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Before we start today's show, we want to shout out another show in the Radiotopia family, Radio Diaries. a on history and beyond. A year after the release of their series The Unmarked Graveyard,

they're back with a slate of new stories this summer and fall. Their new mini series, Making Waves,

will explore the rise of Talk radio in America with stories about four

little-known controversial broadcasters who change the airwaves. You'll also hear

stories about the US Navy's mission to get humans to live in the ocean, a group that led to the rise of American conspiracy theories, and a woman who was part of the greatest climate migration in American history.

More than eight decades ago, her family fled Arkansas in the wake of the

Dust Bowl to find a better life in California. Here's a clip from that story.

I know mama thought when we got to California her and her kids would be fine.

Plenty of work for everybody, places to live, plenty of fruit and vegetables and all this stuff. But that wasn't true.

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Hey, this is Antonia Cérejido, the host of Imperfect Paradise from Alaya Studios, the show about Hidden Worlds and Mess messy realities.

So I really hate to take us back there, but I must.

The year 2020.

I personally spent hours and hours developing an unusual attachment to my compost bin,

trying to individually solve what I saw as the fundamental breakdown between humans and the land,

and actually a very cool hobby for very mentally stable women. But safe to say, I was not the only

person tackling some of society's largest existential questions during the pandemic.

One of the queries that was beamed across the fiber optic cables

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