True Facts: Dangerous Little Ticks
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CREDITS:
Footage from ‘The Tick Ixodes Ricinus and Lyme Disease’
licensed from and provided by
Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) : www.tib.eu/en/
The original footage was created by:
Dr. Franz-Rainer Matuschka, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Andrew Spielman, Harvard School of Public Health
Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film Gottingen
Dr. Uwe Sander - Director, Research
Regine Feldmann - Editor
Camera: Jurgen Kaeding, Kuno Lechner,
Michael Schorsch, Hort Witman.
Extra special thank you to Dr. Dania Richter for her time and
for her patience in helping me understand the remarkable
life cycle of the Ixodes ticks. Dr. Richter led me to the
remarkable documentary that is featured throughout this
episode.
Thank you to Dania Richter, Franz-Rainer Matuschka,
Andrew Spielman and L. Mahadevan for allowing me
the use of images and footage from their amazing work
on the feeding apparatus in:
How ticks get under your skin: insertion mechanics of
the feeding apparatus of Ixodes ricinus ticks
dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.1758
Special thank to Marie Vancová, Tomáš Bílý, Ladislav Šimo,
Jan Touš, Petr Horodyský, Daniel Růžek, Adam Novobilský,
Jiří Salát, Martin Strnad, Daniel E. Sonenshine,
Libor Grubhoffer & Jana Nebesářová for making their work
available through the CC 4.0 license.
Three-dimensional reconstruction of the feeding apparatus
of the tick Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae): a new insight into
the mechanism of blood-feeding
doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56...
Thank you to Graham Hickling for licensing me his excellent
footage of the egg laying process and Gene’s organ.
Check him out at: vimeo.com/user565817
Thank you Patrons Andrew Pann &
Rick Rubenstein for inspiring jokes,
and Tina Persson for asking that the
tick not be named Tina)
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Is Jerry your dog or cat? Lol 😆
Quite frankly, after seeing your patreon stats, I'm quite disappointed at seeing sponsor-segments in the video... :/
Voiced vs unvoiced... a fine distinction
Bruh the captions said the d word twice
Ah yes, zefrank knows everything there is to know about hardicks
But softdicks are much less dangerous
Everywhere I go.... I see his face...
@Leon Toro That's pretty sus.
That moment when you realise this is a Guy Without a Moustache
Dad once thought it would be funny to catch the hedgehog that wandered through the garden, and since wild animals are usually full of parasites, sure enough he caught a tick. That wouldn't be such a problem on its own, if only it didn't turn green. Grandma (from mom's side) was a doctor and urged him to get tested for Lyme, and sent the dead tick for testing as well. Dad was fine, fortunately, and it turns out that the reason the tick turned green and died was due to severe alcohol poisoning.
The plot twist at the end killed me haha
Bite back! 😆
Tick was green? Should've tested him for *limes*
tick 1: didn't you heard?? poor Tena died yesterday.
tick 2: omg 😲 how?
tick 1: apparently she got food poisoning after drinking human blood.
tick 2: didn't her mother warn her not to ever drink from those filthy creatures?
tick 1: you know how adventurous Tena was besides she was an orphan.
RIP Tena.
First few sentences I’m like, “is he trying to make tick sound like ‘dick’ or do I just have a potty brain?” Then he says, “soft ticks, and hard ticks” and I’m like, whew, not just me!
why-
@Jason Leayman ovvjxw
Turn on captions 😁
Having had Lyme Disease decades ago - when it wasn’t yet very common in Wisconsin - I can assure you that it’s not fun.
I was very lucky; my doctor was overjoyed that he could claim some “fame” as having a patient he could diagnose with Lyme. He got me on antibiotics right away. I seem to have no side effects.
Thank you Boy Scouts, for putting out brochures on the tiny, tiny ticks and the characteristic “bullseye” rash!! You and the late Dr. Duane Erickson saved me much time!!
