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If you're cleaning out an old basement, how worried should you actually be about asbestos? And how does that risk stack up against radon, Connecticut's other invisible hazard? This episode gives you the practical visual cheat sheet the EPA doesn't hand out at the hardware store — from nine-by-nine floor tiles to black mastic adhesive to vermiculite insulation. Then we compare the dose-response math: why a Saturday afternoon of moving boxes is fundamentally different from a renovation, and how the risk compares to cumulative radon exposure over years. No fear-mongering, no "it's nothing" — just the middle ground for people holding a broom in a 1958 basement. Episode #498228 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/498228