The Deadly Dose

Two episodes ago, we talked about burn pits. In that episode, we called on our listeners to email us if they knew anyone that was around or had been exposed to burn pits. We had no idea we were about to get an email so close to home. Today we have Braydon Griffith, our podcast editor, and co-producer, sharing his personal story of how he lost his father to cancer due to exposure to burn pits. Please listen to this episode and share Braydon's story with as many people as you can. Thank you, poison pals.

In this episode:

Kamp Kesem UCSD

• https://donate.kesem.org/campaign/friends-of-camp-kesem-at-uc-san-diego/c58548
• https://www.volunteermatch.org/search/org686596.jsp

Non-Profit Veteran Advocacy Group

• https://burnpits360.org/about-us/

VA Burn Pit Registry

•  https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/burnpits/registry.asphttps://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/952/text

Resources to Understand and Track Senate Bill 952- Presumptive Benefits for War Fighters Exposed to Burn Pits and Other Toxins Act

• https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s952
• https://ruiz.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-raul-ruiz-introduces-comprehensive-bipartisan-burn-pits-bill 

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Hello listener, in today's episode, you'll be asked to participate. The facts will be relayed to you in this whodunnit case and YOU are juror #12. Can you provide a fair and balanced verdict?

This case is about neighbors. How well do you know them or think you know them? Clearly not well enough. 

In this episode:

• Rear Window (film) 
• Texas Monthly - Killer Next door (article) 

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If there is an episode we would hope you listened to, it's this one. Veteran's Day just passed and how often do we say, "Thank you for your service!"

After today's episode, I hope we all think about that phrase in a different light and start or continue to do our part to advocate for our Veterans. So, today we're talking about burn pits. You probably haven't heard of burn pits and that's not on accident.  Megan raises awareness about the horrors of burn pits and the silence that has surrounded burn pits for almost 20 years. 

In this episode:

Non-Profit Veteran Advocacy Group

• https://burnpits360.org/about-us/

VA Burn Pit Registry

•  https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/burnpits/registry.asphttps://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/952/text

Resources to Understand and Track Senate Bill 952- Presumptive Benefits for War Fighters Exposed to Burn Pits and Other Toxins Act

• https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s952
• https://ruiz.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-raul-ruiz-introduces-comprehensive-bipartisan-burn-pits-bill 

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We are BACK to our regularly scheduled content of deliciously poisonous, forensic, true crime episodes! Harini brings us back with a bang to discuss the most famous scientist you never heard of, Dr. Clair Patterson. This episode starts out with one story and ends up in an entirely different story.  The only hint as to what the story is about: it's elementary my dear Watson.

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Our Spooktober series is officially coming to an end with our fourth and final installment. Do you believe in premonitions, in intuition, in angels or spirit guides? Have you ever followed a strong gut feeling that turned out to be right? This episode is all about near-death experiences and near misses. 

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It's the third installment in the Spooktober series and it's back to Harini to tell us a spooky tale. This episode features a very special guest, Harini's husband, Dev, and his firsthand encounter with a ghost in India. That's right, this episode is all about ghosts, demons, and folklore from South Asia. Listen at night if you dare, but whatever you do...don't.look.up. 

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You're in bed, tucked snug underneath the covers, and you slip into a dreamless slumber, when all of a sudden you hear a rustle in the corner. Your eyes fly awake and you see something crawling towards your bed...closer...closer...but no matter how hard you try, you can't move your body. The figure is on your bed now, and right when you think it is all over, you wake up. This episode is all about the horrors and science of sleep paralysis. Brace yourselves, poison pals, it's going to be a sleepless night. 

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IT'S SPOOKY SEASON! Harini is kicking off our Spootkober series with a dead ringer this week. What if your last breath was only an illusion? What if your family, your friends, the coroner even, all thought you were dead, so they bury you...alive. Your only hope now is to be saved by the bell.

In this episode:

• Westworld (TV series)
• Master & Commander (film)
• Motherland (TV series)

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Step inside this real-life Assassin's Creed episode as Megan takes us all back to the 15th c Italian Renaissance. Wine is sloshing around in your chalice, the bard is singing in the square, and the artist is painting his newest commissioned work by the powerful Borgia family. And all of the above is surrounded by a lifestyle of poisoning one's enemies to reach the top, but are the Borgias really as notorious for poisoning as the world wants us to think?

In this episode:

• The Borgias (Netflix)
• Sex Education (S3 on Netflix)
• A Banquet of Consequences by Elizabeth George (Detective Novel)

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Picture this, it's 2006, Chris Brown is playing on your iPod nano, and across the pond, in London, England a Russian man is being assassinated with the deadliest element on the periodic table. It's Harini's turn this week to story it up and it is a toxin that was used once and was never used again. This is the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko poison pals. 

In this episode:

• The story of the man vanishing for 30 years
• https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/man-vanishes-for-30-years-and-gets-dropped-off-home-in-the-same-clothes-he-left-c0383825bf2

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