Beat the Big Guys
Do you see a problem in your community or town, but feel there’s nothing you can do? Find out just how much power you have – right now – from Sandy Rosenthal who started out with no special training, stood up to a mammoth federal agency, and won. In every episode, Sandy, author of the 7-time award-winning book “Words Whispered in Water” will provide tools that you can use right now to Beat the Big Guys.
Episodes
June 5, 2023 • 26 mins
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.
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Host and Creator: Sandy Rosenthal
Executive Producer: Landry Bohn
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Beat the Big Guys
Host and Creator: Sandy Rosenthal
Executive Producer: Landry Bohn
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May 15, 2023 • 28 mins
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
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Beat the Big Guys
Host and Creator: Sandy Rosenthal
Executive Producer: Landry Bohn
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May 1, 2023 • 25 mins
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
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The video version can be seen here: https://youtu.be/jEG2SniGxQ0
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Beat the Big Guys
Host and Creator: Sandy Rosenthal
Executive Producer: Landry Bohn
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The video version can be seen here: https://youtu.be/jEG2SniGxQ0
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
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April 17, 2023 • 23 mins
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
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Beat the Big Guys
Host and Creator: Sandy Rosenthal
Executive Producer: Landry Bohn
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April 3, 2023 • 29 mins
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.
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March 20, 2023 • 41 mins
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
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
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March 6, 2023 • 28 mins
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
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
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February 20, 2023 • 37 mins
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.sandyrosenthal.net
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Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
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February 6, 2023 • 27 mins
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
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
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January 23, 2023 • 24 mins
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: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www...
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www...
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January 9, 2023 • 42 mins
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 on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: ...
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: ...
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December 19, 2022 • 24 mins
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
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
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November 28, 2022 • 38 mins
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
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
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November 14, 2022 • 43 mins
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.
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October 31, 2022 • 34 mins
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
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
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October 17, 2022 • 60 mins
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 Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Bran...
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Bran...
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September 22, 2022 • 23 mins
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
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
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August 8, 2022 • 33 mins
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
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
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August 1, 2022 • 13 mins
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
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
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July 25, 2022 • 25 mins
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
Beat the Big Guys
Host: Sandy Rosenthal
https://www.sandyrosenthal.net
Connect with Sandy on Instagram: @beatthebigguys
Producer: Jess Branas
https://www.branasenterprises.com
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