If only I actually got that, at least it has a treatment, sadly I have Alpha-gal, and boy is it hard to do things, avoiding common foods and foods made with those foods are hard to avoid, or even interacting with those foods because you can have an affect sometimes even through touch and smell. Jobs that have anything to do with food is almost out of the question now, and at 18 thats really tough. My biggest reason for mentioning all that is hopefully get some attention about Alpha-gal, as it isnt as common and it can kill you if gone untreated like mine did, having almost fried my liver entirely because of it.
@Jesse Hanson yup, I had Lyme disease and no rash, the doctors wouldn't even test for it and I had it for months before I finally got medication, I'm pretty sure my joints are still messed up to this day and I'll probably get arthritis at some point
You're extremely lucky you had the characteristic "bullseye" rash; it actually doesn't appear most of the time, and so Lyme's goes undiagnosed in the majority of cases.
Wow, I never realized ticks are arachnids. Now Joltik makes sense. I mean it's still a tiny bit of a reach for it to evolve into an electric tarantula, but since they're both arachnids anyway, my mind can now rest easy.
I agree that Joltik looks more like a jumping spider than a tick, but it’s behavior is definitely tick inspired. It attaches itself to other Pokemon to feed on static electricity.
I've always been unreasonably scared of ticks. Not that I'd get Lyme or anything, just seeing one walking on the floor makes me scream and run. When I learned they were areachnids it all made sense to me. I was diagnosed with arachnophobia back in the early 90s and I'm no better today. I had to avert my eyes on many parts of this video because I started feeling the anxiety that I get... ugh. sucks.
Scorpions and Amblypygi are also
@ビデオゲームをやってみたい a.k.a. Yatte spiders stick and attack aswell so again not really a tick
As for you, everyone ia different so ultimately it's okay, but I kinda don't mind things like this too much. I have too much going on to not find some joy whenever and wherever I can (LONG story) so for me I wouldn't mind if Joltik evolved into a giraffe lol 😂 at least you aren't bullying anyone who thinks otherwise though. That's cool. Okay I wrote a lot.
The size difference between the average tick & a "full" one is horrifying is like an inflation fetish come to life
🤮
I don't know what an inflation fetish is and I'm scared to Google it.
And as like that fetish in fiction...
You kill it.
What a terrible day to have eyes
I always get happy when I hear him talking about the parents of one of these subjects because then I know he's going to say "beh-behs" ANY. MOMENT.
@Tanya Queen it's one of the things about this series that makes me super happy. :
I just introduced 2 friends to this page and one of the first things they both said to me was "did you hear how he says "behbeh" lol.
I could listen to him say "beh-behs" all day.
Seriously one of my favorite parts of his narration.
Can you create one for hamsters. They are always looked at as pets however they come from sonewhere and they are pretty darn aggressive. Id like to know some true facts!
@FracturedPixels Sure looks like every single guy who mistreats a dog and makes it mean and thinks it makes him look tough to own an abused animal.
@FracturedPixels I like cats pal i like all animals just not hamsters chickens or pidgeons
@D2DAJIZZELLE You strike me as the sort of person who owns a pitbull just so you can feed your neighbor's cats to it
@D2DAJIZZELLE TMI
Lol it hated me and I hated it... My 🐍 loved the shit out of it though literally 😂 and its eyeballs 😂😂😂😂
This guy would make an interesting teacher. Would probably get a medal for all the students who learned something from his class.
His dad won the Nobel Prize. This is literally true.
Mom : What did you learn today honey ?
Daughter : Teacher told us about soft ticks and hard ticks sucking animals
Mom : would you mind saying that again please ?
Or CANCELLED 😅😅😅 AGE OF CAMERA PHONES & SOCIAL MEDIA
He is.
sadly, if he did this as a teacher he'd get cancelled SO HARD, he'd be a soft tick forever.
Im currently going through a bad case of Lyme. I wanted info but I’m actually much more satisfied that I was allotted this humorous take I needed that laugh. Going back to dying now lol
@Zachariah Silvestri ayyy
@Zachariah Silvestri I'm glad
I made it. Hell of a trip tho, thank you for the kind words have a great holiday everyone.
