What is red mercury?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.2 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Since the 1980s, Russian and US sources have repeatedly claimed that various groups of terrorists are dangerously close to acquiring a mysterious substance known as 'red mercury.' But what exactly is this stuff -- and why can't anyone agree about its chem

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0:00.0	I'm Carol Fisher and I'm hosting a podcast called The Girl Friends.
0:04.6	It's Las Vegas, it's the 1990s, and it is time to find a husband.
0:10.2	There were four Jewish doctors who were felt to be eligible bachelor's.
0:15.6	One of them was Bob Baramatt.
0:18.4	On paper he was perfect, but in reality...
0:22.4	This guy is a wacko.
0:23.8	He choked into the point she went unconscious.
0:27.2	I would call him and I would say, I know you killed my sister.
0:30.8	You can listen to The Girl Friends on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast,
0:35.6	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:37.8	Last year, as Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine,
0:42.5	Russian oligarchs suddenly started dying, more than a dozen in the space of nine months.
0:48.9	Many of their deaths are suspicious with links to the Kremlin.
0:53.0	In this new investigative series with me, Jake Hanrahann,
0:56.9	we're asking the question, who's killing Russia's billionaires?
1:00.7	This is Sad oligarch.
1:02.6	Listen to Sad oligarch on the iHeartRadio app,
1:05.8	Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:09.4	Malibu was ruled by one man, Mickey Dora,
1:13.5	a surfer, a con man, a menace.
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