Our annual Halloween hysteria

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🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This year’s fear of rainbow fentanyl in kids’ trick-or-treat bags is just the latest unfounded Halloween candy freakout. But the yearly panic has its roots in a very real crisis: the 1982 Tylenol murders. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Jillian Weinberger, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	To the train!
0:02.4	To the train!
0:05.4	Woo, happy Halloween!
0:08.4	And what are you, Maverick from Top Gun?
0:11.6	I'm Dark Brandon!
0:13.1	Woo, and you're a balloon!
0:15.2	I'm inflation, Danny.
0:17.1	Scary.
0:18.1	What do we have here?
0:19.7	I've got full-size skittles.
0:21.7	I've got some Tootsie rolls.
0:23.6	Woo!
0:24.6	And what else is in here?
0:26.0	Rain, Moe, Fentonel.
0:28.0	Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
0:30.8	The DEA warning that deadly rainbow fentanyl
0:33.5	could end up inside of a candy bag of your kid.
0:37.0	They've found rainbow fentanyl in 21 states.
0:40.8	It looks like candy.
0:42.0	And in fact, some of the drug traffickers
0:43.6	have nicknamed it Sweet Tarts Skittles.
0:47.1	We'll just take the Tootsie Rose, mister.
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