Episode 181 - Allison Madison

The Cripescast Podcast

Charlie Berens

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

With Winter rapidly approaching, there’s no better time for Allison Madison to educate us about the harmful effects of road salt. As the program manager at Wisconsin Salt Wise, she’s bringing awareness to salt’s effect on our environment, economy and infrastructure. On this episode of the Cripescast, she shares that “it only takes 1 teaspoon of salt to pollute 5 gallons of water to toxic levels.” Beyond that, she explains how it’s also affecting our wallets in that “for every $1 of salt laid on the road, we’re doing $10 of damage to our infrastructure.” Not all hope is lost though as Allison provides Charlie and our listeners many alternatives for both plow drivers and the average shoveler to reduce their salt while keeping the roads and sidewalks clean and safe.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody I'm Charlie Barrens and welcome to the Cripes cast.
0:02.8	This is the podcast where we talk to people for and or from the Midwest.
0:07.2	And our studio is powered by Everlight Solar.
0:10.8	Hey folks, how we doing?
0:15.0	Welcome to another episode of the Cripescast.
0:19.3	Today we are talking about salt.
0:23.0	Salt on the roads, not in your bloody merry.
0:26.1	Although it is the same salt in your bloody merry.
0:29.8	Isn't that interesting?
0:31.6	What is all this salt doing?
0:34.0	Colleen, do you ever wonder that when you're driving down the road and it's
0:38.2	cold out and you're thinking of slipping and sliding off the road? Do you ever wonder what that salt is doing aside for keeping you on the road?
0:46.1	No.
0:47.6	Yeah. Well, most people never wonder that either.
0:52.6	But today we are figuring it out.
0:54.7	And basically, I'll give you the long and the short of it folks.
0:59.6	Essentially that adding so much salt to the environment really changes our water from
1:10.1	being fresh water to being brackish water and that has huge impacts on the fish and
1:16.1	biodiversity and all that sort of stuff and additionally so that's that's
1:21.2	for the hippies out there who are big into the environment.
1:24.0	But for you folks who like your money and like not paying taxes,
1:29.0	salt destroys your cars and the infrastructure
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