Erin Brockovich
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146 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Erin Brockovich’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I couldn't help myself because my entire upbringing is about, and my father taught me, your greatest gifts are your land, air, water and family and health.
And that it would be my... Verantwortung, ein guter Steuern der Lande und der Wasser zu sein. Und als ich sah, was in Hinckley passiert ist, und ich hatte meine Dyslexie an Bord, was ich dachte, wäre der Abfall in meinem Leben, es war mein Superkraft.
And if I'd listen to it and observe it and see it and connect with it, it was actually telling and teaching me everything I needed to know.
Wir sind, also du weißt, ich habe, ich weiß nicht, ob ich es dir gesagt habe, ich bin fasziniert. Zuerst einmal, ich bin geboren und geboren in Kansas, also ich liebe Wizard of Oz. Aber ich bin wirklich fasziniert mit L. Frank Baum und warum er das Buch, The Wizard of Oz, geschrieben hat. Es gibt eine unglaubliche, sehr gut studierte politische Allegorie zu The Wizard of Oz und ihrer Bedeutung.
Und Ja. Ja. Ja. Ja, ja. Und wir wissen, dass sie in den Filmen in Kansas geboren ist und von Hause weggegangen ist. Wir sind immer so, ich will von meinen Eltern weggehen. Und als sie weggegangen ist, hast du gesehen, dass sie sich mit dem Snake Oil-Mann getroffen hat, der am Ende der Wizardin war. And there was a tornado. The tornado was a representation of disruption in Washington, D.C.
So she goes home, gets hit in the head and lands in Oz. She lands on the Munchkins, who are a representation of the mass citizens. And they thought Dorothy was there to rescue them. So they told her to follow the yellow brick road. The yellow brick road is the gold standard. Follow the path of money.
So back in the day, they were pushing between silver and gold as being the standard. So follow the gold pass standard of money. So off Dorothy goes, she meets the scarecrow, who's a representation of the American farmer, who everyone at that time thought had no brain, because the banks were buying up all the land. I go, that's very interesting. Because you see these same things happening today.
So off those two go and they meet the Cowardly Lion, who's a representation of L. Frank Baum's best friend, William Brian Jenning, always running for populist, known for his fiery rhetoric, but had no courage. And off they go and they meet the Tin Man, a representation of industry worker who would lose his heart. So, you know the story.
Follow the yellow road. They get put to sleep in the poppy fields. The poppy fields of all things. Which could be a representation of Big Pharma. Big Pharma or media or anything that puts religion maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Wir haben uns verletzt. Und ich kann das sagen, weil es Momente gab, in denen ich es klar hatte. Und die Wicked Witch wächst ihn auf. Die gute Witch wächst ihn auf.
Sie finden den Geist. Und hier ist die Moral der Geschichte, wo ich denke, wir sind gewesen. Vielleicht schliefen wir in den Puppys. Vielleicht waren wir komfortabel. Vielleicht waren wir verletzt. Vielleicht haben wir eine Illusion gekauft. Aber am Ende des Tages sahen sie, dass es keinen Geist gab. Und hier ist die Botschaft. Sie hatten vergessen.
You have a brain to be your own critical thinker. You have a heart and you have the courage. And we've been in that parallel. And I think we are in that moment again where we are finding that within ourselves. It's my moment where we are posed to become the Jetsons, yet the Flintstones are hanging around and we got to be the gladiator.
Yeah, and you know, through my 30 years on the ground and the work, I can see where the problems are. And if you really back it up to source, I mean, first of all.
In, I see in my environmental work and I kind of compare it to the Ford Pinto theory. Way back in the day. Remember Ford?
Can't do that anymore. We need to fix the problem on the up front. And we have every ability to do it.
Of course, and that's a good instinct. We need that. In Hinckley I learned about what I call my three L's. Logic, your common sense. Leverage, the power of a community. And logic, leverage and loyalty. Loyalty is your stick-to-itiveness.
Correct.
I don't believe that at all. I don't think we have to adapt or leave here and we certainly don't have to adapt to these fires. We're never going to change the wind. We can talk about climate change. It is what it is. But we're not going to change it. But what we can do is respect it and prepare for it. And there's many things that we can do to prepare us, should there be another fire.
And listen, I do not like politics, but, and I try to stay out of it. But after this Palisade fire, I'm looking right at our legislative people and governor and insurance commissioners in this state who have been in office for almost, what, eight years now?
And been a part of the ten worst fires this state has seen.
We should have known better. We can do better, but we haven't been. We're not dealing with our infrastructure. We're not dealing with these matters on the up front. We have ways to become more prepared for these fires. We need to change how we're building. We need to change our infrastructure. We need to bury our lines.
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