MFM Minisode 416
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Hello. Hello. And welcome to My Favorite Murder. This is a mini-sode. It's your fucking stories and we fucking love them. Look, you're making us do this.
no choice you will not stop filling up our email box with these stories that we love that we love okay the subject line of this one is marshmallow explosion great and then it just says sort of hometown and it starts salutations etc so this is being written by a spider named charlotte ready Just listen to the recent-ish episode about the Sun Valley Mall disaster, and it jogged a memory of what I guess can be called my non-murder hometown, also from the 80s. I kind of love that idea. Yeah. Do you have a story of some crazy shit that happened in your hometown?
Yeah, it's like the balloon, what's it called, release. Like, what is the fucked up thing that they're like, this will be a great idea. Yeah. in our small town.
You don't have to have even witnessed it. You can just say, this is the crazy thing that happened in my hometown.
Yes, that's exactly what we want.
1988.
Oh, my God. That's got to be... 800 million?
222 million.
That's a lot still. It's so much.
I went for it. Okay. There are disagreements over exactly how the fire that led to the explosion started, as well as what exactly caused the explosions themselves, but it seems to have been some combination of a natural gas leak, spark welding, and a highly volatile rocket fuel component stored at the site. Let's get that rocket fuel separately. in that separate area. In the desert. The explosions also triggered an explosion at the next door marshmallow factory, which given I was five years old when this took place is pretty much the only thing I remember. Yeah. I texted my mom, Nancy, about the disaster. And since she didn't have a squishy child's brain when we lived in Vegas in 85, she had a bit more to say. The rocket factory was in Henderson in a neighborhood.
No one knew it was there until it exploded.
You got to tell people. You got to let them know who their neighbor is.
Just a real low key, like I said, David's bridles on the outside, but inside they're mattress firm. Yeah. That's unfair. And then it says right next to it was a marshmallow factory. We went up and looked at it the day after and there were puffs of marshmallow all over the cacti and men in white suits looking for radiation. That smelled so good. Smelled so good. But Nancy's pulling her child right up to the curb being like, let's get in here and see marshmallows and radiation. Stop. Smell the radiation. When it happened, you were with your father at the post office, and the two of you felt the explosion, and the post office window waved back and forth. Whoa. I love this. Your mom reminding you of what happened. I was teaching.
The force of the explosion knocked plants off the top of the lockers in my classroom, and it felt like I had been kicked in the back.
Wow.
Crazy. I was the one who was responsible for going outside and making sure all the kids got in because we knew something was coming our way, but we didn't know how bad it was going to be. As teachers, we were making preparations for keeping the children overnight until we got word that it wasn't anything lethal and the buses would be coming for the children.
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