Speaker 1: I'm Tt and I'm Zakiyah, and this is Dope Labs.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Dope Labs, a weekly podcast that mixes hardcore
Speaker 1: science with pop culture and a healthy dose of friendship.
Speaker 1: This week, we're running you through some of what we've
Speaker 1: been seeing in our notifications, from our news app and
Speaker 1: on our timelines. We've been traveling a lot, but luckily
Speaker 1: we've been traveling together because we've been working on our
Speaker 1: planetarium film with the Museum of Science in Boston. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I got to DCA, one of my local airports the
Speaker 1: other morning, and I immediately text you, Zakia, because it
Speaker 1: was nasty in there. Everybody was coughing, everybody was sneezing,
Speaker 1: everybody's noses were running. I saw a few people wipe
Speaker 1: their nose on their sleeve, and I said, hey, girl,
Speaker 1: bring a mask. You need to wear a mask in
Speaker 1: the airport because it was like this in DC. I
Speaker 1: know it's like that in Atlanta. I had just traveled
Speaker 1: a week before and I always keep a mask in
Speaker 1: my bag, and I'm like, yeah, it's time to put
Speaker 1: my mask back on. I don't know what was going on.
Speaker 1: I can't explain it, but falls here and along with
Speaker 1: fall comes the ick. Okay. I can't remember who I
Speaker 1: was talking to, but I was saying, are you getting
Speaker 1: your flu shot in your COVID shot? And they were like,
Speaker 1: are we allowed to get a COVID shot? And I
Speaker 1: get it. Because the vaccine landscape is mountainous, it is
Speaker 1: difficult terrain. Oh my gosh. Yes, because of all these
Speaker 1: recent shakeups at the federal level. Because of RFK, junior
Speaker 1: access to vaccines has changed, and it is varying from
Speaker 1: state to state. So it's not even like, oh, me
Speaker 1: in Maryland talking to you in Atlanta. We probably don't
Speaker 1: have the same rules and regulations in place. Well at
Speaker 1: the federal level, here's that's what happened last year twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four to twenty twenty five for COVID boosters. The
Speaker 1: recommendation was that anybody the six months are older should
Speaker 1: get a booster shot. Okay, at the end of August,
Speaker 1: and this is on the heels of RFK firing the
Speaker 1: director of the CDC and wiping out that board that
Speaker 1: makes the recommendations for immunization. On the heels of those
Speaker 1: two events, at the end of August, they said, hey,
Speaker 1: we're changing who we're recommending COVID vaccine boosters for so
Speaker 1: instead of it being people six months are older regardless
Speaker 1: of health status or risk factors, it was changed in
Speaker 1: the recommendation now is people who are sixty five and
Speaker 1: older or those with high risk conditions, and those high
Speaker 1: risk conditions are like asthma, obesity, pregnancy, and like physical inactivity.
Speaker 1: But it's tricky. In response to that, the states are like, nah, okay,
Speaker 1: that might be the federal regulation, but we're gonna do
Speaker 1: something different. And so there are some states like outwell,
Speaker 1: there is a block of states I think it's Oregon, Washington, California,
Speaker 1: and Hawaii that have been proactive. They built up this
Speaker 1: West Coast Health Alliance the West Coast they're gonna ride Okay,
Speaker 1: They're sharing data, reviews and issue in joint recommendation, so
Speaker 1: pharmacy and clinics there can keep vaccinating people that are
Speaker 1: younger than sixty five without a federal green light. Then
Speaker 1: to other states like Florida going the completely opposite direction.
Speaker 1: I know you saw that man. There was a lot
Speaker 1: in my timeline about that man from Florida giving vaccine advice,
Speaker 1: and I said, they eating you up on the internet, brothers.
