PRESEASON BONUS EPISODE: Mist, Men, and Microbes: The Legionnaires’ Affair

Preseason Bonus Episode | R-Naughty Presents: Exposure Scroll Readings

Narrated by Mira Tell

In the summer of 1976, a mysterious outbreak turned a Philadelphia hotel into an invisible battlefield. Veterans checked in for camaraderie and cigars—some never checked out.

In this sultry preseason bonus episode, Mira Tell unseals the scroll on Legionnaires’ disease: the deadly, mist-borne illness that emerged from the air vents of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel and changed building safety forever.

With signature seduction and razor-sharp science, Mira follows the clues:

• A bacteria no one could name

• A CDC microbiologist who wouldn’t quit

• And a cooling tower with a lethal spray

From overlooked outbreaks to revised regulations, this is the story of how a hotel’s AC system became one of the most notorious disease vectors in U.S. history.

History gets unzipped, unrolled… and occasionally vaporized.

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