Campside Presents: Big Sugar
True Crime
Campside is proud to present 12 part series from our friends at Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio and hosted by Celeste Headlee. Big Sugar takes you deep inside the secretive, multi-billion dollar sugar industry and the epic court battle that exposes how one of the world's most valuable and addictive substances is grown, cultivated and sold. Hear firsthand from the workers, lawyers and journalists exposing the lies, exploitation and ultimately the truth. We travel from the Oval Office to the nightclubs of Havana to the sugarcane fields of Florida. Big Sugar is a deep dive into the inner workings of the industry.
This is a story of our time, an untold story that focuses on human rights, lobbying, nutrition and the environment.
Join us every Tuesday as episodes are released.
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Location:
United States
Description:
Campside is proud to present 12 part series from our friends at Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio and hosted by Celeste Headlee. Big Sugar takes you deep inside the secretive, multi-billion dollar sugar industry and the epic court battle that exposes how one of the world's most valuable and addictive substances is grown, cultivated and sold. Hear firsthand from the workers, lawyers and journalists exposing the lies, exploitation and ultimately the truth. We travel from the Oval Office to the nightclubs of Havana to the sugarcane fields of Florida. Big Sugar is a deep dive into the inner workings of the industry. This is a story of our time, an untold story that focuses on human rights, lobbying, nutrition and the environment. Join us every Tuesday as episodes are released. To connect with our creative team, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Language:
English
Episodes
Introducing Origin Stories
9/10/2025
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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Duración:00:36:25
Big Sugar I Bonus - Forced Labor and a Government Ban
8/26/2025
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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Duración:00:17:08
Big Sugar I Bonus - Who Bears the Cost
8/19/2025
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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Duración:00:26:44
Big Sugar I Bonus - Black Snow Falls in Florida
8/12/2025
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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Duración:00:14:36
Big Sugar I Episode 9 - Trench Warfare
8/5/2025
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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Duración:00:58:12
Big Sugar I Episode 8 - The Battle of the Swamp
7/29/2025
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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Duración:00:51:03
Big Sugar I Episode 7 - Bittersweet
7/22/2025
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
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Duración:00:49:13
Big Sugar I Episode 6 - The Decision and the Drama
7/15/2025
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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Duración:00:32:00
Big Sugar I Episode 5 - The American Dream
7/8/2025
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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Duración:00:43:41
Big Sugar I Episode 4 - Without Sugar, There is No Country
7/1/2025
There is a saying in Cuba: “Without sugar there is no country.” We travel to 1950’s Cuba to meet the Fanjul family, sugar barons whose experiences with sugar, Castro and the Tropicana nightclub shine a light on where this story really begins.
Big Sugar is a Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio.
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Duración:00:39:24
Big Sugar I Episode 3 - The Case that Consumed Them
6/24/2025
The lawyers gather evidence as they prepare to take on the biggest players in the sugar industry. Tens of millions of dollars are at stake, but who are they really up against?
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Duración:00:39:53
Big Sugar I Episode 2 - The Grass is Always Greener
6/17/2025
Crusading lawyer Edward Tuddenham hears about the sugarcane workers - the conditions, the injuries and unpaid wages. With Harley-riding, former intelligence officer Dave Gorman as co-counsel, he takes on the powerful sugar industry on behalf of the workers, suing five enormous farms.
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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Duración:00:44:07
Big Sugar I Episode 1 - Welcome to Blood, Sweat and Tears
6/10/2025
Meet Victor and Selvin, who initially feel lucky to travel from Jamaica to Florida to cut sugarcane. The experiences of cane cutters like them lead two ambitious journalists to try and uncover the devastating truth about the labor supporting the American sugar industry.
Hosted by Celeste Headlee. 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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Duración:00:49:49
Campside Presents: Big Sugar
6/3/2025
Campside is proud to present 12 part series from our friends at Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio and hosted by Celeste Headlee. Big Sugar takes you deep inside the secretive, multi-billion dollar sugar industry and the epic court battle that exposes how one of the world's most valuable and addictive substances is grown, cultivated and sold. Hear firsthand from the workers, lawyers and journalists exposing the lies, the exploitation — and ultimately the truth.
Join us every Tuesday as episodes are released. To connect with the team and gain access to behind the scenes content, join our community at joincampside.com
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Duración:00:02:02
Listen to Infamous: From Conned to Cupid
5/2/2025
Infamous: From Conned to Cupid tells the story of Kami Verne, a woman who thought she’d married the man of her dreams—an entrepreneur with a big heart and even bigger personality. But when investors start asking questions about his latest business ventures, Kami comes to realize that their life together might be built on lies.
A story about love, betrayal, and starting over.
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Duración:00:03:42
Episode 13 - Bonus: Catching Up With Jasmine Hartin
3/4/2025
It's been many months since our show wrapped, but Jasmine Hartin's story obviously continues — now in Turks and Caicos. Host Josh Dean checks in to see if her tumultuous life has settled down at all, and especially to find out if there's been any progress in the battle for custody of her kids.
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Duración:00:44:15
Introducing: We Came to the Forest
2/3/2025
Vienna is working a delivery job when she hears about Cop City, a massive police training facility being built in Atlanta. She decides to join a group of activists attempting to stop construction. When Vienna arrives in the South River Forest, she quickly finds a community, a cause –- and a love unlike any other. But the events of one morning shatters everything. Vienna and everyone connected to the forest begin asking themselves a question: what are you willing to die for?
From Wondery, Campside Media and Tenderfoot TV. To find out more about this show plus the other shows we're working on, join our community at Campsidemedia.com/join
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Duración:00:07:28
Crime Story: Josh Dean goes behind the scenes of White Devil
7/15/2024
In this special bonus conversation, Josh Dean sits down with Crime Story host Kathleen Goldhar to go behind the scenes of White Devil, where nothing is ever as it seems.
You can listen to more incredible tales of true crime every week on Crime Story. Find more Crime Story episodes in your podcast app, or here: https://link.chtbl.com/o6d-pzBg.
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Duración:00:46:28
Episode 12 - Breakout
7/8/2024
After more than two years of near constant chaos, Jasmine Hartin finally gets her day in court. But what is winning or losing, after all of this?
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Duración:01:00:00
Episode 11 - Lionfish
7/1/2024
In Belize, as one local expert told us, "is like an onion". Every layer you peel back reveals another layer of power operating behind the scenes.
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Duración:00:45:24