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Spaghetti Burn, GE's Destruction of Pittsfield, and Bain Capital Killing KB Toys
from Christmas Karaoke (with Dan St. Germain and Tom Lewis) · #77
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
2 minRay describes badly burning his hand boiling spaghetti water; Tom explains how General Electric decimated Pittsfield's economy and dumped toxic PCBs into Silver Lake, then they riff on Mitt Romney's Bain Capital shutting down KB Toys headquartered there.
- 1:59Tim spilled a pot of boiling spaghetti water on himself while meal-prepping, wrapping the pot in towels that caught in the oven.
- 2:22The screaming and subsequent hour under cold running water to treat the burn.
- 2:50He carried frozen broccoli from Rite Aid as an ice pack on the way home from buying pain medication.
- 3:01Tom Lewis hosts shows in the Berkshires, and Tim performed at the infield in Pittsfield before the town was decimated.
- 3:14General Electric employed twenty-thousand people at Pittsfield's height, then shut down and destroyed the local economy.
- 3:27Silver Lake in Pittsfield: GE dumped PCBs there, toxic chemicals that caused cancer and prevented the lake from freezing in winter.
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