The budget is bitter, but the Coke is sweet.

This is America Dissected.

I'm your host, Dr. Abdul Al-Said.

And I'm your co-host, Dr. Caitlin Jadalina.

And we're recording this on Tuesday, July 22nd at 2 p.m. Eastern time.

Kaylin. Tuesday, July 22nd at 2 p.m. Eastern Time. Caitlin, let's do a quick vibe check. How you doing?

I'm doing okay. Do I dare say it that it feels that it's a slow week in health news?

Should we be knocking on that wood behind you, Abdul? I mean, yeah, I don't,

I'm afraid to say that. But it seems that like we can catch our breath these past couple

days. I'm, I've just switched my, I'm at an Airbnb and, um, incidentally in your neck of the

woods. And, and we have all of our, uh, our dessert cereals. I feel like I'm going to get gone after by the Maha crowd here.

So I had to switch my background.

Yeah, having a, having a quieter week in health news is like definitely a win because it's

always been bad. But like you got to imagine the Comptor positive where you have a good week and a lot of news to cover because it's all good news. Like that's what we want to play for. And I think sometimes we forget that. They're like there can be good health news. And there should be good health news. Like we can't have nice things if we're willing to play for them. Yes. And you're in L.A.

I am in L.A. I am in L.A. We had a family wedding, which was, which was lovely, like truly a

lovely, lovely wedding. With some of the best wedding food I've ever had, like, I've, usually when it

comes to wedding food, I'm like, but they had like this, this lunch.

And I didn't know this was the thing, but they do Brazilian barbecue.

That's like, that is like mobile.

So they bring the Brazilian barbecue to the house.

And so like, I just, I ate so much rabbi.

It was nuts.

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