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Morbid

Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

18 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What historical significance do the Radium Girls hold?

0.031 - 25.48 Ash Kelley

Hey weirdos, I'm Ash. And I'm Alayna. And this is Morbid. This is Morbid. I don't even know why I sang it. It just started happening and I went with it. Ash is scunty. Yeah.

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27.807 - 50.727 Ash Kelley

I believe the word you're looking for is scunty. It's scary and cunty. Me and Mikey have determined that she shall remain as such today. That was my Diet Coke opening. Because that's a scunty behavior. She is in a place of scunt right now.

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Chapter 2: How was radium initially perceived in manufacturing?

50.707 - 65.003 Ash Kelley

Serving scunt, scunt, scunt, scunt. Truly, truly serving scunt. We did magic this morning. We did. Why are you laughing? That's the truth.

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67.43 - 72.074 Alaina Urquhart

I don't know. We just did magic this morning.

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72.094 - 87.809 Ash Kelley

There's more to it. There's more. There's more. We did magic this morning and we did manifestations. And I manifested self-love and light and abundance. And I'm feeling all of those things. She's feeling abundant.

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Chapter 3: What were the unsafe practices employed by the Radium Girls?

87.989 - 97.399 Ash Kelley

I think because mine went crazy. It did go crazy. And I think it just reignited my scunty soul. It said, baby, party on, player.

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98.2 - 105.61 Alaina Urquhart

I think it's supposed, is it astrologically there's some bullshit happening? Chiron's in retrograde. Exactly.

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105.63 - 112.6 Ash Kelley

I don't know if it's Chiron or Chiron, so come at me, bro. Is that good or is that bad? I think that's pretty bad.

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113.681 - 118.668 Ash Kelley

That makes sense. Let me do a little googoo. Do a little googoo. I need to get it under wraps.

Chapter 4: What health issues did the Radium Girls experience?

118.728 - 138.318 Ash Kelley

Do a little googoo. Yeah, it just went into retrograde. Oh, I'll tell you what it means for you and your astrological sign. Not all of you, but Capricorns and Geminis. Yeah, let's go. Except the cookies, because that's the only thing you're allowed to do in life. I always accept cookies in reality. Yeah, obviously.

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138.698 - 161.359 Ash Kelley

So considered an asteroid and a comet, Chiron Chiron begins its annual retrograde on July 26th. It will take place as Chiron Chiron is positioned in the first zodiac sign of Aries, where it has been since 2010. And it's going to last until the day after your birthday, Alina. Oh, the day after your birthday. The day of your birthday, Alina. So for me...

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161.339 - 164.364 Ash Kelley

Chiron Chiron retrograde holds a mirror to the medicine within you.

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Chapter 5: How did the Radium Girls fight for justice?

164.764 - 185.777 Ash Kelley

Medicine for yourself, which when claimed becomes medicine for all. Like Chiron Chiron's mythological journey, retrograde is an invitation to step into the role of healer and observe how your experiences and the gold you have gleaned from them are your offering to the world. I like it. I don't know if it resonates, but whatever. Oh, you Gemini's. Gemini's.

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185.757 - 215.342 Ash Kelley

no capricorn chiron chiron is a doorway between the spiritual and the human and for the last six years chiron chiron six years we've been doing the podcast for six years whoa hopefully that's i haven't read ahead so yeah i don't know what this is has been cracking open the foundations of who you are so that you can remember yourself as this doorway huh this retrograde invites you deep within traveling with you down into your roots formative years and earlier memories there is medicine here waiting for you and i'm the medicine oh my goodness take a dose bitch

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216.132 - 217.195 Alaina Urquhart

Spoonful of sugar.

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217.215 - 236.067 Ash Kelley

Also, just to say who I was reading that from. I'm the medicine. Take a dose, bitch. There it is. You found your housewives. Let's go. Where are they?

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Chapter 6: What legal challenges did the Radium Girls face?

237.228 - 243.014 Ash Kelley

T-shirts. Just to give credit where credit is due, that was from the Yoga Journal. Thanks, Yoga Journal. You're welcome.

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243.314 - 249.68 Alaina Urquhart

So all you Capricorns and Germanas out there, now you know that one of you is the medicine and the other one needs it.

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249.981 - 258.829 Ash Kelley

Wait, what a beautiful outside glance at our relationship. I love that. Sometimes you're the medicine, though. I hope so. Sometimes.

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258.809 - 268.732 Alaina Urquhart

I don't always need the medicine. You don't always need me? No, I'm asking. I'm like, okay, good. I'm not the one that always needs the medicine.

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Chapter 7: How did public perception change regarding radium exposure?

268.852 - 275.147 Ash Kelley

No. That's good. Sometimes. No. A lot of the time, I need the medicine.

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276.916 - 288.31 Alaina Urquhart

Well, speaking of medicine, and speaking of, you know, scientific advancements in medicine, we're going to talk about the radium girls today.

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288.37 - 289.912 Ash Kelley

The radium girls? Yes.

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290.493 - 306.332 Alaina Urquhart

Did you see that segue? We're talking about medicine and science and chemical elements and shit. Look at that. It's there. But we're going to talk about the radium girls today, everybody. This is a little different. It's a different...

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Chapter 8: What lasting impact did the Radium Girls have on workplace safety?

306.312 - 319.427 Alaina Urquhart

True crimey. My tummy's growling. I don't know if anyone heard that. It's digesting the eggplant. It is. I had eggplant. But this is a little different case because it's not like... Is it like dark history sort of?

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319.447 - 319.688 Ash Kelley

Yeah.

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319.748 - 321.874 Alaina Urquhart

It's definitely, you know...

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321.854 - 347.187 Alaina Urquhart

most people would say a crime has occurred here you told me a couple things and it sure sounds like it but a different kind so let's get into it shall we so we're gonna start off first by kind of giving a brief you know look into what radium is because i don't know if i know without understanding radium this isn't gonna hit as hard i mean it's gonna hit but you're gonna be like what the fuck is that yeah

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347.167 - 368.826 Alaina Urquhart

So in 1898, after spending years researching the radioactive nature of mineral pitch blend, of which uranium is a major element. Okay. Polish-French scientist, you might have heard of her, Marie Curie. Marie Curie. Madame Curie. I thought that sounded familiar. And a hobby, Pierre. Pierre. Pierre. Pierre.

368.846 - 383.702 Alaina Urquhart

They concluded that the pitch blend contained at least two other previously undiscovered chemical elements. One of these elements was radium. Now, a lot of elements on the periodic table are freely occurring elements.

383.843 - 384.063 Ash Kelley

Yes.

384.143 - 408.424 Alaina Urquhart

Radium is not one of those. A freely occurring element is an element that is not combined with or chemically bonded with other chemical elements. Okay. But radium instead is a byproduct produced in the decay of uranium, another radioactive element. Oh, okay. That's interesting. Yeah. See, so radium requires a very long process of isolation in order to be extracted.

409.546 - 429.753 Alaina Urquhart

In fact, with the help of her laboratory assistant, André, I hope I say this right, Debière. Debière. Debière. Madame Curie required several tons of pitch blend before she was able to extract just one tenth of a gram of radium. Whoa. So it was incredibly rare.

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