WEBVTT - Halloween Special! 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:21.959 Hi everyone, Happy Halloween. Welcome the Mother Knows Death. We 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:25.880 have a very special Halloween themed episode for you guys today. 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:28.840 Let's start with the best part of Halloween, which is 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.800 the candy. Yes, the candy is the best part of Halloween. 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:36.680 I actually bought all my Halloween candy yesterday, and I 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.640 purposely didn't buy regular M and ms because I knew 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.800 I would eat a million of them. Yeah, I'm really 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:45.360 regretting the bag, the giant bag I bought of Totti 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:48.040 rolls because I probably ate twenty of them between last 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:50.360 night and this morning. I did eat a shit ton 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:52.960 of tottsi Rolls too. Do you know that New Jersey 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:57.320 was voted to their favorite candy as tottsi Rolls? Really? 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.680 And some people think that that's so gross, but I 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.360 could they're like up there with that for sure. I 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:06.400 think people generally think I'm a grandmother, but really because 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:08.399 I eat so many Toati rolls and just do like 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.959 old people things like that. So I don't know. Everybody's 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:12.840 been making fun of me for eating You have bridge 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.399 mix in your house, that's no, that's that's the real 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:20.280 test of an old person. So with Halloween candy, there's 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.280 all of these different things that we need to be 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:27.200 aware of, unfortunately, because there's been some real life incidents 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.959 of things happening with them. And one of the biggest 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:33.640 things that's been happening for the past couple of years 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:38.480 is the DEA putting out alerts to be aware of 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.680 what drugs are going around that potentially could look like 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:46.119 candy to children. Yeah, so a couple of years ago, 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.240 we had written this huge post about, you know, the 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:51.960 dangers of Halloween candy in the grocery room, and you 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.800 included a picture of these ventanyl pills that were these 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.000 like small multi colored rainbow pills, right, and they look 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.840 exactly like those many sweet arts to me that you 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.360 could buy at the movie theater. You know, yeah, they 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.360 really do. So that's why they have to issue the 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.800 warning because they look just like candy and anything that 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:10.840 looks like that is going to be attractive to children, 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.760 you know. So. And another thing is is that they 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:18.239 found that people were smuggling drugs in through candy wrappers too, 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:22.840 so in bags of Skittles, in boxes of nerds, and listen, 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.399 I don't think that any I mean, you can't say 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.359 that because some other stories we're going to talk about 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.800 later this week. But in general, I can't see why 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.919 a person would intentionally give your child drugs because number one, 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.720 it's just gross and stadistic to poison a child or 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.040 to give a child drugs. But number two, why would 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.880 they give your child something that's worth so much more 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:48.760 than a box of nerds. I think the problem is 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:53.800 is that you go to there's fifty houses around your neighborhood, right, 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.120 and you go to all these houses, and you don't 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.000 know who lives in every single house, and there could 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.680 be a person there that also sell drugs or has 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:02.800 them in their house, and it could accidentally get mixed 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.600 in with the kids stuff. So that's I think that's 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:10.000 the concern of that, more so than people intentionally trying 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.440 to give it to kids. Yeah, and then generally there's 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.040 just the concern of choking because for a lot of 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.640 these Halloween candies, they're making them what they call like 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.480 fun size, so that you can give out these little 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.000 pieces and not everybody's having full sized bars. But I 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.640 feel like that also poses serious threats to little kids. 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.640 One of the biggest ones I was always scared of 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.000 is those little dumb dumb pops because they come on 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:36.960 a stick, but they're the perfect size circle for a 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.400 child to have an asphyxial death to choke on. And 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.600 there's been times when I was a kid, and even 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:45.640 as an adult, I don't really like them because they're 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:47.920 too the paper gets too wet and gross for me. 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.600 I'm not not a huge fan of them now. But 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.360 as a kid, you know, just because the stick of 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.560 it is made out of paper, it disintegrates with your 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:59.360 saliva and the head of the lollipop could pop off 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.720 in a child's mouth, or if they chew on the 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:06.240 stick and it then it's a super huge choking hazard 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.280 because it's a perfect size for a child. And then 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.000 there's the foreign bodies, which, of course, when you're thinking 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:15.360 about it, we are typically talking about ones that people 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:17.600 are sticking in parts of their body where they really 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.880 shouldn't be down there. But of course there's children every 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.760 year that are sticking candy up their noses in their 