Erin Brockovich on ‘Superman’s Not Coming’ and the Nation’s Water Crisis

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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🗓️ 22 August 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Larry is joined by environmental activist Erin Brockovich to talk about her latest book, ‘Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do about It,’ and identifying the signs that your drinking water may be contaminated. Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: Erin Brockovich Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome back everybody.
0:07.3	Welcome to the show we have a good show today, Aaron Brockovich.
0:12.1	Remember Aaron Brockovich from the movie Aaron Brockovich?
0:15.4	That was Julia Roberts actually.
0:17.2	On the show today, to talk about what's going on with the water.
0:21.7	And she just wrote a new book, Superman's Not Coming.
0:25.4	Guys, this book is amazing.
0:27.0	If you ever needed a place where there's just one place where everything you wanted
0:30.4	to know about how to know what's wrong with water, what exactly is wrong with water,
0:35.4	and what's going on.
0:37.1	This is it.
0:38.1	I mean, it's Aaron Brockovich for Cry 6.
0:39.8	It was great talking to our talk to our yesterday.
0:42.7	We had a real good conversation.
0:44.5	And coincidentally, this was the end before when I went and earlier.
0:50.8	And the settlement was just done in the Flint, Michigan, lead water case.
0:57.0	So that was good news where it looks like the people in Flint are finally going to
1:01.6	get something out of it, some money or something like that.
1:04.0	I think there's still a problem going on there and everything.
1:06.5	But when I did the nightly show, as I told you guys, I wouldn't forget about Flint.
1:10.8	You know, it'd been following this story.
1:12.3	And I'm so happy to see that they're getting some kind of redress, at least something.
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