Campside Presents: Big Sugar

By Campside Media

Campside is proud to present 12 part series from our friends at Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio and hosted by

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The podcast currently has 45 episodes available.

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October 21, 2025 Introducing So Your Parents Are Old
Here's an excerpt from Campside’s new podcast So Your Parents Are Old. Journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis talks to friends, experts, and celebrities about the chaos of dealing with aging parents. From Medicaid nightmares to emotional meltdowns in storage units, it’s a brutally honest, often hilarious look at one of life’s most disorienting stages. Come for the catharsis, stay for the gallows humor and unfiltered conversations. You'll hear comedian Lewis Black and many more. Find more episodes of So Your Parents Are Old here
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4min
September 10, 2025 Introducing Origin Stories
Sharing a new podcast from Campside Media called Origin Stories, about the creative process and the craft of writing and reporting. Each episode drills down on a single work. What inspired it? How was it created, and why? What kind of challenges and hurdles cropped up along the way? And above all, what can the rest of us learn from the guest’s creative process? In this episode, Matt talks with Noah Hawley, the showrunner behind the new FX series Alien: Earth. You can listen to more episodes of Origin Stories at https://link.mgln.ai/whitedevil
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37min
August 26, 2025 Big Sugar I Bonus - Forced Labor and a Government Ban
Charity Ryerson investigates human rights and environmental abuse allegations against multinational corporations everyday. But what she and her team found in Central Romana worker camps was like nothing they'd ever seen before. Has the sugar ban changed anything about how Big Sugar operates?

Big Sugar is a Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio. To connect with the team and gain access to behind the scenes content, join our community at joincampside.com
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18min
August 19, 2025 Big Sugar I Bonus - Who Bears the Cost
Meet Kina Phillips, part of the grass roots effort in Florida to fight cane burning and encourage the sugar companies to embrace green-harvesting methods. Then, Celeste digs deeper into how the pending Farm Bill affects the cost of sugar.

Big Sugar is a Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio. To connect with the team and gain access to behind the scenes content, join our community at joincampside.com
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27min
August 12, 2025 Big Sugar I Bonus - Black Snow Falls in Florida
Reporter Lulu Ramadan set out to cover the health effects of burning cane. Now, for the first time, there is data linking Florida residents’ respiratory illnesses to Big Sugar.

Big Sugar is a Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio.

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15min
August 05, 2025 Big Sugar I Episode 9 - Trench Warfare
There’s one last jury trial left, one last shot at forcing the sugar companies to make good on unpaid wages. And Dave Gorman miraculously finds new evidence that could clinch it. But that’s when an obscure 150-year-old law comes into play, sending the lawyers reeling. Finally, the lawyers, journalists and cutters reflect on what the kingdom of big sugar reveals about life, race and justice in America.

Big Sugar is a Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio.

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59min
July 29, 2025 Big Sugar I Episode 8 - The Battle of the Swamp
At the intersection of sugar, nature and influence, you find yourself in just one place: the Everglades, an environmental wonder and disaster. The fight for control and the fight to clean up the massive waterway from agricultural pollution shows the sugar industry’s mastery of lobbying. Exhibit A: the Fanjuls have a direct line straight to the Oval Office.

Big Sugar is a Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio. To connect with the team and gain access to behind the scenes content, join our community at joincampside.com
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52min
July 22, 2025 Big Sugar I Episode 7 - Bittersweet
Meet Cristin Kearns, a dentist turned detective. She's on a mission to uncover the darkly shrewd public relations strategies that the Sugar industry has used to burnish its image and conceal the health impacts of its product. If this sounds remarkably similar to the tobacco industry, it’s no coincidence.

Full statement from the Sugar Association: http://bit.ly/sugarassociation

Big Sugar is a Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio. To connect with the team and gain access to behind the scenes content, join our community at joincampside.com
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50min
July 15, 2025 Big Sugar I Episode 6 - The Decision and the Drama
The case continues as the lawyers seek justice for the cane cutters. The jury reaches a decision.

Big Sugar is a Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio.

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32min
July 08, 2025 Big Sugar I Episode 5 - The American Dream
Host Celeste Headlee goes on the hunt for the Fanjul brothers in Palm Beach, Florida and uncovers an even more devastating truth about the American sugar industry’s past. J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI and the movie The Godfather play a part in our story.

Big Sugar is a Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio.

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44min

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How many episodes does Campside Presents: Big Sugar have?

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