-unfriendly choice between two equally terrible ways to die; and I’m going to make a very stomach-unfriendly choice between two equally terrible things to eat.
No spoilers, but after much deliberation, a coin tells me I’d prefer to die by wood chipper than be killed by an elephant. I also review our entire history of episodes to figure out which would be the most entertaining for children and Times Square tourists. And in the end, I eat onions. Multiple onions. Like apples.
If you’re looking to have me eat fire or you’re just curious to hear my take on things rattling around upstairs, feel free to holler. You can reach out on twitter, instagram and facebook as DoomsdayPodcast
Or fire us an email to doomsdaypod@gmail.com
And once again I want to shout out all those listeners who’ve contributed to the show, whether through your messages and questions, with your donations, or by telling other people about the show.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hello, and welcome to Doomsday Histories Most Dangerous mail Bag MINISOD. Yes,
we're returning to the minisodes because you got questions and
I've got answers. Hello, dear listeners. Together, we've seen an
awful lotic together across time and space, and it's only
natural that you would have questions. So this is my
(00:30):
chance to publicly answer some of the friendly, odd, and
occasionally gross questions that feed in through our various social
media channels. On today's episode, I'm going to look at
franchising disaster into child friendly birthday fair. I'll make a
very child unfriendly choice between two equally terrible ways to die,
and I'm gonna make a very stummach unfriendly choice between
(00:53):
two equally terrible things to eat. In today's mail Bag,
air or re Meyer from Los Angeles, California asked which
disaster would make the worst or best theme for a
children's birthday party? Or is this a two parter a
Broadway musical? Good question, Aaron, but he also wants to
(01:13):
know why. Okay, I've got a few ways of answering this,
so let's get into it. My very first thought when
I read this question was Titanic Obviously, it makes sense.
They've got the slide, and it happened so long ago
that people aren't going to get all that upset to
see a Titanic themed birthday party, especially not in an
age where it was mostly rich people who died. Except
(01:33):
it wasn't mostly rich people who died, was it. That's
kind of a thing about Titanic that I'm only just
thinking of. Now, hold on one second. Yeah, I know
people are really fond of saying, wow, it was the
poor people who died from third class because they were
considered disposable garbage by the crew. And yes, the first
class passengers certainly did pay through the nose to be
(01:55):
on this thing, But the average wage back in nineteen
ten was between two and four hundred dollars a year.
People made like twenty cents an hour someone in nineteen ten,
when people were basically paid in potatoes, I'm guessing, and
credit wasn't a thing. I can't imagine how destitute poor
people were affording the equivalent of one thousand dollars to
(02:18):
get onto this boat. I've read all the books, and
you've probably seen the movie, but they did go over
and above describing these people like they were all diseased
orphans or something. But these are the richest of the
This is upper middle poor class. I don't know what
they would have been, but they certainly did not deserve
what happened to them. And they paid a lot of money,
(02:39):
more than double a yearly salary for an average worker
to be on this thing. Most of the reason that
I even think of Titanic right off the bat is them.
The Titanic slide ride. Picture a giant carnival sized inflatable
anthe like this is fifty one feet long, it's the
back of the ship thirty three feet tall, and it's
angling downwards. So you climb to the top of the
(03:01):
back of the ship and then you slide back down
into the water, avoiding any of the obstacles that people
plarn their heads off on the way. Like in the
movie when the ship went up a full ninety degrees,
this one's closer like thirty to forty degrees. Whatever it is,
we collectively as society have just sort of decided that
we are absolutely cool making an amusement out of this disaster.
(03:23):
I'm just sitting here and I just did the math
real quick, and it occurred to me that in the
time between then and now for us to become this shady.
If we continued at the same pace, by the year
twenty one oh three, children at birthday parties would line
up to jump out of one of two twin towers
into a net below, surrounded by firemen, because why wouldn't we?
Why not everything's fair game. If nobody cares about anything,
(03:46):
then nothing is worth caring about. As a bit of
a tangent, at the Titanic Museum, they have this simulator
where you can steer the boat, and there was a
video going around TikTok where someone just spun the wheel
like Matt and the ship missed the iceber cleared it
no problem. It even had a congratulations sign come up
on the screen, letting the person know that they had
(04:07):
saved all souls on board, which to me suggests that
even the designers of this amusement are shaming the crew
of the original Titanic by saying, you didn't try hard enough.
