WEBVTT - Introducing Season 3: Formula 6

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<v Speaker 1>Prohibition.

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

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<v Speaker 2>In fact, it's one of the biggest lawmaking snaffoos of

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<v Speaker 2>all time. Well within that snaffo is another story, one

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<v Speaker 2>you probably haven't heard about. How people started dying mysteriously

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<v Speaker 2>and the unlikely duo who tried to save them.

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<v Speaker 1>It's the nineteen tens.

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<v Speaker 2>Meet New York City's first medical examiner, Charles Norris.

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<v Speaker 3>He had a big, booming voice and a Yale football

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<v Speaker 3>player's presence.

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<v Speaker 1>And his partner, Alexander Gettler, chomping on a cigar all

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<v Speaker 1>the time.

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<v Speaker 2>From what I understand, every death in the city was

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<v Speaker 2>their responsibility. As they cataloged the city's dead, they pioneered

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<v Speaker 2>the new field of forensic toxicology.

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<v Speaker 3>Like a Buddy cop movie of like these two scientists

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<v Speaker 3>in the trenches together and.

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<v Speaker 2>Their work gave them a look into the sinister side

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<v Speaker 2>of the speakeasy. Turns out something or someone was poisoning

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<v Speaker 2>people through the twenties. The two of them rolled gurneys

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<v Speaker 2>into the city. Morgue pulled samples of deadly poisons from

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<v Speaker 2>dead bodies and connected the.

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<v Speaker 1>Dots, unraveling a terrifying story.

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<v Speaker 3>Did people die? They died daily.

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<v Speaker 2>As the evidence mounted all across the country. All signs

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<v Speaker 2>pointed to a big player behind the poisoned liquor.

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<v Speaker 1>That was killing Americans, the US government.

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<v Speaker 2>On the third season of Snapfoo, the story of Formula six.

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<v Speaker 3>The last thing you want is for your people to

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<v Speaker 3>be called murdering chemas in a congressional heroine.

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<v Speaker 2>How prohibitions war on alcohol went so off the rails

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<v Speaker 2>the government wound up poisoning its own people, and then

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<v Speaker 2>subscribe to Snafoo Season three starting March twelfth, on the

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