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Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

Morbid

June 18, 2026

Today we are revisiting a tragic case of negligence which originally captivated us back in 2024.
Speakers: Ash Kelley, Alaina Urquhart
**Ash Kelley** (0:00)
Hey, Weirdos, I'm Ash.

**Alaina Urquhart** (0:02)
And I'm Alaina.

**Ash Kelley** (0:03)
And this is Morbid.

**Alaina Urquhart** (0:17)
This is Morbid.

**Ash Kelley** (0:19)
I don't even know why I sang it. It just started happening and I went with it. Ash is scunty.

**Alaina Urquhart** (0:24)
Yeah. I believe the word you're looking for is scunty.

**Ash Kelley** (0:31)
It's scary and cunty.

**Alaina Urquhart** (0:36)
Me and Mikey have determined that she shall remain as such today. Oh, she opened a Diet Coke.

**Ash Kelley** (0:43)
That was my Diet Coke opening, because that's a scunty behavior.

**Alaina Urquhart** (0:46)
She is in a place of scunt right now.

**Ash Kelley** (0:51)
Serving scunt, scunt, scunt, scunt.

**Alaina Urquhart** (0:56)
Truly, truly serving scunt.

**Ash Kelley** (0:59)
We did magic this morning. We did. Why are you laughing? That's the truth.
What?

**Alaina Urquhart** (1:08)
She's like, I don't know. We just did magic this morning.

**Ash Kelley** (1:11)
There's more to it. 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.

**Alaina Urquhart** (1:26)
She's feeling abundant.

**Ash Kelley** (1:27)
I think because mine went crazy.

**Alaina Urquhart** (1:30)
It did go crazy.

**Ash Kelley** (1:30)
And I think it just reignited my scunty soul. It said, baby, party on, playa.

**Alaina Urquhart** (1:38)
I think it's supposed. Is it astrologically? There's some some bullshit happening. Chiron's in retrograde. Exactly.

**Ash Kelley** (1:45)
I don't know if it's Chiron or Chiron. So come at me, bro.

**Alaina Urquhart** (1:47)
But is that good or is that bad?

**Ash Kelley** (1:51)
I think that's pretty bad.

**Alaina Urquhart** (1:52)
Oh, OK. That makes sense.

**Ash Kelley** (1:54)
Let me do a little goo goo.

**Alaina Urquhart** (1:56)
Do a little goo.

**Ash Kelley** (1:57)
I need to get it under wraps.

**Alaina Urquhart** (1:59)
Do a little goo goo.

**Ash Kelley** (2:00)
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 Capricorn is a gemini.

**Alaina Urquhart** (2:08)
Yeah, let's go.

**Ash Kelley** (2:10)
Accept the cookies because that's the only thing you're allowed to do in life.

**Alaina Urquhart** (2:14)
I always accept cookies in reality.

**Ash Kelley** (2:17)
Yeah, obviously. So, considered an asteroid and a comet, Chiron Chiron begins its annual retrograde on July 26
It will take place as Chiron Chiron is positioned in the first zodiac sign of Aries, where it has been since 2018 And it's going to last until the day after your birthday, Alaina.

**Alaina Urquhart** (2:34)
Oh, the day after your birthday.

**Ash Kelley** (2:37)
The day of your birthday, Alaina.
So for me, Chiron Chiron retrograde holds a mirror to the medicine within you. 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.

**Alaina Urquhart** (3:00)
I like it.

**Ash Kelley** (3:01)
I don't know if it resonates, but whatever.

**Alaina Urquhart** (3:03)
Oh, you Geminize.

**Ash Kelley** (3:04)
Geminize.
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. Hopefully that's I haven't read ahead.

**Alaina Urquhart** (3:17)
So I don't know what this is.

**Ash Kelley** (3:18)
Has been cracking open the foundations of who you are so that you can remember yourself as this doorway.
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.

**Alaina Urquhart** (3:32)
Oh my goodness.

**Ash Kelley** (3:33)
Take a dose, bitch.

**Alaina Urquhart** (3:35)
Just a spoon full of sugar.

**Ash Kelley** (3:37)
Also just to say who I was reading that from.
Oh, that would be my tagline if I was out and about. I'm the medicine. Take a dose, bitch.

**Alaina Urquhart** (3:50)
There it is. You've found your housewives.

**Ash Kelley** (3:53)
Let's go.

**Alaina Urquhart** (3:53)
Tagline. T-shirts. T-shirts.

**Ash Kelley** (3:57)
Just to give credit where credit is due. That was from the Yoga Journal.

**Alaina Urquhart** (4:01)
Thanks, Yoga Journal.

**Ash Kelley** (4:02)
You're welcome.

**Alaina Urquhart** (4:03)
So all you Capricorns and Germanas out there, now you know that one of you is the medicine and the other one needs it.

**Ash Kelley** (4:10)
Wait, what a beautiful outside glance at our relationship.

**Alaina Urquhart** (4:15)
I love that.

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