The Philip DeFranco Show - PDS 6.20 IT GOT WORSE! Kendrick Lamar Ethered Drake, Sabrina Carpenter Controversy, Heat Killing Thousands, &

Episode Date: June 20, 2024

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Sup you beautiful bastards, welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show, you daily dive into the news. Billy, are you in the shot? Come here. Come here, lazy. Come here. Come here. What are you doing? Lazy. Well, hey, while my dog ignores me, you at least pay attention because we got a lot of news to talk about today. So let's just jump into it. Starting with, we've got to talk about some heavily requested quickie news. Starting with the fact that until last night, I did not know you could murder the same person so many times. Because last night it felt like Kendrick Lamar dug up Drake's body after killing him, then proceeded to beat the shit out of said dead body, bury him again, dig him up again,

getting tens of thousands of people in person, bury him again, dig him up again, getting tens of thousands of people in person, including so many celebrities and millions of people around the world to sing song, call Drake a pedophile, then hit him from the top rope five times and bury him again. Like there have been times I thought, man, Phil, you're being a hater. No, I'm not. Kendrick Lamar has set the new standard. He should open up a college where you can get a degree in haterology. Because I have never seen something so impressively devastating in my 38 years on this planet. Because last night's Kendrick Lamar concert in Los Angeles, which they called Pop Out, it was wild. I mean, there was a ton of stars there. You had Westbrook on stage, dancing. He looked like he was having more fun than any time I've ever seen him, ever.

I mean, fucking Dr. Dre came out to introduce Not Like Us, which also Kendrick Lamar performed five times. He seemingly united the entire West Coast. Every shot from this thing was just electric. Even like there was just that part where he's like, wop, wop, wop, wop. And the live camera cutting, it felt like the production crew was dancing. And all of this, of course, going down on Juneteenth with, of course, a number of the songs directed at Drake, a man who he said, we don't want you to say the N-word anymore. Though notably, Kendrick ended the show saying, it ain't got nothing to do with no back and forth records. It's got everything to do with this moment right here. That's what this shit was about, to bring all of us together. And then the other bit of quickie news involves Sabrina

Carpenter. Because, you know, when artists release tickets for their tours, there's a lot of different things going on. Some people get early access to things like, I'm a season ticket holder at SoFi Stadium, so I get access to a lot of things. But, you know, then there's also things like, oh, you have a Cash App or American Express. You get early access tickets for this thing, that thing. But Sabrina Carpenter and Spotify just made a very interesting announcement. And that's that they're going to offer pre-sale offerings just for her top listeners. With Spotify saying, at each ofrina's u.s shows we've created a spotify top listener pit for top fans and saying those fans can purchase those tickets via an exclusive pre-sale code which on one hand you have a lot of people excited about going oh my god the best seats for

the most dedicated how exciting and potentially a way to get around scalpers who are just scooping up the general public tickets but then on the other side you have people saying okay if all of this works as described scalpers or wannabe scalpers are going just scooping up the general public tickets. But then on the other side, you have people saying, okay, if all of this works as described, scalpers or wannabe scalpers are going to be auto playing the fuck out of Sabrina Carpenter. And while for her as the artist, it kind of doesn't matter which of those scenarios plays out because it sounds like it's going to result in more plays of her songs. It's going to be very interesting to see if this is a big win or a fail for the fans. Because if this is even remotely successful in boosting her streaming numbers, I mean, we could see something like this

taking over the entire industry. So I gotta ask, do you think this is gonna be a win or a fail, something in between? Let me know what you're thinking. And then. Hi, I'm Jen, this is Cole. We just spray painted the out of this jet. And the one behind it.

Like they said, that is Jennifer Kowalski and Cole McDonald, and they just spray painted the out of a couple of private jets. With a reported goal being to target Taylor Swift's plane specifically, because it had just landed in the UK for the Next Stop in Our Era's World Tour. As far as how they got access, they actually cut a hole in the fence of the airfield to get in. And while these two were attempting to get Taylor Swift's jet, and we've actually seen a lot of people saying it was Taylor Swift's jet, it wasn't. Which is why when they couldn't find it, they instead painted two other jets using

fire extinguishers filled with orange paint. And as far as why, it wasn't. Which is why when they couldn't find it, they instead painted two other jets using fire extinguishers filled with orange paint. And as far as why, it wasn't because they thought the tortured Poets Department was overrated, but rather because Taylor Swift, as far as celebrities with a big spotlight, has the biggest one related to having a big carbon footprint. This was meant to be a protest, both of private jets, but also more generally the people and companies responsible for climate change. With McDonald saying, We're living in two worlds. One where billionaires live in luxury, able to fly in private jets away from the other, where unlivable conditions are being imposed on countless millions. And with that, they demanded that the UK's next government

