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EARLY & AD-FREE: The PG&E Toxic Fire Disasters of 1996-2023 | Episode 65
🕑 Added 2024-01-31 11:33:50 +0000 UTCWhat I’m about to tell you in this episode will sound like nonsense – shocking, highly flammable nonsense – unless you’re from California
On this episode: we’ll learn all about what it’s like to work at what I’m hoping is the worst utility company anywhere in the Americas, we’ll take a look at some of the most backwards and evil business accounting of all time, and we’ll learn what happens when a sidewalk explodes beneath your feet
There is so much to be frustrated about while listening to today’s episode My heart goes out to the simple tax payers of California, whose backs must bear the lashes of being reliant on one of America’s very worst companies for their life-sustaining electricity – without whom this episode could not be possible.
Celebrity guests include: gas pipe bomber Monserrate Shirley, lightbulb dunce Thomas Edison, groundwater crusader Erin Brockovich, not-Santa, and King Henry the First of England.
And because you listen to this on Patreon, you hear all about:
• the incredible medical weaponry known as the electric eel
• how a fruit company ruled entire countries with an iron fist
• the unlikely corporate destroying vunderkind Erin Brokovich
• an explanation on why you’re worth more to your employer dead than alive
• we debate the ethics of working on the Death Star
• and we also climb into a Hellmouth
Comments
James! I know, and you're right. It's just, it seems like such an (well, not easy, or cheap, or necessarily safer) fix. I know it'll never happen. They can send people to the moon, but they can't bury our power lines.
I'm sending my love Dr. Z! You let me know if there's anything I can ever do to return the favour. You gotta share that thread with me so I can chime in too.
Just sent a few more listeners your way from reddit! I keep having to rewind this episode because I keep getting distracted replying to comments on my reddit post promoting your podcast haha. At least it's getting some positive attention though!
Hey just listen to the podcast about PE&G, just wanted to clarify something doing high voltage lines underground is a huge expensive and big undertaking. The high voltage lines with the steel towers need to have a radius around them to keep them cool once you put them on the ground the heat up and need things like oil and such to keep them cool
Just saw you hit 150 patrons! That’s awesome! Everyone keep spreading the word!
