Cement City: Episode 6 | The Island of Donora
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🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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There’s trouble everywhere. Jeanne Marie and Erin realize what the town has always known: This town isn’t on anyone’s radar. No one is coming in to help.
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| 0:00.0 | I think my daughter bought me one of those electronic information pads. And I've been, well, I'm computer illiterate. I mean, I understand computers and stuff like that but oh my God. |
| 0:25.0 | I don't I don't understand these goddamn computers. |
| 0:30.0 | Mind if you got that thing, it talks back to you, I mean I can't believe. |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah, I talked to Alexa. |
| 0:38.0 | Jesus, I talked to Alexa, yeah. |
| 0:41.0 | I can't believe why they did that. And I'm tell you the other 20 years we won't be here but it's going to be more advanced. How? I don't know, but is I say transportation in the future is going to be in the air I |
| 0:57.4 | mean not these big planes you're gonna have like a a little plane to your own |
| 1:02.4 | somehow I don't know how, but it will be in the air. |
| 1:07.0 | That's why I predict that. I won't be here to see it. |
| 1:11.0 | The roads, the landslides, the bridges. Too many cars on the road now, too damn many of them. Buses, trucks, they're tearing up these roads. |
| 1:27.0 | Honey, it's monget time for me. |
| 1:31.0 | I better be up my daughters for... |
| 1:34.8 | Where should you go now? |
| 1:36.7 | We don't go today. |
| 1:38.3 | Today's eating. |
| 1:39.3 | She's going to cook. |
| 1:42.1 | Wednesday is eat hot night for how to cook. Wednesday you see that night for us. |
| 1:45.0 | And then sometimes if you don't want to cook |
| 1:48.0 | third and then Friday I'm on my own, Saturday I'm on my own. I'm on my own. I'm on my own. |
| 1:56.0 | I'm Jean Marie Laskis, and this is Cement City. |
| 1:59.0 | Chapter 6, The Island of Denora. Your coffee. |
| 2:05.0 | Bring a microphone. |
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