Speaker 1: I mean we all see those things. That's always like,
Speaker 1: it always starts off with man from Florida, and it's
Speaker 1: always gonna be something crazy. I don't know. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say it's just all people in Florida,
Speaker 1: but it seems to be a trend. But with all
Speaker 1: this talk about COVID vaccines, it makes me think about
Speaker 1: the flu shot, like, are they still available for everyone?
Speaker 1: Is it gonna be the same. The flu shots are free,
Speaker 1: you know, but I don't now, I'm not really sure.
Speaker 1: So the good news is that flu shots, on the
Speaker 1: other hand, are still available for every one age six
Speaker 1: months and up, and the CDC still recommends getting one
Speaker 1: every year, and this season the flu shot covers like
Speaker 1: three main flu strains. Now there is something exciting, or
Speaker 1: at least exciting to meet about the flu. Being a
Speaker 1: nerd and that I don't care. That makes me feel good.
Speaker 1: Thank you. The nasal spray flu vaccine flu MISTED is
Speaker 1: now proved for self administration if you're eighteen to forty one. Oh,
Speaker 1: so you can literally vaccinate yourself. Now I want to know, TT,
Speaker 1: would you try this? Would you try the nasal flu spray? Yes?
Speaker 1: I think I would. Why not if they said that
Speaker 1: there's efficacy there. You know, I'm using all of my
Speaker 1: bio words. Yes, that's right, Like then my friends are
Speaker 1: right only in this moment. But yeah, I think if
Speaker 1: they're if they're saying that it's safe and that it works, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I don't see why not. So here we have not
Speaker 1: only our traditional flu vaccine, but expanded access that allows
Speaker 1: us to do the flu vaccine by nasal spray and
Speaker 1: you can get that ordered directly to your door. I
Speaker 1: am not sponsored by flu mists. I have not taken
Speaker 1: flu miss. I'm just excited about expanded access. You have
Speaker 1: a fan fan flu mist, yes, And so here we
Speaker 1: see expansion here and a narrowing of the label for
Speaker 1: who should get vaccination on the covid side. And it
Speaker 1: also it just feels like this term I learned when
Speaker 1: we had doctor Barbara Hoefer and her colleague come on
Speaker 1: to our show and talk about science denial, and they
Speaker 1: talked about the cafeteria style like kind of picking parts
Speaker 1: of science you want to put on your tray. Yeah,
Speaker 1: picking and choosing. It's not that you don't believe vaccines
Speaker 1: work because you're saying, hey, have a flu shot, but
Speaker 1: don't have a COVID booster, right, And so the bottom
Speaker 1: line is not to let political drama or the who
Speaker 1: knows what kind of patience you would need at the pharmacy,
Speaker 1: you know for access there. Right, So what should people do?
Speaker 1: They should not let it stop them from protecting themselves
Speaker 1: or their loved ones. Because over the holidays, I plan
Speaker 1: on seeing all the older people in my family, and
Speaker 1: I don't want to be the person that gets them sick.
Speaker 1: And so I think reaching out to your primary care physician,
Speaker 1: figuring out what's happening in your state, that's the best way.
Speaker 1: I have seen people sharing great information on threads of
Speaker 1: all places, they're like Walgreens on this street has the
Speaker 1: COVID booster, like wow, word of wow, meet people where
Speaker 1: they are. If they don't threads, go there. Isn't it
Speaker 1: sad though, that our governance has put us in this spot,
Speaker 1: like governance is at an all time low, right, And
Speaker 1: it's hard because you want to turn away, but it
Speaker 1: also feels like we need to be involved, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? You saying that is like the you
Speaker 1: know how sometimes you hear a thing that you hear
Speaker 1: it somewhere else in a different topic, like we need
Speaker 1: to be involved? Is this theme hearing everywhere. I was
Speaker 1: listening to this book by Karen Howe called Empire of Ai,
Speaker 1: and so she's a journalist who's been covering AI over
Speaker 1: the past few years. And then this book she talks
Speaker 1: about open AI and she's like, open AI is just
Speaker 1: what's on the plate, that's just the flavor of the moment.
