Asbestos: The Story of The Mineral That Used to Be In Everything
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, today we know asbestos to be a health hazard. But the natural mineral was not simply an artifact of the industrial age. Here’s the History Guy telling the story of asbestos.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
| 0:08.4 | All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks? |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
| 0:21.6 | he built. |
| 0:22.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. |
| 0:27.3 | And then boom, it's everywhere. |
| 0:29.3 | And that was that moment. |
| 0:30.7 | Listen if there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:44.6 | Yeah. or wherever you get your podcast. This is our American stories, |
| 0:47.7 | and we tell stories about everything here on this show. |
| 0:49.9 | And our favorite stories about our past history stories, |
| 0:56.5 | our next comes to us from a man who's simply known as the History Guy. His videos are watched by hundreds of thousands of people |
| 1:01.4 | of all ages on YouTube. The History Guy is also heard here on our American stories. Today, we |
| 1:08.8 | know asbestos to be a health hazard, but the natural mineral was not |
| 1:12.9 | simply an artifact of the industrial age. Here's the history guy telling us the story of asbestos. |
| 1:21.5 | Today, asbestos is pretty much singularly known as something dangerous that used to be used in |
| 1:25.6 | building materials. Billions of dollars are spent in asbestos abatement and ads play on television offering legal help to people who have been exposed to asbestos. |
| 1:34.3 | If you have an older home, you might worry about whether there's asbestos in your home. |
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