Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a Weekly Podcast

this week coming to you live from Newcastle!

My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting here with Aniches Zinski, Andrew Huntsomari and James Harkin

and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go

starting with fact number one and that's my fact this week. My fact is some of the plants at the Poison Gardens at Anich Castle are so deadly they are kept in cages

they don't surely they don't think they're going to escape do they?

This is this is anyone we're up near the area of Anich Castle does anyone know it? Yeah, so this is they have this Poison Garden and everything in it basically is aiming to kill you as a species of plant

so you're not allowed to touch anything you're not allowed to taste anything it'd be weird if you did that anyway

I'm not sure because some of the things there are opium poppies cannabis and magic mushrooms

so now I think I know why the cages are there especially after that cheer

If I was a gardener there what I would do I would make some fake cages but I'd leave them you know busted open

with the door hanging off its hinges

I'd just leave it in there just in the middle of the scanner and then just with your group you're bringing in just dash out

yeah I'd say anything run around looking worried

no this is so they do have a number of cages a couple of them it is because they are drugs like cannabis and opium

but they also have things like giant hog weed and I listened to an interview by their head gardener who's called Trevor Jones

and he was saying that that's one of the things that they need to keep in there because they have a lot of children coming to the gardens

and giant hog weed are very tall they're about eight foot tall and and kids love to run around underneath it

but it does things like bliss if you touch it it blisters your skin and it can go to almost third degree burns

and gardeners that they know who work there who've had contact with it have all been hospitalized within hours

this is a very dangerous deadly drug yeah so I think also it is a bit of show that they want to sort of do that

well they do sit don't they say though that also as well as not tasting or touching you shouldn't sniff the plant in there

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