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