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:27.560 ears apparently nerds clusters or like the number one candy 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.640 that fits best in the ear and causes a lot 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.680 of problems. And then there's this one story of this 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:34.960 child that went to the er because he stuck a 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.800 black jelly bean up his nose, and his parents weren't 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.040 able to get it out for hours. And when they 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:41.920 brought him to the hospital and they were finally able 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.640 to get it out, the parents were expecting him to find, 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.320 you know, one solid jelly bean when they were removing it, 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:51.480 but it was this giant glob because the exterior candy 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.040 shell had melted off of it and it just started like, 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:58.320 you know, just integrating slowly. So well, think about this 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.359 your bodies ninety eight degree, right, and then you put 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.560 a jelly bean on there, of course it's going to 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.400 kind of melt. It would be the same thing as 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:07.920 if you left it outside on a hot summer day. 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.560 That's exactly what happened. It melted up in the kid's nose. 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:15.200 And for me personally, I love the smell of that 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:20.920 fake annis licorice smell, but most kids hate the black 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.560 jelly bean. Right, maybe you could put it up as 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:27.960 nose and that its need, But imagine just that smell 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.000 just being like stuck up your nose. I imagine even 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.160 when you take it out, it's just like a very 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:37.479 lingering smell. You know. It's interesting. Momm's favorite candy was 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.479 always good in plenty, and I always just just like 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.880 this lady is so freaking weird, Like she likes licorice flavor. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.000 And another weird thing she does is she likes the 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.920 yellow part of the egg. She doesn't like the white part. 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.920 It just like blows my mind how weird that is. Well, 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.480 you know, we went to Target yesterday to get candy. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.400 So it's a day before Halloween. It's pretty slim pickings. 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.679 But there was like one variety bag that I consider 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.520 old people candy. That there was a ton of bags 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.520 of that because who wants that? Wait, which it was 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:11.080 like butterfingers, No, butter fingers are good, No, But it 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.240 was those weird those weird candies like almond es. I 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.440 really like Almondjoys, but it's considered an old person candy 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:21.680 for sure. The Mister Goodbar or whatever, you know, things 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.120 like that. Yeah, kids, I don't think kids really like 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:28.200 that stuff anymore. But the candies getting outrageously expensive, so 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.240 maybe that bag was cheaper. I was. I also, you know, 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.160 when we were at Target yes or, I also saw 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:38.160 all of the pretzel I hated getting pretzels or Anything's 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.320 gonna say that too. There was there was like popcorn 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.520 like and it wasn't even buttery popcorn. It was just 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:49.240 like no, no anything, no salt or anything popcorn, Like, Wow, 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.760 that's so much fun. They had a bag of ghost 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:56.599 shaped veggie straws, and I'm like, what kid wants veggie 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.640 straws on Halloween? Everybody wants candy. Somebody in our neighborhood 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:02.800 growing up, though, used to give out popcorn balls and 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.840 those were pretty good. Yeah, but a popcorn ball is 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.560 a Rice Christ retreat made out of popcorn, right, Yeah, 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:13.520 I'm pretty so like of course, But getting back to it, Yeah, 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.440 I mean, I don't think I've ever had the urge 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.600 as a child to stick anything into my ear or 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.120 my nose. But you hear about this all the time. 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.040 We see it all the time. Yeah, I don't know 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.920 if it's like a certain type of kid personality to 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.240 do something like that, or they just accidentally go up there. 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.640 I don't know. I also feel like I haven't had 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.640 the urge to stick. This happened to a kid once 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.600 when I was growing up that this kid apparently had 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.800 really bad breath all the time, and they couldn't figure 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:42.880 out why the kid had bad breath, And then they 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.240 found out that the kid had stuck a pee up 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.400 their nose months prior, and that's what was emitting the smell. 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.520 It's just it's just really funny, right that you hear 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:56.280 about that all the time. But the biggest thing with 0:07:56.320 --> 0:08:00.600 the foreign bodies though, is when people are sticking them 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:04.320 in candy bars. There's been documentation of that. Yeah, so 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.560 I was gonna ask you, I I feel like we 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:11.120 checked my candy a little bit in the nineties, but 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.760 not crazy. But when you were a kid, were you 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:15.600 guys checking them a lot? Because there was a couple 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.720 incidents in like the you know, ten to fifteen years 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.880 before you were born, that some really horrible things happened. