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Carnivorous Plants Will Ruin Your Life

Carnivorous Plants Will Ruin Your Life

FromStory of the Week with Joel Stein


Carnivorous Plants Will Ruin Your Life

FromStory of the Week with Joel Stein

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Jan 19, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Inside the flourishing world of online plant fanclubs lies a deep, dark obsession: people who dedicate their entire lives to caring for Nepenthes, or carnivorous pitcher plants. On this week’s episode, Brian Howey, a former “Nephead” tells us about the carnivorous plant subculture that nearly ate him (and many others) alive. You can read the full story here: https://www.wired.com/story/nightmare-houseplant-obsession-nepenthes/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Jan 19, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (48)

On Story of the Week, “journalist” Joel Stein chooses an article that fascinates him, convinces the writer to tell him about it, and then interrupts a good conversation by talking about himself. Sometimes the story will be the one everyone is talking about, like the New Yorker article on smoking hallucinogenic toads. Other times we’ll find a story you might have missed, like the one in the Verge about the rock groupie turned hacker who had huge corporations at her mercy. These are stories you’ll tell your friends about. Stories that stick with you long after you forget whatever headline you just doom-scrolled through. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.