Episode 271: Sick Obsession

Not Today

Society & Culture, Comedy, True Crime

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Janie Lynn Ridd and her roommate Rachel Booth had been best friends for 25 years, but when Rachel began getting mysteriously sick leading to multiple hospitalizations, she discovered that Janie allegedly tried to purchase an extremely dangerous strain of anti-biotic resistant bacteria to poison her with. And even worse, that wouldn’t have been Janie’s first attempt at Rachel’s life over the past year.

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1:21.5	How are you?
1:23.4	Great.
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1:24.3	I'm doing good.
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1:27.9	I made banana nut muffins, which you appreciated. I do. And now we're here. A little lazy Sunday. Great. Sounds like a good day to me. Yeah. How are you? I'm good. I'm feeling better. I was sick on last week's episode, so. And guess who's sick now? Tag, you're it.
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