Chuck Bryant

But from what I saw, the ticks that are infected with the Lyme bacteria are actually better at finding hosts than non-infected ticks.

Like it somehow enables them to be better parasites.

That's amazing.

Yeah, that sounds familiar.

Did we...

cover that or do i just know that because i don't i don't remember but i do i remember you talking about in the ticks episode about how they wave their arms in the air waiting for somebody to pass by and i remember one of our listeners made uh some art of that we got to find it

That's right.

And from snapping their little fingers on a blade of grass to my dog's butt to my scrotum, it's quite a ride.

It's a wild ride.

And then to Emily eventually plucking that thing out for me.

That's nice.

That's what marriage is all about, folks.

You just have your forearm thrust across your eyes.

You're like, get it out, get it out.

So let's take another break.

Okay.

We'll talk a little bit about prevention and then a little bit about some very recent, interesting, wacky things going on in Congress about Lyme disease as a bioweapon.

Okay.

July 2003, Councilman James E. Davis arrives at New York City Hall with a guest.

Both men are carrying concealed weapons, and in less than 30 minutes, both of them will be dead.