Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matarise. And before I get started with the episode today,

I'd 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 most recently posted to the podcast, Facebook, and Tumblr accounts to make sure your requests 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 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 can almost guarantee it qualifies as long as you can

give me a good argument for it. Obviously, man-made and natural disasters like earthquakes and

plane crashes are covered, but I will also cover things that are financial disasters. I have

cats, the movie that is still on my to-do list. I have fandom disasters. I have

financial disasters, all kinds of different disasters. Anything that you can basically argue as a disaster.

I will kind of hedge my bets a little bit with true crime just because I don't want to tilt

too far into true crime. A lot of people have that covered already.

But other than that, it's usually a free-for-all over here.

Now, the subject from this episode was chosen by Samuel,

and I'd like to thank them for the request and for the donation.

You'd still like to help support the podcast.

You can do so with a one-time donation through PayPal, Venmo, or Cash app, and on a per-episode

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