Episodes 58
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After a bit of a break, Kara and Ed are back on the mic with a real "banger" of an episode so to speak. Our hosts are trying something different where they both put in their own contributions to the idea of how things go bad even after death.
Kara's going to start of with King William the Conqueror's rise to fame and subsequent death and the issues that can arise when you don't bury a portly man in a quick enough time. Let's just say it involves a burning village in the middle of a dispute of who owns the land the King is being buried, and how to squeeze a fat dude in a small coffin... it doesn't end the way you think.
Ed's contribution takes us to Florence, Oregon in 1970, where a 40 foot 8,000 dead whale washes ashore for about a week and no one knows how to remove it. So they use 200 lbs of dynamite to blow the thing into the ocean. Once again... it doesn't end the way you would think.
Florence Oregon has a baseball team called "The Exploding Whales".
The exploding whale event became famous after news reporter Paul Linnman’s 1970 TV segment went viral decades later.
Engineers chose 20 cases (approximately 1,000 pounds) of dynamite because they believed the explosion would vaporize the whale.
William I died on September 9, 1087, in Rouen, Normandy, after suffering internal injuries from being thrown against his saddle pommel when his horse stumbled during a campaign in France.
His funeral at Saint-Étienne Abbey in Caen was chaotic. The church caught fire, the ceremony was delayed, and his corpse famously burst when being forced into a coffin too small for his body.
Browse through Kara and Ed's show notes for the episode below ⬇