287: Food Fight!

Published: Feb. 28, 2024, 1:15 p.m.

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Well folks, there\\u2019s no easy way to say this, so we\\u2019ll get right to it. In this episode, we announce that the podcast is coming to an end.
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\\nThank you all for being part of this community. The past six years have been absolutely wild. We\\u2019ve laughed, we\\u2019ve cried, we\\u2019ve\\u2026 talked about buttholes. (Too often, perhaps??)
\\nMany of you have been part of this community for years. We appreciate your warmth, your support, and your willingness to cackle along with two very goofy grown women.\\xa0
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\\nWe\\u2019re blown away by how big this little indie podcast has become. We started with one microphone on a TV tray, and we\\u2019re ending on March 29 & 30th with two sold out live shows. What a way to go. We couldn\\u2019t have done it without you.
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\\nAs you can probably imagine, this decision wasn\\u2019t an easy one. We talk about it quite a bit on this episode. Arriving at this decision has been tough, but we know that it will free us up to do what we\\u2019re meant to do. For Brandi, that\\u2019ll mean spending more time with her family, having *just one* full-time job, and getting out of content creation. For Kristin\\u2026 well, first she has to get her butthole back from Brandi. After that? Who knows!
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\\nThank you all again for being part of this community. You\\u2019re the skeeziest scunches in all the land, the best listeners this side of the mighty Mississip\\u2019, and the meanest Bob Mosses this town has ever seen. We appreciate you.
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\\nAnd now that you\\u2019re good and bummed, please hang in there for a truly disgusting story. This week, Kristin tells us about Dr. Harvey Wiley, whose relentless hard work led to the creation of America\\u2019s first consumer protection laws. We guarantee you\\u2019ll never look at milk the same way again.
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\\nAnd now for a note about our process. For this episode, Kristin read a bunch of articles, then spat them back out in her very limited vocabulary. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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\\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\\nThe \\u201cPoison Squad\\u201d episode of American Experience
\\nThe book \\u201cThe Poison Squad: One Chemist\'s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century\\u201d by Deborah Blum
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\\nYOU\\u2019RE STILL READING? My, my, my, you skeezy scunch! You must be hungry for more! We\\u2019d offer you some sausage brunch, but that gets messy. So how about you head over to our Patreon instead? (patreon.com/lgtcpodcast). At the $5 level, you\\u2019ll get 50+ full length bonus episodes, plus access to our 90\\u2019s style chat room!
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