Poison Control

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Originally aired in 2018, this episode features reporter Brena Farrell as a new mom. Her son gave her and her husband a scare -- prompting them to call Poison Control. For Brenna, the experience was so odd, and oddly comforting, that she decided to dive into the birth story of this invisible network of poison experts, and try to understand the evolving relationship we humans have with our poisonous planet. As we learn about how poison control has changed over the years, we end up wondering what a place devoted to data and human connection can tell us about ourselves in this cultural moment of anxiety and information-overload.

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0:00.0	Hello, it's Lulu.
0:01.8	You know that expression inside every person,
0:05.6	there are two wolves fighting one of them feeds
0:08.9	on darkness and despair and the other one feeds on light
0:12.3	and hope and the one that will win is the one you feed more.
0:17.6	What I love about this next story, which is a rerun,
0:20.6	is that the reporter in this has two wolves inside her.
0:24.4	One is a very worrying mother and the other one
0:27.2	is a very curious reporter.
0:29.6	And she feeds both of them.
0:32.0	She just feeds them both.
0:33.6	And what results is this lovely story
0:37.0	that takes you through a trap door in American society
0:41.0	to a secret room where a bunch of mig違ery, smart people
0:44.8	are holding things together for anyone who happens to call them.
0:48.6	That's all I'm going to say.
0:50.3	Again, this is an older episode of rerun.
0:53.0	I think it was about seven years ago, so sit back, relax.
0:59.2	And let's go.
1:00.2	Wait, you're listening to radio lab from WNYC.
1:12.2	Hi.
1:13.2	Hi.
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