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Hi, I'm Mike Rowe and I got nothing against celebrities.

In fact, I just interviewed Rob Lowe and Jason Alexander and they were terrific, but usually I interview people you've never heard of.

The plumber who makes $250 grand a year, the first responders who risk their lives to save complete and total strangers,

and the mad scientists who are about to change the world with a better mouse trap.

Those are the kinds of people I usually interview on the way I heard it, and you're officially invited to give it a listen,

wherever you listen to podcast.

Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Madderice, 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, 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, or 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, although it's very rare that I

don't approve something. So just keep that in mind of a very open mind when it comes to disasters.

The subject from this particular episode was chosen by Ashley, and I'd like to thank them for

the request and for the donation. Now, 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-up, or on a per-episode basis through

Patreon at www.com slash disaster area podcast. A per-episode donation of even as little

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