Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matteris. And before I get started, I just wanted to say thank you

to everybody for being infinitely patient with me the past month. I had plans to finish this series

by the end of November, but National Novel Writing Month got in the way. I was determined to get my 50,000 words out for November,

which I did, which means that my manuscript is almost finished. It's a very long manuscript.

It's a first draft. They usually are. So you can throw a lot out later on, basically. But I wanted to

say thank you for being patient. The next three episodes in the series

should be coming out as soon as possible so that I can get back to things that are not Chernobyl

because I have had Chernobyl on the brain for the past two months. And also, for those of you who are on the Patreon,

I may be getting them out a little early there and then getting them here on the regular feed.

But either way, I will not be charging for those. I won't start charging again until I start doing other episodes,

because this series is kind of special and it's like one big episode anyway. So just really,

really long episode. But now that that is all taken care of, now to do the usual housekeeping.

If you've been wanting to hear a particular disaster on the podcast, you can do so for a $25

or more donation to the podcast's PayPal account at disaster area at mail.com.

Just add the disaster you'd like to hear about to the notes of your donation, and I'll add it

to the list. I may not respond just because I'm really, really bad at that, but I will add it to the

list. No worries. Don't worry about that. Normally when it comes to requests, I do them when and

if I can, but this will mean I will definitely cover the topic of your request as soon as I can finish the research for it and get the script written.

So, you know, like in this particular case, it took a little longer for it to come out.

So you have to keep that in mind if it's some kind of big disaster.

It's going to take a little bit longer.

The subject from this particular

...