Cement City: Episode 6 | The Island of Donora

Cement City

Audacy | Cement City Productions

Documentary, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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There’s trouble everywhere. Jeanne Marie and Erin realize what the town has always known: This town isn’t on anyone’s radar. No one is coming in to help. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think my daughter bought me one of those electronic information pads. And I've been, well, I'm computer illiterate. I mean, I understand computers and stuff like that but oh my God.
0:25.0	I don't I don't understand these goddamn computers.
0:30.0	Mind if you got that thing, it talks back to you, I mean I can't believe.
0:36.0	Yeah, I talked to Alexa.
0:38.0	Jesus, I talked to Alexa, yeah.
0:41.0	I can't believe why they did that. And I'm tell you the other 20 years we won't be here but it's going to be more advanced. How? I don't know, but is I say transportation in the future is going to be in the air I
0:57.4	mean not these big planes you're gonna have like a a little plane to your own
1:02.4	somehow I don't know how, but it will be in the air.
1:07.0	That's why I predict that. I won't be here to see it.
1:11.0	The roads, the landslides, the bridges. Too many cars on the road now, too damn many of them. Buses, trucks, they're tearing up these roads.
1:27.0	Honey, it's monget time for me.
1:31.0	I better be up my daughters for...
1:34.8	Where should you go now?
1:36.7	We don't go today.
1:38.3	Today's eating.
1:39.3	She's going to cook.
1:42.1	Wednesday is eat hot night for how to cook. Wednesday you see that night for us.
1:45.0	And then sometimes if you don't want to cook
1:48.0	third and then Friday I'm on my own, Saturday I'm on my own. I'm on my own. I'm on my own.
1:56.0	I'm Jean Marie Laskis, and this is Cement City.
1:59.0	Chapter 6, The Island of Denora. Your coffee.
2:05.0	Bring a microphone.
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