514 - Harvey's Wagon Wheel Resort and Casino Bombing
Do Go On
Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 169 minutes
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Summary
Early in the morning of the 26th of August 1980, employees at Harvey's Wagon Wheel Resort and Casino discovered a mysterious metallic box. With the mysterious package was a note, explaining is was a bomb! Thus begins the story of 'one of history’s most bizarre extortion plots'!
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 6:59 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://magazine.atavist.com/2014/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite
https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/Harveys-Hotel-Lake-Tahoe-bombing-17392736.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGo959uECTM
Bringing Down the House: The Bombing of Harvey's Casino
https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/harveys-casino-resorts
https://tahoequarterly.com/summer-2013/the-man-behind-the-bomb
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| 0:00.0 | Big announcements, specials online available and tours to announce. Dave, what are some of these |
| 0:04.7 | details? We are touring around Australia and New Zealand for the first ever time to celebrate our 10 |
| 0:09.8 | anniversary. We're 10, baby. We're 10 and we are hitting up these places between now and the start |
| 0:15.3 | of 2026. We are hitting up Hobart, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Auckland, Wellington and Brisbane, |
| 0:24.1 | all with live Doogon shows on sale now at dogoonpod.com. |
| 0:28.3 | So pumped. |
| 0:28.8 | Some of these cities we're getting to the first time ever, including Canberra and Hobart and Wellington |
| 0:33.1 | and Auckland. |
| 0:33.8 | And we haven't been to Perth and Adelaide in quite some time. |
| 0:36.5 | So really pumped for that. I'm also doing a Who New Year Tour before that. |
| 0:41.5 | It was starting as of now going to Brisbane, Sydney, Newcastle, Adelaide and Hobart |
| 0:46.9 | then over to the UK to Edinburgh, Cambridge, Birmingham, Manchester, Swansea and London. And also Dave, you and I, we've got our specials out available now on Humdinger. That's right. If you're not able to see us in the flesh, you can watch us online for free at any time at YouTube.com slash humdinger studios, believe it's the address. But just type in Humdinger Studios or my name or Matt Stewart's name and our specials our stand-up specials are there right now. |
| 1:11.6 | The one I'm touring, I should say, is a new show compared to that so you can watch it and then |
| 1:15.1 | comes to me and that's a whole whole other hour. |
| 1:18.7 | Wow. |
| 1:19.0 | What the heck? |
| 1:20.3 | That's what's going on here? |
| 1:41.2 | Yeah. Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. |
| 2:01.5 | My name is Dave Warnocky and as always I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. What? Whoa. The big two. Whoa. A little pause there. People thinking who's going to be here this week? Oh my God. Who is it? It's Matt Stewart. Whoa. I had that thought and it was us. Welcome. Which I think is probably, you know, 98% of the time, that would be true. Yeah. |
| 2:02.9 | So, yeah, I guess now to think about it like that, not as exciting, but still fine. |
| 2:08.1 | But I think, I think it's nice to appreciate the mundane sometimes. |
| 2:13.3 | Yeah. |
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