Hey, everybody. Welcome to the VPZD show. What are we at episode 15 now? VP 15, 14, something like

that somewhere in there. But I'm one of your hosts, Dr. Zubin Demania, UCSF Stanford trained

hospitalist and host of the ZDogg MD show. And this is Dr. Vinny Prasad. He is an extraordinary,

extraordinary, extraordinary, extraordinary, extraordinary, insert your favorite word. It'll depend

on who you ask. I'm an associate professor here at UCSF and I'm a Hemonk Dr. and we are the host

of this news show. I like to call it a medical news show, but you know, we don't always get through

all the news. That's true. And you know, it's good for me because it's where I get my news now,

Vinny. I no longer watch the news. I'm just I'm too frightened. I'll learn something about Putin

that'll make me want to fly over there and slap him across the face. I'm too emotionally volatile.

Well, I don't blame you. I mean, the news it's it's it's it was always depressing. It's been really

depressing lately. COVID is, you know, you have to click on the tab to get to COVID these days.

That's saying something, right? You got to click on the tab. It's Russia, Russia. And then

if you click on the second tab, oh, look at this. It's actually live confirmation hearings or number

one, the Supreme Court justice. Ukraine, Russia, war number two and coronavirus pandemic last

updated 20 minutes ago. I'm looking at the New York Times. It's number three. So it's it's been

pushed back. Well, you know, we can thank pestilence war. I mean, I guess it is pestilence. We can

thank war for this and also Supreme Court stuff. I mean, it's kind of cool. We have female African-American

justice being going through the confirmation process. I mean, it's pretty remarkable. I haven't

kept up. Are you a are you a legal scholar? Are you like the law? You know, like I'll tell you

what, whatever's in the news, I'm suddenly an expert in it. So when when you invaded Ukraine,

I almost I just decided, you know what? I'm a geopolitical expert. I know. Well, you can go.

But some of these COVID pundits, they added a biosafety expert in their handle and started tweeting

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