Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Vaness and every week I sit down for a gorgeous

40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes

me curious. On today's episode, I'm joined by a literal icon someone who I've looked

up to so much for so long and I cannot even believe that I literally get to meet the

real, and the flesh, consumer, and environmental advocate, Erin Barakovich. Where we discuss

standing up to injustice and addressing the problem of toxic water.

Welcome to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan Vaness. This is a really big day for me. I am

interviewing two icons of my whole life today. You're one. Oh, that's so cool. Welcome to

the studio. Erin Barakovich. Oh, thank you so much. I'm thrilled to be here. So, no,

thank you so much for coming. So, I saw, I was introduced to you like so many from Erin

Barakovich, the movie. Yes. And I watched it so many times. Like literally, I've probably

seen it over a hundred times in my life. I've seen it more than I have. And over a hundred

times at least. But also, I loved your show, worst case scenario. I, the one that was on

TLC that you hosted about like what to do in the case of like, you had one word that

was like, well, there was final justice. Tell me what final justice was. Final justice

came out right after the film. It was about, you know, women who had tragedies, but they

used that to empower themselves and change laws. So, like some of our cell phone laws came

from a mom whose child was killed because somebody was texting and she went into change

laws. And so very empowerment. Oh, so one of them must have like driven into a lake.

There was like must have been an episode about someone. Yeah. That's what I thought.

So people may have pulled, you know, certain episodes and then showed them on another

air network. My exposure to it was like, okay, that's how I get out of a car if it's

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