A show that unpacks wildly unsafe past trends: lawn darts, radioactive health drinks, lead everything.

How Did We Survive?
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Podcast Overview
A show that unpacks wildly unsafe past trends: lawn darts, radioactive health drinks, lead everything.
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Publishing Since
5/15/2025
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Recent Episodes

June 8, 2026
5 Foods We Ate Daily That Were Slowly Poisoning Us
From arsenic-laced candy to lead-contaminated canned goods, our ancestors unknowingly poisoned themselves at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Today we're counting down five everyday foods that were actually toxic time bombs—and somehow humanity lived to tell the tale. Spoiler alert: you'll never look at vintage cookbooks the same way again.

May 24, 2026
The Radium Girls Who Glowed in the Dark
In the 1920s, painting watch dials with glowing radium was considered a glamorous job for young women—until their bones began to crumble and their jaws fell off. We explore the horrifying true story of the Radium Girls, whose suffering and legal battle changed workplace safety forever, and ask: how did any of them survive long enough to fight back?

January 7, 2026
Humanity
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