Waiting 4 Wrath - Episode 244 - The One Where Jenn Rinses Her Mouth Out With Grasshoppers

In This Week’s Show, episode 244, we’re gonna learn about presidentially invented germs, apparently.

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Acesco (the Greek goddess of healing wounds) hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying her patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

Earache today, gone tomorrow (or at least Showtime)

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that sharks have been on our planet longer than trees?

But before we get to all that, let’s have a beer!

This Week’s Beer

Voodoo Ranger Juicifer IPA | New Belgium

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/192/380214/

* BA Rating: 3.79/5

* Style: IPA

* ABV: 7.7%

* Aaron: 7

* Jenn: 7

* Steve: 7

This Week’s Show

Round Table Discussion

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4 More Beers is coming… I promise.

Brewfest is this weekend!

When you hear this, it will almost be Brewfest in Laramie! If you find yourself near our neck of the woods come to say hi and we’ll buy ya a free beer ;)

This Week

Jenn’s Story of SCIENCE(!) in History-ree-ree-ree...

As I briefly mentioned earlier, I spent most of the weekend of the 4th camping with family on a lake. Now, camping with a bunch of dogs, children and no running water will definitely give a personal appreciation of the little things after a while. Little things like hand washing and antiseptics. (After watching my oldest nephew drag up a long-dead fish to camp and all the other kids played with it for a bit, never after appearing to wash their hands, I was ready for a bleach bath.)

So today I have decided on a tale that involves history, science, health, and (since it was just July 4th) the assassination of a US President.

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3468637/

* http://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/people/josephlister

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield

* https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dirty-painful-death-president-james-garfield

To start off our story, let me introduce you to the Right Honourable Lord Joseph Lister, British surgeon, scientist and lifelong fan of serious mutton-chops.

Born in Essex 1827, he was a brilliant and fastidious man. He was also drawn to medicine, surgery in particular, from an early age. Luckily for him, he had been born a white man, so that is what he did. In fact, he had quite an impressive career pretty much from the beginning. In 1846, he was present for the first surgery performed under anesthesia at 19. By the time he was 25, he had become a fellow at the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

His bright career trajectory (and surely his magnificent chops) led him to be suggested for employment to James Syme, Professor of Clinical Surgery in Edinburgh. The men hit it off so well that Lister quickly moved up the ranks from assistant to house surgeon to marrying Syme’s eldest daughter, Agnes. (Not to disparage the marriage; apparently, they were very close and loving. She was bright and learned in her own right and he was happy to have her join him in his work as a lifelong lab partner… since being a woman that was the best she could hope for.)

By 1860 Lister had moved to Glasgow and had begun reading about Pasteur’s work on microorganisms. Now the idea of bacteria or at least teeny-tiny things that affected things in the real world like fermenting beer or causing food to rot was pretty much established in the scientific community...