You're out there, grab an ice to put in your
drinks and make jokes for the book in the movie later,
but just spin the wheel. And at the same place
they now actually have an amusement where it is the
back of the ship, and the ship raises up mechanically,
(04:30):
and you just set at the back and hold on
as long as you can before inevitably you have to
fall into the water and die. So yeah, I'm just
going to go ahead and say that given enough time,
nobody's feelings matter, nothing should be judged, and everything is
fair game. I guess the other thing about Titanic as
a theme is that you just literally bring in a
(04:51):
bunch of ice as decorations, and you've just made this
entirely authentic historical disaster party, and you did it on
the cheap, yourself a white beard and a captain's outfit,
and you get to be a hilarious party clown, but
you get to be it with dignity and comfort, and
you get to wear regular shoes, and you don't have
to honk a horn or pull ribbons out of your
(05:12):
mouth or put on any kind of weird voice. You
just maybe tell a joke or to what did the
purser say to the dislodged ice that happened upon the
four deck tickets? Please? Yeah, But in sitting here really
considering this question, I figure, if we're going to do this,
we should actually do it from a list of disasters
that we have already covered together, because God, that's way worse.
(05:36):
So if I think about all the episodes that we've
done so far for a children's birthday party, I guess
if you're a traditionalist like me, and you like the
idea of kids parties with clowns, fistfighting firefighters, I'm gonna
highly recommend taking some pointers from our Toronto Circus Riot
of eighteen fifty five episode. I mean, as events go,
this is something that really gives the parents something to do,
(05:58):
like drink and watch, or gamble on the outcome, or
drink and join in. Who knows what about the Great
Boston Malassacre of nineteen nineteen, but instead of a fifty
foot wall of molasses turning everyone into a giant overly
sweetened smear, it's all scaled down and replaced with the
tank of maybe kool aid or mountain dew or whatever
is fashionable and popular at the time. I mean, it's gross,
(06:22):
and you're gonna have to have your house sold or
burned down when you're done, and the kids are all
gonna need a change of clothes. You could do the
Kalamazoo pile up of twenty fifteen. You could do that
with bumper cars. That could be fun. In fact, whatever
was I was thinking of there you could probably actually
have done during our batter Sea Funfair disaster of nineteen
seventy two. I mean, it's a theme park and it's
got rides right there. I mean, it's kind of a
(06:44):
perfect place to throw a party. But the opposite side
of that coin is it's going to be expensive because
you're dragging a lot of kids and you're gonna want
to leave early. You know, if you remember how that
episode all turned out. I look through a lot of
the other episodes, you know, elevators, mining, disaster, building collapses.
There's not a lot that I would voluntarily want to
drag a bunch of children too. But hands down, looking
(07:06):
at the list, there can only be one answer to
my way of thinking, and my final answer is that
I would be more than happy to drag a gaggle
of kids and party hats down to the shore of
San Diego Bay to watch the Big baye Boom disaster
of twenty twelve. I am highly confident in that response.
I will be of that same answer every day of
(07:28):
the week. When you do a twenty minute fireworks show
in thirty seconds. That's not something you're gonna forget. And
I'm guessing all that hearing loss would make for a
fairly quiet ride home Big Bay Boom Disaster of twenty twelve.
Final answer, but that's for birthday parties. Now I got
to think about Broadway musicals, and again, the most obvious
(07:49):
answer is Titanic. When I was a teenager, me and
my friend Mark went down to the Big Old City
Improv here in Toronto and we watched a recreation of
the Poseidon Adventure. The whole thing was super low key
and hilarious, and Mark got his shoes thrown up on.
But it proved that seaborn adventures were born to be
told on the stage. Titanic as an answer is perfect
(08:11):
for two reasons. If people lined up to see Cats
for eighteen years, then people bought eight or nine copies
of Titanic on VHS, it would have done a killing
on Broadway. And I just looked it up and it
turns out Titanic the musical opened at the Lantfonteine Theater
on Broadway in April of nineteen ninety seven. It played
(08:32):
eight hundred and four times before it finally closed in
March of nineteen ninety nine. Holy cow, this less than
two years later, eight hundred and four showings. That means
it played thirty five times a month for just under
two years. That's very ambitious, but just not long lived.
It really should have lasted a lot longer than that.
