4.3 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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For most people, Tylenol is nothing more than an ol' stand-by, over-the-counter pain reliever. Yet, as Ben, Noel and Max learn in today's episode -- this wasn't always the case. Today's episode takes the boys to 1980s Chicago, when a ghoulish series of still-unsolved murders rocked the pharmaceutical industry, and led to the creation of tamper-proof packaging.
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| 0:00.0 | Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show, fellow ridiculous historians. |
| 0:29.6 | Thank you, as always so much for tuning in. |
| 0:32.7 | Let's hear it for The Man, the Myth Legend, our super producer, Mr. Max, over the counter, Williams. |
| 0:40.7 | Max, extra strength, Williams, because he's strong. |
| 0:44.5 | Still over the counter. |
| 0:45.9 | Also true. |
| 0:46.6 | Never seen him under one. |
| 0:49.0 | That's Mr. Noel Brown. |
| 0:51.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.3 | I've been under a counter or two in my day. |
| 0:55.5 | And I know some accountants. |
| 0:58.4 | They call me Ben Bullen in this neck of the global woods. |
| 1:01.9 | We've got a story that honestly may not be appropriate for all listeners, |
| 1:07.6 | but we do find it fascinating, and we can't wait to thank our research associate |
| 1:14.0 | Dylan for this one. |
| 1:16.5 | So thank you, Dylan. |
| 1:17.7 | Yep, big thanks right up front. |
| 1:19.3 | And it's true. |
| 1:20.0 | This one is a little, maybe a little more along the lines of something that you might see |
| 1:24.3 | us talk about on our sister pod, stuff they don't want you to know, |
| 1:28.8 | bit on the true crime side and does involve bad things happening to young people. |
| 1:33.7 | So if that's triggering for you, maybe skip this one, but we do think it's an interesting |
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