Selects: Chiggers: The Phantom Menace

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Chiggers are tiny little mites capable of making your life miserable. Worse than mosquitoes? Maybe. But they aren't insects - mites are actually part of the arachnid family and behave a little like ticks. Learn all about these nearly invisible pests in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:30.9	Howdy everybody!
0:32.9	It's May 24th, 2016.
0:36.5	Or at least that's the date of this select episode.
0:39.4	I picked this one out.
0:40.9	Chiggers, colon, the phantom menace.
0:44.2	Because boy, chiggers are terrible and they make you itch.
0:47.9	And I would say that listening to this episode will make you itch.
0:51.3	So that's my goal on this Saturday to make everybody itch.
0:54.2	I'm really sorry.
0:55.2	But here we go with Chiggers, colon, the phantom menace.
1:03.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
1:12.6	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
1:14.2	I'm Josh Clark.
1:15.2	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
1:16.7	Jerry's over there.
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