(08:53):
So Titanic was in theaters for ten months and super
fans went to see it three times a day every
day of the entire run, So it made over two
and a quarter billion dollars. And I'm thinking, boy, then
you think about their core audience. They've got to be
too broke to go see it on Broadway by now,
So really, I think it would have worked out better
if they had just waited till after the movie had
(09:14):
finished it's run and then launched the Broadway musical so
that those few rare people with a couple of bucks
still to rub together had something to run. Salivating two.
But again, in my world, we work with what we've got,
so we're going to choose from episodes that we've covered together.
I could see some real interesting set pieces in the
(09:34):
Niagara Falls ice Bridge disaster of nineteen twelve, or maybe
the Happy Valley Race disaster and I think Broadway does
a fairly good job of just taking a throwaway line
or a meme and somehow creating a two and a
half hour musical around it. So I'm not overly worried
that someone wouldn't be able to figure out a fairly
good stage play for any of our disaster episodes. But
(09:56):
I have to choose one, and I don't want to
do this all day, So ready my choice once again,
the Big Bay Boom Disaster of twenty twelve. And I
know the disaster is only like half a minute long,
but they could add three hours of preamble and people
trying to yell at each other because they can't hear afterwards,
and I still think it would be damn entertaining. I
(10:18):
think it would be better than Miss Saigon or remember
that Spider Man musical that crippled all them Spider Man.
I think it takes all that, rolls it into one
and then beats it. I think I said it at
the time when Big Bay Boom came out that I
think it's possibly my favorite disaster, or at least the
one that I would most like to witness for myself
in real time. And I'm pretty sure I would be
(10:38):
happy to see it as a mobile video game or
a Japanese anime, or just put it into any format
you want. It's a good time. Okay, all right, all right.
Next question, listener carry In from the UK, wants to know, well,
all kinds of things, really, but which of her questions
(10:59):
may be the hottest, or at least the most recently weird.
She asked if I would rather be killed by a
wood chipper or slowly crushed to death by an elephant's
foot black Okay, well, I love animals and I love elephants,
just not quite enough to get killed by one. I mean,
I love food, but I don't want to choke to
(11:20):
death on it. I don't think I have any feelings
about wood schippers except that they're loud, and I have
no interest in being killed in one. Actually, to be specific,
let me clarify in case you were wondering, I am
not looking to be killed by anything other than debt.
So let's explore. If I had to willingly climb into
a wood chipper, my instinct tells me to just go
(11:43):
in head first. I don't know if I've ever said
this on the show before, but an old friend says
that if you ever find yourself forced to eat a sandwich,
the best technique for doing that is to simply take
big bites and power your way through. I'm thinking go
in head first, and once you get past your jawline,
they can pretty much do whatever they want with the
(12:04):
rest of your body, because the part of you that
makes you you is going to be floating around the
universe as a pink mist. I think the horror of
all this could potentially just give you a heart attack
before even your eyebrows are pulled off. But at least
a wood chipper is probably loud enough so that witnesses
don't have to live the rest of their lives remembering
the sounds of your screams. I'm only kidding. I have
(12:27):
every confidence and your ability to outscream a woodschipper, each
and every one of you. The thing that we're not
thinking about it is we focus obviously a lot on
the chewy end, you know, and how awful that would
need to be pulled apart by high speed spinning blades.
All of that really takes the mind off the fact
that whatever goes in the one end has to come
(12:49):
out the other end as a high speed spray of
blood and viscera because you're effectively going through a blender.
So if it were me, I'm just saying that I
would make it more My last request to have my
woodschipper pointed directly at the people who made me do this.
Sorry to carry in. Okay, but we don't have to
go into the wood schipper. There's always the elephants. I mean,
(13:11):
they will kill people terribly, but they only really ever
do it under extreme circumstances. Elephants are pretty gentle overall.
They're intelligence and empathy make them pretty unlikely to want
to go out and willingly kill another animal. But because
they are so intelligent, it means that they're smart enough
to know how to do it as painfully as possible
(13:33):
if you just piss them off enough. So it's going
to crush me, and it's going to do it slowly,
and that's going to be a problem. Are they crushing
my head so I die relatively quick or are they
standing on my genitals so I die by screaming myself airless.
