Short Stuff: Yellow Rain

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

After the Vietnam War, the Hmong people told the world a toxic weapon was being used on them. Thus began a mystery that still remains today, which might have been solved when it was chalked up to bee poop.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:34.2	Hey and welcome to Short Stuff.
0:35.4	I'm Josh and there's Chuck and there's Josh over there and this is Short Stuff.
0:40.6	Getting up, Chuck.
0:42.1	Alright, we're going to go to the late 1970s.
0:45.2	I love the 70s.
0:46.4	The Vietnam War is well over.
0:48.4	Yeah.
0:49.4	Well for America at least.
0:50.8	Well, that's true.
0:53.3	That Vietnamese and Leotian people started noticing over there that periodically there would
0:59.2	be a sticky yellow rain when it was really sunny out coming down and that this substance
1:06.4	killed plants and made people sick, especially among the among the mong.
1:14.0	Which is to say HMO and G, which were people in Southeast Asia who fought with France
1:20.8	against the communist since the 1950s.
1:23.8	Yeah, they were mountain people in North Vietnam and in Laos.
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