All Bad Things

All Bad Things is a long-running show about catastrophe in the broadest possible sense. The subjects range from tornado outbreaks and storms to shipwrecks, crowd crushes, labor disasters, meteor events, and the occasional movie excursion. Rachel and David are recurring voices, and their rhythm is part of the appeal. They begin loosely. A recording setup, a weather complaint, a work update, a vacation memory, or a joke about being off-track can sit right beside a story about mass injury or damage. Then the research arrives. Episodes lean into timelines, locations, causes, aftermaths, and the small details that make a disaster feel specific rather than abstract. The 1974 Super Outbreak episode moves through violent tornado paths, destroyed towns, and the unnerving scale of storm systems. The MV Explorer sinking becomes a story about survival, Antarctic remoteness, fuel spills, and ecosystems. The Ash Wednesday Storm episode threads storm damage through Chincoteague history, Misty, and local memory. The Astroworld episodes focus on crowd behavior, festival risk, and the systems that can make safety secondary. The Italian Hall Disaster brings in mining towns, labor conditions, workers, and a fatal public panic. The show is often funny, but it is rarely casual about harm. Its humor works as pressure release, not denial. Listener-written scripts sometimes shape the episode order and add another layer of community participation. The speakers are comfortable admitting what they did not know before a topic landed in front of them. That curiosity keeps the show from feeling like recycled disaster trivia. It is best for listeners who want dark history with personality, not a solemn documentary voice. It can be intense, repetitive in its warnings, and emotionally heavy. That is also the point. All Bad Things turns the world’s worst days into researched conversation, with enough warmth to keep the dread listenable.