Hi, it's Amy. I'm excited to introduce you to a new podcast from APM Studios and Western Sounds

called Ripple. In the immediate aftermath of major disasters, there's always a swarm of media attention. The public

is captivated by breaking news, there's coverage and controversy, and then the

cameras and the public move on. But the stories aren't over.

Ripple is a new series investigating the stories we were told were over.

In season one, the reporting team traveled hundreds of miles

across the Gulf Coast to learn the ongoing effects of the 2010 deepwater

Horizon oil spill which are still impacting many coastal residents more than a decade later.

It's a fascinating story and we hope you like it. Here is episode one. Do you remember the BP oil spill? It happened on the Gulf Coast in 2010. A couple years ago I was talking with my father about it. I don't really remember how it came up, but we're sort of, you know, talking about what caused this bill.

We're talking about how much trouble BP got in. We're talking about how it all finally ended.

And we were managing to have a pretty long conversation about this oil spill from over a decade ago, right?

So at one point I asked him, did you ever do any research on this? He said, no. I said, yeah, me neither.

So how do we know all this shit?

He said, I don't know, the news, I assume,

osmosis?

I said, yeah, fair enough. But then out of curiosity I asked some other people I knew.

I said, hey, do you remember that BP oil spill? And they remembered the exact same story as my father and I. Beat for

beat. We all vaguely remembered an accident on an oil rig, an ecological disaster spiraling out of control a months-long

government response. We didn't remember a happy ending, but we all thought that, for the most part, a worst-case scenario was avoided.

The Gulf eventually recovered.

But I started wondering, is that story we all remember the whole picture?

Is that really what went down?

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