The Rise of Harvey Wiley's Poison Squad

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Nowadays U.S. grocery shoppers can be reasonably certain that the foods they purchase are safe (if not healthy). But this wasn't always the case. In fact, if it wasn't for one extremely driven, imperfect man on a mission to clean up America's food industr

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Christina Hutchinson and Corinne Fisher. We are co-hosts of Guys We F*** the Anti-Fletch Shaming Podcast.
0:07.5	We have a lot of really exciting guests coming up on Guys We F*** including Viral Joshi who was a contestant on Indian matchmaking.
0:14.0	We have Esther Pavitski and Kaliila and then of course we have the legendary actor Michael Rappaport.
0:21.5	To listen to Guys We F*** every Friday on the iHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	LA is expansive. There's nearly 10 million people living here and it comes with a lot of noise.
0:37.0	But if you tune those sounds out and listen close, you'll hear the real LA.
0:44.0	What up, B-Bar-Hee-Jim! I'm gonna be a father. Yes.
0:50.0	You feeling this? A F***ing Podcast Mixed Date about Love.
0:53.0	Listen to it starting June 27th on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast.
1:00.0	Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of The Little House on the Prairie Books.
1:04.0	She's one of the most important American children's authors of the 20th century.
1:10.0	Inspiration for a hit television show.
1:13.0	Women will come up to me and cry and say, Little House on the Prairie was my escape.
1:16.0	As a kid I idolized Laura and last summer I went on the road in search of the real Laura.
1:22.0	What I found is a complicated person alongside the complicated country she represents.
1:27.0	I'm Glena Smick-Nickel and this is Wilder.
1:30.0	Listen to Wilder on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:52.0	On Prasic Acid we break our fast. We lunch on a morphine stew.
2:05.0	We dine with a matchhead consummate and drink carbolic acid brew.
2:10.0	That is an excerpt from a song that will become increasingly relevant over the course of this episode.
2:17.0	Hi, I'm Ben.
2:19.0	I want to kiss you but your lips are full of borax.
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