Marked Safe: A Disaster Podcast

This week, the cryptid bracket kicks off, Brianne plans to catch a lonely meshekenabek from a local lake, an elderly airline fleet causes catastrophic problems, disaster relief needs its own disaster relief. Content warnings: Extreme corporate greed, stabbing murder at 48:57, fire, in-flight catastrophe, plane crash, snakes, alligators, relatively graphic recovery of remains discussed periodically...

This week, the true cure for hiccups is unveiled, somebody spots a flying baby, the king of animals is crowned, listeners have a chance to win a cryptid, Count Dante bankrolls his own prize money and reports his own death, the martial arts community is sick of his shit, our friendship is torn apart dream-casting Count Dante, Brianne enables Melanie to harass Mark Wahlberg, feuding dojos implement...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Vague old-timey racism, particularly violent martial arts, one joke about drugs, poor treatment of exotic animals, bombings/explosions, violence against bulls, testicle injury Links: A history of bomb attacks Adult Bookstores, theater insist on right to do business here Black & White Black Belt Black Belt Chicago Lion Sinks Teeth in Quincy Visit Clipped from Chicag...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Child abandonment, possible rabid animal, bridge collapse, severe weather, ship collision, car accident(s), threatened drowning, animal abuse (dog) 1:16:50-1:17:36, animal abuse (birds) 1:28:00-1:29:15 Links: 39 years ago, Skyway bridge crash changed lives forever Anderson: Sarasota’s connections to the Skyway bridge disaster Couple on the run raced into disaster EX-SH...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Snakes, wasps, animals killing each other in nature, violence in war, IED, fire, human being on fire, graphic description of severe burn injuries, hypothermia death, drug dealing, hurricane, interactions with the police, incarceration, gross media depictions of black men, racism, child in peril (abduction) who survives 51:10-53:53, brief and non-explicit mention of sex...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Death by accidental gunshot wound, vague discussion of shark attacks, death by falling projectile, a couple euphemistic dirty jokes (younger kids would not understand, adolescents might), specific description of gross food, cannibalism, starvation, death of infant 45:21-45:44, death of child 47:44-50:45, animal exploitation, brief mention of sex lube at 56:53 and 57:00...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Racism in the military, stereotype of black men as sexual predators, gun violence in the context of war, grenades, bludgeoning death, stabbing death, disembowelment, coma/near-death, traumatic death/c-section, poor treatment of veterans, death from myocarditis, PTSD, alcoholism, poverty, death from blood loss, torpedoes, death by explosion, sucking chest wound, death i...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Institutional/medical racism, COVID-19/vaccine hesitancy, syphilis, brief and euphemistic adult joke Links: 40 Years of Human Experimentation in America: The Tuskegee Study Black Airmen turn racism, bigotry into opportunity Blackface photo reopens long history of bigotry in medicine Condemned to Die for Science Decades later, infamous Tuskegee syphilis study stirs wari...

Audio disclaimer: For my birthday this year, Melanie wanted to make sure I shone for this episode and recorded with the wrong microphone. The Audio Guy did what he could, but her parts don't sound quite as good as usual. We're sorry, it won't happen again! (Until my next birthday.) SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Extreme and graphic descriptions of racism throughout, often violent. A f...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: White supremacists (in the context of their existence and that we dislike them), ghosts/paranormal, passing mention of exorcisms, extremely venomous animals, mention of intubation/ventilators, brief mention of child in peril who survives at 25:38, death of a child 31:05-47:44, premature birth, infertility, death of a mother in front of her child 47:55-48:50, deaths of...

