Marked Safe: A Disaster Podcast

This week, Goat Granny sets up a trail cam, Tinky is in the will, Brianne finds out about Dennis Rodman, Melanie doesn’t want illegitimate Crocs, we’re all spared a week of existential terror, Melanie isn’t noble enough for a baller umbrella, black cats must be protected, Melanie loves to touch wood, Brianne realizes the Romans were onto something, Melanie figures out the origin story for a band name, and we want your scary stories.

Content warnings: hanging death, brief and vague mention of mistreatment of cats, racism in #12.

This week, some shit’s always going down on the east side, petting zoo rules are implemented at Brianne’s sole discretion, Melanie’s decanter collects dust, and Brianne is clear in her feelings on South Korea and its people.

Content warnings: intense descriptions of crowd crushings, discussion of suicide from approximately 43:00 through disaster relief, including one with more detailed discussion of suicide note, PTSD, and survivor’s guilt.

This week, Melanie is a wholesome dad joke, the TV theme show bracket comes to a close, Melanie finds a comrade in morbid graphic design, Brianne is not impulse buying crickets, and we should all get an oil change.

Content warnings: bus fire and explosion leading the the deaths of many elderly people, gross discussion of umbilical cords.

Links:
24 nursing home evacuees...
24 Sep 2005, 6
24 Sep 2005, 7
Ada Dahl
Adrian Flake
Bus company guilty...
Deadly Bus Fire...
Eldon Boudreaux
Elsie Ruth Nicely
Evacuation Tragedy
Evelyn Greer
Family remembers victim...
Fannie Mills
Final Report Released...
Gene Macey
Lester Lothman
Louis Stolz
Luck and Fate...
Martha Talbot
Mary Gillette
Mattie Bynum
Maxcy Hathorn
Motorcoach Fire on Interstate 45...
Police: 24 dead...
Portia Waddell
Rebecca Elledge
Robert Terry
Rose Dipuma
Tragic Bus Fire...
Two Sisters Recount Horror...

This week, we add to our vault of cursed episodes, we plan No Thought November, Brianne gets her giggles where she can, Melanie refuses to change topics mid-episode, Myrtle doesn’t read the room, and Brianne lets the intrusive thoughts win.

Content warnings: extremely graphic and upsetting descriptions of animal suffering and inhumane euthanasia. Also: alcohol, death and injury of humans in animal attacks, very brief reference to catholic sex abuse, children seeing traumatic things.

Links:
https://www.newspapers.com/image/936790995/?terms=Mary%20the%20elephant&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/797930966/?terms=Mary%20the%20elephant&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/66446388/?terms=Mary%20the%20elephant&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/63294201/?terms=murderous%20mary&match=1
https://blueridgecountry.com/archive/favorites/mary-the-elephant/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyke_(elephant)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/science/drunk-elephants-genes.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nRnXMYse2o
https://www.themoonlitroad.com/murderous-mary-the-elephant/
https://www.timesnews.net/news/appalachian-highlands/erwin-historians-recall-story-on-107th-anniversary-of-hanging-of-the-elephant/article_dcdf8033-187a-5818-9ac5-2662fd4ee6dc.html
https://www.newspapers.com/image/346757444/?terms=Tyke%20elephant&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/346423088/?terms=Tyke%20elephant&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/265841427/?terms=Tyke%20elephant&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/273872417/?terms=Tyke%20elephant&match=1
https://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/03/24/news/whatever.html
https://www.elephants.com/elephants
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4254838/

This week, Melanie makes her children ride in the cargo hold, Christy exceeds expectations, Bermuda is not the only triangle in town, Melanie loves to give hugs, the arrogance of white men was the real supernatural mystery all along, Brianne loves nerds and experts and expert nerds, and Michigan is ready to get aliens over with.

Content warnings: historically poor treatment of Native Americans, deaths by shipwreck, brief speculation about suicide or murder, presumed death by plane crash

This week, Brianne is turbocharged by the moon, the White Chicken apology tour never ends, human complexities reach extreme levels, Cody would be on a mule, and it’s too soon for our usual send-off.

Content warnings: cancer, intense description of plane crash with deaths, speculation about decapitation, very graphic discussion of serious injuries, suicide, skull fracture, coma, disembowelment, very graphic discussion of cannibalism, avalanche, buried alive scenario, exhumation of a grave.

