Hamburgers From a Petri Dish

How PG&E Became a Serial Killer

Join Rebecca, Lora and Heather, Where Heather covers PG&E's (Pacific Gas & Electric) long history of negligence and criminal conduct in California. Sources: Timeline: PG&E’s Disasters since 2010 By ABC 10 News https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/wildfire/timeline-pges-disasters/103-980fbb37- 2675-4cc5-a99f-62f1d2e837d4 https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/wildfire/run-to-failure-what-pge-knew-and- when/103-e4654585-1036-47bb-9078-137893ac242d https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGFh9vB0Nvg Scenic America https://www.scenic.org/take-action/resources/undergrounding- resources/undergrounding-resources-and-white-papers/undergrounding-case-study- pacific-gas-electric-pge/ California Public Utilities Commission https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/regulatory-services/safety/gas-safety-and-reliability- branch/san-bruno-incident Out of Line https://sma.nasa.gov/docs/default-source/safety-messages/safetymessage-2012-03-05- sanbrunopipelineexplosion.pdf?sfvrsn=81ae1ef8_4

The Citrini Scenario

In this episode, Rebecca dives into the Citrini Scenario — a macro research report by Citrini Research and economist Alap Shah titled The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis — which examines the possibility of an AI-driven economic collapse. Rebecca leads a detailed breakdown of the report, explaining how the rapid rise of agentic AI is poised to automate a large portion of white-collar work within years, threatening to eliminate far more jobs than any previous technological revolution while creating comparatively few new ones. The hosts discuss the downstream economic risks — including a potential housing crisis worse than 2008 — as white-collar workers, who drive roughly half of U.S. consumer spending, could face widespread unemployment. Heather weighs in from a legal perspective on AI's current limitations, while Rebecca argues those limitations are temporary given AI's exponential rate of self-improvement. The episode blends research-driven analysis with candid personal reactions, framing the Citrini Scenario not as alarmism but as a serious economic warning worth understanding. Works Cited Citrini Research, and Alap Shah. “THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS.” Citriniresearch.com, Citrini Research, 22 Feb. 2026, www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic. Lichtenberg, Nick. “Citadel Securities Demolishes Viral AI Doomsday Essay, Arguing the Real “Global Intelligence Crisis” Is Ignorance of Macro Fundamentals.” Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026, fortune.com/2026/02/26/citadel-demolishes-viral-doomsday-ai-essay-citrini-macro-fundamentals-engels-pause/. Shah, Alap. “The Global Intelligence Crisis · Part Three.” Substack.com, Alap Shah, 25 Mar. 2026, substack.com/home/post/p-192091667. Accessed 18 May 2026. Substack. “The Global Intelligence Crisis.” Substack.com, 2025, substack.com/home/post/p-188812384.

Hamburgers From a Petri Dish

Lora, Rebecca and Heather are cautiously open-minded — hopeful about the technology's potential but concerned about the FBS issue, safety unknowns, and whether lab-grown meat can replicate the taste of traditionally raised animals. The conversation drifts into food waste, preservatives, Impossible Meat, black bean burgers, and cooking habits.

How Coke Killed the Refillable Bottle

Join Rebecca, Lora, and Heather, where Heather discusses how Coca-Cola and the broader beverage industry deliberately dismantled the environmentally superior refillable glass bottle system in favor of single-use plastic.  References: Why Coke Stopped Using Glass Bottles By Susan Messer Environmental historian Bart Elmore from Ohio State University. Story of Stuff website

Grave Robbing

Rebecca hosts the episode where the sisters talk about both historical and modern instances of grave robbing. Rebecca tells the story of the theft of Charlie Chaplin's body for ransom, William Cobbett's well-intentioned but misguided relocation of Thomas Paine's remains, two Pakistani brothers arrested for grave robbing and cannibalism, and a Pennsylvania man caught selling over 100 sets of human remains online. The conversation then broadens into discussions of archaeological grave robbing in the name of science, the black market for donated bodies, and cultural attitudes toward death — including an Indonesian tradition of exhuming ancestors to celebrate them — before wrapping up with a lighthearted tangent about their great-grandmother, hyenas, orcas, and a philosophical musing on why Western culture fears death so much. Sources 6abc Philadelphia. “Court Docs Reveal Accused Grave Robber’s Plot to Steal Human Remains.” YouTube, 9 Jan. 2026, www.youtube.com/watch?v=xygNM9jtJtM. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026. July 2015, Stephanie Pappas 17. “The 6 Most Gruesome Grave Robberies.” Livescience.com, 2 Nov. 2021, www.livescience.com/51591-gruesome-grave-robberies.html. Khan, M Ilyas. “Pakistan Cannibal Brothers Jailed for 12 Years.” BBC News, 11 June 2014, www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27801252.