This is an I-Hart podcast.

Guaranteed human.

From the lung of a snake, the tongueworm steals a blood meal.

Has it been so for millions of years?

What do fossils reveal?

They just keep getting longer.

And more Shakespearean, I noticed.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm trying.

Very nice.

We nail down light and let the meter chase time.

Now rulers run late, but the clocks are sublime.

Kelly, pray tell, what are parasites three that you find the most creepy?

Whatever questions keep you up at night, Daniel and Kelly's Shakespearean answers will set it all right.

Isn't Shakespearean in like iambic pentameter, not whatever the heck you call what we're doing?

My criticisms of your poetry may not be entirely accurate, I admit.

Okay, welcome to Daniel and Kelly's extraordinary universe, not Daniel and Kelly's literate universe.

This is listener questions number 33.

Okay. Hi, I'm Daniel.

I'm a particle physicist, and I'm not a professor of English.

Hi, I'm Kelly Weiner-Smith.

I study parasites and space.

And when I was at a literature festival, I actually asked a Scotsman,

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