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episode 49: Episode 49 -- "Workplace Horror Stories"
Today’s podcast features two separate, unique stories that share a theme: workplace horror stories. The audio from these stories has been pulled from our YouTube channel, which is just called "MrBallen," and has been remastered for today's podcast.
Story names, previews & links to original YouTube videos:
- Story 1 -- “Hell Fire" -- Workers make repair inside huge industrial machine (Original YouTube link -- https://youtu.be/46zxGu-y_4A?t=1260)
- Story 2 -- "The 9th Compartment" -- A secret note was discovered at the bottom of the ocean (Original YouTube link -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz5Gw2vBtgs)
For 100s more stories like these, check out our YouTube channel just called "MrBallen" -- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallen
If you want to reach out to me, contact me on Instagram, Twitter or any other major social media platform, my username on all of them is @MrBallen
SPOILERS BELOW THIS POINT:
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Main Sources:
Story 1: Hell fire
1) Tampa Bay Times investigative piece into what happened -- https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2017/investigations/tampa-electric/big-bend-hellfire-from-above/
2) Tampa Bay dot com about what the company is doing to remediate issue -- https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/2021/01/22/tampa-electric-will-retire-one-of-its-coal-powered-generators-early/
3) Story about the voicemail Antonio's mother received -- https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/accidents/mom-got-haunting-phone-call-from-son-as-molten-slag-hit-him-in-big-bend/2329703/
4) Confined Space newsletter about worker safety coverage -- https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2017/08/18/workers-lives-tampa/
Story 2: The 9th Compartment
1) Wikipedia page about the Kursk -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_submarine_disaster
2) Popular Mechanics write up -- https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a23494010/kursk-submarine-disaster/
3) Britannica write up -- https://www.britannica.com/event/Kursk-submarine-disaster
4) Radio Free Europe write up -- https://www.rferl.org/a/the-kursk-catastrophe-a-lesson-for-putin-is-fading-from-russian-attention-20-years-later/30778500.html
5) The National Interest write up -- https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/oh-pictures-how-russian-submarine-died-terrifying-175387
6) 19fortyfive write up -- https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/10/kursk-accident-the-scary-way-a-russian-nuclear-submarine-committed-suicide/
7) Wikipedia page for Barents Sea -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barents_Sea
8) Irish Times write up -- https://www.irishtimes.com/news/soaked-letter-tells-last-hours-of-kursk-crew-1.1112366
9) ABC News write up -- https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=82260&page=1
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