Listener Mail: Breaking Physics? Firefighters and PFAs, Superfund Sites and Baseball.

Listener Mail: Breaking Physics? Firefighters and PFAs, Superfund Sites and Baseball.

Secret Soup Can hips the guys to the newest 'Big If True' -- aka alleged -- breakthrough in alternative propulsion. Matt the Firefighter shares a widely-unacknowledged danger of fighting fires. GP Scootch prompts a conversation about Superfund sites. Rob provides a mission-critical update on the continuing adventures of a certain humble farmer. All this and more in this week's listener mail segment.

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