The Poisoner's Almanac

Hey Y'all! We are back! Thank you all so much for your patience and support and messages and comments! Y'all are the best, and we are excited to be back. It is officially spooky season and we have a l...

5 Okt 20241h 31min

Hey poison pals! This one is a bit longer than usual, so bear with us (beer with us?). We are tackling alcohol (ethanol vs methyl alcohol) and the Prohibition of the 1920s/30s in the US. Alcohol is a ...

21 Sep 20241h 43min

Hello my poison friends. I hope everyone is having a great weekend. Lets go back in time on this Friday 13th (we recorded yesterday lol so technically it was Friday 13 then) so we can pull apart some ...

14 Sep 20241h 28min

Poison friends! Today's episode is all about food adulteration (drinks and some medicine/supplements as well) that was taking place in the 1800s-early 1900s (even some more recent scandals). My bigges...

7 Sep 20241h 14min

Hello friends, I do hope you are all well and ready for some toxic facts and tales. I wanted to discuss a little bit about how addictive substances effect the brain/body, especially some specific ones...

31 Aug 20241h 23min

Hello, Hello! I hope this weekend brings you all some rest. In this episode we are discussing some "miner" details of asbestos...okay that was dumb, but seriously, asbestos was once mined and used for...

24 Aug 20241h 6min

Hello, Hello! This one is a bit longer than the usual episode, but I wanted to actually finish everything I had planned, Starting off with what was left out of last weeks episode, Colchicine. Then we ...

17 Aug 20241h 28min

I know what you are thinking: What in the world do veronal and visine have to do with eachother? Well, they both begin with V, and I was going to discuss a third medicine in this episode called colchi...

10 Aug 20241h 13min