Hey, everyone. Welcome to the VPZD show. I'm Dr. Zubin Demania. It's January 12th. We have Dr.

Vinay Prasad. What up, VP? It's good to see you. It's always good to be back on the show. My

highlight of my week. Me too. Me hashtag me too. I got to say this though. You actually hit me in

advance so we can let our viewers know what we're going to talk about today. But it's so cryptic

that it hasn't spoiled the surprise for me because I have no idea what you're talking about. So

you said we're going to talk about off it, Paul off it in the Atlantic. We're going to talk about

the schizophrenia of the CDC. That one's hard to decipher. We're going to talk about generation

pandemic, the pandemic generation. And we're going to talk about Omicron. How it, how Omicron

means that policies we have will fall like dominoes, a very dangerous domino rally, like domino

rally, like the videos from 30 years ago. Oh, those remember domino rally? I do. Dude, now we're

really the hottest thing. It was the hottest thing. We're really dating ourselves, man. I also remember

Domino's pizza. I remember the Noid. That was their little spokesperson. I heard that Domino's

pizza a few years ago, they decided we want to clean up a rack. We want to serve some pizza that

actually tastes good. And now they're actually the best tasting of the crappy brands. They up their

game. Yeah. To fast food level pizza. Do you know I was part of a test market in Fresno,

California when I was in high school. They were trialing McPizza. So a McDonald's. Yes. It was

$10, which at that time in the 80s was exorbitant. And it tasted like anus. And so that was,

well, did you know when I was growing up in the 80s, I was part of Book It and Book It meant

if you pounded those books, you got a pizza hat personal paying pizza. You remember that?

Oh, I remember book it. Dude, pizza hut used to have these breadsticks. It was like five bucks

and you'd get like a family size breadstick. And me and my friends in high school would drive

there. We'd play video games. We'd eat breadsticks. I mean, it was pure carbs and sugar. And you know

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