Imagine Audio: Big Sugar

This documentary digs deep into history and into all parties involved, from sugar cane cutters to the presidents of the United States and everyone in between. All sides of this story have been covered: public health, environmental, immigration workers rights, lobbyists, lawyers who dedicated their life and money to defend the workers, judges, jury, lawyers defending sugar companies, governmental subsidies to company, price control in favour of companies, FDA and scientists controled by sugar industry, journalists and documentary filmmaker, Florida laws and more.

Honestly hard to listen to with all the ads and how long they last

This podcast could of been decent but with 25min episodes and 10minutes of commercials and the discussions veering way too far off from what the title says. Save yourself some pain and listen to something else

This could have been a fascinating deep dive into a really interesting personal story and excellent examination of the NYC punk scene in the late 70s and early 80s. And I’d love to hear more from Ms Spheeris because I think she’s probably got TONS of great stories of the 80s. Unfortunately, each episode has only about 21 minutes of actual content, with the rest being intros, outros and a tsunami of ads. Not sure why they did this - it’s not like podcasts have a built-in time limit. They could have added 10 mins of content to each episode (I’m sure they’ve got plenty of quotes in the can that they could have included) to balance out the extra-long, ad-soaked outros, for example. Anyway, it’s a shame because I’d have loved to have heard more from most of the people they’ve interviewed.