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.239 So Momum and Papa click on top of it. Yeah, 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:29.440 I mean we checker treated in our neighborhood, and I'm 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.680 pretty sure that we knew every single house that we 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.719 went to because we just lived in a little development 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:39.360 and we knew almost every single person. But I think, 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.760 like looking back as an adult, I'm like, oh, Pop 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.160 Pop was totally checking my candy because he was like, 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.600 what's in here that I want? I'm going to take 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:50.240 out everything. It's a pretty good tactic, Honestly, it is 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.440 the tactic I do it with my kids all the time. 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.240 But it's completely bullshit. I'm not really looking for anything. 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.880 I'm just looking for what for what I want. But 0:08:58.000 --> 0:08:59.680 now it's like whatever. They go to bed and I 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:03.360 still read their shit. But yeah, so they did check. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.959 And I do remember mo Mom saying, because I always 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:08.840 was like, what are you looking for? And they were 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.920 like razor blades, razor blades, sewing needles, things like that. 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:17.640 So so apparently this like fear started in the sixties 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.199 because in nineteen sixty four, this woman in New York 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.280 was arrested for giving children ant bait, dog biscuits and 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:27.400 steel woolpads, not all with warning labels that they were poisonous. So, 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:31.800 you know, how nice of her, how nice. But I 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.760 think in her case, she was just like hated Halloween. 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.280 She was very annoyed by the whole thing, obviously mentally disturbed, 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:40.160 so that's the route she thought she needed a take, 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.880 which is horrible. And then a couple of years later 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.800 in Toronto police were finding razor blades in Halloween apples. 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:50.079 So I guess when you were younger, giving away candied 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.559 apples or maybe in like, you know, the fifties, sixties 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.840 was like a bigger thing. So I'm assuming that started 0:09:55.840 --> 0:10:00.800 fading out because people started not trusting homemade goods anymore. Yeah, 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:02.720 we used to get We had a house that gave 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.400 out candied apples too, But now, like thinking about the 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:08.840 hundreds of people that are going to be coming to 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:10.840 my house tonight, Like, who the hell is time for 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:12.960 that shit anymore? That's like if you live in a 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.880 small neighborhood where you ten kids are coming by, you 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:20.120 know whatever. Well, I was also thinking, like, you know, 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.000 when you were a little kid in the eighties, it 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.360 was different and you know all your neighbors and everything, 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.120 Like I know maybe one or two of my neighbors 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.760 out of twenty houses, right, Like, how do you people 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.719 don't talk to each other like that anymore? I just 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.280 think it depends where you live, you know what I mean, 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.720 That's just what it boils down to. I agree, I 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.360 know less people in my neighborhood now, although I do 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.840 know a lot of my neighbors. But yeah, i'd be 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.160 like I said, we lived in a development that was 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.559 built and everybody that moved in in the seventies all 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:54.679 had children. I mean my bus stop had my bus 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.439 alone was just from our neighborhood was filled with kids, 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.440 so you just know everyone and we all most of 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.439 us went to the public school and everything, so it 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.240 just that's how you know everybody, you know what I mean. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.040 But now it's just different because kids go to other 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.520 schools and things like that, you know what I mean. 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:13.040 It's insane to me that that many children were in 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.640 your neighborhood growing up, because every year I leave out 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.720 a bowl of candy and it's always more than half 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.280 full by the time I get home. I'm like, not 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.200 even one of you just wants to take the whole 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.120 thing and dump it in your bag so I don't 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.200 have to sit here and eat this for the next 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:31.680 couple of bloods. I don't know. Yeah, it is, it's 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.800 but it just depends where you live, you know, because 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:35.920 when we first moved in here, there was a lot 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.160 more old people on the street, and then it's you know, 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.240 it's transitioning into newer families moving in younger kids, and 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:44.240 the whole towns like that. So that's just that's just 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.560 how it goes. But I do have a picture in 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.720 the gross room of a sewing needle and a kit cat. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.200 That is that a real Because I know that a 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.600 lot of rumors also spread and maybe this isn't one 0:11:55.640 --> 0:12:00.200 hundred percent true that people were actually doing that. You know, 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.839 you always have to assume there's some mentally disturbed individuals 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.760 that are gonna go to these lengths right by putting 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.920 stuff in the Halloween candy. Like you said, I don't 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.400 understand the point of it, especially with drugs, Like you're 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.679 just wasting money giving them to children, And like, what's 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.400 the point of taking out the children in your neighborhood. 