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This Podcast Will Kill You

Ep 102 Arsenic: Paris Green with Envy

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

Health & Fitness, Science

4.817.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

“The king of poisons,” “the poison of kings,” “inheritance powder.” As its various nicknames suggest, arsenic’s notoriety largely stems from its use as a murder weapon. But as we explore in this episode, the world of arsenic is much, much bigger than just as a plot device in an Agatha Christie novel, and it remains one of the most important environmental contaminants today. But how exactly does arsenic affect your body? When did people first start to use arsenic and for what purposes? Where does it have the most impact currently? And, of course, why was it so popular as a murder weapon? Tune in to hear the answers to these and many, many more questions about one of the most notorious poisons out there.

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0:00.0

It's hard to imagine losing a loved one, a wife, a husband, a child.

0:04.4

For many, it's their biggest fear.

0:06.4

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0:09.0

A podcast that tells the stories of often overlooked and unsolved missing persons' cases,

0:13.6

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0:15.8

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0:20.2

Hi, I'm Bridger Weinerger, and I host I said no gifts, on exactly right.

0:24.0

Each week I invite my favorite people in comedy over for conversation, and I tell them no gifts.

0:28.8

But every time they bring me a gift, and then we have to talk about the gift.

0:32.4

It's infuriating.

0:33.7

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0:35.0

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0:42.9

She turned her head from side to side with a gentle movement full of agony,

0:48.0

while constantly opening her mouth, as if something very heavy were weighing upon her tongue.

0:53.3

At 8 o'clock, the vomiting began again.

0:57.1

Then she began to groan faintly at first.

1:00.6

Her shoulders were shaken by a strong shuttering,

1:03.8

and she was growing paler than the sheets in which her clenched fingers buried themselves.

1:09.0

Her unequal pulse was now almost imperceptible.

1:13.2

Drops of sweat oozed from her bluish face, that seemed as if rigid in the exhalations of a metallic vapor.

1:20.5

Her teeth shattered.

1:22.0

Her dilated eyes looked vaguely about her, and to all questions she replied only with a shake of the head.

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