ON THIS DAY - September 29th
The Big Honker Podcast
Andy Shaver & Jeff Stanfield
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this series, Jeff and Andy look at historical events that took place on this day.
Today in history, Tylenol was in the news again, a Texas legend is born, and a Yankees manager passes away.
This series is brought to you by the great Boss Shot Shells.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! You know! Willem! POMAYOR. I'm I'm I'm |
| 0:21.6 | I'm |
| 0:22.6 | I'm |
| 0:23.6 | I'm All right, here we go. |
| 0:43.4 | Three, two, one. |
| 0:45.3 | Boom. |
| 0:47.2 | Welcome to the Big Honker podcast today. |
| 0:50.2 | Brought to you by Boss Shells. |
| 0:51.4 | I got a little cold this morning, I guess. |
| 0:53.3 | Hmm. |
| 0:54.1 | Go check them out. They got the new copper out. |
| 0:56.7 | All right. Today's my day. It's September 29th. And since Tylenol is already under some scrutiny, |
| 1:04.1 | today in history, 1982, maybe you remember this. Maybe you don't. Yes, I do. I do. |
| 1:08.7 | Lace Tylenol kills first three of seven victims. I remember it very, very, very well. Really? Yeah, it was a big scare all over. Don't take Tylenol? Did they know it was Tylenol? They did not know until I think like a day or two. Someone died of cyanide, poison, went to an emergency. I'm sure you're fixed the story, aren't you? |
| 1:29.5 | Okay, go ahead. |
| 1:30.6 | September 29th, 1982, three Chicago area residents became ill and died after |
| 1:35.2 | ingesting extrachshank Tylenol later to be found poisoned with cyanide. |
| 1:39.8 | They're the first of seven victims to lose their lives after taking the over-the-counter |
| 1:43.0 | pain reliever, which had been tampered with. |
| 1:45.7 | The case would create a national panic over the safety of non-prescription medication |
| 1:50.4 | and lead to new standards for pill packaging. |
| 1:53.0 | You know what that means? |
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