{"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 Kursk Submarine Disaster of 2000 | Episode 106","slug":"the-kursk-submarine-disaster-of-2000-episode-106","published_at":"2026-04-08T04:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doomsday-history-s-most-dangerous-podcast-450236/the-kursk-submarine-disaster-of-2000-episode-106","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doomsday-history-s-most-dangerous-podcast-450236","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-kursk-submarine-disaster-of-2000-episode-106--71135315","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71135315/kursk_submarine_disaster_of_2000_spreaker.mp3","summary":"I believe the most frightening vehicle to travel from point A to point B in would be a submarine – and I am including cable cars, and rocket sleds, and tightropes, and wingsuits, and early diving bells, and high-altitude balloon gondolas, and luge sleds, and the kind of fixed-wing plane where you have to walk on the wing, and human cannonballing, and ziplining over a volcano in that analysis. Let’s see if today’s story changes my mind. On today’s episode: you will learn why the history of victory in human warfare favours how much you resemble your own anus; you will to understand how your brain actually craps itself worse than your bowels when confronted with something enormous approaches unseen from underwater; and if you ever had a particularly bad day at work and felt really underserved by your employers desire or ability to do anything about it, this episode is doing that thing where it points back-and-forth between you and itself and nodding strongly. And if you were listening on Patreon… you would learn why the first recorded military submarine mission sounded like bad porno; you would see why life in a confined space can get you full-body duct taped to a chair with a gag in your mouth; and you would hear cautionary and sobering observations about the aromatic and claustrophobic life of a fellow listener who spent years in the silent service. I’m going to have you imagining everything from what a Roman solider would have thought watching a tank shell remove your co-workers head, to what it feels like to be slowly pulled into the spinning blades of a submarine, to the experience of free-balling it from the sea floor to the surface in a pressure suit which is said to be one of the most frightening emergency procedures in the world. I spend no small amount of time f…","meta_description":"I believe the most frightening vehicle to travel from point A to point B in would be a submarine – and I am including cable cars, and rocket sleds, and ti…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3092,"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-kursk-submarine-disaster-of-2000-episode-106/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-kursk-submarine-disaster-of-2000-episode-106.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}