Understanding the Avian Flu Part 1: Virology With Dr. Maurice Pitesky

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.8 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Dave and Chris talk fearmongering amongst the Eggpocalypse. They bring on animal epidemiologist and expert Dr. Maurice Pitesky to find out more about the avian flu, how it might spread to humans, and its worst-case scenarios. They close with an egg-themed MOIF that gets a little spicy. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guest: Beau Kilmer Video/Audio Producer: Felipe Guilhermino Majordomo Media Producers: Kelsey Rearden and David Meyer Editor: Stefano Sanchez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, we have sort of like a two-parter podcast where we're going to talk to a virologist
0:09.1	and then we're going to talk to an economist that can shed some light on the maybe end of days
0:17.3	because of chicken flu, avian flu?
0:24.8	Or is that a bunch of media nonsense?
0:28.2	Is this something that we should be worried about? Because clearly, I just bought a $14 carton of eggs yesterday.
0:34.3	So that's been fun.
0:38.3	So it's going to be a two-partner and we're going to do some other things to keep it lighthearted.
0:44.0	But I think it's just to give us some education about what is actually going on and how do we feel about the next pandemic and all of the fear mongering that goes along with it?
0:56.7	So stay tuned.
0:57.9	It's going to be two-parter.
0:59.8	We're going to interview virologist.
1:04.3	Today's going to be Maurice Pettiske.
1:06.6	And then we're going to interview Dr. David Ortega, an economist that is basically tracking the supply and demand and, you know, almost gives us a prediction about what might happen in best and worst case scenarios.
1:23.3	So, yeah, if you're, if you've been reading the newspapers, if you've been following things
1:27.9	online and you've been like, wow, this is a, these are crazy headlines.
1:33.3	Yeah, we agree with you.
1:34.9	And we're going to get to the bottom of it.
1:37.0	Stay tuned.
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