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STAFF PICKS: Toxic Capitalism Makes Us Sick / Elizabeth Grossman & Valerie Brown

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4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Producer Lindsey plays a 2015 interview with science journalists Elizabeth Grossman and Valerie Brown on the failure of government regulatory agency and corporate greed in the chemical industry and how those things are making everyone sicker and less safe.

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until a call comes for you to cry elsewhere.

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We must all cry, but tell me,

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must our tears be white? The biggest thing, the war is with the

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the ordinary school orders would be.

0:19.0

The biggest problem. Pick a jackie, a jack!

0:24.0

That's a good man.

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A good man.

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A good man. This is hell. Hell.

0:45.0

Thank you for tuning into This is Hell.

0:50.0

It's Monday, August 1st. August 1st already. It's a moving weekend.

0:58.8

So make sure you hit the alleys because everybody is throwing away their stuff. And we record here in

1:06.6

Chicago where one time I read Chicago throws away 10 billion tons of trash every year that's picked up in a vehicle

1:17.7

that burns fossil fuels and becomes very heavy as they compact all the garbage throughout the day.

1:25.0

And then people go buy new stuff because it's capitalism.

1:30.0

Anyways, I'm here. This is Lindsay, soundboard producer of this is hell here because Chuck is on vacation.

1:42.0

So I hope some of you are glad to hear that's not because he's

1:45.4

sick. He's not in the hospital. So yeah, good for Chuck. Taking a vacation for once. It must be nice. I'm kind of tired. I'm kind of on vacation mode too since everybody else is. So I pretty much just

2:06.9

want to hit play here on this here episode. I'm a bit busy this week because my father who lives in Phoenix

2:15.9

is visiting me next week. He's coming for a post-man's convention. I'm not sure

2:21.5

exactly what it is yet, but my dad's a letter carrier and

2:24.2

apparently a lot of them are coming to Chicago so hope they don't get COVID

2:30.6

anyways I'm here filling in because Sebastian is also on out of town. I assume

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