The greatest disaster story of all time

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🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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You think the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was bad? Wait until you hear about the Siberian Traps.

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0:00.0	Good morning, Mr. Hedgy.
0:05.0	Good morning. I wanted to be recording right away, so you know.
0:09.0	All right, so ready?
0:10.0	Yeah? Yes.
0:11.0	Okay.
0:12.0	Yep, yeah.
0:14.0	It turns day into night.
0:20.0	Air into fire.
0:24.0	So I grew up in the 90s.
0:26.0	Me too.
0:27.0	This is the golden age of disaster movies.
0:30.0	Oh, hell yeah. Dante's peak. Volcano.
0:33.0	Volcano is turning nature into a nightmare.
0:41.0	I can't believe you mentioned Dante's peak.
0:43.0	It's one of my favorites.
0:44.0	It's great.
0:45.0	I mean, it's not great, but when they are the grandma,
0:48.0	boys, boys, in the lake.
0:51.0	I remember being horrified by that when I was a little kid.
0:55.0	One of the things I love about these movies is they tell you exactly what
0:58.0	you're going to get in the title, like Volcano Firestorm Twister.
1:02.0	It's literally just the name of the disaster you're going to witness.
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