There's no real good options in any part of this question,
But in this scenario, on the one hand, I get
(13:54):
to hang out with an elephant, so that's a pro Okay,
let me actually do something here once again. Oop. Sorry, okay,
heads tails and damn it. Okay, So I just flipped
a coin and it came back with elephant, but woodchipper
went out on best two out of three. So I
(14:16):
threw that coin in the garbage, which I really shouldn't
do because money is tight, and I just really dislike
this question. There are no good answers. I don't even
think there's a lesser of two evils here. I'm trying
to picture the court sketch artist depictions of my death.
There would be a lot of goo in both scenarios.
But but you could take a photo of an elephant
(14:36):
standing on me, and you could crop it in such
a way that it just becomes a lovely, g rated
photo of an elephant. But there's no good way to
crop a person simultaneously entering and exiting a wood chipper
at the same time to make it palatable. So I'm
going with elephant. Final answer. My apologies to the elephant
and to my family and to anyone else who has
(14:58):
to watch or listen. And I'll point out Carrie in
Loves to send me these kinds of questions all the time,
and I want her to know very specifically. I put
a lot of thought into your questions and wrap this
up the final question of the day, which I can't
just attribute to anybody because so many people were asking,
because only people on Patreon really found out my true
(15:19):
feelings and got to watch me do this. People really
wanted to know what did I hate the least, vegamite
or marmite? Well, I just literally got some marmite on
my hands, and this stuff wasn't refrigerated. I didn't even
know if it's supposed to be refrigerated, and now they
smell like a Southern Pacific bowel movement. Well, my Patreon's
(15:40):
got to find out everything. And again I apologize to
all of them, especially to Lindsay Anderson, who won this contest.
And let me say, I understand that gratitude can only
run so deep, and I again offer my sincere apologies
to both you and your family. And a lot of
people pointed out in the video that I released that
I ate kind of too much. I was smearing it on,
(16:01):
I was using peanut butter rules. I really didn't know.
You're just supposed to waft it over to give a
general sense of taste, and a lot of people said
that I might have flavored the way I reacted when
I repeatedly ate this stuff on toast, and yes, lesson learned,
which I'm afraid I'm never going to actually be able
to utilize unless somebody maybe sends me a ticket to
(16:22):
Australia or New Zealand. For the most part, I really
had a difficult time trying to even decide between the two.
I mean, they are unique, but I think I used
words like wood bark and fish parts and bicycle tires
to try to describe the flavor. But because I ate
so damn much, I completely destroyed my body's ability to
really calculate an opinion. Vegemite has a kind of a
(16:45):
hickory taste maybe, and it's got the consistency of Natella. Marmite,
on the other hand, has I don't even know how
to describe the smell and has more of a low
viscosity axle grease kind of a consistency to it. The
bottom line was it was a fun thing to do
for my listeners in the South Pacific. I don't get
(17:05):
to get to Australia or New Zealand all that often,
so it's nice to be able to reach out to
them and give something back for all their appreciation for
the show. And then Peter J wrote in, and Peter
J is a diligent listener of the show, And Peter
J remembered that I have threatened to eat onions on
this show many times. I think in our the US
Navy versus Typhoon Cobra episode, I refer to people and
(17:29):
sharks eating onions. I know. I think I actually just
referred to it in our last episode. So for Peter
Jay's edification today, I am going to tell you what
is better between a regular yellow onion and a purple
or red onion, depending on what you want to call it.
And just get this out of the way. I'm just
(17:50):
going to do it quick, and I should say I
do like onions, all right, yellow onion. Hm, that's a
lot of onion. Oh, that's a lot. I don't know
for one point. M mm hmmm mmmm. Oh, okay, that's
(18:10):
a good start. Yeah, that literally tastes like an onion,
but just like so much onion, A lot of onion
all at wants. Oh hmm okay, I like it. Good stuff.
A purple onion ready, m m m m hm m
(18:32):
hm m m m m m mmmm. Oh god, Okay,
that was a bunch. What can I tell you? There
is a certain rustic sweetness available in the purple a
red onion, which is simply lacking in the yellow onion.
All right, Peter, uh, I'm going to say that my
onion of choice. It's purple whatever. It is. The vapor
(18:56):
that's released from onion cells when you cut them that
go up into the eye. I don't get that. I'm
not really susceptible to that so much. But when you
eat an onion like an apple, you get so much
of that concentrated in you so fast it's really quite wild.