Did you live?
I got bit by a Tick about 15 years ago whilst out walking my dog in some fields with tall grass, never really noticed much, was way too busy with work (i was a workaholic at the time, working upwards of 120 hours a week), so shoot forward a month and I have an half inch deep hole in my left calf where the tick bite had festered and gone bad, one morning I couldn't get out of bed, literally too exhausted, went to the doctors, multitude of tests on me, Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma ?, Lyme disease ?, Diabetes ?, I had a ton of tests and all ruled out, no idea what was making me ill, so I googled my symptoms, shoot forward 15 years and I'm now in my 15th year of living and suffering with CFS/ME & Fibromyalgia.
You ever get a tick bite, get it seen to asap as if you don't it can cause a life changing illness that you may never recover from and it will change your life and turn it upside down.
@Mr.Not.So.Perfect. People and thier thinking . i better get checked now .i found a small tick walking on my chest and put it in a small container. my hand is itchy red a little.
@stefan andersen Only just seen this comment now and I was married at the time with an step-daughter and she was home most of the time, also whilst I was working my wife was at home and visa versa. Some times I took the dog to work with me too, so he was never alone for more than 4 hours a day. Also I never even got close to 6 hours of sleep a day/night, it was closer to 2-3 hours.
@stefan andersen or maybe he does field work and his dog is with him
@Kris W or maybe he does field work and his dog is with him
@stefan andersen Unless they have someone living with them who are able to interact with the dog regularly. Otherwise, it's outright abusive neglect.
You're so in touch and grateful to the people who help you with research, I really love it. Thank you for still doing these videos after all of these years, they bring such joy!!
I've had a severe phobia of ticks since I got 4 in one day as a kid. This is the first video I've ever willingly watched of them and only because it was funny. It did nothing for my phobia. I'm still never willingly going camping. But now I can say I'm afraid of hardicks.
house got a bunch of ticks once and they found their way into my closet and my underwear.... nOT FUN
“It’s like meeting someone who really really doesn’t know how to use a condom” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I laughed so hard that I got stitches in my side!! This guy is hilarious and informative!!
Cheers
Fun fact: Zefrank made a community post about how he spent a very long time making his Ts and Ds sound very similar only to have the captions ruin the hilarious innuendo
Well his hard work kinda paid off, cos I genuinely thought the narrator was Indian. You know, like that posh Indian you here in the movies.
did you need a community post to realize something so obvious lol
That's amazing
I thought I was the only one seeing this- that's why, as much as I hate ticks, I had to click to see if I was seeing right XD
It was still amazing 🤩
When I've had a bad day, I can always come to the True Facts series and I immediately feel better. Zefrank1, thanks for your humor.
"There are two kinds of ticks... soft ticks and hard ticks"
I see what you did there.
It's sooooo gross watching bug stuff, but you're so funny & creative, I'll watch whatever you make!
I haven’t learned & laughed so much since I saw the last True Facts. Thank you so much Ze Frank. You are The Best ! Please never stop creating these precious gems of humor and interesting info.
"There are two kinds of *ticks* : soft *ticks* and hard *ticks* ."
I lost it there. 😂
@Rigor Mortiis Especially the line,..."Is this little dick,dangerous?" LMAO!😂
Rewatch the opening of this video and put captions on. prepare to die of laughter.
I'm only hearing "dicks."
@AA PP Not to mention, hairy ticks and shaved ticks. 🤣 🤣 🤣
after laughing my ass off constantly.. thank you. i never thought i
would be able to smile again. thank you again. i suffer from ptsd and
well (# here) other things. my life seems like a never ending nightmare
and yet listening to all of these videos of yours really helped me at my worse. keep it up you badass mo fo lol. thank you Z
He makes his videos like this for children, and it's very sweet of him. Probably takes a lot of effort.
I laughed so hard … when he said “you wouldn’t hire him to be a birthday clown”
i love how you use the expected emphasis on sentence constructions to make me confused about whether we're talking about "weird-ass mouth parts" or "weird ass-mouth parts"
as a strong linguistic processor, this pleases me.
