Blindboy

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1,520 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 10 Jun

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The Blindboy Podcast · Climate action for Spring with Collie Ennis · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

So if you are coming, don't wait, because those tickets will be gone, even though it's months away.

So that's that tour.

Now back to the chat with Colleenis.

I don't want to say you've moved away from dangerous insects, but you've become much more like about biodiversity.

But how I first came across you is you were the fella who had, I had to ask him to stop eventually.

You came to a gig in Cork, man, with the most poisonous spider in the fucking world inside in a Chinese takeaway container.

That might be my anxiety.

I don't blame you.

My anxiety, but it was the six-eyed sand spider.

And you also introduced me to two wonderful lads in Galway who work in what's called the Venom Lab.

It does.

It sounds like a dodgy nightclub, boss.

Jesus, they opened my eyes up to how important venom is to medicine.

The most revolutionary drug of the past three or four years is Ozempic.

We all know Ozempic and GLP drugs.

That comes from the bite of, is it a Gila monster?

But it's, I guess I had on this stage, the last gig I did here, I had Professor Jane Stout, who you work with.

And what I was chatting to Jane about was how in your field, in order to get people to give a shit about this stuff, you have to make the argument for capitalism.

So when we're speaking about, you know, venom, it's like, well, they're not just insects, they can cure diseases.

And the other thing we were speaking about was

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