Pick Your Poison [Rebroadcast]

Wonder Cabinet

Wonder Cabinet Productions

Society & Culture, Wonder, Philosophy, Ttbook, Knowledge, Interview

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Covert spies painting nerve agents on doorknobs? It's not the only way to poison someone. We hear stories of radioactive paint, formaldehyde-spiked baby formula, and a beautiful garden full of plants that could kill you.

Guests:

Deborah Blum, Kathryn Harkup, Amy Stewart, Kate Moore

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's to the best of our knowledge from PRX.
0:04.0	It's been a hard week.
0:06.0	Annoying people.
0:07.0	Have you considered poison?
0:10.0	Shannon Henry Clyber has been doing some digging.
0:13.0	I read that you have a poisonous plant garden.
0:17.0	You can't just walk into a garden center and say I would like 12 mandrakes.
0:21.6	First, pick your poison.
0:23.4	Next, choose your victim.
0:25.1	Then what?
0:26.1	Spike the tea or send a letter?
0:28.3	I assume that you want to get away with it.
0:31.6	Absolutely.
0:32.6	Poison someone using whatever you want and then flee the country to somewhere that doesn't have an extradition treaty.
0:40.7	I'm Anne Strange Champs, and this hour a crash course in vicious vegetation and dangerous dining.
0:46.6	It sounds like people sitting down to a dinner party. A poison dinner party.
0:51.8	Almost. It's like better rolls, a little borax.
0:56.1	Pick your poison.
1:01.5	Wisconsin Public Radio.
1:08.9	It's to the best of our knowledge.
1:10.8	I'm Anne Strain Champs. Let's cook dinner together.
1:14.2	Just you and me. We've bought only the best food. Organic, pesticide-free, no preservatives, no additives.
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