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 disaster area 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 another.

Although I have yet to say no to anything, just a reminder that 9-11 and Titanic are off the table because they are very, very large subjects

to cover, and I would love to cover them, but they would have to be a whole series, and it would

take forever, and it's better just to kind of stay away from those two. But literally anything

else that you can successfully argue as a disaster,

I will go along with. The subject from this particular episode was chosen by me in response to current

events. And I just wanted to say thank you to you guys for being patient with me. I would have put

out this episode last week, but I got a

cold, terrible, awful cold, and lost my voice for three days. And it wasn't very strong for the

rest of the week. So, you know, not good all around. If you'd still like to help support the podcast

in another way, you can do so with a one-time

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an episode can help me do things like pay the rent and keep the lights on, buy groceries,

buy treats

for a professor.

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

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