What Makes Disaster Films Great
Stuff You Should Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 79.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Disaster films are surprisingly tough to define. What makes them different from an action movie or a monster movie? Who cares? They’re great! Escape with us as we cover the the ins and outs and the history of disaster films and recommend some good ones.
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| 0:00.0 | In 2020, a group of young woman found themselves in an AI-fueled nightmare. |
| 0:05.8 | Someone was posting photos. |
| 0:08.1 | It was just me naked. |
| 0:09.5 | Well, not me, but me with someone else's body part. |
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| 0:31.2 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:40.8 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:42.6 | I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and it's just us today, and that's okay because we're just |
| 0:46.8 | going to be sitting around rapping about one of our favorite things to talk about, |
| 0:50.9 | and that is movies. |
| 0:53.2 | Let's go to the movies you had a little Catherine Hepburn thing going on |
| 0:59.7 | there uh Ethel Merman Catherine it was it was Catherine Hepburn singing Ethel Merman okay |
| 1:06.3 | that's how I took it yeah uh yeah we are going to go to the movies, Chuck. |
| 1:11.0 | And in particular, a specific kind of movie that the more I dug into, the more I realized is one of my favorite types of movies. |
| 1:18.4 | Oh, yeah? |
| 1:19.3 | Yeah, disaster movies. |
| 1:20.9 | I had no idea. |
| 1:22.1 | But remember we were talking, this whole thing was kicked off by me watching the day after tomorrow a couple weeks ago. |
| 1:28.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:29.4 | And I was like, yeah, it's one of my favorite movies. |
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