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America Dissected

Another Day, Another RFK Headline

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Abdul and Katelyn unpack the latest headlines on RFK Jr and HHS, followed by some optimistic news on the spread of measles and Covid. Then Abdul talks to public health educator Dorian Johnson about the wild world of TikTok and Instagram - and how health professionals can harness it to build more trust and goodwill with the public. This episode was made in collaboration with our sponsor deBeaumont Foundation. You can follow Dorian Johnson on social media @thephuncle on TikTok and Instagram. Check out our shop at store.americadissected.com for our new America Dissected merch – including logo shirts, hoodies and mugs. And don’t miss our “Vaccines Matter. Science Works.” t-shirts!

Transcript

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0:00.0

in which we resort to gamifying the worst things RFK did this week.

0:12.1

This is America Desected.

0:13.2

I'm your host, Dr. Abdu L. Seid.

0:14.6

And I'm your host, Dr. Caitlin Jedalina.

0:16.7

And we're recording this on Tuesday, July 29th at 2 p.m. Eastern time.

0:25.6

So, Caitlin, I saw a delightful video of your daughter being from San Diego.

0:30.1

How was that?

0:31.6

Amazing.

0:32.3

What video did you see?

0:33.9

Her surfing.

0:34.7

It was so cool.

0:36.3

That's right.

0:37.1

So we went camping this past weekend. We caught a spot like last minute, went camping on the beach. It was the most beautiful weekend. And yeah, she got up on a surfboard. She's earning that zip code.

0:50.5

Looked all the, all the San Diego you could imagine. could imagine. So and it was like, the thing about all you people from California, which is like all of us Midwesterners who, who look like we're trying very hard even to do like simple things, you all make everything look kind of effortless. Like that's kind of like the California vibe. It's just like, everything is just like a chill day at the beach. And so she just kind of got up on the surfboard. I was like, damn, that's awesome. I surfed one time and definitely, man, it looked like I was putting a lot of effort not to get up on the surfboard. So yeah, I mean, but also she's what like five years old. Like less fear than us adults, like less weight to bring up, you know.

1:29.8

So, yeah, but we're, we're all cheering her on.

1:32.7

It was great.

1:33.3

That's awesome.

1:34.0

The Midwest equivalent of that is water skiing.

1:36.2

And water skiing is fantastic.

1:38.9

But it's always like, you know, the first time you get up, right?

1:41.1

Because getting up is the hardest part.

1:42.5

And similar to surfing.

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