A lot of people know Erin Brockovich’s story thanks to the movie based on her legal work in a groundwater contamination case. But the story that really guided her life is one central to her Kansas roots: The Wizard of Oz. Recorded while the worst of the LA wildfires were still raging, Erin talked with Marc about the lessons she took not just from fantasy stories but from the reality of communities that turned hopelessness into action and from the clarity that can emerge in moments of crisis. Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Alright, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers? What the fuck, buddies? What the fuck, nicks? What's happening? I'm Marc Maron. This is my podcast. Welcome to it. What's happening? You alright? Are you keeping it together? Did you get that shit done? Oh, that's a universal question. Did you get that shit done? I don't know. It's just there's so much to do.
All seemingly just as important as the other thing. But most of it just bullshit. Tomorrow... If you're in Los Angeles, I'll be at Largo here in Los Angeles tomorrow night, Largo at the Coronet. Today on the show, I'm going to talk to Erin Brockovich. I guess most of you remember her name or know her by the movie that's based on her, where she was played by Julia Roberts.
Her legal work and her advocacy has centered around environmental issues. And her most recent book is called Superman's Not Coming about the country's water crisis and why it's up to citizens to find solutions since institutions are failing us. Her home is near the Palisades fire and she was evacuated during the week. It was raging. That was the same week I evacuated my house.
Look, she just seemed like a great person to talk to as we're in the middle of yet another environmental crisis with no easy answers. And yeah, I'd been in contact with her on Twitter years ago. Interesting person. I mean, advocacy, consumer advocacy, environmental advocacy. It's an important role. I talked about this a little bit before in the, I guess, last week, that thank God,
Fucking God, if you believe in God. Or just be grateful that there are people that still are civic-minded, want to help people, want to bring up these truths and realities and events that should be stopped. or should be reckoned with, pollutants, climate change, stuff that we need to kind of come together on. But everybody's sort of isolated in their own little cocoon of their phone or whatever.
And it just, I'm just, I'm very grateful for people that dedicate their life to speaking up, to calling shit out. You know? I mean, we live in a time where this idea of speaking truth to power, that's all well and good if you've got the courage or the wherewithal or even the facts to do it with. But now we're entering this time where... Die Macht spricht die Wahrheit. Sie weint die Wahrheit.
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