The Backstory: The great stink of 1858
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
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🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
So we’re all sweltering from the heat…air so thick and hot you can feel it go down your throat as you breathe. But heat waves are nothing new. They killed thousands in 1898 and thousands more in the early 1900s. But the one that hit London 166 years ago, changed the city forever. It was “the great stink of 1858.”
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| 0:00.0 | Oh man, it seems like no matter where you live, there have been days and weeks this summer that have been absolutely |
| 0:06.7 | sweltering. |
| 0:07.7 | Am I right? |
| 0:08.7 | But imagine a time when there was no escaping it, no fans, no air conditioning, heat waves that killed thousands |
| 0:15.5 | of people and livestock. |
| 0:17.5 | Now add to that a primitive public sewer system that made just breathing hell on earth. I'm Patty Steele. Welcome to |
| 0:25.4 | London's great stink of 1858. That's next on the backstory. |
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| 0:43.2 | They weren't professional criminals. They were ordinary citizens, |
| 0:46.7 | but they needed to know the truth about the FBI. |
| 0:50.3 | Burglaries forged blackmail letters and threats of violence were used to try to stop anti-war marches. |
| 0:57.0 | Even if that meant risking everything. |
| 1:00.0 | I just felt like I was living in the heart of the dragon and it was just my job to stop the fire. |
| 1:05.3 | I'm Ed Helms, host of Snafu. Season 2, Medburg. The story of a daring |
| 1:11.6 | heist that exposed J. Edgar Hoover's secret FBI. |
| 1:16.0 | If it meant some risks that were involved, well, that's what citizens sometimes have to do. |
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| 1:38.0 | It's a real life story of two people who left a crowded Philadelphia bar, walked to their truck, and vanished. |
| 1:46.0 | Nobody hears anything, nobody sees anything. |
| 1:50.0 | Did they run away? |
| 1:51.0 | Was it an accident or were they murdered? A truck and two people just don't disappear. |
| 1:57.2 | The FBI called it Murder for Hire. It was definitely Murder for Hire for Danielle, not for Richard. |
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