Alaina Urquhart

And thinks it needs to like push it out to the rest of your body to reabsorb.

Oh, wow.

Calcium.

And that's why it just destroys.

Because it just gets pumped out.

That's horrifying, but it's also so fascinating.

Isn't it wild?

But this is all to say, within at least a few years of founding his company, U.S.

Radium, Von Sischocki knew radium-based paint was highly toxic and extraordinarily dangerous.

Extraordinarily.

Extraordinarily dangerous.

But he kept that little bit of knowledge from his employees.

Oh, good.

And they're just eating the paint.

Which is fucked up, to say the very, very least.

Yep.

In fact, as soon as most painters were introduced to the lip-pointing technique...

most inquired as to whether the paint was you know in any way harmful that was everybody's first question they're like cool that i do this or not because that's the thing like it's not like these girls walked in there and were just like chemicals sure i'll just eat it like they they asked the people in charge the people who should be telling them whether these things are dangerous right and these people all their managers would say go for it it's completely safe

And knowing it wasn't.

Knowing how bad it was.