Warning: Consumption of this podcast may cause increased knowledge, laughing fits, and a mild queasiness. Our topic is poison! Poisonous frogs and mushrooms as well as famous victims of poisoning are featured and much much more!
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Cannibalism Update: Timothy, by “The Buoys” — a song about cannibalism!
Links
Wikipedia’s List of Fictional Toxins
Movie Reviews
Princess Bride
Toren – 10/10
Joe – 10/10
Crank
Kevin – 5.5/10
Poisoner’s Handbook
Kevin – 10/10
D.O.A.
Kevin – 9/10
I just happened to be listening to an interview with a toxicologist on the CBC shortly before listening to this podcast regarding the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
She said there were two key components to whether a substance was toxic or not. The amount of the substance (as you mention) and the time (or length) of exposure.
Good show. Looking forward to the next one.
You mention attercop in relation to the D&D ettercap. An important(?) pop-culture(?) reference is from The Hobbit, when Bilbo taunts the spiders in Mirkwood by calling them Attercop and other Old English words for spider. More info here:
http://www.daimi.au.dk/~bouvin/tolkien/spidernames.html
Point of order, Kevin actually rated The Young Poisoner’s Handbook 9/10. HA! Geisel ftw!
I was forcing my bf to listen to this episode when I thought I remembered that the Tylenol poisoner had been caught. However, after some research, I discovered that it was a copycat incident right here in Washington state: http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/terrorists/tylenol_murders/4.html. (I love this website) I’m surprised you didn’t go into the whole black widow serial killer phenomenon, where women often use poison to kill used up and lazy husbands. But you could probably do an entire episode on those cases.