@Elmojomo there i fixed just for you LOL
@Elmojomo ah yes. i used a 'k' in linguistick. that's definitely an indictment of my overall spelling ability LOL
but apparently not a strong spelling processor. LOL
He's not even saying ticks, all I can hear is the "D" and the innuendos are amazing
Also memorable 🥰
@voidstarq i don't think it's genius. I just think he was trying to nail down the balance. And I was a vocal education major at university. I've spent half my life professionally training to blend vowels and consonants and trying to consistently nail down the same balance, the right balance, every time, and let me tell you, it is harder than it seems, and this is EXACTLY what it sounds like. It just bears so many hallmarks that I've spent so long learning I don't even know how to break them down into one explanation.
@Twinodoom yes, it's almost as if he's obviously straddling the line but it's hard to stay exactly on it so it ends up sounding like he's switching back and forth, huh?
@ShiGGleZz almost
Immediately before this video, I watched a video about camel spiders, which described exactly the same mating process. Interesting that both creatures do things the same way!
Not gonna lie, I had to check my whole scalp during this video.
The only thing that made me less nervous was the fact that the closest I’ve been to a tick in months in walking on grass in shoes.
I don’t know why I felt so proud of my immune system when he said “it goes bad shot crazy trying to deal with it”
@Elmojomo Censors.
Umm...that's not exactly what he said... lol
I swear, these are the best nature shows I've ever watched.
I hate ticks.
I love zefrank.
This is gonna be a hard one to watch.
I'll pull through it for you, and no one else.
@Twilight Sparkle ,
Thank you for elaborating.
By the time they’re collected, the diatoms are already dead; you don’t need to feel bad.
We can add food grade D.E. to our dogs’ food (to kill worms).
For something related (cool sea creatures) and fun, you can buy globes of bioluminescent plankton (dinoflagellates).
We had a large population along the shore in spring 2020. The bright blue waves lasted for several months.
Scripps listed sources to buy them. We bought ours from Pyro Farms in Carlsbad, Ca., but I saw vendors listed on the east coast as well. I’ve had mine for over a year. Pyro Farms has dinoflagellate food, too. They ship all over the U.S.
I hope that dude doesn’t try to eat them (you’re not supposed to, and it’s mean). He should try leeches.
@Beach Girl Ordinary Sausage is a man on youtube who grinds things into sausage that arent normally sausage, lime a big mac or kfc family meal, hes also done water, ic3, air, fireball whiskey, and recently someone sent him a bag of diatomaceous earth food grade to turn into a sausage and eat which her promptly did and ate for the meme
@Twilight Sparkle ,
What or who is Ordinary Sausage? Did they eat diatoms, leeches, or something else?
@Beach Girl i feel bad that Ordinary Sausage poured some into sausage casing, cooked and ate it for the sake of "avatar sausage" meme now..
Thanks to this video, I got to learn all about Lyme Disease 15 days before before being diagnosed with it! How serendipitous.
I never thought I could see a cool video about ticks. But this was very good! Never knew you text only had three meals. Almost as fascinating when I found out that only female mosquitoes suck blood. It is needed for egg production, thus males don't bite you but drink nectar and plant juices.
The world needs more Jerry typos 🤣 always makes me giggle, please never stop failing to proofread 💖
Such a lovely video! Thanks for sharing the adventures of Tina. (Watching this after removing a baby Tina from my fibrous matrix)
"You wouldn't want to hire him for a kids' birthday party"
"It's like meeting someone who really _really_ doesn't know how to use a condom"
Guys I can breathe
@Tanya Harmon Therapy Game. The photo is for some sort of celebration (probably, the caption isn't English).
@ERA CASTE oops 🤣 definitely meant "can't"
@Hoovy Simulator 2 I just use Google Translate it translate the russian/ or any non english language so I can read and reply if needed. The Links I usualy run that thru virustotal's website before looking into it. Some have gone as far as posting fake YT links in the past few weeks also.
