Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matarise. And before I get started on the episode today, I just like to take care of the usual housekeeping. For starters, paid requests are now reopened. If you're interested in submitting a disaster request, please double-check the list of requests I recently posted to the podcast, Facebook, and Tumblr accounts to make sure your request has not already been made. Also, please look through past episodes to verify

I haven't already covered the disaster in question. To submit a request, you can send a donation of

$30 or more to the podcast, PayPal at Disasterarea at Mail.com on Venmo at Disaster Area Podcast

or on Cash App at Disaster Area Pod. Just add the name of the disaster to the notes on your

donation. If you have an idea for an episode subject but you're not sure if it qualifies, feel

free to message me and I can approve one way or the other. I will say that I have a very large

umbrella under which I will cover disasters, everything from natural and man-made disasters

to financial disasters, commercial disasters, fandom disasters. I've had requests made in the past

few weeks, which have no body count, but just a lot of public humiliation and shame. So there are a lot

of things that I am willing to cover. Obviously, as I've said before,

9-11 and Titanic are out just because they're very large and they've already been covered. And if I

wanted to cover them the way that I want to cover them, it would take an entire year. I would be

there forever and ever and ever and ever and ever. So those two are

out. But for the most part, I am very willing to cover a disaster, even if it is something like

DashCon, Katz the movie. Somebody asked me to switch out one of their requests the other day with the fire festival. So that's

coming up as well. So there are a lot of great things out there that aren't deadly disasters that

I will cover as well. The subject for this episode was chosen by Beth, and I'd like to thank you for

the request and the donation. If you'd still like to help support the podcast in another way, you can do so with a one-time donation through PayPal, Venmo, or Cash

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And if you do join the Patreon, you will get new episodes ad free as soon as I record them

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