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Mayhem enthusiasts, best friends, and sisters Bailey Brown and Madison Wendt have spent their lives pouring over stories of disaster and catastrophe while their family looked on in abject horror. Combining their love of comedy podcasts and long, late-night discussions of calamity, Bailey and Madison decided to create a podcast where they can talk about all things catastrophic without enduring their loved one's side-eye. Calamity Janes is a weekly podcast wherein hosts Bailey and Madison discuss all sorts of terrifying disasters. Engrossed by engineering failings? Titillated by tales of tornadoes and volcanoes? Searching for horror stories of spaceflight? We’ve got ya covered! Tune in each week to hear Madison tell Bailey about a different disastrous debacle.

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Meat Rain, Golf Ball Hail, and a Stinky Surprise

2025/03/04

The Soyuz 11 Disaster

2025/02/11

The Aggie Bonfire Collapse

2024/12/17

Sources for today's episode: https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/the-aggie-bonfire-tragedy/ https://www.tamu.edu/campus-community/traditions/remembrance/bonfire-memorial.html https://www.statesman.com/story/sports/college/aggies/2024/11/26/texas-am-bonfire-tragedy-1999-aggies/76602805007/

An Exotic Animal Disaster in Ohio

2024/12/10

This week, we're talking about the heartbreaking and horrifying tale that shook a small Ohio town: The Zanesville Exotic Animal Massacre. Resources: https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2024/10/18/zanesville-wild-animal-release-2011-terry-thompson/75732591007/ https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2021/10/18/zanesville-exotic-animal-massacre-10-years-later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Zanesville,_Ohio_animal_escape

A Megatsunami in Alaska's Lituya Bay

2024/12/03

The Fatal Iroquois Theater Fire

2024/11/26

Settle in! We're headed to Chicago this week to discuss the deadly Iroquois Theater Fire. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois_Theatre_fire

America's Hidden Fault Line is a Time Bomb

2024/11/19

This episode will scare the pants off of you if you hate earthquakes, spontaneous quicksand, and meandering diary entries. Listen up to learn about the New Madrid earthquakes. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811%E2%80%931812_New_Madrid_earthquakeshttp://www.new-madrid.mo.us/132/Strange-Happenings-during-the-Earthquakehttps://www.britannica.com/science/plate-tectonics

The Devastating Tri-State Tornado

2024/11/12

We're baaaaaaack. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! Submit your disaster ideas, share your disaster stories, or just say hey: [email protected] Resources used in this episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_tornado_outbreakhttps://www.britannica.com/event/Tri-State-Tornado-of-1925https://www.isws.illinois.edu/pubdoc/c/iswsc-103.pdf

A Mud Dauber Wasp Crashed a Plane

2022/09/06

In this episode, Madison tells Bailey about a deadly plane crash caused by a surprisingly lethal insect. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! Submit your disaster ideas, share your disaster stories, or just say hey: [email protected] Resources used in this episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgenair_Flight_301 https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/462854/Passenger-jet-carrying-175-people-makes-EMERGENCY-landing-due-to-a-WASP-NEST-problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Commuter_Airlines_Flight_65 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mIpA2tPmeU

The Dancing Plague of 1518

2022/08/30

In this episode, Madison tells Bailey about an earthquake that led to a mine collapse, and a harrowing rescue mission. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! Submit your disaster ideas, share your disaster stories, or just say hey: [email protected] Resources used in this episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518 https://www.britannica.com/event/dancing-plague-of-1518 https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-dancing-plague-of-1518

A free drink on Madison

2022/08/23

No episode today folks! Madison's household has fallen to illness, and Bailey is in the middle of the Great Dallas Monsoon. Please send all beverage requests* and disaster suggestions to [email protected]. *Madison will not buy you a drink. Sorry, that was a lie. Madison will make it up to you somehow.

The Beaconsfield Mine Collapse

2022/08/16

In this episode, Madison tells Bailey about an earthquake that led to a mine collapse, and a harrowing rescue mission. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! Submit your disaster ideas, share your disaster stories, or just say hey: [email protected] Resources used in this episode: https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/mining/beaconsfield-miners-struggling-10-years-after-disaster/news-story/600b2de0c182bfd72dfdf70d2d066643 https://historyofyesterday.com/the-miners-trapped-underground-for-two-weeks-155c2d722b18 https://www.amsj.com.au/beaconsfield-mine-disaster-learned/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaconsfield_Mine_collapse

The Great Molasses Flood

2022/08/09

In this episode, Madison tells Bailey about The Great Molasses Flood of 1919. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! Submit your disaster ideas, share your disaster stories, or just say hey: [email protected] Resources used in this episode: https://www.history.com/news/great-molasses-flood-science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood

The Deadliest Airshow Disaster In History

2022/08/02

In this episode, Bailey tells Madison about the Flugtag '88 airshow disaster -- one of the most deadly in history. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! Submit your disaster ideas, share your disaster stories, or just say hey: [email protected] Resources used in this episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramstein_air_show_disasterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kzup8-1eGAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydp_1sXXqTI

The Mystery of The Eiger

2022/07/26

In this episode, Madison tells Bailey about the Eiger -- a mysterious mountain with a history of catastrophe. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! Submit your disaster ideas, share your disaster stories, or just say hey: [email protected] Resources used in this episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Eiger_climbing_disaster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJkbST_Tt5c

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3.8 out of 5

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wtfnicknamenonsense 2023/05/02

Kind of irritating

Love the general show concept. Listened to the mount hood disaster episode where they liken Outward Bound to a cult. Ignorance abounds throughout the ...

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summer2018bx 2022/10/14

Please listen to playback

I can barely hear one of the hosts and if I turn up the volume to normal level the other host straight up blasts my eardrums. Another weird thing is ...

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ElizaJane17 2022/06/11

Poorly Done

Re: 1986 Mt. Hood Disaster I am a devoted MFM listener so I get being cheeky and irreverent. What I do not get is being judgmental, glib, and flippa...

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