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Episode 135: Texas A&M Bonfire Collapse

Not Today

Not Today

Society & Culture, Comedy, True Crime

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

For decades Texas A&M University held the tradition of burning the annual Aggie bonfire the night before their rivalry football game with University of Texas. The bonfire was made into an enormous wedding cake like structure and was entirely constructed by students in the months leading up to the game. However on November 18th of 1999, students were putting the finishing touches on their beloved bonfire when the structure unexpectedly jolted and fell to the ground. The tragedy that followed was something that no one in this college town was prepared for. 

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hey, I'm Steph, and this is not today. Hello friends how are you doing? I hope that you are having a better day than me.

0:57.0

Let's just say that. Oh my God, I am having one of those days where I just can't win.

1:04.0

And that's okay.

1:06.0

You know, if you win all the time, life would be boring, right?

1:10.0

I'm just going to tell myself that because I have to today.

1:14.1

But before we jump in, I do have a couple things I do need to address.

1:18.3

So I've mentioned in a few episodes in the past weeks,

1:21.5

Alex and I will be making a very large move.

1:24.4

We're going to be driving across the country for this move, so because of that, I am

1:29.8

going to be taking two weeks off during our move, since I won't have any time to do research,

1:35.5

record, or edit, which is unfortunate. But doing a big move takes up a lot of brain space and time, and we're also road tripping it.

1:45.0

And I wouldn't want to put out an episode I wasn't proud of just for the sake of getting something out.

1:49.0

And it's probably best for my sanity to not have to do all of that all at once. But once we are in our new

1:57.6

place and settled, I will be back up and running as normal and I will be releasing a bonus episode as normal. Our bonus episodes over on Patreon come out on the second Tuesday of

2:09.4

every month which just so happens to be one of the weeks I won't be posting a regular episode.

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