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This Podcast Will Kill You

Ep 9 Tuberculosis: A Slow Burn

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

Health & Fitness, Science

4.817.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re taking a page straight out of Dickens and talking about tuberculosis- a disease as rich in history as it is in bloody sputum. We'll travel the path of an individual Mycobacterium tuberculosis as it makes it way down the respiratory tract of its victim and waits patiently, hidden and untouchable. We’ll learn why Nicole Kidman's skinny physique was so en vogue in Moulin Rouge, talk about ‘The Royal Touch’, which isn’t quite as creepy as it sounds, cover enough of Koch's postulates that you can give yourself an honorary microbiology degree, and oh so much more.

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This is Kate Winkler Dawson inviting you to the new season of my True Crime Talk Show,

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Wicked Words. Every Monday, I interview other journalists and authors about their

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True Crime Investigations. Listen to Temple, more Wicked Presents, Wicked Words,

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0:19.1

Like the short, and it's full of a lot of interesting questions. What does happiness really mean?

0:24.0

How do I get the most out of my time here on Earth? And what really is the best cereal?

0:30.1

These are the questions I seek to resolve on my weekly podcast, Life is Short, with Justin Long.

0:35.2

If you're looking for the answer to deep philosophical questions, like, what is the meaning of life?

0:39.9

I can't really help you. But I do believe that we really enrich our experience here by learning

0:44.7

from others. And that's why in each episode, I like to talk with actors, musicians, artists,

0:50.5

scientists, and many more types of people about how they get the most out of life. We explore how

0:56.0

they felt during the highs. And sometimes more importantly, the lows of their careers.

1:01.2

We discuss how they've been able to stay happy during some of the harder times. But if I'm being

1:05.5

honest, it's mostly just fun chats between friends about the important stuff. Like, if you had a

1:10.3

sandwich named after you, what would be on it? Follow Life is Short, wherever you get your podcasts.

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1:19.0

There is a dread disease which so prepares its victims as it were for death, a dread disease,

1:30.8

in which the struggle between soul and body is so gradual, quiet, solemn, and the result so sure

1:39.2

that day by day and grain by grain, the mortal part wastes and whithers away so that the spirit

1:46.6

grows light. A disease in which death and life are so strangely blended that death takes the glow

1:54.4

and hue of life and life, the gunt and grisly form of death. A disease which medicine never cured,

2:03.4

wealth warded off, or poverty could boast exemption from, which sometimes moves in giant strides,

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