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American Scandal
Wondery
4.6 • 18.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
As oil continues to leak into the Gulf, BP claims it will “make it right”. But the company does everything they can to silence critics and hide the scale of the disaster.
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| 0:00.0 | Want to get more from American Scandal? |
| 0:02.8 | Subscribe to Wondry Plus for early access to new episodes, |
| 0:06.4 | add free listening, and exclusive content you can't find anywhere else. |
| 0:10.1 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:13.8 | American Scandal uses dramatizations that are based on true events. |
| 0:18.1 | Some elements, including dialogue, might be invented, |
| 0:22.5 | but everything is based on historical events. Some elements, including dialogue, might be invented, but everything is based on historical research. It's May 2010 in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. |
| 0:43.9 | From a flat-bottom boat, Jeff Phillips scans the coastal wetlands with a pair of binoculars. |
| 0:49.6 | The marsh around him is stained black with oil that's been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico ever since |
| 0:55.3 | the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded several weeks ago. Beretaria Bay is a popular nesting site for |
| 1:02.1 | pelicans, and Phillips is a part of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service team that is trying to save |
| 1:07.2 | as many of the birds as possible. They have several rehabilitation centers where |
| 1:11.2 | the pelicans can be nursed back to health, but first, biologists like Phillips and his colleague |
| 1:16.4 | in the boat have to catch them. Hey, Jeff, there's one over here. Phillips crosses the deck to his |
| 1:23.1 | colleague on the other side of the boat. He raises his binoculars as the other man points out where to look. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah, just at the end of the bank there. Oh, I see. Poor little guy. |
| 1:32.3 | The bird should be silver-gray, but this one is the color of mud. |
| 1:36.3 | It dips its head, desperately trying to preen its oil-coated feathers. |
| 1:40.3 | Phillips lowers his binoculars. |
| 1:42.3 | All right, let's get going. Phillips climbs out of the |
| 1:46.1 | boat into the waist-high water. The other man hands him a long-handled net before jumping into the water |
| 1:52.1 | beside him. They trudge out of the water and onto the bank as Phillips presses his foot down. |
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