commit to working with other countries on an equitable plan to end the extraction and burning of oil, gas, and coal by 2030. Because all of this was part of the work of the now infamous British environmental activist group, Just Stop Oil. A group that you've seen pop up in the news here and there, and I mean, even yesterday. They're almost always getting a good amount of attention, but also, they've received a lot of criticism. Their methods have been controversial, people calling it disrespectful, performative, and at the very least, ineffective. Which is also why the response to the stunt with the private jets is kind of interesting. Because while there's still been a lot of hate, there's also been a lot of people saying that,

unlike throwing soup at art or vandalizing a national monument, this is something they can actually get behind. And one such person writing this, I can't feel bad about. Leave art and history alone and bully the actual mega polluters. Go for Kim Kardashian's jet next and make sure to spray paint the inside too. And another person saying, better. An image of a climate protester standing in front of a private jet. I get it instantly. Good communication. Standing in front of the Mona Lisa or Stonehenge remind me again of your convoluted metaphor? Terrible communication. And part of the rationale behind targeting a private jet

is that, you know, a person flying private emits 10 to 20 times as many emissions as a commercial airline passenger. While it's still a relatively small percentage of overall global emissions, it's just one example of the massively disproportionate environmental impact of the wealthy. And then, it is insanely hot right now for a lot of people

and we're already seeing it turn deadly. Because while a lot of headlines this week have been around the discourse of the UK heat wave, some talking about the seriousness of it, others saying that's not real heat. Right now, if you look at Saudi Arabia, over a thousand people on Hajj have died this year alone due to extreme heat waves. Which if you don't know, the Hajj is a pilgrimage to Mecca. And the exact date of the pilgrimage depends on the lunar calendar. So this year, it unfortunately hit during the summer. You know, when that happens, there's always a risk because Mecca can get to like 110 degrees. But this year, it hasn't gone up to 110. It's gone up to 120, which isn't fucking normal at all. Also,

I just got to say, the difference between 110 and 120 degrees, it is infinitely different than 80 to 90 or even 90 to 100. But also being important to note here that the average dry bulb temperature, which is the temperature of the air, not directly in the sun, according to Saudi officials, that's been rising about 0.4 degrees Celsius per decade. And while that may not sound like a lot, that quickly adds up and it exacerbates times when there are heat waves to be even worse. Also, another issue facing the Hajj in particular is just the sheer number of people that are going and how many people do it unofficially. Because normally you're supposed to get an official permit with the Saudi government, which can be very pricey for many.

So you have people still trying to make the pilgrimage and essentially just sneaking into the crowds. But a key thing with that permit is it gets you access to a lot of facilities. With many actually being life-saving because they're AC-cooled areas that are available for people after a day of walking and praying outside. And while heat-related problems during the Hajj is not new for Saudi officials, the sheer number of them this year is a problem. I mean, just on Sunday alone, 2,700 people were treated after suffering from heat exhaustion. And all this, of course, is Saudi Arabia's

hardly the only place dealing with hotter and hotter summers. Where the UK recently had a heat wave that was memed to death because it was 26 degrees, which is 79 degrees in American. Also, I feel like I gotta say this every time we talk about the UK. I know a lot of people laugh at the idea of like a 79 degree heat wave, but that area, they're just not historically used

to that kind of heat. And 79 in an extremely humid environment without any AC or escape? Ugh, fuck that noise. And then, of course, there's what's happening across America and Mexico with a report by the World Weather Attribution, which is made up of climate scientists

finding that heat waves across the region are 35 times more likely because of rising global temperatures, which as I'm recording, probably not hard to believe for a number of people watching because we're in the middle of one right now. You've got the East Coast right now hitting record temperatures, though I also realize saying record temperature, it's like it doesn't have the impacts it used to. It feels like, yeah, well, of course it's a new record. It's another year. These just happen now. Once in a lifetime event. What if I gave you three in four years? In total, you have 70 million Americans

living under heat alerts right now as pretty much every major city is seeing triple digit temperatures. I mean, in some places it's become such a problem that city officials are looking at how to combat the deadly effects of constant heat. One way is by looking to open up cold shelters, which would offer some kind of AC while it's hot outside.

