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.
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  • Stoned History: Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
    Mar 31 2025

    To raise money for car repairs, Jennifer answers the question you've all been wondering - how well can she talk about a disaster while ... let's say "not sober."

    Please help Jennifer fix her car! It takes our esteemed cohost Professor on rides to go see cows and he therefore cannot live without it. Links below:

    GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/59bec8ad

    Paypal: disasterarea@mail.com

    Cashapp: $disasterareapod

    Venmo: @disasterareapodcast

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    1 h y 19 m
  • Episode 252: The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire
    Mar 14 2025

    It was almost the end of a typical Tuesday for workers at the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, South Carolina, in June of 2007, and several of them went out to the loading dock to smoke and kill a little time. One stray cigarette butt thrown too near the trash, and within an hour and a half nine firefighters would be dead.

    Videos:

    • Charleston Fire Department’s recovery from deadly Sofa Super Store fire

    • First hour of dispatch audio from the Sofa Super Store fire

    • Charleston 9: The Ultimate Sacrifice

    • Line-of-Duty Death and Injury Investigations - NIST Fire Modeling - The Charleston Investigation

    Articles and books:

    • Newsweek: 'It looked like Hell was burning'

    • Post and Courier: Sofa store owner tells his side

    • Post and Courier: Trapped: The story of nine Charleston firefighters' deaths

    • NIST Study on Charleston Furniture Store Fire Calls for National Safety Improvements

    • Remembering the Charleston 9: 17 years after deadly Sofa Super Store fire

    • The Sofa Super Store fire: The blaze that reshaped the Charleston Fire Department

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    1 h y 30 m
  • Episode 251: The 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision
    Feb 28 2025

    On a warm November evening in 1996, in the rural farmland not far from Delhi, the remains of two aircraft plummeted from the skies. The collision which caused them to fall is still the deadliest mid-air collision in history.

    Videos:

    • Mayday/Air Crash Investigation episode on Charkhi Dadri collision

    • Disaster Breakdown: The Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision

    • Remains of Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision

    • "Head On"

    Articles and books:

    • Accident report

    • Human error is blamed for crash

    • At Least 349 Are Killed in Collision

    • Indian Officials Gather Evidence on Midair Collision

    • Haryana's Charkhi Dadri plans a memorial for 1996 mid-air collision victims

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    1 h y 36 m
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Bong! Seconds or minutes later....Bong!

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).

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My favorite disaster podcast!

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

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Audio issues

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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biased

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

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