Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, the host of Wondries Podcast American Scandal.

Our newest series looks at the story of OxyContin,

a popular painkiller that helps spur an epidemic of addiction and drug abuse,

in which prompted a broad campaign to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable.

Listen to American Scandal on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

Many involved in crypto saw Sam Bankman freed as a breath of fresh air from the usual Wall Street buffs,

but in just one month, his crypto exchange would collapse.

From Bloomberg and Wondery comes Spellcaster, a new six-part docuseries about the wild rise and fall of FTX

and its founder, Sam Bankman Freed. Listen to Spellcaster on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

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The world is full of stories, stories of mysteries, of curiosities, of oddities,

join, cat, and jethro-gilligan toth for the strange, the bizarre, the unexpected,

as they lift the lid and cautiously peer inside the box of oddities.

And I guess we're ready. Are we ready? Are you plugged in?

Close enough? Sure. Yep. Okay. Box of oddities, we are so glad to have you back.

I want to thank those who have got in touch with us through our email at curatoratheboxivodities.com.

It's fun to read these suggestions for show topics and just the comments.

Right. And I, in one instance, we got a beautiful piece of art. We're very excited about, not too long ago.

We mentioned the Freak Flag and it's kind of stuck and it resonated with some.

And big thanks to Stephanie from Albuquerque, who sent us a beautiful Freak Flag

that we have posted on the InfoWebs. We should make t-shirts out of that.

Yeah. Yeah, you know? That would be fun. I think that would be great. Because yeah, a few

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