Episode 193: The Radium Girls

Not Today

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.4 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Around the 1920s young women and girls were elated to land a high paying job at US Radium Company. Their task would be to paint radium based paint on watch faces to make them glow in the dark. However through this, the girls were unknowingly exposing themselves to lethal amounts of radiation. As their health deteriorated, they faced a relentless battle against a powerful company that refused to take responsibility.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Steph. I'm Alex. And we're live.
0:13.0	Hello.
0:15.0	And we're live.
0:20.0	Hello. How are you? I'm Hello. How are you?
0:23.0	I'm fine. How are you?
0:24.0	I'm a little silly.
0:26.0	Yeah, we got a little silly this evening.
0:28.0	We popped a bottle of wine.
0:30.0	You made me.
0:32.0	I did. Hey, you know, it's my birthday or it's not yet, but you know, it's almost my birthday.
0:37.6	It's your birthday two weeks. Well, we needed an excuse to open this bottle of wine that we've been waiting to open and my
0:43.6	birthday is the excuse and here we are. Yeah and now we have a legitimate excuse
0:47.4	to ask for dessert at a restaurant. True. You know what? We don't have to lie about
0:51.9	our anniversary. That's true. We can also can we can say that it's my birthday and it's our anniversary. I like that. Yeah. Well hey, we're not talking about my birthday today. We're talking about the radium girls. You ever heard of them?
1:05.6	I have, and it wasn't good. Well, no, it wasn't. This is a topic that I didn't know much about, like I knew the general knowledge about it, but it is gnarly.
1:18.0	And this was in like the 20s, right?
1:20.0	Yeah. This is just kind of what happened until laws were made. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, this is one of those stories where it's like this happened and then a bunch of laws were passed afterward kind of thing. So it's just the unfortunate few that had to deal with the
1:35.0	wild west of our country. Yeah. We've been talking about a lot of back in the day
1:40.5	stories recently. I'm thinking about the molasses.
1:44.1	Yeah, that was quite literally going on at the same time.
1:47.4	Really, okay.
1:48.8	Yeah, it's like there was a molasses flood in Boston
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