The Astroworld Disaster

It’s November 2021, and the Astroworld festival in Houston is in full swing. The crowd is releasing all the pent-up energy from the pandemic, and in the middle of it, Madeline Eskins is screaming as loud as she can. It’s getting hard to breathe, and she knows she doesn’t have long. She asks her husband to tell their little boy that Mommy loves him. Then she faints…

The hosts for this episode are Maya Nalani and Luke Welland. The script is written by Carl Haeger. Sound design: Viktor Persson. Mayday is produced by the podcast company qast.

Charities and non-profits:

The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD:
https://www.theharriscenter.org/

NAMI Greater Houston (National Alliance on Mental Illness):
https://namigreaterhouston.org/

Mental Health America of Greater Houston:
https://mhahouston.org/

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