The Radium Girls painted watched with glow-in-the-dark radium in the 1920s and '30s. Most got sick, many died. This is their story.
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# The Radium Girls: A Haunting Story of Corporate Negligence and Worker Justice
Josh and Chuck dive into the dark history of the radium girls—young women in the 1920s who were hired to paint watch faces with luminous radium paint, only to discover they were being slowly poisoned by the very companies that employed them. The episode explores how corporations knew the dangers of radiation exposure but covered it up, how the women fought back in groundbreaking lawsuits, and the lasting impact their courage had on worker safety regulations and corporate accountability in America.
Movies Discussed
Brotherhood of the Wolf
"The brotherhood of the beast brotherhood of the wolf. That's right was the name of the movie — Chuck and Josh discussed receiving many emails about this movie, which they initially confused with the radium girls story."
— Chuck
Radium Girls
"There was a radium girls movie from three years ago that I sort of half watched today — Josh mentioned watching the radium girls movie and noted it received poor reviews, citing a 1.5 star rating on Roger Ebert's website."
— Josh
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