Content warnings: Having COVID-19, endangered animals, brief reference to children dying in a fire in previous episode, very brief mentions of miscarriage and infertility, being an orphan, forced medication, orphanages, tragic implications of poverty, violence against Native Americans, yellow fever, foster care, building fire with children in peril who survive, Catholicism, hurricane, large-scale...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Pigs eating people, animal death, plane crash with fatalities, water rescue, hypothermia, broken arms, loss of spouse/SO, loss of adult child, heart attack, depression, loss of infant in disaster 1:18:13-1:18:23 Links: AAR8208 Afterward Air Florida Flight 90 Air Florida Flight 90 At 3:59 p.m. he was on a plane to Florida; 2 minutes later, it crashed into the Potomac Ri...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Death of birds, deer hunting, discussion of mortality and grief, crushing death of an adolescent around 22:00-24:00, strangling death, anti-Muslim racism 33:05-34:18, scalping, death of a mother in front of her small child and spouse, serious injury to leg, serious injury to child's arm, suffocation/stragulation death of a 4 year old 44:58-45:25, falling death of...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Poop, birds, plane emergency landing, mention of pornography, brief mentions of vomit Links: 12 Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Flavors Inspired By Musicians, Bands, and Festivals 2004 Dave Matthews Band Chicago River incident Aboard the Carnival Triumph cruise ship Accident: Ryanair B738 at Rome on Nov 10th 2008, engine and landing gear trouble, temporarily departed...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Racism, vaguely mentioned premature birth, specific children in theoretical peril, frostbite, loss of spouse, death by drowning (very vaguely mentioned), death by freezing (very vaguely mentioned), coma, blood loss, a quote containing a racial slur, general discussion of the impacts of PTSD, a disaster in which 59 children die but are not discussed specifically at all...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Elephant hunting, brief mention of murder-suicide, old-timey racism, lung disease, feces, violent strike-breaking, dire poverty/food insecurity, mass death of children which is the topic of the episode but is not discussed until 58:15 and is addressed without graphic detail, trampling/stampeding/crushing deaths Links: 1913 Massacre 1913 Massacre Amelia Earhart Mystery:...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Drowning, water search, missing people Links: 25 years ago, thousands watched a balloon launch on Public Square Balloonfest '86 Balloonfest 1986, the spectacle that became a debacle: Cleveland Remembers (video) Claim to world record for 'Balloonfest '86' is not all hot air: Michael K. McIntyre's Tipoff Cleveland Summertime Memories: A Warm Look...

SHOW NOTES Content warning: this episode discusses the large-scale death of children in moderate detail. BACK IN THE DAY: EPISODE 9 | OUR LADY OF THE ANGEL'S SCHOOL FIRE 1958 Chicago Fire Dept. - Our Lady Of The Angels School Fire 1958 Chicago Tribune 04 Dec 1958 Hunt Ransom Hoax Sadist in Pupil Deaths FLASHOVER AND BACKDRAFT: A Primer Our Lady of the Angels blaze. Chicago, 1958. Documents #2...

This week, Brianne will never be prepared, friend gangs are not happening, Joann Fabrics is not having a good run, Melanie is judging people, Target offers no prayers just thoughts, and Melanie wants to be a Barbie. Content warnings: COVID shortages, poop, fatal trampling, fistfight, fatal shooting, violent transphobia 30:00-39:20, graphic oral/dental injuries, suicide 39:20, domestic violence/sta...

This week, Melanie covers the cutest disaster ever, a model has his dick out, Brianne has a zombie bite, cartographers are sneaky, Hazel plays hockey, Melanie identifies the stuff for huffers, caustic soda sucks, Brianne identifies her comfort level on the cannibalism scale, Larry has big balls, a wife is left as collateral to protect 40 racing pigeons, and the mayor gets carried like a princess....

This week, Melanie kicks things off with bad puns, we love Butterfingers for all the wrong reasons, Melanie strikes out on Halloween drugs, Brianne will not engage, Melanie is a hell of a fluffer, Brianne gives Melanie a surprise promotion to mayor, 36 steams of pee cannot stop an inferno, a zip code is eliminated, Melanie isn't a flat-earther, no one cares about drinking from garden hoses, a...

SHOW NOTES Content warnings: Sleep paralysis, paranormal stuff, poltergeist activity, clowns, accidental non-fatal strangulation, misuse of human remains, exorcism, cancer, brief mention of rape, very detailed/graphic discussion of spousal abuse and injuries sustained, non-fatal intentional strangulation, failure of 911 to intervene, murder, coma, attempted suicide, death of child from GI illness...