us to the dark side of the plant world. >> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or maybe illegal or offensive or awful in some way. i am in the profession of going around and interviewing botanists, horticulturalists and plant scientists. they all seem to have some little plant tucked away in the corner of a greenhouse that maybe they weren't supposed to have. i got interested in this idea that maybe there was a dark side to plants. >> the white snake root. people who consumed milk or meat from a cow that fed on white snake root faced severe pain. milk sickness, as it was culled, resulted in vomiting, tremors, delirium and death. one of the most famous victims of milk sickness was nancy hangs lincoln.

amy sedaris, you've written two best-selling books, like this one here, "simple times." it's full of crafts and -- crafts and entertaining ideas. you're like a mini martha stewartou how to make a hot dog on a rake. >> jimmy: hot dog on a rake? >> you think it might be easy, but really it isn't. you need a common household rake. >> jimmy: okay. >> then, i don't know if you want to play, but you take a hot dog. [ laughter ] and you're going to insert the hot dog on, you know, on these -- on the rake part. now you don't think -- you know, it can tear. see? >> jimmy: okay, i can see it doesn't matter. >> you got to feel the frank. you got to get in there and feel it. and work it up, work it through. [ laughter ] you want to help him get his on there? can you help him? [ laughter ] frank on there? you got to -- >> will: put -- you got to jab it on there. [ laughter ] >> you got to jag. >> will: yeah, absolutely. >> jimmy: got to get it and make sure the dog gets on there. it doesn't matter if it tears a little bit. gosh, darn it. >> now, yours looks good and firm. >> jimmy: all right, yeah. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. oh, man. >> it depends, really -- >> jimmy: ye