Thanks for the salute, sir!
good, oxygen is nice
What is your pfp?
If I were a high school science teacher, I’d treat my students to these videos. Comedy can be a sweet way to teach facts.
Have you done one about the sea louse? Curious what you’d come up with for your narrative. 🤔😊
Got a tick on me trimming my garden. Didn’t even notice until it was chubby. Not huge, but definitely not hungry! Took it to my vet because he’d taken a couple of ticks off my dog. I had a “dog tick” of course, but the vet was very kind and reassured me that they didn’t carry Lime disease. I now am the proud owner of a veterinary tick remover!
I LOVE CURIOSITY STREAM! Also, one of your most intricate and mind blowing videos!
Zefrank was definitely told by someone that when he says “tick” it sounds like “dick” and instantly knew what video he wanted to make next.
I wish he didnt do that it was so unexpected but even more corny, and dude is usuallt funny as hell.. low point imo
The thought never occurred to me in a while semester learning about soft ticks vs. hard ticks and the different diseases
@Paula Kiesling q
Why if I comment something less graphic than that my comment gets erased?
This is the best improvisational narrator I’ve ever heard. He is so funny.
(The captions are too funny.)
This video made me subscribe! Scientific, factual, yet funny as shit! Keep these ones coming, I will get you more subscribers
Everyone’s laughing at how he pronounces ticks, but there’s something about the way he says “her beybeys” is what has me dying 😂
I love this narrator. I don’t regret watching a *tick* documentary if He’s the one telling me All about it-
I love how zefrank just randomly uploads something so everytime there is a new video you feel surprised and delighted instead of taking it for granted.
It truly is like Christmas.
@dianne lavoie So true. I'm arachnophic and have watched his spider videos and now even this one... and I consider these biting spiders!
He could upload one on dirt and I'd watch it just because it's Zefrank.
Omg yessss!!
I was very very delighted to see this. It was a lovely surprise for sure
When I was a lad I was camping with my mates when they noticed I had a small tick. Popular consensus was either to smear Vaseline on the end and just wait for it to engorge and come off or tie some string around the base and pull it off by hand. I was unconvinced but a few rums later I was on board and they performed both on me at once. I guess it did the trick because I later I could not find my swollen tick for love nor money. Now after watching your video I know that such tick tricks are unnecessary, I just need the pecker services of a hungry chicken!
Ah Jerry, what would we do without your amazing script work lol
I was hiking in Scotland and came away with two ticks on my leg. Totally freaked out, I don't know how I managed to get them out without leaving the heads behind.
Again, the dialogue was hilarious. It kept me cracked up. And I was educated also. Very important :)
I actually got this one, but removed it. I really thought it was just a wound but I started to wonder why its growing
Funny, nauseating and informative. That's how I enjoy my educational tidbits. Thanks!
Love ZEFRANK's work! Those of you worried about having your mind in the gutter have Now found your Tribe!
Plus, his list of sponsors is so lovingly curated, it feels like word of mouth!
Well done, sir!
That's how you know the marketing is working...when you can't tell if it is or not.
Very well narrated and quite educational. Although, I could swear he was saying "dicks" instead of "ticks." Maybe I need to get my hearing checked? (Very funny as well; I also learned a lot about tick porn. 😏😳😂) Thanks for this fabulous piece and I'd listen to this guy again. And again. Ad nauseum. 🤪
"This is what toilet paper looks like in hell. Now a word from our sponsor."
That is some bold ad placement.
@sdfkjgh It’s funny that you mention that… the guy on TheXvid channel called DankPods has a rock on his desk labeled 1 Grit. 😆
You should look up Sam Reigel ads. They are unique, and strange like this
@Purple Emerald Now with walnut shells for added grip!
@norweeg: I've often wondered what 1 grit would be like. I've been told anywhere between "Take some construction paper, pour glue on one side, then cover that side with road gravel" and "One single boulder stuck to some paper."
@thesmoviemaker21 Availble in 5 grit, 10 grit, and now the new “smooth” 15 grit version.
