Welcome to the Art Labs podcast, our special guest today.

And look, I say this all the time, but I honestly, truly mean it this time.

I met Sala, our special guest, about a year ago at Gopher Khan.

I think it was Athens.

I think we were in Athens.

Yeah.

I was asking my wife, she's got an amazing memory.

From the moment I sat down, we started talking, I said, you have to be on the show. And it's taken a year to get him only because he's so busy. So, Salah, tell everybody your actual properly pronunciated name. So who are you?

So my, as I was saying, you know, it's really difficult to get the right pronunciation ofated name. So, so who are you? So my, uh, as I was saying, you know, it's really difficult to

get the right pronunciation of my name for most people. It's Salah. It's just like you've drank

some very cold news or something and you have to say that at the end. But you could just call me

Salah. Salah. Yeah. My wife could definitely say that. You know,

my wife is from Colombian. She speaks Spanish and there's sounds that she makes all the time.

And I'm just like, it's never going to happen. I just don't know what that is. But Sala's good.

Okay. So give everybody the two-minute spiel on what you're doing today. Stay in today because I'm going to

throw you in the time machine and we're going to talk about that. But just today, what's happening

today? Not much. I mean, being with you is the highlight of today and probably this entire

month. I am currently working on a project. It's an international study, looking at

whether influenza can cause heart attacks and blood clots and brain clots. So that has been

consuming all my time for the last, I guess, like a month or so. It's a big study,

including multiple countries, including Canada, the U.S., and some European countries. So that

has been consuming all my time. Okay. Now, before I jump on the time machine, I got a couple

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