It's a good vampire test, I guess. Oh. I don't
(19:24):
know that this is the worst part. But the only
thing I have to wash the taste out of my
mouth with is plump sauce or jalapeno brine. That'll wake
you up. That's literally my favorite of the three. So
(19:47):
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Hello, and welcome to Doomsday Histories Most Dangerous mail Bag MINISOD. Yes,
we're returning to the minisodes because you got questions and
I've got answers. Hello, dear listeners. Together, we've seen an
awful lotic together across time and space, and it's only
natural that you would have questions. So this is my
(00:30):
chance to publicly answer some of the friendly, odd, and
occasionally gross questions that feed in through our various social
media channels. On today's episode, I'm going to look at
franchising disaster into child friendly birthday fair. I'll make a
very child unfriendly choice between two equally terrible ways to die,
and I'm gonna make a very stummach unfriendly choice between
(00:53):
two equally terrible things to eat. In today's mail Bag,
air or re Meyer from Los Angeles, California asked which
disaster would make the worst or best theme for a
children's birthday party? Or is this a two parter a
Broadway musical? Good question, Aaron, but he also wants to
(01:13):
know why. Okay, I've got a few ways of answering this,
so let's get into it. My very first thought when
I read this question was Titanic Obviously, it makes sense.
They've got the slide, and it happened so long ago
that people aren't going to get all that upset to
see a Titanic themed birthday party, especially not in an
age where it was mostly rich people who died. Except
(01:33):
it wasn't mostly rich people who died, was it. That's
kind of a thing about Titanic that I'm only just
thinking of. Now, hold on one second. Yeah, I know
people are really fond of saying, wow, it was the
poor people who died from third class because they were
considered disposable garbage by the crew. And yes, the first
class passengers certainly did pay through the nose to be
(01:55):
on this thing, But the average wage back in nineteen
ten was between two and four hundred dollars a year.
People made like twenty cents an hour someone in nineteen ten,
when people were basically paid in potatoes, I'm guessing, and
credit wasn't a thing. I can't imagine how destitute poor
people were affording the equivalent of one thousand dollars to
(02:18):
get onto this boat. I've read all the books, and
you've probably seen the movie, but they did go over
and above describing these people like they were all diseased
orphans or something. But these are the richest of the
This is upper middle poor class. I don't know what
they would have been, but they certainly did not deserve
what happened to them. And they paid a lot of money,
(02:39):
more than double a yearly salary for an average worker
to be on this thing. Most of the reason that
I even think of Titanic right off the bat is them.
The Titanic slide ride. Picture a giant carnival sized inflatable
anthe like this is fifty one feet long, it's the
back of the ship thirty three feet tall, and it's
angling downwards. So you climb to the top of the
(03:01):
back of the ship and then you slide back down
into the water, avoiding any of the obstacles that people
plarn their heads off on the way. Like in the
movie when the ship went up a full ninety degrees,
this one's closer like thirty to forty degrees. Whatever it is,
we collectively as society have just sort of decided that
we are absolutely cool making an amusement out of this disaster.
(03:23):
I'm just sitting here and I just did the math
real quick, and it occurred to me that in the
time between then and now for us to become this shady.
If we continued at the same pace, by the year
twenty one oh three, children at birthday parties would line
up to jump out of one of two twin towers
into a net below, surrounded by firemen, because why wouldn't we?
Why not everything's fair game. If nobody cares about anything,
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then nothing is worth caring about. As a bit of
a tangent, at the Titanic Museum, they have this simulator
where you can steer the boat, and there was a
video going around TikTok where someone just spun the wheel
like Matt and the ship missed the iceber cleared it
no problem. It even had a congratulations sign come up
on the screen, letting the person know that they had
(04:07):
saved all souls on board, which to me suggests that
even the designers of this amusement are shaming the crew
of the original Titanic by saying, you didn't try hard enough.