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.280 You know you're gonna get caught. Like the most notable 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.720 case of Halloween candy which did result in death was 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:31.079 his father who poisoned his own child with pixie sticks, 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.600 but he was also trying to poison his friend's two 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:37.240 kids and another neighborhood boy. Yeah, and this is the 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.960 only out of all these stories that we hear on 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.640 the news about like watch your kids candy, this, that, 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.199 and the other, this is the only one that we 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.160 know of that has actually resulted in a death of 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.520 a child during Halloween. Yeah, And what happened in this case, 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.600 if you guys aren't familiar with it, is these two 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.800 dads in nineteen seventy four took their kids trick or treating, 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.360 which I thought was unusual for the time, Like when 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.040 did you see two dads alone taking kids trick or 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:07.559 treating in the seventies. But anyway, they get they approached 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.920 and did you see a parent trick or treating in 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.360 the seventies. I know this is like, this is like, oh, 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.040 you're old enough the walk go trick or treating by yourself. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.400 That's how it was in the seventies. You were five 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.719 years old. And they're just like, see you later, one 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.199 hundred percent. Yes. So in this case, these two dads 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.920 are walking around, they each have two kids, and they 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.120 approach this dark house and nobody answers the door. So 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.240 one of the dads says he's going to stick around 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.400 and see if somebody answers the door, which like red 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.760 flag number one. They go to the next house, and 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.200 then suddenly that dad appears and goes, oh, somebody did 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.120 crack the door open, and they handed me these five 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.640 pixie sticks. So they give two pixie sticks. They give 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.040 one pixie stick each to that guy's two kids, the 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.680 friends two kids, and then another neighborhood boy. So later 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.960 that night they're all at their respective houses and the 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.480 friend said to his kids, you know, I really don't 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.560 want you eating any candy before bed, which, like I 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:01.920 know they're are probably annoyed at the time, but extremely 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.800 great character. And then the guy that got the pixie 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:09.800 sticks from this alleged dark house pretty much force fed 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.559 his son this pixie stick, which when he was emptying 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.840 it out noticed it was clumpy. And if anybody's had 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:18.080 a pixie stick, you know, it's this really fine powdered 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.080 sugar type of candy, so there definitely shouldn't be clumps 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.720 in it. Yeah, maybe you should describe what a pixie 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.840 stick is in case people don't know what they are. 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:30.240 It's like this plastic tube filled with this powdered sugar 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.800 candy essentially, so if you're opening the tube and there's 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.760 clumps in it, that shouldn't seem right to you because 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.480 it's this ultra fine powder. I wonder if in the 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.160 seventies if they were plastic tubes or if they were 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.800 the paper ones. Well, regardless, they're a straw that's made 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.360 out of either paper or plastic that's just filled with 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:52.080 flavored sugar basically, and these ones also happen to be 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:56.040 like stapled shut, which another red flag. It's clearly the 0:14:56.120 --> 0:15:00.120 baggage was tampered with. But this guy force fed his 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.200 child this Pixi stick. The child died within an hour 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.880 and ended up being from cyanide poisoning that was in 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.760 the Pixy sticks. So the other parents of the kids 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.320 that got the sticks, you know, are freaking out. The 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:14.040 friends like, thank god that I never fed my kid 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.480 or I didn't let them have candy before bed. And 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:20.360 then the other neighbor was running around their house trying 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.600 to find this Pixi stick and when they got in 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.560 their kids room, he literally literally was asleep on the 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.720 bed holding it in his hand but had not yet 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.680 opened it, like thank god. So, yeah, they found out 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.360 this guy put cyanide in all of them. That the 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.360 one of the dads, because he had significant debt, about 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.880 half a million dollars in today's money of debt, and 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.600 he took out life insurance policies on his own children 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.960 and the poison the pictures. What a scumbag. Also, you 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.520 know you're gonna get caught with the life insurance polosie, 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:50.680 what are you doing? Well? And this is this is 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.680 how they figured this out. So the kid, the kid 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:57.360 got very sick, and had he he started vomiting and 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:02.080 having abdominal pain moments within and this pixie stick fainted 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.040 in his dad's arms, was brought to the hospital and 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.840 was dead within one hour. And when his body so 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.040 in that case all the time like they're going to 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:13.080 do an autopsy, and of course suspicion's going to be 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:16.960 high when the medical examiners asking, like what was the 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.040 kid doing? What happened and they say, oh, he was 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:24.040 eating his Halloween candi. So for anyone that does autopsies, 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.400 your your red flags go up of like it was 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:30.120 this kid poisoned somehow, some acute poisoning that occurred very quickly. 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.280 And when they were doing the autopsy, the coroner had 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.320 smelled the kid's breath and smelled almonds on his breath. 