Beat the Big Guys

In 2021, Sandy interviewed environmental attorney Robert Bilott. Bilott helped lead the first litigation in the country against the 3M Company for PFAS contamination in Minnesota, and worked to raise awareness of the threat to public health and the environment from PFAS “forever chemicals” for over two decades. On June 22, 2023, a settlement valued up to $12.5B was announced with the 3M Company to...

Sandy talks to Donna Seebo (Seattle, WA) host of the Warriors for Peace show which focuses on interviews with veterans and individuals who are dedicated to making this world a more balanced, sustaining environment. -- Beat the Big Guys Host and Creator: Sandy Rosenthal Executive Producer: Landry Bohn Be sure to rate this podcast on your favorite platforms. Video version: https://youtu.be/bsZm5jSuM...

Sandy chats with Professor Rob Verchick (New Orleans, LA)––one of the nation's leading scholars on climate change––about his new book The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience. One of the nation's leading scholars in disaster and climate change law, Professor Verchick holds the Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola University. He and Sandy...

Sandy chats with Emily Donovan (Wilmington NC) co-founder of Clean Cape Fear about her quest to expose how Dupont had contaminated her community's drinking water supply with PFAS (forever chemicals) for over 40 years. Beat the Big Guys Host and Creator: Sandy Rosenthal Executive Producer: Landry Bohn Be sure to rate this podcast on your favorite platforms. Video version: https://youtu.be/ah1JB_MEm...

Sandy talks with Brett Hoffstadt (Folsom, CA) about fighting the powerful status quo in the aviation and aerospace industries including resistance to innovation and cover-ups of fatal aviation disasters. For listeners looking for professional aid, Mr. Hoffstadt can be reached on LinkedIn and Twitter. Beat the Big Guys Host and Creator: Sandy Rosenthal Executive Producer: Landry Bohn Be sure to rat...

Sandy talks to filmmaker and community organizer Michael Valentine (Salt Lake City) about his battle to bring to justice those who illegally destroyed a magnificent historic theater. Beat the Big Guys Host and Creator: Sandy Rosenthal Executive Producer: Landry Bohn Be sure to rate this podcast on your favorite platforms. Video version: https://youtu.be/jEG2SniGxQ0 Connect with Sandy on Instagram:...

Sandy chats with author and civil engineer Stephen Estopinal (Gonzalez, LA) about his quest, via his historical novels to correct the Black Legend narrative, an 18th century campaign by the British to paint the Spanish as cruel which still persists today. Beat the Big Guys Host and Creator: Sandy Rosenthal Executive Producer: Landry Bohn Be sure to rate this podcast on your favorite platforms. The...

Sandy speaks with expert Lauren McGough on her art and science as a falconer, and how engaging experts voices like Ms. McGough's can bolster a community's grassroots efforts. Be sure to rate this podcast on your favorite platforms. To see the video version of this episode, go here: https://youtu.be/of_LddlNzNI To get in touch with Sandy, go here: https://www.wordswhisperedinwater.com/contact

Sandy chats with global drug safety expert Kim Witczak (Minneapolis, MN) about her quest for drug safety reform and her firm belief in the power of making a personal appearance. Beat the Big Guys Host: Sandy Rosenthal https://www.sandyrosenthal.net Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys Producer: Jess Branas https://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy chats with Danielle Friedman (New York City) author of Let's Get Physical (Putnam 2022) about the long hard battle women have fought against the general male attitude that women should not exercise. Beat the Big Guys Host: Sandy Rosenthal https://www.sandyrosenthal.net Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys Producer: Jess Branas https://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy chats with Michelle Stiles, author of the newly released One Idea to Rule Them All (Winnie Mae, 2022). Michelle tells us how much of what we see in the media is not news but fabricated campaigns orchestrated by a wealthy minority. But there's hope. Once you recognize the patterns, it's child's play to understand and expose the ruse. Beat the Big Guys Host: Sandy Rosenthal https://www.sandyro...