Speaker 1: We need to be looking at how we're whipping this
Speaker 1: stuff up in the kitchen. And so she likens it
Speaker 1: to Facebook. Facebook just used to be a social media
Speaker 1: platform but without regulation and governance. Look at it now,
Speaker 1: Look at Mark Zuckerberg. Okay, And so she talks about
Speaker 1: she talks about AI and this ecosystem of web technologies
Speaker 1: and she talks about it beyond like the large language
Speaker 1: modelers like chat, GPT, and she was saying, we need
Speaker 1: to be thinking about what it looks like to be
Speaker 1: involved in governing what's happening. Because I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people are saying opt out, don't be involved, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, we need to be even more involved
Speaker 1: in guiding. That's the only way you can protect is
Speaker 1: if you are involved in God exactly because when you
Speaker 1: think about it, when you think of like deep fakes,
Speaker 1: all these scams I'm getting We were talking about this recently.
Speaker 1: I'm getting ten scam text messages a day, I'm getting
Speaker 1: scam calls. And when an AI starts to be a
Speaker 1: part of the scam, people are going to really be vulnerable.
Speaker 1: Like and I really think about our aging population who
Speaker 1: are really vulnerable to this, Like they can receive a
Speaker 1: phone call from someone that sounds exactly like their partner
Speaker 1: or exactly like their grandchild and say, hey, I need
Speaker 1: your help, can you send me this or that? Then
Speaker 1: what if we've all opted out, then we don't know
Speaker 1: how to fight this, and we don't know what to
Speaker 1: ask regulators and our governments for in order to protect us.
Speaker 1: So we really have to know what's going on in
Speaker 1: the AI space so that we can arm ourselves with knowledge.
Speaker 1: And that knowledge is power and it helps us to
Speaker 1: guard ourselves against these the people that are trying to
Speaker 1: pray on us to you know, scam us out of
Speaker 1: our money, scam us out of our identities, and all
Speaker 1: these things like that. So I think it's really important.
Speaker 1: And I mean, even on the heels of that, I've
Speaker 1: been watching a lot of documentaries. They got some good
Speaker 1: documentaries out there right now, and speaking of like deep
Speaker 1: fakes and pretending to be other people. Have you seen
Speaker 1: that Netflix show Unknown Number Listen, Brittany just told me
Speaker 1: to watch this a couple of days ago. I started
Speaker 1: that documentary at like one am the other and we'll
Speaker 1: talk about my sleep layers. But I still need your
Speaker 1: ordering data and I'm afraid to upload it. I started
Speaker 1: that documentary and it was wild tt you know, I
Speaker 1: had heard a similar story before, and so when it
Speaker 1: came to the end and there was that great reveal,
Speaker 1: I was like, I knew it, you know, like I
Speaker 1: don't want to spoil, but if you haven't seen it,
Speaker 1: you should see it. Stop right now and go see
Speaker 1: it and you can finish it episode. Absolutely, go see it.
Speaker 1: I think it's been enough time. We can talk about it. Oh,
Speaker 1: we can talk Okay. Then, So there was a young
Speaker 1: teenage girl, probably like thirteen years old, who was going
Speaker 1: to a school in a very small town in Michigan.
Speaker 1: She was dating this boy. Her name was Lauren. She's
Speaker 1: dating this boy named Owen. Lauren and Owen, you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of grew up together. This is a very
Speaker 1: very small town. They said they have one stoplight two bars.
Speaker 1: There's only like one major school where it goes from
Speaker 1: kindergarten all the way up to twelfth grade. So everybody
Speaker 1: knows everybody. Everybody knows everybody, and so they begin to date.
Speaker 1: And then after dating for a little bit, they start
Speaker 1: getting text messages from a number that they don't know.
