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Stuff You Should Know

The Radium Girls

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

The Radium Girls painted watched with glow-in-the-dark radium in the 1920s and '30s. Most got sick, many died. This is their story.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay

0:04.8

on top of.

0:05.8

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.5

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.5

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.9

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.8

Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.8

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:41.4

Hey and welcome to the podcast.

0:42.9

I'm Josh Clark.

0:44.2

There's Charles W. Covey Bryant.

0:46.7

What?

0:47.7

You want me to intro you like that Chuck?

0:52.6

Well, I guess the cat's out of the bag.

0:54.9

Yeah, we wanted to start this episode off with a PSA.

0:58.0

I've COVID everybody and the reason I'm making this so public is a couple of reasons.

1:04.9

One, to remind everyone that we're not out of the woods yet.

1:09.0

I'm vaccinated fully.

1:12.6

This is almost 100% likely the Delta variant.

1:16.2

There's no way to prove that because I've done a lot of research.

1:20.4

They're only testing for variants in like specific places than using statistics to like

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