Tiny Fish of Happiness, Flying Out: 12 Disasters of 2022

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12/28/22 • 55 min

This week, the grief blender hits pulse, we touch wood, the eventful seafood bracket comes to an end, Fun 4 Every 1 is not quite fun for everyone, we learn about a dino the size of a dino, falling into vats of chocolate isn’t that whimsical, we need an OSHA mole, cement gets very hard, and Brianne gets bad news about aquariums
Content warnings: stadium crush involving children and infants, people being hit by subways (discussion of gore), drowning death, bursting aquarium.

Previous Episode

A CVS Receipt of Recalls: Automotive Recalls Part 2

This week: Melanie incorporates smells into the seafood bracket, everybody can panic, a car is a naughty boy, sweet Ava was not prepared, and Melanie likes it creamy.
Content warnings: vomit 2:15, 911 call, car accidents with fatalities including a 13 year old.
Links:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/09/toyota_recalls_38_million_cars.html
https://www.cars.com/articles/explaining-the-toyota-floormat-recall-1420663233094/
https://parts.olathetoyota.com/blog/373/car-recall
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toyota-penalty/toyota-fined-17-35-million-for-u-s-floormat-recall-delay-idUSBRE8BH0J820121218
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toyota-timeline/timeline-toyota-warned-of-floormat-risk-since-2007-idUSTRE62O3K620100325
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna36036209
https://www.motortrend.com/news/163-news110214-toyotas-floor-mat-recall/
https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/toyota-recalls-21-million-vehicles-floor-mats-pedals/story?id=12989254
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/toyota-reaches-12-billion-settlement-to-end-criminal-probe/2014/03/19/5738a3c4-af69-11e3-9627-c65021d6d572_story.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/05/who-was-really-at-fault-for-the-toyota-recalls/238076/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%932011_Toyota_vehicle_recalls
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2011/02/toyota-announces-two-new-recalls-for-accelerator-pedal-safety-amends-floor-mat-recall/index.htm
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/quality-on-the-line-the-fallout-from-toyotas-recall/
https://hbr.org/2011/02/toyotas-recall-crisis-full-of
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/business/2012/06/30/toyota-to-recall-lexus-suvs-to-fix-floor-mat/61062132007/
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/feb/22/toyota-memo-safety

Next Episode

A Gentle Rear-Ending: Automotive Recalls Part 3

This week, we're not changing for anyone including ourselves, Brianne will not change her oil, it's Ford's turn to get in the pond, Melanie won't permit herself to be laid in a Pinto, and spiders are expected to be your palate cleanser.
Content warnings: cars without brakes, non-graphic mention of burn injuries, burning car accident death, seriously injured 13 year old, deaths of 3 teenage girls, upsetting description of burning death.
Links:
https://chevytalk.org/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/73396
https://www.novaresource.org/history/recall.jpg
https://www.chevyhardcore.com/news/motor-mount-recall/
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/05/archives/67-million-cars-face-gm-recall-but-company-denies-safety-defect-in.html
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1977/09/pinto-madness/
https://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-safety/auto-safety-testing/did-pintos-really-explode-in-the-1970s.htm
https://medium.com/the-snail/the-exploding-ford-pinto-of-1973-ff26148d8834
https://www.autorepair-review.com/shop/i92869/j-g-auto-inc/article/4002/why-did-ford-pintos-really-blow-up
https://pintostampede.com/the-pinto-myth
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/01/18/pinto-exploded-like-big-bomb-eyewitness-says/c6516355-20a5-4891-a311-1d94d44c31a7/
https://www.grunge.com/703729/the-real-reason-ford-pintos-used-to-explode/
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryCarIsAPinto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Jones_(magazine)#Controversies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto
https://orangebeanindiana.com/2019/09/04/three-girls-gone-the-pinto-and-indiana-v-ford-motor-co/
https://medium.com/the-snail/the-exploding-ford-pinto-of-1973-ff26148d8834
https://www.repairsmith.com/blog/the-most-bizarre-car-recalls/
https://www.dontwasteyourmoney.com/spiders-still-causing-problems-toyota-owners/#:~:text=Four%20years%20ago%20Toyota%20issued,blocking%20the%20air%20conditioner%20drain.&text=Toyota%20recalled%20870%2C000%20cars%20in,module%20in%20dozens%20of%20vehicles.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/toyota-is-recalling-more-than-800-000-cars-because-of-spiders/280694/
https://money.cnn.com/2013/10/17/autos/toyota-spiders-airbag-recall/index.html