Speaker 1: None of them have that number in their phones. They
Speaker 1: don't know who it is, and it's saying these really
Speaker 1: vile things about Lauren, very very vile, vulgar things about Lauren,
Speaker 1: and they're all maliciously targeted at Lauren, and some very
Speaker 1: sexually inappropriate things about Owen and saying like, oh, he
Speaker 1: doesn't want you and he wants to be with me.
Speaker 1: It was just so awful, saying really awful things about
Speaker 1: Lauren's body and things like that. So as the story's progressing,
Speaker 1: we're going it's been over like a year and a
Speaker 1: half at this point, and they have suspected other people
Speaker 1: at the school, but they haven't been able to figure
Speaker 1: out who it was. The case gets turned over to
Speaker 1: the FBI. The FBI is able to do like their
Speaker 1: crypto forensics, and they trace IP addresses and it turns
Speaker 1: out it was Lauren's mom the whole time, you like
Speaker 1: your jaw hits the floor because then you think about
Speaker 1: all the messages that were sent. She was telling her
Speaker 1: daughter to die by suicide. She was saying the most
Speaker 1: awful things about her. But then like she's saying, I
Speaker 1: love my daughter so much, I love her, I love her,
Speaker 1: I love her, And it's just like how do you
Speaker 1: reconcile these things? One theory that they had in the
Speaker 1: show is that she has like some form of Munchausen's,
Speaker 1: which is a medical disorder where someone will go to
Speaker 1: great lengths to either make them all seems sick and
Speaker 1: in some cases they will do that with their kids
Speaker 1: in order to gain attention and sympathy and things like that.
Speaker 1: So some people are accusing her of having that disorder.
Speaker 1: But it was just like a digital version exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: And so I mean, if that's happening, imagine laying AI
Speaker 1: on top of that. Who knows if they would ever
Speaker 1: found out and like what the end of this story
Speaker 1: would have been. That is so wild. It also reminds
Speaker 1: me of that movie Run that had Sarah Paulson in it.
Speaker 1: Not to give it away, but that was a good movie.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to watch that, and Sad, I'm definitely
Speaker 1: gonna have to watch that. You should watch it. As
Speaker 1: we move more and more digital, I think about there
Speaker 1: are places where you can create community. Everything is just
Speaker 1: a tool, it's how you use it. In this case,
Speaker 1: Lauren's mom was using digital tools to totally isolate her
Speaker 1: daughter to cause mayhem, madness. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: else to call it, because I was like, how can
Speaker 1: she even show her face? She should be a shame.
Speaker 1: Bring back shame, I'm sorry, bring it backly the fact
Speaker 1: that she agreed to be a part of the documentary,
Speaker 1: I was like, clearly, you don't feel like you did something.
Speaker 1: What did she say? She said, we've all broken the law. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, baby, this is We're not talking about
Speaker 1: legal or illegal. We're talking about the destruction, the destructive behavior,
Speaker 1: the way you're tearing down your daughter. And that little
Speaker 1: girl is young, but when she hits twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: twenty three, like that stuff is going to surface later
Speaker 1: in life, and baby, I hate it for But also
Speaker 1: we see people using digital tools to create these great communities,
Speaker 1: to realize previously unrealized or unactualized potential. One of the
Speaker 1: things I've been seeing and I just asked you about
Speaker 1: this earlier, The Great Life. Yeah, I've been seeing that shit.
Speaker 1: I first saw it on TikTok where people were saying, oh,
Speaker 1: we're locking in starting on August first, and I was like,
Speaker 1: why August first? You know what I mean? I saw
Speaker 1: it on TikTok first, folks were saying, oh, we're gonna
Speaker 1: start locking in August first. I was like, what's happening
Speaker 1: August first? I don't understand, Like what fiscal year are
Speaker 1: y'all on. I don't I don't understand why August first.
