GETTING CURIOUS | Are You Getting Every Word Of This? with Erin Brockovich

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This week on Getting Curious, we’ve got numbers coming out of our ears. For instance: two. Two? Yeah. That’s how many times the clean water activist and consumer advocate Erin Brockovich has now appeared on the show. How about this for a number? One. That’s how many people it takes to start a movement advocating for safe drinking water. And we’re guessing zero is the amount of hesitation you’ll have before hitting play on this iconic conversation between Jonathan and Erin, all about what’s in our water, who’s currently regulating it, and how we can take charge of the water supply in our communities. Follow Erin on Instagram @the_real_erin_brockovich and Twitter @ErinBrockovich. Check out her new book Superman’s Not Coming and her podcast of the same name. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation
0:06.1	with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:09.9	On today's episode, I'm joined by an iconic environmental activist and consumer advocate
0:14.8	Aaron Brockovich, where I ask her, are you getting every word of this?
0:20.6	Welcome to getting curiousness to Jonathan Venice.
0:22.2	I'm really so excited because we have a guest. I think I can kind of like one hand how many times I've had someone back to the podcast. You're brilliant, you're a thought leader, you're someone who I've looked up to for years so welcome back to the
0:33.2	podcast Aaron Brockovich your new book is out Superman's not coming and I just
0:39.3	cannot wait to talk to you I think we were in you know we were talking just a little bit before we
0:43.1	started about this election and how we're fearing and as we got into it I said stop stop
0:47.0	stop because I want to keep this you know so fresh for the podcast so I'm just
0:51.2	thank you for coming how how have you been? What's what's happened since we saw each other last for you?
0:57.4	Oh, well, what's happened since we saw each other last? Well, I definitely have
1:02.1	Superman's not coming out and I'm working on a pilot
1:07.3	that ABC picked up for a show we're getting there so I don't know how much I can
1:12.4	or can't talk about. I'm like everybody else that just
1:17.6	the hard stop that came with COVID and it's like every day's Groundhog's Day. We were talking earlier about you
1:26.3	know oh my gosh my brain hurts with all the technology and I's it's it's been heard. I feel the same frustration everyone does. In my keynotes I've been saying
1:38.9	the past year. There's a shift coming. There's a shift coming. It's not like I was saying COVID is coming but you
1:45.0	could feel something happening and this moment has hit us. It's interesting that Superman's not coming, is coming out at this time because I think there is a wake up moment happening that I've been able to see on the ground and in the field for 20 years on environmental issues and that's been this idea
2:09.5	Whether it's been we bought the illusion it's been a false sense of security we had this idea
2:17.6	that agencies were there they would have our back and I learned a long time ago Superman's not coming and it would be up to
2:27.3	we the people and I think we the people are in our wake-up moment and I find that hopeful.
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