It really is kind of that age-old story of politicians kind of doing what they have to do to survive.

If you know people are drinking contaminated water and they're giving it to their kids,

clearly they should have stepped in and stopped it.

People were getting sick. People were dying.

Drain commissioner, unelected emergency managers, city officials, and the governor's office.

They were all in on this kind of scam to basically shackle the city of Flint.

But at the end of the day, it's kind of nauseating that an American city was poisoned by their government.

Jordan Sheridan, thank you so much for joining me.

How are you today, sir?

Hey, doing well. Thanks for having me.

So I am particularly fascinated by your new book, We the Poisoned, you know, just like me

and everybody else of my generation.

We've all heard about the Flint water crisis. Something was

happening in Flint, one of the poorest cities in the country, probably still. And a bunch of people

were drinking poison water for a generation. Beyond that, I don't really, I don't really know the

details of it at all. And I think most people don't.

So this is going to be a good opportunity for you to kind of refresh our memories, go into detail, and just kind of bring us up to speed on what's happening with it.

So if you could please, like recap the beginnings of the crisis, what was it actually

going on in Flint? Yeah, I think a lot of people have kind of just been fed a media narrative

that's completely untrue. But basically at the turn of the century,

you know, 2000s, 2010, Flint, like a lot of cities, was kind of a rotting economic corpse

for a lot of reasons. But, you know, the tax base had cratered and basically a private foundation was paying for most of government services, schools, youth programs, and the city was nearly bankrupt.

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