The Halloween Poisoner
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Candy laced with cyanide and needles in marshmallows, we've long been warned to be suspicious of the sweet treats handed out by strangers at Halloween. But it seems that most stories of "Halloween sadism" are just that, stories. No child seems to have been killed by adulterated Halloween candy... well... there is one terrible exception. The poisoned Pixy Stix of Pasadena, TX.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Barry Edelstein, artistic director of the old globe in San Diego. |
| 0:04.8 | One of the country's leading Shakespeare theaters, my podcast where there's a will finding |
| 0:09.2 | Shakespeare from the globe and push-in industries is kind of a scavenger hunt for Shakespeare, |
| 0:15.0 | because Shakespeare keeps popping up in all sorts of unexpected places. |
| 0:19.8 | Why? |
| 0:20.8 | What does it mean about him and what does it mean about us? |
| 0:24.1 | Listen to where there's a will on the IHART radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you |
| 0:28.4 | get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.3 | Here in the last archive, I've been trying to figure out what happened to Truth. |
| 0:33.5 | I've been telling stories about how we know what we know, and why it seems sometimes |
| 0:37.7 | lately is if we don't know anything at all. |
| 0:40.9 | But I am done with the problems of Truth. |
| 0:43.2 | I want solutions. |
| 0:45.2 | The season of the last archive is all about common knowledge. |
| 0:48.4 | Is that kind of knowledge still possible? |
| 0:51.3 | I tried to find out. |
| 0:52.8 | Coming soon. |
| 0:54.8 | Listen to the last archive on the IHART radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get |
| 0:59.4 | your podcasts. |
| 1:06.8 | Pushkin. |
| 1:08.8 | Pasadena, Texas, 1974. |
| 1:19.3 | Someone is getting ready for Halloween. |
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