I never imagined that I could be made so happy by ticks. But the informational and comedic sound of zefrank's voice accomplished that in spades. No, Jerry, not real spades.
HAHAHAH!!! ommmmg! I love this so much! Its great for lab tech 2 class as a vet tech. educational, but also super funny so it keeps attention and makes me laugh. THANK YOU!!!
God, I love True Facts. Even the sales pitches are entertaining.
Oh god! How have I only just discovered this man?! Laugh out loud funny, tickles my funny bone and no mistake! 🤣👌❤🇬🇧
Hey uhh, can we get the next one about raccoons? Or pandas? Or something else that isn't truly horrible to behold?
@Irun S isnt a group of pandas called a mistake...checkmate :p
Fox or Horses.
Something that isn't disgusting to look at.
Well the wild pigs weren't particularly horrifying so you got your wish kinda
@chicoktc ZeFrank did a video on marsupials. Koalas were featured towards the end, and he even gave them a song
Have you seen the ducks episode? Trust me, he can make anything a horror to behold🤣
I wasn’t sure I could stomach this video. I couldn’t but watched it anyway - it was very informative and very funny, and I am also very filled with regret and OH MY GOD I JUST FELT SOMETHING ON ME GET IT OFF GET IT OFF NOW. Wait we don’t have ticks where I live (mostly). It was probably a horrible venemous scorpion and thank heavens not a tick - or even a little tick.
This is incredibly entertaining and informative! Fun and interesting!!
But I still don’t like ticks lol
Well that was the most comprehensively photographed, succinct yet complete documentary of ANY insect-like critter I've seen, when dealing with their life cycle as opposed to their engineering feats, (like they do with ants and bees and such).
Today I had a lot of thoughts go thru my mind as I started to get ready for work, and I could repeat today a million times over and one of those thoughts wouldn't come close to being "I wonder what it looks like when ticks have sex"
I had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from a tick bite that I thought was an infected sore. I waited as long as you can before, ya know, the point of no return. Thank goodness my doctor looked at it and got me all Skippy again, eventually. Tocks don't play.
LOL!!! Hilarious! and amazing video and visualization of these despicable Lyme disease carrying creatures... I know, "biology" and "science" and all that but I know people that are absolutely devastated by Lyme... incredible... who's voice is it on the video? loved it! thank you!
You made my day! And hopefully many, many more! Keep up God's work! :)
I ate a bad piece of meat, and used this video to purge it from my stomach while learning about parasitism! Thanks!
This is someone I wish I had grown up with lol. Can you imagine the amount of laughing going on by people of whom knows him 🤣 thank you sir for your amazing content. I share your videos along with Olen Rogers all the time with people who have never heard of either of you and they instantly become fans.
I heard a story about my mothers ex getting one of these on the tip of his weiner.
Not finding any pliers in his car he desperately reached for a pair of branchcutters and accidentally hurt himself trying to remove it...
This is so awesome I loved it can you do more like this please
Very interesting and informative as well as incredibly great recordings😎👍
I've been a Veterinary Technician for almost 13 years now. Ticks STILL are the only thing that can turn my stomach. I've genuinely seen and smelled some horrible stuff, but ticks are literally the absolute WORST.
@Dolly
@trafficjon400 actually not a joke i ended up asking my dad and it was a true event :o
@Dolly
Turns my stomach and my heart when I see animals with dozens or hundreds of the little bugs on them
@Beach Girl Ya, and boogers are gross too, probably taste revolting and no one wants to eat boogers either, except little kids! Lol.
I've never been this hooked for a science channel 🤔 Damn awesome content 👌
It took all this time (7 months) to be able to watch this video without urping all the way through it. It's bad enough to see them and know what happens medically (I'm a nurse) but to watch that shit in high-def detail was definitely something that I had to work up the nerve to do. And it only took just over half a year!
I suffered 8.5 years of brutal antibiotics (and 2 liver failures) with Lyme Disease and "She'll eat a whole bag of tics." made me LOL.
