Speaker 1: Hey, Alphabet Boys listeners, I want to tell you about
Speaker 1: another podcast from Western Sound. It's called Ripple and it
Speaker 1: just came out. Alphabet Boys told you stories that the
Speaker 1: government didn't want you to hear, and Ripple dives into
Speaker 1: the unknown ramifications of major news stories that we all
Speaker 1: thought we knew. In the first season, host Dan Leone
Speaker 1: travels hundreds of miles across the Gulf Coast, talking to
Speaker 1: local residents and discovering the unexpected long term consequences of
Speaker 1: the largest environmental disaster in American history, the twenty ten
Speaker 1: Deep Water Horizon oil spill. So I hope you'll subscribe
Speaker 1: to Ripple and here's a preview of the series.
Speaker 2: Do you remember the BP oil spill? It happened on
Speaker 2: the Gulf Coast back in twenty ten. A massive oil
Speaker 2: rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana. The resulting spill
Speaker 2: was the leading story in the nation for the entire
Speaker 2: summer of twenty ten, as waves of crude oil crashed
Speaker 2: into coastal beaches.
Speaker 3: It was panic because there's never been a leak this
Speaker 3: size stopping it has tested the limits of human technology.
Speaker 1: I got really scared.
Speaker 4: I know what everyone was thinking. Is like, how on Earth?
Speaker 4: But again, to stop this, I just think, I don't
Speaker 4: think it's going to have an inn.
Speaker 2: But it did end. Government officials reported that the leak
Speaker 2: was plugged, that the beaches were cleaned, and the coast
Speaker 2: was safe. They declared the Gulf open for business and
Speaker 2: promised severe consequences for those responsible.
Speaker 3: BP has agreed to plead guilty to all fourteen criminal charges.
Speaker 3: The company has also agreed to pay four billion dollars
Speaker 3: in fines and in penalties.
Speaker 2: And for most of America, that was the end of
Speaker 2: the BP oil spill. It wasn't pretty, but a worst
Speaker 2: case scenario was mostly avoided. The golf eventually recovered. That's
Speaker 2: the story I remembered. But a couple of years ago
Speaker 2: I started wondering, how did the largest oil spill in
Speaker 2: American history get cleaned up in just a few months.
Speaker 2: So I drove to the Gulf coast to talk to
Speaker 2: the people who live through the oil spill. And if
Speaker 2: you ask a lot of people on the Gulf, they'll
Speaker 2: tell you a very different version of the BP oil
Speaker 2: spill story.
Speaker 3: There's dead fish, dead wildlife on my beach in front
Speaker 3: of my condo, and they're telling us that everything's great.
Speaker 4: I said, what they weren't attending to the workers that
Speaker 4: they were engaging.
Speaker 3: They just left us.
Speaker 1: We were all lied to.
Speaker 3: They were sampling key chemicals that are known to be
Speaker 3: toxic to humans.
Speaker 4: That's when a dizzy Spales started to get really intense. Well,
Speaker 4: it felt like I was going to faint to pass out.
Speaker 3: Blood was coming out of my nose, I had blood
Speaker 3: coming out of my ears. I was bleeding from everywhere.
Speaker 4: And it's still not right. It is definitely not over.
Speaker 4: It's still not right.
Speaker 1: They don't want to admit that people get fucked up
Speaker 1: from this.
Speaker 2: It's the most severe public health and safety threat that
Speaker 2: I've encountered in over four decades of working with Western Blowers.
Speaker 2: I'm Dan Leone from Western Sound and APM Studios. Comes
Speaker 2: a new series investigating the stories that we were told
Speaker 2: were over. Ripple.
Speaker 1: It's an amazing story. You'll love Ripple and it's out now.
Speaker 1: Search for Ripple and follow all episodes wherever you get
Speaker 1: your podcasts.