Sydney Brownstone

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41 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 14 Aug

Sydney Brownstone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Planet Money · You bet your life insurance · 14 Aug 2026 podcast

The fatal shooting of a teenager at a protest in Seattle has gone unsolved for six years. voice-verified

Our investigation has uncovered new evidence and witnesses who say they've never talked to police. voice-verified

Listen to We Keep Us Safe. voice-verified

A new true crime series on the embedded podcast from NPR. voice-verified

No, not as yet. voice-verified

Deep trenches. voice-verified

Like, if someone went down one of these, you probably would not be able to see them. voice-verified

Digging trenches like this would require some kind of excavator type of equipment. voice-verified

The amount that was stolen was not something that you could just hide in some warehouse. voice-verified

It was way too much sand. voice-verified

And while they were flying around in helicopters, a guy from the United Nations was wandering around the beaches. voice-verified

Most sand is actually just bought and sold legally. voice-verified

But humans are extracting sand faster than the Earth can create sand, because it takes forever to make. voice-verified

So Pascal takes all of his research and he publishes a report, calls it Sand Rarer Than One Thinks. voice-verified

And Pascal says the biggest sand importer in the world these days is Singapore. voice-verified

Now, Pascal, he did eventually leave Jamaica. voice-verified

Michael needs to prove that the white sand grains they saw from the helicopter and snuck off with came from his beach. voice-verified

Jamaica is part of the Commonwealth, the old British colonies, and nobody messes with the monarch's sand. voice-verified

And since that theft and the U.N. voice-verified

report, the problem has just gotten worse. voice-verified

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