Speaker 1: But then I was like, okay, let me not get
Speaker 1: too hung up on that. And then I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: what is this great lock in? And so the great
Speaker 1: what a great lock in is just people saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: starting now, I'm locking in to make sure I achieve
Speaker 1: my twenty twenty five goals before twenty twenty six. So
Speaker 1: August to December is for time for me to get
Speaker 1: in shape, like really stay with my workout regimen, or
Speaker 1: really lock into this business plan that I had, or
Speaker 1: gain one hundred thousand followers on whatever social media platform
Speaker 1: to start daily vlogging like I want to do like
Speaker 1: anything that you have been putting off. They're saying, okay,
Speaker 1: now of time to lock in and do it. Why
Speaker 1: are we always locking in and never locking out, Like,
Speaker 1: let's lay down, right, let's relax, and if we're really
Speaker 1: being real, the great lock in to me just feels
Speaker 1: like another remix of hustle culture. Remember seventy five hards.
Speaker 1: They're still doing that. Remember I told you those people
Speaker 1: try to put me in that seventy five hard group.
Speaker 1: I said, baby, take me out, and they cannot trick me.
Speaker 1: It's wow, It's just like these things, you know. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I want to say survivor bias, but
Speaker 1: it's some mechanism of that right where there are these
Speaker 1: trends where if you work hard, you promises this like transformation,
Speaker 1: or if you just grind enough for a set number
Speaker 1: of days. There are people that grind for many, many
Speaker 1: days okay, and nothing happens. And so now you adding
Speaker 1: TikTok hype and hashtags and filters on top of that,
Speaker 1: and it's like every few months there's a new font
Speaker 1: exactly for like the same old productivity exactly. And what
Speaker 1: that all leads to is burnout and We have done
Speaker 1: an episode on burnout with Ann Helen Peterson, and it
Speaker 1: is something that you know from our generation Millennials or
Speaker 1: generation why whatever you want to call us, that we
Speaker 1: are heavy engagers with like I'll sleep when I'm dead
Speaker 1: and grind so hard blah blah blah blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't lead to anything productive, and like it
Speaker 1: doesn't work out well for us because we aren't even
Speaker 1: set up economically in a way where that can work
Speaker 1: out for us well. Like financially speaking, we are not
Speaker 1: making as much as our parents, and we have far
Speaker 1: less money saved, we have way more debt, there's way
Speaker 1: less stability. It's just not the same. And so we
Speaker 1: really we talk about locking in and everything like that,
Speaker 1: and I just worry about folks because I'm just like,
Speaker 1: you really gonna lock in and burn out and then
Speaker 1: you're good to no one, especially yourself, Because if we're
Speaker 1: talking about locking in and it comes to the detriment
Speaker 1: of your rest, that's not the type of locking and
Speaker 1: you should do because sleep is so essential for physical recovery,
Speaker 1: overall health, hormone regulation, immune system support, stress reduction, improved
Speaker 1: mood enhance, cognitive functions so that you can do all
Speaker 1: that stuff that you claiming you want to do, locking
Speaker 1: in barely making any progress because your cognitive function isn't
Speaker 1: exactly that's not even increase creativity. So, really, all you
Speaker 1: folks within the sound of my voice thinking about locking in,
Speaker 1: and you've already been locked in for what a month
Speaker 1: or something, Now take time to rest because it will
Speaker 1: help you not just lock in for August through December.
Speaker 1: It'll help you with creating an environment and ecosystem for
Speaker 1: you to be overall locked in, locked into your mental health,
Speaker 1: locked into your emotional health, locked into having the life
Speaker 1: that you deserve, which is a life that has balance
Speaker 1: with productivity and rest. Yeah, I think that's a lesson
Speaker 1: I have really had to learn and relearn. Maybe that
Speaker 1: means I've been feeling it's hard. It feels important to
Speaker 1: reset the locking out for me, like I have had
Speaker 1: to be like, Okay, I'm owning my own calendar. I
Speaker 1: don't need it to be the first of August or
Speaker 1: the twenty first night of September whatever earth Wind and
Speaker 1: Fire said, Like I start when it's time for me.
