Welcome to our very first edition of Dirty Talk, where we're going to be talking about a range of topics, all of which kind of relate back to last week's theme-based episode about health & wellness! The episode begins with a dissertation on the basic vileness and unpleasantness of rodents, and not the politician kind, but real, live rodents like rats and mice. Through this tale, host Mike Marcella then discusses the general shittiness of the US healthcare and insurance industries, and then goes on to talk about COVID, masks, and vaccines. If nothing else, this episode will certainly make you cringe, probably make you laugh, and possibly make you cry. It earned a 5 of 5 on Mike's "laugh like an idiot while editing" scale, so it's one you don't want to miss!

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Sources used in podcast:

• Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome:
• https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2021756
• Masks work, homies:
• https://files.fast.ai/papers/masks_lit_review.pdf
• https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31142-9
• Viruses travel on saliva droplets – not in isolation – and they’re HUGE compared to O₂ and CO₂ molecules:
• https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2009.0388.focus
• https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2013.0560
• Check out these amazing breweries:
• https://www.northparkbeerco.com/
• https://www.imaginenationbrewing.com/
• Review of overall vaccine safety:
• https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00372/full
• Moderna Vaccine Research Summary:
• https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2035389/suppl_file/nejmoa2035389_research-summary.pdf
• Pfizer Vaccine Research Summary:
• https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577/suppl_file/nejmoa2034577_research-summary.pdf