Acid Rain
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Mike tells Sarah how an environmental problem became a national rallying cry, a sticky diplomatic issue and, eventually, a conspiracy theory. Digressions include “Alien,” Field & Stream and NRA public service announcements. Both hosts are recovering from colds and one spends the episode under a blanket.
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| 0:00.0 | So you can call someone like Alkaline and that's a nice shady way of calling them basic nowadays. |
| 0:14.1 | Welcome to Irang about the show where we watch people make the same mistakes over and over and over |
| 0:20.1 | again. Oh my god your taglines are always so good. How do you do this? Well I've been thinking about |
| 0:25.8 | this one for a while and I've been in the car which is where I do my best thinking. |
| 0:29.5 | I am Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for The Huffington Post. My name is Sarah Marshall and I'm a |
| 0:33.6 | writer for The Believer and Buzzfeed and the New Republic. And today we are talking about acid rain. |
| 0:39.2 | Yeah I'm so excited about this because I have truly literally no idea where we're going. |
| 0:45.1 | What are your memories? What are your acid rain memories? I feel like I have a sense that acid rain |
| 0:49.6 | was something that existed in the 70s and then it stopped existing because I certainly never heard |
| 0:54.5 | about it when I was growing up. I've never experienced it as a phenomenon. Really? Yeah I never |
| 0:59.7 | had the pleasure. I assume that it's rain, the type of acidic and it's bad for living things. Yes. |
| 1:05.7 | And patio finish probably. Yes we're done here. Okay. I must have just been right on the cusp then |
| 1:10.8 | because I remember hearing that all the time when I was a kid. This is one of the other determinants for |
| 1:15.0 | like the different grades in our generational terms. Yeah between Old Millennial and New Millennial. |
| 1:19.9 | Because you're an elder millennial. You're like one of the millennials who lives in a hollowed out |
| 1:23.3 | oak tree and who the young millennials have to climb up a mountain to see. |
| 1:29.4 | As an Old Millennial I remember when I was a kid hearing about acid rain all the time. |
| 1:34.3 | But as a kid my understanding of it was basically just the two words in that order that it's |
| 1:38.7 | rain that's acid. So I thought it was like big balls of steaming goo that were raining out in the |
| 1:45.1 | sky. Oh my gack. Yes exactly. So one of the things that I didn't know about acid rain until I |
| 1:51.2 | started researching this episode is that acid rain plays a starring role in climate change denial. |
| 1:58.1 | Oh. It's one of those problems that people in the American left talked about constantly for 10 |
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