Everybody, welcome to the VPZD show. We're an episode 18 actually. I think VP 18 is that many that we always get it wrong by one every episode because we're we're living in the past. We're counting like the CDC. We're counting as good as the city. My gosh. Welcome guys the show. Hey, we're going to talk about a bunch of things today, including the a word. We're going to talk about surprise medical billing. We're going to talk about kids are a prevalence of COVID. We're going to talk about the Pfizer documents or whatever that means and

suspended J and J shot among other things, but I got to say you were just saying the CDC. I got to tell a quick story. So, you know, you get a lot of robo calls now, right VP? Like you look at your phone. It's like garbage. Like your your cars extended warranty needs to be with the robots are looking for me only the road. They're all from the future of telemarketing and they've come back. Are you Sarah Connor? And and so I get a call in and the ID on my phone says.

CDC immunology Georgia, immuno Georgia. And I'm like, wait, what? And so that's how you found out you had syphilis tall. You know what? I didn't realize it was reportable. And I haven't been reporting it. Now that it's like I have

quattenary syphilis like it's really. Yeah. Yeah. They got to you. It's in the fourth dimension. Right. My RPR is like unmeasurably high. So the CDC got your digits. They call it. They somehow got my digits. And my first feeling was, oh, this is a robot

caller that's masquerading. They're fishing as CDC. So I sent it to voicemail. Then a couple hours later, it calls again. And I'm like, you know, I

know people at CDC. This could be somebody I know. Maybe I'll pick it up. So I pick it up. And it's a human. And it's a it sounds like a young

woman. And to be honest, she's having trouble just like, I can't understand her. Like it's distant. She speaks

frequently. She sounds very young. Like, like, honestly, I guess she was in high school. And I was like, what is this? And she goes, we're doing a

survey for the CDC. And we would like to get your input on vaccines. And I said, well, this is interesting. I said, I can do this, but I've

only got I told her I said, I only have 10 minutes before I have to be on a call. And she's and she mumbled something that I couldn't even catch what she

said. She just said, and then started asking the questions. So I was like, OK, this clearly this won't take very long. So we

start. She starts asking, first of all, it's very difficult to she reads very slowly, extremely methodically, keeps

stumbling over her words, has to stop reread the same sentence again. And by the time I figure out what she's doing, she's trying to

figure out the ages, names, birth dates of my two youngest kids or my two children. Are there any children under 18

in the house? So I, I, I'm like, well, you know, I don't really want to give you my children's full birth dates, nor their names, because I actually don't

know who you are, but I can give you a first initial. And then she's completely flamuxed at that point and says, OK, maybe let's first initial. And then

starts asking, so what are the, I'll tell you, it was such a shit show. I couldn't figure out what was going on. I was so uncomfortable with how

probing the questions were that I find. And then she said, I said, so how much longer in this? And she said, it's another 30 minutes, 30 minutes.

And I said, well, what part of I have 10 minutes? Did you not get? And she was like, would you like to re-schedule? And I hung up

re-schedule. Now, you're doing them a favor. You're doing them a favor. Here's the punch line of that. This is the see the premiere

public health organization in the world. And this is how they get their data. I'm a former former Lee premium. That's right.

That's right. The agency formerly known as Prince. Exactly. It was, it was a shit show. I was like, this is how you guys get data. You have, you've hired

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