Sandy chats with expert chemist James Rauh (Akron, OH) on his quest for the Dept of Homeland Security to designate fentanyl as a 'weapon of mass destruction'. Beat the Big Guys Host: Sandy Rosenthal https://www.sandyrosenthal.net Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys Producer: Jess Branas https://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy interivewed the great Joye Braun on May 16, 2022. Five months later, Ms. Braun, activist and fighter for racial and environmental justice, passed away. In remembrance, Sandy is reissuing her interview with Ms. Braun, posthumous winner of the 2022 Rose Brax Award for Bold Activism. Beat the Big Guys Host: Sandy Rosenthal https://www.sandyrosenthal.net Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthe...

Sandy chats with international bestselling author Corban Addison (Virginia) about how a small band of Black homeowners battled the world's largest meat producer and won. This story shows how a group can find and use the leverages in the system to force the Big Guys and their entrenched injustices to change. Beat the Big Guys Host: Sandy Rosenthal https://www.sandyrosenthal.net Connect with Sandy o...

Marianne Skolek Perez channeled her grief over losing her daughter to Oxycontin into sounding the alarm that the FDA is the problem, not the pharmaceutical companies. Beat the Big Guys Host: Sandy Rosenthal https://www.sandyrosenthal.net Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys Producer: Jess Branas https://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy chats with Dan Schneider of the Netflix docuseries "The Pharmacist" which highlights the Oxycontin crisis and "pill mills." Dan (Mandeville, LA) explains how just one person really can make a difference. Beat the Big Guys Host: Sandy Rosenthal https://www.sandyrosenthal.net Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys Producer: Jess Branas https://www.branasenterprises.com

When Ed Bisch's son died in 2001 after taking an OXY at a party, Oxycontin was barely mentioned in major media. With unparalleled moral authority, Ed founded Relatives Against Purdue Pharma to get the story of the addictive drug in the media and in front of every person in America.

Sandy chats with community activist and leader Sade Dumas about her role in reducing the jail population in New Orleans by over 50% and her recent efforts to address and fix the drivers of incarceration. Beat the Big Guys Host: Sandy Rosenthal https://www.sandyrosenthal.net Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys Producer: Jess Branas https://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy chats with Pulitzer Prize finalist Gerald Posner and New York Times bestselling author of 13 books including his latest book, Pharma: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America. Among many pieces of great advice, Gerald espouses being a "merciless pit bull" in one's quest to Beat the Big Guys. Beat the Big Guys Host: Sandy Rosenthal https://www.sandyrosenthal.net Connect with Sandy on Instagra...

Six months after Sandy interviewed guest Sharon Lavigne about her battle to stop a giant plastics plant from getting built in her community, her guest won her battle. Beat the Big Guys Host: Sandy Rosenthal https://www.sandyrosenthal.net Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys Producer: Jess Branas https://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy chats with Waniya Locke (Standing Rock, SD) about her battle to preserve safe drinking water for her community. Beat the Big Guys Host: Sandy Rosenthal https://www.sandyrosenthal.net Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys Producer: Jess Branas https://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy Rosenthal shares a monologue celebrating her first fifty guests and she also explains why the Big Guys are no different from the bullies from the third-grade playground. Beat the Big Guys Host: Sandy Rosenthal https://www.sandyrosenthal.net Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys Producer: Jess Branas https://www.branasenterprises.com

This week Sandy chats with Lee Donahue (Campbell, WI) about her successful battle to expose PFAS carcinogens in her hometown's drinking water. Beat the Big Guys Host: Sandy Rosenthal https://www.sandyrosenthal.net Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys Producer: Jess Branas https://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy chats with Dr. Ketra Davenport-King (Dallas/Fort Worth) about her experience overcoming abuse from the age of six and the creation of her flagship group Life After. Beat the Big Guys Host: Sandy Rosenthal https://www.sandyrosenthal.net Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys Producer: Jess Branas https://www.branasenterprises.com

Sandy chats with Phyllis Glazer (Dallas TX) about her all-out battle with the second-largest commercial hazardous waste injection well facility in the country. Beat the Big Guys Host: Sandy Rosenthal https://www.sandyrosenthal.net Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys Producer: Jess Branas https://www.branasenterprises.com