Interesting - still one of the things I'd have to have a talk with the big man upstairs about, should he turn out to be a real thing that is. I mean, ticks.. wtf, why? >: (
Holy shit I don’t think any Ze Frank video has ever made me feel as uncomfortable as this one yet I can’t stop watching
@Leong Kam Fatt yeah. It was mostly weird and honestly really stupid, but I think that was the point.
@Ahmad El-Baher me either!
@Cynthia Wadeson I mean, you'd expect ticks to be nasty.
Ducks though...I no longer look at them the same way.
@Ahmad El-Baher I wish I could unsee the duck video ! Followed by the tick video! Yikes who knew!
Yeah you're definitely not the only one
can someone direct me to a reference that shows how ticks are "cured" of lyme bacteria when they feed on deer?
I got really unlucky last year and was bit by a nymph tick. It was so tiny I didn't even recognize it and, while not wearing my glasses, mistook it for a zit. Needless to say I got Lymes disease. It wasn't really that bad as I reacted well to the antibiotics, but the ticks here also carry TBE and I wasn't vaccinated at the time. So that was a bit scary.
It's a story of blood, saliva, and small rodents. Everything you need for a good bedtime story.
I have seen many videos advertising Curiosity Stream and have consistently skipped past the short blurbs in videos. I know what Curiosity Stream is, I know how much it costs, and how great it is for learning things. But, zefrank, please tell Curiosity Stream that it is YOUR videos that I will sit through the Curiosity Stream commercial because I love the way you present things. You are awesome as a teacher!
I love when you can hear him chuckling as he tries to read his own script😂
@50cal Gamers why?
@Justin Miller Lol.
It’s *Jerry’s* script, though. The guy never proof reads.
Bruh my uncle is literally allergic to meat after he got bit by a tick. It never ceases to freak me out how the DNA literally changes after being exposed to the disease.
That's horrifying. Also, look up a book called "Lab 257".
I love that our immune system has the capability of going "OH SHIT" as a response
Our immune system goes completely batsh*t crazy... You made me laugh harder then when I search for funny videos... Great job... I needed it.
These are awesome videos. We need some true facts about Rattlesnakes. (Or snakes in general)
I could not stop scratching at imaginary ticks the whole video. 10/10, would watch again (but maybe not for a while).
I’m not alone.
I'm so glad I don't live in tick country anymore. All I have to worry about are bark scorpions and black widows.
This level of narration should be on everything. Amazing! V v funny.
As always, supremely entertaining education.
We’ve got Ticks in Australia called Paralysis Ticks. So they not only give you Lyme Disease they can paralyse you.🙂
"you wouldn't want to hire this tick as a birthday clown". My God that's classic comedy!
“The chicks would eat a whole bag of ticks.” I’m dying 😂
@Vulpine He has no problem pronouncing Tina. If he can say Tina, he can say tick. It's intentional .
i mean like, he's not wrong
@Prickly Pear why did l just find this man why didn't l get his vids recommended earlier l friking love this guy hes so funny
Is that what's called a ticken mcnugget?
Ticks don't get enough love, wonderful video!☀
my ex wife got lyme's from a tick as a kid. The doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with her for a long time and when they finally figured it out they were blown away she actually got it.
watched half of your videz today... can't stop it's so funny and scientifically correct. Keep this ish stuff UP! Effin love it!!!
I think the jokes in this video are especially relevant to me, since I once had a tick attached to my testicles.
I'm surprised to see that he held back his laugh quite noticeably after he said "horny organ"
Usually he's always said stuff like this straight without laughing
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And saying soft ticks and hard ticks
Lmao
I had my air conditioning on so I couldn't hear this guy perfectly and that opening line of "you're in the shower and you look down and see a little dick" ....I just about fell over laughing......"Swollen and engorged with blood"....Are you kidding me! who wrote this!!
I never in my life imagined that I could be so thoroughly entertained by a video about "d"icks."
Thank you, TheXvid algorithm for dropping me here!