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EARLY AND AD-FREE: The Kyshtym Nuclear Disaster of 1957 | Episode 61
🕑 Added 2023-11-20 01:18:09 +0000 UTCThis 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 Maldives, the British sci-fi show lifted directly from this disaster and placed on the moon - Space 1999, the awful reality of nuclear dirty bombs, we visited the single most nuked place on earth, we learn why meteors pretty much have no choice but to kill us, and I gave you a chance to get in on the ground floor of my bullet ant stinging business
The 1957 Kyshtym Disaster is recognized as the world's first truly major nuclear disaster, ranking third in severity behind only Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi. And yet, despite its incredible pedigree and importance, knowledge of it has faded or slipped purposefully into history’s dustbin, largely unknown to the rest of the world
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Hailing from Indianapolis, IN, USA
Don't be! I'm here to learn as much as anyone else and I don't have any ego about this. I added in the assassination detail purely from memory - and we can see how that turned out. Thanks Elin, and welcome aboard! You're my first Swedish Patreon!
Elin Stenqvist
Not to be that guy/girl, but Litvinenko was killed by drinking tea spiked with polonium. The guy killed with an umbrella was Georgi Markov and the bullet was laced with ricin. Sorry.
Do you also listen to Well There’s Your Problem? 😂 Alice makes gratuitous use of it and it’s one of my favorite things ever
MyCatIsZsaZsa
I have missed podcasts using the Soviet anthem as a tool for making fun of the USSR. It's a lot of fun. And since you didn't make the joke, I will - damn dirty apes!
I didn't even know you could visit that. Hmmmm.
Oof. Shades of my recent trip to the Hanford B Reactor… 😬
