Episode 53: The Formosa Fun Coast explosion

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4.2 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On a hot summer night in 2015, a water park near Taipei hosted a party which drew thousands looking for a good time. But the party included an added ingredient which threatened the lives of hundreds of attendees.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matterice, and before I get started today, let's just take care of the usual housekeeping.
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1:14.3	Second of all, I'd like to thank Rachel from yours and murder for suggesting the subject of today's episode
1:19.9	and lots of other potential episodes while she was at it.
1:24.4	But this was one that I hadn't even heard of before, and we all know how much
1:28.2	I love those, so the others will just have to wait. Thanks, Rachel. And lastly, all monetary amounts
1:35.0	mentioned in this episode are in New Taiwan Dollars, although I will also provide the conversion
1:40.0	to American dollars to give you some idea of just how much that is. I just didn't want to
1:45.4	keep repeating new Taiwan dollars over and over and over again. With that in mind, thank you
1:51.0	very much for listening, and welcome to disaster area.
2:00.4	Episode 53.
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