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Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_F-27
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/09/731044367/story-of-the-1972-andes-plane-crash-in-out-of-the-silence
https://allthatsinteresting.com/miracle-in-the-andes-uruguayan-flight-571
https://www.flightsafetyaustralia.com/2017/10/when-dead-reckoning-became-deadly-remembering-the-andes-air-disaster/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571#Avalanche
https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer-protection/charter-flights
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cannibalism-andes-plane-crash-1972-survivors-terrible-decision-stay-alive-a6895781.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/12/21/echoes-of-a-crash-unheard-of/9df1d17c-3327-4e2a-a81e-e777fb056ac9/
https://web.archive.org/web/20121005093602/http://www.history.com/topics/alive/page2

This week, Brianne awards a half-assed bracket advancement, all mistakes are just glitches in the matrix, boundaries are set regarding relaxy time, Melanie loves a factory incident, and technology is in retrograde.

Content warnings: gross-sounding slime noise, death by burning, death by drowning, very sad story about couple dying together in a fire, very brief mention of deaths of children in fire, brief and non-graphic mention of vomit in disaster relief.

Links:
https://www.newspapers.com/image/891003142/?terms=Celluloid%20comb%20fire&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/154703005/?terms=Celluloid%20comb%20fire&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/830496111/?terms=Celluloid%20comb%20fire&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/85716087/?terms=Celluloid%20Comb%20Cause%20of%20Death%20Aged%20Wilson%20Citizen%20Loses%20Life%20While%20Caring%20for%20His%20Long%20Gray%20Beard.&match=1
https://blog.newspapers.com/combustible-combs/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/78225462/?terms=Charles%20Hetzel%20Sons%27%20Company%20celluloid%20fire&match=1
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-explosive-truth-behind-the-movie-theater-projection-room
https://plasticshof.org/members/alexander-parkes/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Hyatt#cite_note-everton-2
https://sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/celluloid-the-eternal-substitute/#:~:text=Before%20becoming%20a%20synonym%20for,ivory%2C%20tortoiseshell%2C%20and%20linen.&text=Set%20of%2019th%2Dcentury%20Hyatt,tortoiseshell%2C%20and%20other%20costly%20materials.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/forty-years-ago-126-million-feet-history-went-smoke-180970977/
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,789352,00.html
https://www.survivalworld.com/fire/fire-with-glasses/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/797606877/?terms=celluloid%20fire%20child%20death&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/840869951/?terms=celluloid%20child%20toy%20fire&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/467170692/?terms=Celluloid%20Manufacturing%20Company%20explosion%20Newark&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/220936776/?terms=Atlantic%20Pyroxylin%20Waste%20Co.%20&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/489698283/?terms=Atlantic%20Pyroxylin%20Waste%20Co.%20&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/525829314/?terms=Atlantic%20Pyroxylin%20Waste%20Co.%20Alexander%20Scheinzeit%20&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/490218446/?terms=Atlantic%20Pyroxylin%20Waste%20Co.%20Alexander%20Scheinzeit%20&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/526269735/?terms=celluloid%20factory%20fire%20dead&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/488676408/?terms=Alexander%20Scheinzeit%20trial&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/490363330/?terms=Mayor%20Daniel%20P.%20Rentschler%20Celluloid&match=1
https://www.ittf.com/2020/01/28/transition-celluloid-plastic-balls/

This week, a Canadian goose is nearly lost, Brianne is surprised by her own bracket choices, Olaf is no help for the recap, and we unpack what can prevent a tragedy like this from happening again.

Content warnings: transracial adoption, intense and continual discussion of child abuse and murder, non-graphically discussed animal neglect, suicide,

This week, a Canadian goose is nearly lost, Brianne is surprised by her own bracket choices, Olaf is no help for the recap, and we unpack what can prevent a tragedy like this from happening again.

Content warnings: transracial adoption, intense and continual discussion of child abuse and murder, non-graphically discussed animal neglect, suicide,

This week, Melanie has unexpected responsibilities as the adultiest adult, Bay is marked safe, Melanie forgets to have self-preservation instincts, Jacob gets bonked with some undies, Brianne is ONCE AGAIN right, and Melanie enjoys creating art.

Content warnings: death by explosion.