Ep 41 Ricin: A Bad Seed

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Have you missed learning about plant poisons? Well, it’s your lucky day! Today is our first crossover of season three with our friend Matt Candeias of In Defense of Plants. In this episode we delve into the castor bean plant Ricinus communisand its two notorious products: castor oil and the star of the show, ricin. Join us as we learn about ricin’s storied history, which leads us through political assassinations and efficiency in engines, the biology of ricin, which horrifies us with its lethality, and finally, the ecology of the plant, which surprises us with its strategic partnerships. Looking for more ways to cure your plant blindness? Check out In Defense of Plants at indefenseofplants.com and follow Matt on twitter @indfnsofplnts.

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0:00.0	This is exactly right.
0:30.0	Hi, I'm Erin Welsh and I'm Erin Almond Update.
0:52.0	And I'm Matt Kendaz.
0:54.0	Yay!
0:55.0	I'm Beck.
0:57.0	Our favorite.
0:59.0	Oh, hey, thanks for having me.
1:01.0	And this is a crossover edition of this podcast will kill you and...
1:07.0	In defensive plants.
1:09.0	Yeah, cool.
1:11.0	Well, we're very excited to have you, Matt.
1:14.0	And we've been looking forward to recording another poison cast for a long time.
1:19.0	I know, these are so much fun and it's just fantastic to be back.
1:23.0	So thank you so much.
1:24.0	Yeah.
1:25.0	So what are we doing this week, guys?
1:26.0	Oh, this week we're doing rice in.
1:29.0	Yes.
1:30.0	One of my all-time favorite exotic plants.
1:33.0	We'll call it that.
1:34.0	Ooh, I didn't know it was an exotic plant.
1:36.0	I mean, where do you draw the line for exotic?
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