Listener Mail: "Adam's Calendar," Glitter in Tasers, and the Grim Allegations of Coerced Death in Canada

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Jingle calls, prompting a conversation about glitter and taggants in tasers. Ghost writes in with a deeply disturbing story of MAID -- Medically Assisted In Death -- programs in Canada. Nial hips the gang to the strange, allegedly Neolithic site sometimes called "Adam's Calendar." Agent Winter writes a joke so terrible that we had to put it on air. All this and more in this week's listener mail.

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0:00.0	In 1980, cocaine was captivating and corrupting Miami.
0:04.2	The carcass, they just peeled everybody, it was out.
0:07.0	Setting an aspiring private investigator
0:09.1	on a collision course with corruption and multiple murders.
0:12.4	The detective agency would turn out to be a front for a drug pilot.
0:15.6	It would claim he did it all for the CIA.
0:17.6	I'm Lauren Bright-Pacheco.
0:19.1	Join me for murder in Miami.
0:21.3	Check my walking into the devil's den.
0:23.5	Listen to murder in Miami on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
0:27.3	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:29.8	In 1968, five black girls were picked up by police
0:34.1	after running away from a reform school in Mount Meg's Alabama.
0:37.9	I'm writer and reporter Josie Defi Rice.
0:40.5	And in a new podcast, I investigate the abuse
0:43.3	that thousands of black children suffered
0:45.5	at the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children
0:48.9	and how those five girls changed everything.
0:52.6	Listen to unreformed on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
0:56.8	or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:00.3	When my daughter ran off to hop trains,
1:04.3	I was terrified I'd never see her again,
	...

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