The Deadly Dose

In this week's episode, Harini talks about the mysterious passing of Hollywood star, Thelma Todd. We'll walk you down the red carpet of 1920's Tinseltown glitz and glamour, but not even the carefree days of the roaring 20s-30s could stop the spread of the carbon monoxide, the notorious silent killer...

In this week's episode, we have our very first GUEST! Longtime best friend, poison pal, part-time esteemed infectious disease enthusiast, and full-time fun-guy (get it?) - Drew Dickinson. Drew picks his poison with us this week and regales us and our listeners to the bacterium that swept our nation post 9/11 and took blackmail to a whole different level, yup, we're talking Anthrax.

In this week's episode, Megan time travels us all the way back to the Hellenistic Age for the King of Poisons - Mithridates, a name that will forever go down in history as the OG poisoner. But it was a certain special poison of his that was the key to his domination against the Ancient Greeks. As they say, revenge can be so sweet like (mad) honey...

In this week's episode, Harini hooks us with the story that birthed the idea for this deliciously dark podcast you consume each week! In true Harini form, she's taking you back to the glorious 1980s to a deadly drug scandal that shook the pharmaceutical industry forever. What is the poison this week you ask? Well, look no further than your own medicine cabinet...

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: We have a real-time update regarding our Special Episode: What's in Room 239? about the poisoning of Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny. This story just keeps getting crazier and crazier. It's hard to believe we're not reading the script of the next James Bond movie. We now know exactly how Navalny was poisoned and all we can say is we're going commando for a while...

In this week's episode, Megan regales us with the notorious, yet somehow widely unknown assassination of Kim Jong Nam, the forgotten wild child of the late Kim Jong-il. That is all to say we are doing a quilt episode in light of the new Assassins movie - two recordings are stitched together to bring you the ultimate content in preparation for the new documentary. This killer game of peek-a-boo is no prank though...all we can say is, wash ya damn hands ya filthy animals!

In this week's episode, Harini finishes off the MK Ultra series with part two! She tells the tragic tale of the death of Frank Olsen - a horrific and fatal byproduct of the CIA LSD mind-control experiments. Pour yourself some Cointreau (sans LSD - unless, you know, that's your thing) and settle into this mid-century thriller of espionage, conspiracy, murder and drugs.

In this week's episode, Harini does part one of a two-part series (the first in TSIP history!) talking about the CIA LSD mind-control experiments in the 1950s up until the early 1970s. Hold onto your bellbottoms and rose-colored glasses because it's going to be a TRIP!

In this week's episode, Megan mixes your favorite deli sandwich with heavy metal to cover the 2018 Germany lead acetate poisonings that spanned over almost 20 years! Tomatoes, pickles, bacon - oh, but hold the lead please and thank you!

In this week's episode, Harini does a special breaking news episode on the recent August 20th, 2020 poisoning of Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, with a never before seen nerve agent