Step into the candlelit velvet theater of microbial fame as Dr. Lucien Carrion sits across from history’s most notorious aristocrat of annihilation—Yersinia pestis, the Plague herself. In this darkly comic and unexpectedly educational interview, the bacterium behind the Black Death recounts her greatest hits with unsettling elegance. From her medieval European “tour dates” to her modern boutique appearances in Madagascar and the American Southwest, she shares trade secrets about blocked flea guts, swollen lymph nodes, and the fine art of staying relevant for seven centuries.

Between Lucien’s flirtatious fact-checks and the Plague’s unapologetic glamour, listeners learn the real science behind bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic disease while laughing at the sheer theater of epidemiology. It’s part history lesson, part microbial confessional, and entirely R-Naughty—where every killer pathogen finally gets its close-up.

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