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Le Show

Le Show For The Week Of November 9, 2025

Le Show

Harry Shearer

Politics, News, Society & Culture, Sports, Music, Tech News

4.6972 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry bring us regular features like News of Forever Chemicals, News of Musk Love, News of A.I., News of Smart World, News from the Land of 4,000 Princes, News of Crypto-Winter, The Apologies of the Week, and News of the Warm. He also considers holiday music, Dick Cheney’s passing, and plays great music.

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0:07.0

Forever chemicals are forever.

0:15.0

Forever's not alone.

0:20.0

You know, sea otters, ladies and gentlemen, Forever's not long.

0:29.9

You know sea otters, ladies and gentlemen, are voracious eaters munching away on shellfish, urchins, and other invertebrates throughout the day.

0:34.5

While the marine mammals tend to feel satiated after a lengthy meal,

0:38.3

recent evidence suggests the location of where they gorge may increase the amount of forever chemicals throughout their bodies.

0:42.2

The new paper in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, published this week

0:47.6

by the Oxford University Press, as scientists revealing high levels of perfluorinated

0:53.6

and polyfluorinated alkalineate

0:55.1

alkyl substances, your PFAs, your forever chemicals, found in the bodies of dead sea otters

1:01.8

on the shores of British Columbia.

1:04.3

Well, maybe they shouldn't die.

1:07.1

PFAs are synthetic, often toxic chemicals that stay in the environment and continually accumulate in living creatures, including your humans.

1:16.9

They actively bind to proteins.

1:19.8

I guess they like them.

1:21.2

They're found in soil and water, and no region in the world.

1:23.5

Even polar outposts is free of them.

1:27.8

Lining of food packaging, non-stick cookware, waterproof textiles, cosmetics, and firefighting foams

1:35.5

frequently contain forever chemicals.

1:38.7

Seven authors based in Canada contributed research to the new report.

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