{"podcast":{"title":"Doomsday: History's Most Dangerous Podcast","slug":"doomsday-history-s-most-dangerous-podcast-450236","podcast_index_feed_id":450236,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4866335/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/doomsday-historys-most-dangerous-podcast","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/b7688bfd9156e005fb094004e569d656.jpg","author":"Brad Choma","episode_count":127,"summary":"Doomsday is a history lesson that easily disguises itself as a horror story. We explore the most traumatic, bizarre and most awe-inspiring but largely unheard-of disasters from throughout human history and around the world including the science behind every disturbing detail. If you like shipwrecks, decapitations, things that melt, living blankets of insects and people screaming for their lives, Doomsday is the podcast for you. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/doomsday-history-s-most-dangerous-podcast--4866335/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-18T06:18:46.362293+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doomsday-history-s-most-dangerous-podcast-450236"},"episode":{"title":"The Dave Matthews Poop Bus Disaster of 2004 | Episode 108","slug":"the-dave-matthews-poop-bus-disaster-of-2004-episode-108","published_at":"2026-05-18T04:00:05+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doomsday-history-s-most-dangerous-podcast-450236/the-dave-matthews-poop-bus-disaster-of-2004-episode-108","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doomsday-history-s-most-dangerous-podcast-450236","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-dave-matthews-poop-bus-disaster-of-2004-episode-108--72050169","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72050169/spreaker_the_dave_matthews_poop_bus_disaster_of_2004_mixdown.mp3","summary":"You’ve maybe heard that during an accident, time slows. Truth is, it’s an illusion. Your brain flips into high-alert, and processes visual information in way higher detail, which makes the experience feel longer. Of all the episodes and stories we’ve shared on this show before, this is the one story you would absolutely not want to appreciate in high-detail slow-mo. On today’s episode: you’ll find out how cholera and typhoid-laced fart water led to the reinvention of one of the world’s cleverest and most innovative cities; you will find out why crapping on music could technically be considered a kind of self-care; and although you’re missing the context now, I’m going to advise you to potentially remove your fingernails at some point, and you might surprise yourself by agreeing And if you were listening on Patreon … you would hear the beloved tale of a potentially made-up cow that got the jimmy legs and vaporized a city; you would visit the most literally and purposefully vomit-inducing statue ever erected; and you would learn the fascinating history of transportation-based toilets. Today’s episode was supposed to be another minisode, but in the new-standing tradition, so much for that. It was also supposed to be bloodless, which it was, but it still managed to be incredibly disturbing and upsetting without it. I make that point that if we had dropped 800 lbs of blood on people, you would have been easier to get over. You ever hear of the 2008 case of a man experiencing severe untreated psychosis, attacked and decapitating his seat mate on a Greyhound Bus with a hunting knife in Manitoba, Canada? I believe the Dave Matthews Poop Bus Disaster of 2004 is far worse. I would want the members and families of the Dave Matthews band know I mean all this in good fun. Much bett…","meta_description":"You’ve maybe heard that during an accident, time slows. Truth is, it’s an illusion. Your brain flips into high-alert, and processes visual information in…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2918,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/doomsday-history-s-most-dangerous-podcast-450236/episodes/the-dave-matthews-poop-bus-disaster-of-2004-episode-108/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doomsday-history-s-most-dangerous-podcast-450236/the-dave-matthews-poop-bus-disaster-of-2004-episode-108.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}