Disasterology (DISASTERS) with Samantha Montano

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornados, explosions, hurricanes, oil spills, bombings, BAD THINGS: Why do they happen? What can we do to prepare? What is a disaster vs. a catastrophe? Who makes it their life's work to go help? Professional Disasterologist and Emergency Management expert Dr. Samantha Montano sits down to talk about disaster movies, the addiction of helping others, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the floods, looting, doomsday prepping, keeping calm under pressure, climate change, governmental budgets, cathedrals vs. islands, the myths of disasters, looking for the helpers, and how humans tend and befriend each other in times of chaos. Dr. Montano's website: disaster-ology.com Follow Dr. Montano on Twitter @SamLMontano Sponsor links: calm.com/ologies; Trueandco.com/ologies (code: ologies); kiwico.com/ologies A donation went to: billandersonfund.org More links up at alieward.com/ologies/disasterology Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes! Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies Follow twitter.com/AlieWard or instagram.com/AlieWard Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris Theme song by Nick Thorburn Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's room temperature cheese.
0:04.0	Which you always forget is better than cold cheese, alleyward, back with another episode
0:08.5	of Oligis.
0:09.5	You know, every week I worry, will I make a good enough episode for you?
0:12.9	I'm not gonna bungle it.
0:14.6	This one is a disaster.
0:17.2	And I'm happy to report it's a disaster in the best way.
0:20.4	I'm gonna get a few formalities out of the way up top.
0:23.4	I wanna thank the patrons at patreon.com for making the show possible.
0:27.2	There's a little as a buck a month, you can donate.
0:29.9	I thank you to everyone wearing Oligis merch from Oligismerch.com.
0:34.1	Thanks to everyone who tells a friend or a lover.
0:37.0	Ooh, about the show and to rate it and subscribe to keep it up in the charts.
0:42.2	And most importantly, perhaps reviews because you know on days when I'm eating peanut butter
0:47.8	and hotel room for dinner, I read them and I smell like a creep with a warm heart.
0:53.8	Such as for example, this one by Tumblr Mobile who says, not to be dramatic, but listening
0:58.6	to Oligis has been helping me slowly climb out of the depressive funk I've been in for
1:03.0	the past six months.
1:04.4	Thank you, dadward, for being curious and insightful.
1:07.7	And sociocathy, hello to your inner curious science kid.
1:11.1	From my inner curious science kid and the rest of the oligite.
1:14.2	So thank you for your reviews, everyone.
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