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include people with Alzheimer's and dementia who may actually be able to benefit from specified care provided by those facilities. And with that, you had the DOJ finding that the average age was 53, which is unheard of. That's more than 20 years younger than the statewide average for all nursing home residents, which is 75. And I mean, some of the adults placed in literal nursing homes were in their 20s and 30s. And beyond just their age, a majority of adults with mental disabilities who were placed in these facilities, they did not have the physical needs that would require the help usually provided by nursing home staff. You know, like eating, using the bathroom, or being transferred in and out of bed.

And the DOJ explaining the fact that adults with mental health disabilities and nursing facilities in Missouri tend to have relatively low need for nursing care highlights why nursing facilities are not appropriate for these individuals. Saying beyond that, Missouri also places a higher percentage of adults with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia in nursing facilities than almost any other state.

And in some of the nursing homes, these patients make up 80% or even 90% of the entire resident population. And that matters for a number of reasons, starting with nursing homes usually don't have specialized care for those folks beyond just giving them medication. The DOJ also finding this is true for people with other mental disabilities who are being placed in these homes.

When you take a step back and you look at these groups who have been put under the care of nursing homes, the federal report says, almost none of the adults with mental health disabilities living in nursing facilities in Missouri need to be in these institutions, even for short-term stays. And it's not like these people feel like they're getting any sort of special benefits from these facilities that they can't get elsewhere. With the agency specifically stating, almost uniformly, adults with mental health disabilities in Missouri's

nursing facilities do not want to live in these institutions. Right, nursing homes are incredibly restrictive, and the vast majority of adults with mental disabilities want to be integrated into the community and given more freedom. Like through services services like permanent supportive housing or comprehensive treatment programs that can provide them with a safety net of resources to live more independently. And that's something we saw these people and their family telling DOJ investigators, like Angela, for example, a woman in her late 50s who was placed in a nursing home against her will, saying, I have a dream that one day I will be free. Free to live on my own, free to live within my community, free to have overnight visits with my grandchildren,

free to not be told who I can associate with, free to not have someone place me in a nursing home and leave me without any regard to my wellbeing mentally and physically, most of all, just free to live my life. But also, regardless of how you or I might feel about all this, it's literally just illegal under federal law,

plain and simple, full stop. Because under the Americans with Disabilities Act, it's illegal for states to unnecessarily separate people with disabilities from the general population when they're able and willing to be served adequately by community-based services. And that separation, it amounts to discrimination against people with disabilities. And states are actually required to provide, quote, services, programs, and activities in the most integrated setting appropriate to the needs of qualified individuals with disabilities. And that last phrase is a key thing here, right? Because the DOJ explicitly found that the vast majority of nursing facility residents with mental health disabilities are qualified and appropriate for community-based services. When a state doesn't have sufficient services to properly accommodate these populations, it is required to make reasonable changes to its policies and procedures. But that is exactly what Missouri has failed to do. Missouri does have

programs that help adults with mental disabilities integrate into their communities. The state just doesn't want to expand them far enough. The DOJ finding that thousands of adults with mental health disabilities are unnecessarily shut away in nursing homes because of deliberate policy choices made by the state. Because instead of setting up enough programs, services, and facilities that actually can cater to the needs of these people, Missouri just sticks them in nursing homes. And not only does the state lack proper resources for adults with disabilities, the whole system the state has created here literally incentivizes placing these groups in nursing homes that do not serve them.

And they actually do this in a few different ways, right? First of all, the state recently implemented a points-based system that quite literally is intended to increase nursing facility eligibility for adults with mental health disabilities. And Missouri has even put in place actual financial incentives to ensure more people with mental health disabilities go to nursing homes. The state also recently updating

its placement system so that nursing homes are actually paid an extra $5 per resident each day if 40% or more of the facility's residents who receive Medicaid have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. A move that the DOJ estimates has resulted in nursing homes getting paid $222.8 million for Missouri Medicaid just in the last fiscal year alone. And beyond that, the state also lacks effective processes to screen out people who don't need to be in nursing homes or divert them to other care, or even proper systems to transition them from nursing homes to services that would better accommodate them. But one of the biggest issues with the overall system here is Missouri's procedures around

guardianship, where someone is appointed to make every decision for a person with mental disabilities. Because while guardianship is only supposed to be used in the most extreme of situations, Missouri has heavily relied on this tool as a catch-all for people who are resisting treatments or who have been cycling in and out of psychiatric hospitals. In fact, 62% of the adults with mental health disabilities living in nursing facilities interviewed in the DOJ inquiry, they were under guardianships. And 80% of those people had a public administrator as their guardian, not a family member or a friend. And that's significant because many public administrators who serve as guardians have

been placing these folks in nursing homes. One provider even calling guardianship in Missouri a sentence to be locked in a nursing facility. And all of this, despite the DOJ finding that adults with mental health disabilities living in Missouri's nursing facilities generally do not need guardianships. And so by forcing people who don't need guardians into a guardianship, Missouri is actually violating its own state law. And just in general, there's a lot of really damning shit here. Though, as far as what happens next, technically, Missouri will be required to work with the DOJ to fix the violations that the agency found.

