Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matarise, and before I get started on the episode today, I'd just like to take care of the usual housekeeping.

For starters, paid requests are now reopened. If you're interested in submitting a disaster request,

please double-check the list of requests I most recently posted to the podcast, Facebook, and Tumblr accounts

to make sure your request has not already been made. Also, please look through past episodes to verify I haven't already covered the disaster

in question.

To submit a request, you can send a donation of $30 or more to the podcast, PayPal at

disaster area at mail.com, on Venmo at Disaster Area Podcast, or on Cash App at Disaster

Area Pod. Just add the name of the disaster

to the notes on your donation. If you have an idea for an episode subject, but you're not sure

if it qualifies, feel free to message me and I can approve one way or another, and I usually

do. The subject from this particular episode was chosen by M, and I'd like to thank them for the

request and for the donation. And and I'd like to thank them for the request

and for the donation. And I'd also like to issue a note that I will be getting to the second

part of the Cutter Incident episode as soon as possible, but I want to get it right. It's very

complicated, lots of science stuff, so, you know, we want to be very detailed there. Make sure

that everybody can understand it. If you'd still like to help support the podcast, you can do so with a one-time

donation through PayPal, Venmo, or cash app, or on a per-episode basis through Patreon at

www.com slash disaster area podcast. A per-episode donation of even as little as a dollar an

episode can help me do things

like pay the rent and keep the lights on. And if you do join the Patreon, you will get new episodes

ad-free as soon as I record them rather than waiting until they are released. So if you do

become a patron, I would very much appreciate it. And if you don't become a patron, if you

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