So paranoid on a cruise ship, like be gloves on hazmat suit.

Like, you're dying your chair?

No, speak up.

Sorry, the hazmat suit.

Controversial subjects with the facts can be tense, but we are a sub-science here to make things make sense.

Today we are talking about cruise ships, how insane they are, the impact they have on the environment on people are they dangerous the sociological

impact they're just like really really fascinating things that we always discuss off camera today

we're bringing the tea to the pod around cruise ships um we're talking about cruising y'all

and not the gay kind but like there are a lot of gay cruise ships of which... True. We have been invited to one. I don't even know if you're doing this, but... I didn't know that. I'm not going on it, but... Okay. Obviously, there's been a lot of like cruise ship talking the news as like the hantavirus stuff's happening there's a new cruise ship with like a

huge norovirus yeah massive norah and obviously we all kind of remember like the beginnings of

covid when that was like spreading on cruise ships and no one knew if they should let them dock off and

stuff yeah everyone was like keep them on there and let them die now obviously like we have very

specific views on cruise ships that we're going to share obviously. No, you're a cruiser. Yeah, I'm a cruiser and you know I just mean obviously you know Greg's going to come in with the hot takes on this. Wait, excuse me, you don't know. I might like to cruise. I know you really well. Never been on one. Never been on one. So can you,

I have been on them.

So I'll give my takes on them soon. But I also did want to preface this, like not to be the wet blanket. Like we're obviously going to have fun. We have specific takes on cruise ships, but obviously. I have some positives. And amongst my absolutely, I find them insane as a concept. Yeah. I think what I wanted to say is like in the context of what's happening now and like as a reference, I was going to bring up like how obviously like the beginnings of COVID started with cruise ship conversations. Obviously there are people who did get really sick and die and like I don't want to overly make light of that kind of stuff. But obviously I'll be giggling today. Our conversations go beyond that. And so we're not trying to like disrespect or like do anything like there are people who it is really scary to be in an

outbreak on a cruise ships but obviously at the same time we want to talk about the impact of cruise ships

like at large so should we start with talking about hantavirus because it's more recent like

at this point you probably all yeah like new old news now like something's two days old and it's more recent. Like, I mean, at this point, you probably all.

Yeah, like old news now. Like something's two days old and it's actually like our podcast. Of course we can't keep up with the news people. We should have done this, what, like two weeks ago? Yeah. But you don't have to worry. Hanta virus is not the next pandemic. I know that some scientists and including us and science communicators at the beginning of COVID where like, don't worry, it's not a pandemic.

And then it was.

So it might be triggering. Right. that some scientists and including us and science communicators at the beginning of COVID were like,

don't worry, it's not a pandemic. And then it was. So it might be triggering. But it does not

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