You're out there, grab an ice to put in your
drinks and make jokes for the book in the movie later,
but just spin the wheel. And at the same place
they now actually have an amusement where it is the
back of the ship, and the ship raises up mechanically,
(04:30):
and you just set at the back and hold on
as long as you can before inevitably you have to
fall into the water and die. So yeah, I'm just
going to go ahead and say that given enough time,
nobody's feelings matter, nothing should be judged, and everything is
fair game. I guess the other thing about Titanic as
a theme is that you just literally bring in a
(04:51):
bunch of ice as decorations, and you've just made this
entirely authentic historical disaster party, and you did it on
the cheap, yourself a white beard and a captain's outfit,
and you get to be a hilarious party clown, but
you get to be it with dignity and comfort, and
you get to wear regular shoes, and you don't have
to honk a horn or pull ribbons out of your
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mouth or put on any kind of weird voice. You
just maybe tell a joke or to what did the
purser say to the dislodged ice that happened upon the
four deck tickets? Please? Yeah, But in sitting here really
considering this question, I figure, if we're going to do this,
we should actually do it from a list of disasters
that we have already covered together, because God, that's way worse.
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So if I think about all the episodes that we've
done so far for a children's birthday party, I guess
if you're a traditionalist like me, and you like the
idea of kids parties with clowns, fistfighting firefighters, I'm gonna
highly recommend taking some pointers from our Toronto Circus Riot
of eighteen fifty five episode. I mean, as events go,
this is something that really gives the parents something to do,
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like drink and watch, or gamble on the outcome, or
drink and join in. Who knows what about the Great
Boston Malassacre of nineteen nineteen, but instead of a fifty
foot wall of molasses turning everyone into a giant overly
sweetened smear, it's all scaled down and replaced with the
tank of maybe kool aid or mountain dew or whatever
is fashionable and popular at the time. I mean, it's gross,
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and you're gonna have to have your house sold or
burned down when you're done, and the kids are all
gonna need a change of clothes. You could do the
Kalamazoo pile up of twenty fifteen. You could do that
with bumper cars. That could be fun. In fact, whatever
was I was thinking of there you could probably actually
have done during our batter Sea Funfair disaster of nineteen
seventy two. I mean, it's a theme park and it's
got rides right there. I mean, it's kind of a
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perfect place to throw a party. But the opposite side
of that coin is it's going to be expensive because
you're dragging a lot of kids and you're gonna want
to leave early. You know, if you remember how that
episode all turned out. I look through a lot of
the other episodes, you know, elevators, mining, disaster, building collapses.
There's not a lot that I would voluntarily want to
drag a bunch of children too. But hands down, looking
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at the list, there can only be one answer to
my way of thinking, and my final answer is that
I would be more than happy to drag a gaggle
of kids and party hats down to the shore of
San Diego Bay to watch the Big baye Boom disaster
of twenty twelve. I am highly confident in that response.
I will be of that same answer every day of
(07:28):
the week. When you do a twenty minute fireworks show
in thirty seconds. That's not something you're gonna forget. And
I'm guessing all that hearing loss would make for a
fairly quiet ride home Big Bay Boom Disaster of twenty twelve.
Final answer, but that's for birthday parties. Now I got
to think about Broadway musicals, and again, the most obvious
(07:49):
answer is Titanic. When I was a teenager, me and
my friend Mark went down to the Big Old City
Improv here in Toronto and we watched a recreation of
the Poseidon Adventure. The whole thing was super low key
and hilarious, and Mark got his shoes thrown up on.
But it proved that seaborn adventures were born to be
told on the stage. Titanic as an answer is perfect
(08:11):
for two reasons. If people lined up to see Cats
for eighteen years, then people bought eight or nine copies
of Titanic on VHS, it would have done a killing
on Broadway. And I just looked it up and it
turns out Titanic the musical opened at the Lantfonteine Theater
on Broadway in April of nineteen ninety seven. It played
(08:32):
eight hundred and four times before it finally closed in
March of nineteen ninety nine. Holy cow, this less than
two years later, eight hundred and four showings. That means
it played thirty five times a month for just under
two years. That's very ambitious, but just not long lived.
It really should have lasted a lot longer than that.
(08:53):
So Titanic was in theaters for ten months and super
fans went to see it three times a day every
day of the entire run, So it made over two
and a quarter billion dollars. And I'm thinking, boy, then
you think about their core audience. They've got to be
too broke to go see it on Broadway by now,
So really, I think it would have worked out better
if they had just waited till after the movie had
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finished it's run and then launched the Broadway musical so
that those few rare people with a couple of bucks
still to rub together had something to run. Salivating two.
But again, in my world, we work with what we've got,
so we're going to choose from episodes that we've covered together.
