CLASSIC: Interview: Dark Waters: Corporations, Corruption and Pollution with Rob Bilott
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 10.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
When corporate defense lawyer Rob Bilott first learned about Wilbur Tennant's dying livestock, the frustrated West Virginian farmer was at his wits' end. He'd sought help from numerous local authorities to no avail, but he was certain DuPont was poisoning his livestock, as well as the surrounding area. Bilott's investigation led him down the rabbithole, deep into a web of contamination, chemical pollution and corporate cover-ups. Join the guys as they speak with Mr. Bilott to learn more about his first-hand experience bringing this mighty company to justice.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Folks, every so often, between the episodes we do, between the segments we do, will have an interview that just needs to be communicated with the world. |
| 0:13.1 | And in tonight's classic, we're airing a interview segment we had with an absolute legend, a guy named Rob Ballott. |
| 0:25.1 | Take any stereotypes you've ever heard about lawyers and throw them out the third story window. |
| 0:32.4 | This guy is the real deal. He spoke truth to power. And I was surprised by how personal this guy is. |
| 0:43.6 | Oh, for sure. For sure. This is a guy that books have been written about him. You can look up |
| 0:49.9 | the lawyer who became DuPont's worst nightmare. That is a book by Nathaniel Rich about this gentleman |
| 0:55.4 | we're talking to. You can watch the movie, Dark Waters, as we did in preparation for this |
| 1:02.0 | discussion, this case out in Parker's, uh, Parker's Berg or Parker's, yeah, Parker's Berg, |
| 1:07.5 | West Virginia. That's a small town where this takes place. |
| 1:16.5 | It's an intense story, and it's about forever chemicals. |
| 1:17.6 | Right. |
| 1:20.6 | It's about, it's about DuPont. |
| 1:23.6 | It's about speaking truth to power, as we said. |
| 1:31.7 | Rob finds a local farmer in West Virginia, a guy named Wilburtonant, who ask honest questions. |
| 1:33.8 | Why are my livestock dying? |
| 1:36.6 | Why are authorities ignoring the points I'm bringing up? |
| 1:42.7 | And this is something that will continue to be relevant now in 2025, |
| 1:49.8 | as much as it was in 2019. |
| 1:53.0 | So we sat down with Rob and we asked him for his firsthand experience facing DuPont. |
| 2:03.2 | Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley season one. |
| 2:10.7 | I just knew him as a kid. |
| 2:12.7 | Long, silent voices from his past came forward. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 8 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.