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Disaster Area

Disaster Area

De: Jennifer Matarese
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A podcast about disasters throughout history - what caused them, how people survived, and how we've responded to keep those disasters from happening again. Ciencias Sociales Mundial
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  • RERELEASE: Episode 254: The Cutter incident - Part One

    RERELEASE: Episode 254: The Cutter incident - Part One
    Feb 27 2026

    NOTE: This was released in May of 2025, but due to life being what it is, I didn't get to finish the final two parts of the episode. So I am rereleasing this episode this week, and the next two weeks I will release the following two episodes. I have now officially backed myself in a corner and I simply MUST finish the episodes now.

    It would start with a headache, a fever, maybe a funny tummy. But soon enough your knee would give out, or your arm would hang limp, or you would struggle to breathe. You'd be taken to the hospital, where you'd get your diagnosis - polio. If you survived, you ran the risk of doing so with paralyzed limbs, struggling to walk on bulky leg braces. Your parents would be terrified they might lose you, and so everybody wanted the one thing that could stop all of this - a vaccine.

    Videos:

    • New England Journal of Medicine: The Cutter Incident, 50 Years Later

    • American Experience: The Polio Crusade

    • The Iron Lung and Polio by M.Rockoff | OPENPediatrics

    Articles and books:

    • Polio: An American Story, by David M. Oshinsky

    • The Cutter Incident, by Dr. Paul Offit

    • NEJM: The Cutter Incident
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    1 h y 12 m
  • Episode 263: Eastern Air Lines Flight 212

    Episode 263: Eastern Air Lines Flight 212
    Feb 21 2026

    2001 was not the only year in which something tragic occurred on September 11th. On that day in 1974, eighty-two people would board a plane from Charleston, South Carolina, to Charlotte, North Carolina. Only ten would survive.

    Videos:

    • 9/11/74: The Untold Story of Charlotte's Deadliest Plane Crash
    • Stephen Colbert and Anderson Cooper's beautiful conversation about grief
    • Talkative Pilots: Eastern Airlines Flight 212

    Articles and books:

    • A fiery plane crash on 9/11/74 changed Charleston forever. 50 years later, its scars linger.
    • NTSB Crash Report for Eastern Airlines Flight 212
    • Charlotte's deadliest plane crash has finally been memorialized after 51 years
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    58 m
  • Episode 262: The sinking of the White Ship

    Episode 262: The sinking of the White Ship
    Feb 11 2026

    King Henry I of England had grand plans for the future of his sole legitimate male heir, William Aetheling. None of those plans would come to pass.

    Articles and books:

    • The Sinking Of The White Ship 1120
    • The White Ship, by Charles Spencer
    • The Impact of the White Ship Disaster of 1120
    • 900 years since the White Ship disaster
    • How one catastrophic shipwreck sank a medieval dynasty
    • Divers find The Tragic White Ship
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    1 h y 22 m
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I haven't been listening to this podcast series long and I'm listening to them out of order (skipping some episodes I have no interest in or which I know the story of already). I like this series and the impromptu style of the host. Also, it's great that she's hosting on her own. The multi-host shows are almost always awful in structure where the main point of the series fails to be delivered. In this particular episode, there's a weird, annoying and unexplained bong sound (like someone hitting a barrel with a bat in another room or something) that repeats intermittently. Apart from that, this is an entertaining listen and the host has a nice voice to listen to (she keeps her levels fine...the bong is about the same volume level).

Bong! Seconds or minutes later....Bong!

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I like the podcast and I like the host, but I have 2 issues.

1) I don't know if it's Audible being glitchy or some weird editing mistake, but nearly every episode has a 5-10 minute chunk of audio that just repeats for no reason. It drives me a little crazy. I may try listening on another platform to see if it is just here.

2) Again, I like the host. She does her research well and she has a way of delivering things in a way that's respectful. That said, she has a tendency to go off on tangents. An episode I just listened to was supposed to be about one topic, but she spent what felt like half of it talking about...how many books she read when she was young? And she does this to at least some extent every episode and some are less irrelevant than others. It just isn't an aspect of the show that I enjoy.

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Excellently researched, excellent delivery. Subject matter is respected but there is no flinching away from unpleasantness.

My favorite disaster podcast!

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Leave your politics out of it. Too much bias. Just the facts please. stop the preaching.

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