Speaker 1: I am claiming the timeline that actually fits my bandwidth.
Speaker 1: You know, like, do I have the energy for this
Speaker 1: right now? I think the other thing I've had to
Speaker 1: do is decide what success looks like for me up front.
Speaker 1: You know. I think for a long time I really
Speaker 1: wanted things to be perfect, and I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be perfect. Sometimes it just needs
Speaker 1: to be done. You know, just last night, you sent
Speaker 1: me a yup screenshot of something I see in you
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen. Right, I'm gonna pull it up. Pull
Speaker 1: it up. Yeah'm gonna pull it up. She sent me
Speaker 1: something on Snapchat. Now that I know people have gone
Speaker 1: chat Snapchat, so enough shay, okay, but I've not been
Speaker 1: on Snapchat since probably twenty sixteen, and so she sent
Speaker 1: this to me and says, we all have a blinking line.
Speaker 1: Your blinking line is whatever sits in front of you
Speaker 1: waiting to be brought into existence. It's the book or
Speaker 1: day or job or business or family or mission or
Speaker 1: class or plan or cause or meeting or task or
Speaker 1: project or challenge or phone call or life that is
Speaker 1: waiting for you to bring it into being. That was
Speaker 1: so timely when you shared it with me again, because
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, you get to choose, you get
Speaker 1: to choose what you're putting your energy towards, and it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be all those things in that list
Speaker 1: all at the same time, right, And so I've been
Speaker 1: doing a better job of honoring time for recovery. You know,
Speaker 1: before I would pack my schedule, there was no time
Speaker 1: that I was having whiplash, baby, and I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: slow down, take a break. These things can wait. And
Speaker 1: I think I've just found that to be incredibly rewarding.
Speaker 1: One of the things I will say, I mentioned it
Speaker 1: a little earlier, getting that sleep is key. Absolutely. Now
Speaker 1: I admire you in that way because you're somebody to
Speaker 1: go to sleep fast. I can go to sleep right now.
Speaker 1: Literally in the middle of this sentence, I could close
Speaker 1: my eyes and be almost right at sleep store. That's
Speaker 1: how quickly it happens. Now, Do I always lay down
Speaker 1: and do that? No, because I also struggle too sometimes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we both have to prioritize sleep. There's a recent
Speaker 1: study that just came out of Neurology. It was published Neurology,
Speaker 1: which is the journal for the American Academy for Neurology,
Speaker 1: and it says people with chronic insomnia had a forty
Speaker 1: percent higher risk of developing mild cognitive impairment or dementia.
Speaker 1: So I was, like, chronic insomnia do I have that?
Speaker 1: Chronic insomnia is defined as having trouble sleeping at least
Speaker 1: three days a week for three months or more. Wow,
Speaker 1: ur ring was it was saying girl, you close. You
Speaker 1: used to say girl, you're close. And so in this study,
Speaker 1: they tracked people that were around seventy years old. They
Speaker 1: looked at like twenty eight hundred almost twenty eight hundred people,
Speaker 1: and they monitored them for an average of five and
Speaker 1: a half years. Of the people who had chronic insomnia,
Speaker 1: fourteen percent of them went on to have cognitive issues
Speaker 1: compared to ten percent of the people who didn't have
Speaker 1: chronic insomnia. So that's the forty percent difference they're talking about. Now,
Speaker 1: that's one thing, But the other thing is there was
Speaker 1: just a study from another study that came out from
Speaker 1: the scientists that you see Berkeley, some scientists that you
Speaker 1: see Berkeley, and they were looking at mice and they
Speaker 1: dissected the brains and said that we finally figured out
Speaker 1: the neural circuits or the pathways that happen when you're
Speaker 1: asleep that allow you to release growth hormone. That's you
Speaker 1: know when they say kids need a lot of rest
Speaker 1: and grow, Yes, it's true, but you also need it
Speaker 1: for adult metabolism. So the sleep is important for the kids,
Speaker 1: but parents and big kids like me, it's important for
Speaker 1: you too. I don't want to grow up. I'm a
Speaker 1: toy us kid. Okay. We have to find productive ways
Speaker 1: to get that recovery and wellness because you know, it
Speaker 1: wasn't right. But when things got tough and I felt stressed,
Speaker 1: I used to turn to oysters. And hey man, they've
Speaker 1: taken that away, taken it away from us. Now they
Speaker 1: are so they are finding bacteria in the oysters, like
Speaker 1: deadly bacteria. It's always been bacteria there. But right, I
Speaker 1: need to get my terms right. You see that quickly.