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.120 And one of the really interesting things with cyanide is 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.120 that there's a small percentage of the population, well not 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.440 a small percent, but a lot of people are able 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:52.240 to smell almonds when a person has been poisoned with cyanide, 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.560 but some people can't smell it. It's kind of similar 0:16:55.600 --> 0:17:00.080 to asparagus. Asparagus p like, if you eat asparagus, some 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.520 times you could smell it. Very strong, and other people 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.679 don't smell it at all. I remember Lucia when she 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.600 was a baby, I gave her asparagus and changed her diaper, 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.760 and it like the smell of it just whacked me 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:14.879 in the face. I just I'm able to smell it, 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:16.800 but some people just aren't able to smell it. So 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:22.679 it's really interesting. So even though smelling cyanide is definitely 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.919 puts off alarms for a corner, every corner can't smell it, 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:30.520 and it's not one hundred percent something that would diagnose it, 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.520 but it definitely clues you in. Another thing is is 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.439 the live or mortis. So when you die, all of 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:38.600 the blood that's in your blood vessels kind of falls 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.280 down to the dependent areas of your body where you're laying, 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.000 and usually it's like a purplish reddish color, but in 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:49.080 cases of cyanide, along with carbon monoxide poisoning, it turns 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.480 bright red and that's also a clue, and then they're 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.159 able to do toxicology to see And it ended up 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.960 that this kid had enough to kill two adults in 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:01.119 his system. That's how much. And I was in a system, 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.640 which is why he dropped dead within an hour It's 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.560 just disgusting that you would resort to doing something like 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.240 that to pay off debt. And like, you know you're 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:11.359 getting caught when you take out a life insurance policy. 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.880 You're obviously the most guilty person if you're taking one 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:15.840 out on an eight year old little kid, Like what 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:19.199 are you even doing? Also, just like okay, so what 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.560 you don't get caught, Like how do you really live 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:26.080 with yourself? I don't know. And you're like a serious sociopath. 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:28.320 It seems like he was trying to not only kill 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.439 that child, but his other kid too, So it's like 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.000 you're gonna kill both kids. And his wife was saying 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:37.280 that he basically force fed this pixie stick to their son. 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:42.200 He didn't even want it, so he was actively still 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.840 married to the mom. Yeah, I believe. I just can't 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.640 even could you just like imagine that really? I mean 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.440 clearly they there was probably like a lot of other 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.840 signs with this guy before he did this. But so 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.120 he was put to death by lethal injection March thirty first, 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:00.600 nineteen eighty four, about ten years after the end, So 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:07.600 good piece of shit. So this episode is brought to 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.800 you by the Grosser Room. Guys. This is the season 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.400 of skulls and blood and guts. But in the Grosser Room, 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.359 it is Halloween twenty four to seven, three hundred and 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.360 sixty five days a year, So you want to join us. 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:21.240 It's a lot of fun. It's only five ninety nine 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:24.000 a month, so visit the Grossroom dot com for more 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:30.640 info and to sign up. Let's talk about makeup. Oh, Halloween. 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.840 Makeup is my favorite part of Halloween, like doing your 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.480 makeup when you were a kid. Let's talk about some 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:40.960 of your your Halloween costumes. Did you see on Instagram? 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.320 I posted one of my favorite ones as a child, 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:45.760 when I was just as the Yellow Eminem. Oh yeah, 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:49.679 the Yellow Eminem's good. But that that wasn't so you. 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:53.639 I had made you a costume for Nightmare before Christmas Sally, 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:57.600 before that was even a thing that they sold the costumes. 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:00.000 I made the whole entire thing out of momm's clothes. 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:01.840 I took a bunch of her shirts and cut them 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:06.120 up and made you a patchwork dress, and I had 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.960 stockings that I drew stitches on, and it just looked 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:12.240 so awesome. Of course, there's no photographs of it because wait, 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:14.360 so it was the nineties. Did you just go at 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:16.680 her drawers and take a bunch of shirts out with her. 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:20.240 She didn't even know, dude, that lady is insane. She's 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:22.639 the most insane person I ever met. She goes to 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.280 the store and buys so much clothes and they're all 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.919 hanging in her closet with tag still on it. Like 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:30.200 I could go to her closet right now and take 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:32.840 ten items out of her closet and she wouldn't even 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:36.280 notice they were missing. I sent Didy this video on 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:38.600 Instagram the other day that this guy took all of 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:40.960 his mom's shoes out of her closet and they lined 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.199 them in the entire upstairs at their house. And I 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:45.480 think she had over two hundred pairs of shoes or something. 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:47.800 So I sent it Toddy and I just wrote momm 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:49.879