Drinking Radium Water?! Plus Free Wi-Fi Drama & a McDonald's Speed Demon

Right there.

That is a radium water bottle.

This is of the 1920s.

And what people were doing was drinking hot spring water.

Remember, the first thing the FDA went after was radium water.

Not vaccines, not dirty electricity, not pesticides.

Radium water.

So think about that.

And right here, if you can see that down there, you see all that beautiful water in there?

Yeah.

And I'll just go in there and touch it just so you guys can see.

Uh-huh.

Perfectly harmless.

You've just been lied-

[laughs]

[laughs]

Just because your fingers didn't instantly melt doesn't mean it's perfectly harmless there, dude.

Well, a- a- and I'd also like to, uh...

We'll start with these as just, just historical inaccuracies maybe.

The FDA was created in 1906.

I don't even think pesticides had been created yet, nor if, if really vaccines had neither, uh, in, in the way we administer them now.

Polio.

Yeah, 1906 polio was still very much a thing.

[laughs]

Uh, and you know, and, and radium water was, I mean, he, it, it was, you know, th- they're- they did go after it [laughs] because there were quacks selling it, and it was killing people.

Right there.

That is a radium water bottle.

This is of the 1920s.

And what people were doing was drinking hot spring water.

Remember, the first thing the FDA went after was radium water.

Not vaccines, not dirty electricity, not pesticides.

Radium water.

So think about that.

And right here, if you can see that down there, you see all that beautiful water in there?

Yeah.

And I'll just go in there and touch it just so you guys can see.

Uh-huh.

Perfectly harmless.

You've just been lied-

[laughs]

[laughs]

Just because your fingers didn't instantly melt doesn't mean it's perfectly harmless there, dude.

Well, a- a- and I'd also like to, uh...

We'll start with these as just, just historical inaccuracies maybe.

The FDA was created in 1906.

I don't even think pesticides had been created yet, nor if, if really vaccines had neither, uh, in, in the way we administer them now.

Polio.

Yeah, 1906 polio was still very much a thing.

[laughs]

Uh, and you know, and, and radium water was, I mean, he, it, it was, you know, th- they're- they did go after it [laughs] because there were quacks selling it, and it was killing people.