Speaker 1: I'm no longer biologists. There's always bacteria that fast. I'm recovering.
Speaker 1: I'm recovering and recovering. There's always bacteria. But this is
Speaker 1: deadly backteria, bad bacteria, you know, And so that really
Speaker 1: hurts because me and my friend we bond over oysters.
Speaker 1: We love to go to a restaurant and just bring
Speaker 1: us two dozen and my friend will fill out the
Speaker 1: little car and be like two of this, two of this,
Speaker 1: two of this. We'll just get two of everything and
Speaker 1: we just enjoy ourselves laughing. You know, a little cocktail
Speaker 1: on the side. And now I'm now I'm nervous if
Speaker 1: I need to pour a cocktail on the on the
Speaker 1: oyster try and kill something in it. No, No, I'm
Speaker 1: just waiting for it to cool down, okay, where that
Speaker 1: bacteria can't grow as well. And some of this is
Speaker 1: just part of our food systems, Like who is no
Speaker 1: one testing the oysters? We need to bring back Oyster South.
Speaker 1: The folks from that group from the Virginia Marine Science
Speaker 1: Institute that we're doing all these studies on oysters, fund
Speaker 1: them because I need my oysters and I need them
Speaker 1: to be safe. Yes, we need them very badly. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, we could go on and on because there's
Speaker 1: still so much news we haven't talked about. Yes, but
Speaker 1: I'd hope people are feeling like there's a little science
Speaker 1: behind all of you. I want to hear from people.
Speaker 1: What have they been seeing on their timeline? Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: because we were just talking about this too. Everybody's internet
Speaker 1: is so different. Somebody looks like this viral body suit
Speaker 1: I said, viral body suit. I have never seen this ever,
Speaker 1: heard of her, never seen this. Hey you look good, girl,
Speaker 1: but this is not viral. But then I realized, Hey,
Speaker 1: viral for you, it's not the same thing as viral
Speaker 1: for me. Like I'm you know what's viral for me?
Speaker 1: Baryl jeans? Okay, I wore some viral jeans the other day.
Speaker 1: YACKI clippings. Hey, don't sleep on a good clipping, all right,
Speaker 1: change your whole mood. Change your mood, change life, change
Speaker 1: your shoes. Change remember, Yes, my for you page is
Speaker 1: all arts and crafts. It's about to be holiday season.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to make Remember I made those a
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day cards that was so sweet. Are you doing
Speaker 1: Christmas cards? I'm ready to make cards, y'all. I'm doing
Speaker 1: holiday cards. Yes, I am ready. Hit me up if
Speaker 1: y'all on a car now. We touched on a little
Speaker 1: bit of neurology this week, but t T tellum what's
Speaker 1: coming up next with Yes, I am so excited because
Speaker 1: in our science communication episode, we had a very phenomenal
Speaker 1: neuroscience PhD student named Lindsey Edgoe, and she is coming
Speaker 1: back to the show to talk about all the work
Speaker 1: she does in the neuro science space and what her
Speaker 1: research focuses on is pain and how our brains process
Speaker 1: pain and things like that. So I am very very
Speaker 1: excited for y'all to listen to this. Yes, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be fun. All right, We're gonna see 'all this week.
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