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Speaker 1: Prohibition.

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Speaker 2: It's an era synonymous with speakeasies, jazz flappers, and failure.

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Speaker 2: In fact, it's one of the biggest lawmaking snaffoos of

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Speaker 2: all time. Well within that snaffo is another story, one

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Speaker 2: you probably haven't heard about. How people started dying mysteriously

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Speaker 2: and the unlikely duo who tried to save them.

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Speaker 1: It's the nineteen tens.

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Speaker 2: Meet New York City's first medical examiner, Charles Norris.

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Speaker 3: He had a big, booming voice and a Yale football

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Speaker 3: player's presence.

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Speaker 1: And his partner, Alexander Gettler, chomping on a cigar all

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Speaker 1: the time.

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Speaker 2: From what I understand, every death in the city was

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Speaker 2: their responsibility. As they cataloged the city's dead, they pioneered

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Speaker 2: the new field of forensic toxicology.

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Speaker 3: Like a Buddy cop movie of like these two scientists

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Speaker 3: in the trenches together and.

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Speaker 2: Their work gave them a look into the sinister side

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Speaker 2: of the speakeasy. Turns out something or someone was poisoning

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Speaker 2: people through the twenties. The two of them rolled gurneys

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Speaker 2: into the city. Morgue pulled samples of deadly poisons from

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Speaker 2: dead bodies and connected the.

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Speaker 1: Dots, unraveling a terrifying story.

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Speaker 3: Did people die? They died daily.

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Speaker 2: As the evidence mounted all across the country. All signs

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Speaker 2: pointed to a big player behind the poisoned liquor.

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Speaker 1: That was killing Americans, the US government.

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Speaker 2: On the third season of Snapfoo, the story of Formula six.

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Speaker 3: The last thing you want is for your people to

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Speaker 3: be called murdering chemas in a congressional heroine.

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Speaker 2: How prohibitions war on alcohol went so off the rails

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Speaker 2: the government wound up poisoning its own people, and then

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