2026-09-05
32 分钟Hello there.
It's Shamita.
I'm so excited to be back from parental leave.
I've been working on some brand new episodes with the team.
Those are going to come out starting next week.
So in the meantime, here is one episode from our archives.
It aired in May of 2025. I hope you enjoy it.
This is In Conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shamita Basu.
Today, how forever chemicals have poisoned the world.
For most of his life, Michael Hickey never saw himself as an activist.
He's an insurance underwriter.
He has a fear of public speaking.
That's investigative journalist Mariah Blake.
He had no interest in environmental issues.
He had no interest in politics.
He liked to joke that he got his news from ESPN.
Then in 2010, his father was diagnosed with an aggressive kidney cancer
and died a few years later at the age of 70. Michael was devastated.
And he started to think about how this could have happened