Ezekiel Emanuel: "Don't Be a Schmuck"—and Yes, Eat Your Ice Cream.
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Mike Pesca
4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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The physician and health-policy veteran lays out six "simple" rules for a long, healthy life, arguing that most wellness advice fails by demanding perfection—and that moderation, sociability, and routines matter more than optimization. He gets data-nerdy on risk (Everest versus skydiving), alcohol as social lubricant, and why "good" ice cream can fit into a sane diet. Plus, a look at the Trump administration's politically self-sabotaging response to the Minneapolis ICE shooting—and a detour through the seized "ghost fleet" tanker Marinera (formerly Bella 1), the kind of ship that survives by constantly changing its identity.
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| 0:50.9 | It's Friday, January 9th, 2026 from Peachfish Productions. |
| 0:52.7 | It's the gist I Mike Pesca. The oil tanker, Maranura, formerly known as the |
| 0:56.5 | Bella One, was intercepted between Ireland and Iceland by U.S. forces. Now, it was rebranded |
| 1:02.8 | Marinera, which is also to not be confused with the pasta sauce from Rios, but it was rebranded |
| 1:10.5 | this because I guess Maranura |
| 1:13.6 | shares zero consonants with Bella One. So great ploy, guys. The Maranura is often described |
| 1:21.6 | this way. |
| 1:22.6 | It's a busy day. It continues now. This is new video on the Caribbean. Check this out. That's the U.S. Coast |
| 1:28.3 | Guard seizing another ghost fleet tanker. So these are also called shadow tankers or the shadow |
| 1:34.4 | fleet or a ghost ship. Yes, you know how ghosts are always trying to hide their identity and |
| 1:40.8 | slip between Ireland and Iceland. You know, I've watched a lot of Scooby-Doo. That doesn't seem the most ghostly of behaviors. Ghost oil tankers, I've had that happen to me. You meet an oil tanker. They seem great, but then they won't return your calls. Bella, she told me her name was Marinera. So the real characteristic of the Ghost Fleet, of the Ghost Ship, is that there are massive vessels that are into the old switcheroo. |
| 2:03.8 | They switch names, flags, paperwork, GPS signals, anything that makes the ownership and cargo harder to trace. |
| 2:11.7 | A ghost ship can also mean a vessel whose provenance is intentionally obscured or a ship found drifting, abandoned, often with |
| 2:19.3 | cannibal rats that is an entirely different problem. |
| 2:23.0 | And it means spooky, spooky tales of a ship as well. |
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