Prune Lola Prune

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Film maker / musician / director / podcaster Lola Blanc is out with a new film "Pruning" about a blonde right wing pundit who inspires a shooting and deals with the consequences in an interesting manner. We also talk cults and Smurfs. Plus, Forever Chemicals and how Pickleball and Fantasy Football are the two greatest leisure innovations of the last 30 years. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Friday, July 7th, 2023 from Peachfish Productions.
0:07.8	It's the Gistai Mike Pesca and nearly half the tap water in the U.S. is contaminated with
0:13.6	forever chemicals, says a government study.
0:17.8	CNN Sanjay Gupta with the help of some lightly foreboding music explains.
0:23.3	They're called forever chemicals because they don't break down completely, meaning the
0:27.6	same properties that make these chemicals so durable also make them extremely hard to
0:31.8	get rid of, meaning they accumulate in the environment, in animals, and yes, they accumulate
0:37.8	in us, humans.
0:39.6	Thousands of communities across the United States have drinking water that is contaminated
0:44.5	with PFAS and as a result, more than 200 million Americans could have toxic PFAS in their
0:49.5	drinking water according to the environmental working group.
0:52.7	The animals and the part of the narration was illustrated by a two dead cattle on a muddy
0:57.3	river bank.
0:58.3	Well, this is something to certainly freak out about, no?
1:01.5	They are chemicals and they last forever, as opposed to lead, which only has a half-life
1:07.8	of 28 days.
1:09.1	These are forever.
1:11.2	And they must be bad for you because they are chemicals and the word contaminated was
1:15.6	used.
1:16.6	And we think they are bad for you, but we don't know.
1:19.2	We really don't know.
1:20.2	We need to know more.
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