The Bhopal Disaster [True Crime Special]

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🗓️ 28 August 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is considered to be the world's worst industrial disaster.^[1]^[2] Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas. The highly toxic substance made its way into and around the small towns located near the plant.^[3]

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0:00.0	I just don't think we should limit ourselves.
0:04.4	I disagree.
0:05.6	We should try to do topics for the October 12th live show
0:08.1	that are New York centric.
0:09.6	You know what I'm saying?
0:10.4	For like, yeah, I mean, I get it.
0:12.6	I think we should expand our horizons a little.
0:14.8	Okay, we are not doing the atrustkins.
0:16.5	That's off the table.
0:17.7	Hi, he's good, Tim.
0:19.0	Well, hey guys, we shouldn't open that door right there.
0:22.2	It's, remember it's the Bhopal disaster this week.
0:25.8	Oh, I'm sure Eli like filled the studio
0:29.2	with toxic gas or something like that.
0:31.2	Obviously.
0:32.0	It's okay guys.
0:33.0	It's okay.
0:33.8	Come on in.
0:34.7	It's fine.
0:35.5	It's fine.
0:36.4	Oh, hey, Cecil, I thought for sure, Eli would have,
0:39.7	you know, pulled some poison explosion trick
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