Oh, hey, it's the bouncer who comments on your out-of-state license because he has a cousin who lives there,

Alie Ward, back with a fresh and a timely episode of Oligies that as an episode and as a species,

this one is really long overdue, but it was finally driven by some recent events in Ohio.

And Jerk and I went to our neighbors to eat dip for a quarter or two during the Super Bowl.

And we were pretty shocked to learn how few of our neighbor's friends had heard of this train derailment in Eastern Ohio.

Same thing with my family chat, everyone's like, what derailment?

So I said, Ward, let's talk to an environmental taxologist about their whole life and this.

So we did.

So I asked around for the best person to chat with and y'all delivered so many arrows pointed right at thisologist

who did an undergrad degree in environmental science, got a masters in public health,

in environmental and occupational health, including a very fancy environmental health risk assessment certification.

And then earned their doctorate in environmental and occupational health.

They're now doing a postdoc at Northeastern universities, social science, environmental health research institute in Boston.

And they've studied anthrax, in Alaska, potential antidotes to lethal phosphine poisoning, sneaky PFAS, much more on those later.

They studied how climate change impacts epidemiology and mitochondrial poisons.

Their work is just this beautiful soup of environmental toxicology, public health and environmental justice.

They are perfect for this.

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