Thanksgiving Special: Just Add Arsenic

Serial Killers

Spotify Studios

True Crime, History, Education

4.6 • 30.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Over the ages, arsenic has had many lives — beauty fad, household product, medical prescription… and weapon of choice wielded by killers everywhere from Alabama to ancient Rome. Brine your turkey, knead your dough, and listen to our Thanksgiving Special on the regime-changing, assassination-aiding King of Poisons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy Holidays, parkass fans.
0:02.4	I'm Greg Poulson from serial killers, a Spotify original from parkass.
0:07.1	In honor of Thanksgiving, I'm excited to present this very special episode.
0:11.7	Just at our snake.
0:13.0	A warning.
0:14.0	This episode contains discussions of death and murder.
0:16.9	Please exercise caution for listeners under 13.
0:24.3	It's November.
0:25.6	The trees outside are a collage of red, orange, and yellow.
0:29.3	A fire fights away the cold each time the door opens and another guest arrives.
0:34.7	Candles flicker for ambience, mouth-watering aromas floating from the kitchen.
0:39.7	Glasses of wine make the small talk more palatable.
0:43.4	Maybe this Thanksgiving will be different, you wonder.
0:47.1	But it's not.
0:50.6	By the time the first dollop of mashed potatoes hits your plate, the mood darkens.
0:56.4	Tensions rise as family members drag old skeletons from closets you thought you'd want.
1:02.2	Nothing, not even pumpkin pie, can prevent the chaos now.
1:08.1	This always happens.
1:09.6	No matter how hard you try, the holiday ends in shouting and tears.
1:15.6	As you push food scraps around your plate, a terrible thought crosses your mind.
1:21.0	What if I slip something in the desert to make it all stop?
1:28.1	Of course you don't actually mean it.
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