I could see some real interesting set pieces in the
(09:34):
Niagara Falls ice Bridge disaster of nineteen twelve, or maybe
the Happy Valley Race disaster and I think Broadway does
a fairly good job of just taking a throwaway line
or a meme and somehow creating a two and a
half hour musical around it. So I'm not overly worried
that someone wouldn't be able to figure out a fairly
good stage play for any of our disaster episodes. But
(09:56):
I have to choose one, and I don't want to
do this all day, So ready my choice once again,
the Big Bay Boom Disaster of twenty twelve. And I
know the disaster is only like half a minute long,
but they could add three hours of preamble and people
trying to yell at each other because they can't hear afterwards,
and I still think it would be damn entertaining. I
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think it would be better than Miss Saigon or remember
that Spider Man musical that crippled all them Spider Man.
I think it takes all that, rolls it into one
and then beats it. I think I said it at
the time when Big Bay Boom came out that I
think it's possibly my favorite disaster, or at least the
one that I would most like to witness for myself
in real time. And I'm pretty sure I would be
(10:38):
happy to see it as a mobile video game or
a Japanese anime, or just put it into any format
you want. It's a good time. Okay, all right, all right.
Next question, listener carry In from the UK, wants to know, well,
all kinds of things, really, but which of her questions
(10:59):
may be the hottest, or at least the most recently weird.
She asked if I would rather be killed by a
wood chipper or slowly crushed to death by an elephant's
foot black Okay, well, I love animals and I love elephants,
just not quite enough to get killed by one. I mean,
I love food, but I don't want to choke to
(11:20):
death on it. I don't think I have any feelings
about wood schippers except that they're loud, and I have
no interest in being killed in one. Actually, to be specific,
let me clarify in case you were wondering, I am
not looking to be killed by anything other than debt.
So let's explore. If I had to willingly climb into
a wood chipper, my instinct tells me to just go
(11:43):
in head first. I don't know if I've ever said
this on the show before, but an old friend says
that if you ever find yourself forced to eat a sandwich,
the best technique for doing that is to simply take
big bites and power your way through. I'm thinking go
in head first, and once you get past your jawline,
they can pretty much do whatever they want with the
(12:04):
rest of your body, because the part of you that
makes you you is going to be floating around the
universe as a pink mist. I think the horror of
all this could potentially just give you a heart attack
before even your eyebrows are pulled off. But at least
a wood chipper is probably loud enough so that witnesses
don't have to live the rest of their lives remembering
the sounds of your screams. I'm only kidding. I have
(12:27):
every confidence and your ability to outscream a woodschipper, each
and every one of you. The thing that we're not
thinking about it is we focus obviously a lot on
the chewy end, you know, and how awful that would
need to be pulled apart by high speed spinning blades.
All of that really takes the mind off the fact
that whatever goes in the one end has to come
(12:49):
out the other end as a high speed spray of
blood and viscera because you're effectively going through a blender.
So if it were me, I'm just saying that I
would make it more My last request to have my
woodschipper pointed directly at the people who made me do this.
Sorry to carry in. Okay, but we don't have to
go into the wood schipper. There's always the elephants. I mean,
(13:11):
they will kill people terribly, but they only really ever
do it under extreme circumstances. Elephants are pretty gentle overall.
They're intelligence and empathy make them pretty unlikely to want
to go out and willingly kill another animal. But because
they are so intelligent, it means that they're smart enough
to know how to do it as painfully as possible
(13:33):
if you just piss them off enough. So it's going
to crush me, and it's going to do it slowly,
and that's going to be a problem. Are they crushing
my head so I die relatively quick or are they
standing on my genitals so I die by screaming myself airless.
There's no real good options in any part of this question,
But in this scenario, on the one hand, I get
(13:54):
to hang out with an elephant, so that's a pro Okay,
let me actually do something here once again. Oop. Sorry, okay,
heads tails and damn it. Okay, So I just flipped
a coin and it came back with elephant, but woodchipper
went out on best two out of three. So I
(14:16):
threw that coin in the garbage, which I really shouldn't
do because money is tight, and I just really dislike
this question. There are no good answers. I don't even
think there's a lesser of two evils here. I'm trying
to picture the court sketch artist depictions of my death.
There would be a lot of goo in both scenarios.
But but you could take a photo of an elephant
(14:36):
standing on me, and you could crop it in such
a way that it just becomes a lovely, g rated
photo of an elephant. But there's no good way to
crop a person simultaneously entering and exiting a wood chipper
at the same time to make it palatable. So I'm
going with elephant. Final answer. My apologies to the elephant
and to my family and to anyone else who has
(14:58):
to watch or listen. And I'll point out Carrie in
Loves to send me these kinds of questions all the time,
and I want her to know very specifically. I put
a lot of thought into your questions and wrap this
up the final question of the day, which I can't
just attribute to anybody because so many people were asking,
because only people on Patreon really found out my true
(15:19):
feelings and got to watch me do this. People really
wanted to know what did I hate the least, vegamite
or marmite? Well, I just literally got some marmite on
my hands, and this stuff wasn't refrigerated. I didn't even
know if it's supposed to be refrigerated, and now they
smell like a Southern Pacific bowel movement. Well, my Patreon's
(15:40):
got to find out everything. And again I apologize to
all of them, especially to Lindsay Anderson, who won this contest.
And let me say, I understand that gratitude can only
run so deep, and I again offer my sincere apologies
to both you and your family. And a lot of
people pointed out in the video that I released that
I ate kind of too much. I was smearing it on,
(16:01):
I was using peanut butter rules. I really didn't know.
You're just supposed to waft it over to give a
general sense of taste, and a lot of people said
that I might have flavored the way I reacted when
I repeatedly ate this stuff on toast, and yes, lesson learned,
which I'm afraid I'm never going to actually be able
to utilize unless somebody maybe sends me a ticket to
(16:22):
Australia or New Zealand. For the most part, I really
had a difficult time trying to even decide between the two.
I mean, they are unique, but I think I used
words like wood bark and fish parts and bicycle tires
to try to describe the flavor. But because I ate
so damn much, I completely destroyed my body's ability to
really calculate an opinion. Vegemite has a kind of a
(16:45):
hickory taste maybe, and it's got the consistency of Natella. Marmite,
on the other hand, has I don't even know how
to describe the smell and has more of a low
viscosity axle grease kind of a consistency to it. The
bottom line was it was a fun thing to do
for my listeners in the South Pacific. I don't get
(17:05):
to get to Australia or New Zealand all that often,
so it's nice to be able to reach out to
them and give something back for all their appreciation for
the show. And then Peter J wrote in, and Peter
J is a diligent listener of the show, And Peter
J remembered that I have threatened to eat onions on
this show many times. I think in our the US
Navy versus Typhoon Cobra episode, I refer to people and
(17:29):
sharks eating onions. I know. I think I actually just
referred to it in our last episode. So for Peter
Jay's edification today, I am going to tell you what
is better between a regular yellow onion and a purple
or red onion, depending on what you want to call it.
And just get this out of the way. I'm just
(17:50):
going to do it quick, and I should say I
do like onions, all right, yellow onion. Hm, that's a
lot of onion. Oh, that's a lot. I don't know
for one point. M mm hmmm mmmm. Oh, okay, that's
(18:10):
a good start. Yeah, that literally tastes like an onion,
but just like so much onion, A lot of onion
all at wants. Oh hmm okay, I like it. Good stuff.
A purple onion ready, m m m m hm m
(18:32):
hm m m m m m mmmm. Oh god, Okay,
that was a bunch. What can I tell you? There
is a certain rustic sweetness available in the purple a
red onion, which is simply lacking in the yellow onion.
All right, Peter, uh, I'm going to say that my
onion of choice. It's purple whatever. It is. The vapor
(18:56):
that's released from onion cells when you cut them that
go up into the eye. I don't get that. I'm
not really susceptible to that so much. But when you
eat an onion like an apple, you get so much
of that concentrated in you so fast it's really quite wild.
It's a good vampire test, I guess. Oh. I don't
(19:24):
know that this is the worst part. But the only
thing I have to wash the taste out of my
mouth with is plump sauce or jalapeno brine. That'll wake
you up. That's literally my favorite of the three. So
(19:47):
if you want to see me eat fire or something,
you can reach out to me at Twitter, Facebook or
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demand and designed to honor the memory of the three
(20:30):
cars in this calendar year that have gone to the
Great Auto Shop in the Sky. And that's just so far.
It's only September. We'll talk soon. Safety gog goes off,
and thanks for listening.
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