And if they can't or they won't, the department can sue the state for compliance. But in the meantime, you have thousands of affected people that are just gonna still be in this situation. And then, if you're watching this video on a computer that is using Windows, get your computer updated right now. Whatever groceries your summer calls for, Instacart has you covered. Download the Instacart app and enjoy $0 delivery fees on your first three orders. Service fees, exclusions, and terms apply.

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which is horrifying because, you know, normally hacks happen because people click links they shouldn't have or they open that sketchy email attachment. The CVE-2024-30078 vulnerability, it just required a public Wi-Fi network. It's pretty much what any business or public space would use. So places like coffee shops, airports, wherever. And I'm going to spare you all the super technical details, but the main thing is that just being on the same public Wi-Fi as a hacker, it lets them send data packets to

your PC. And from there, because of this vulnerability, they could run commands and gain access to the system. Now to be clear here, like such easy to exploit security flaws like this, they're actually pretty rare, which is actually why we saw Microsoft classify this potential hack as important, which is the second highest level it can give a vulnerability. But the good news is that they've already rolled out a fix, and it actually rolled out last week. The problem, though, is unless you were in the super niche cybersecurity circles, you likely had no idea that this thing was happening. Also, it should be noted that the fix is only for currently supported versions of Windows, meaning 10 and 11. So if you're on 8 or 7 or, God forbid, fucking Vista, you're kind of screwed. I also want

to stress with this, like, you should always be careful on public Wi-Fi. It's just that this specific problem made you extra vulnerable. And then Disney is currently being accused of something absolutely unforgivable, forcing people to move to Florida for no reason. I love parts of Florida, but that is cruel and unusual punishment.

Just the humidity there alone is weapons grade. Yeah, the forced moving to Florida for no reason, that's what a group of employees are currently claiming in a lawsuit. With all of this, we're reportedly starting back in 2021, when Disney's then-CEO Bob Chapek and the head of Parks and Experiences announced plans to relocate California-based employees to a newly planned $1 billion campus in the Lake Nona area of Orlando. Or with a company making these big plans because of tax credits in Florida. But as the LA Times noted, asking people to uproot their lives to the other side of the country isn't an easy ask. So it caused a lot of tension at the company. But then, come 2023, Disney just cancels its plans for the Lake Nona office for a number of reasons.

You know, Disney had big legal battles in the state amid feuds with Florida man Ron DeSantis. You also had a leadership change of the company when Bob Iger came back into power as CEO. And so with this, you might think, hey, well, big win for those California employees who didn't want to move to Florida, right? Well, no, because even if they had feelings about it, some of them had already made the big move or left their jobs. Which is now why we have this new class action lawsuit, which was filed by two employees, Maria Della Cruz and George Fong, and both claiming they were fraudulently induced to move from the company's California offices to the new Florida development. And further alleging that communications from Disney

made it clear that employees who declined relocation would lose their jobs. And adding in total, Disney informed approximately 2,000 employees that their roles would transfer from the company's California offices to Florida. And yeah, like I said earlier, not everyone went with it.

Some submitted their job resignations because they believed that they were about to be terminated and the job market was already looking pretty bleak. But many, they made that choice to move, even though it meant leaving behind family and communities because it meant job security. They were all being promised a shiny new office that would make their jobs and careers more effective, which is why you have the lawsuit saying, in sum, employees were incentivized to move through a combination of reward and punishment. And specifically for Dela Cruz and Fong, they sold

their houses in SoCal. Fong alleging that selling his home was especially painful because it was a family home that he grew up in. And they did this how they did this, because they claimed that there was a timeline they were expected to follow. And because they followed it, they were already in Florida when Disney said that it was canceling its new office plans, which of course just created a lot of confusion and chaos, right? Some allegedly fearing that their job security, gone. Especially if they didn't then pack up and move back to California. It also created financial problems because according to the suit, after Disney's office was scrapped, Orlando home prices fell,

but then this was happening as the Los Angeles housing market was booming, something that people have dubbed the Philip DeFranco investment strategy. Buy high, sell low. Now with this, you had outlets like the LA Times noting that yes, at the time, Disney did note that its decision

would impact those who already moved, and saying they planned on discussing potential moves back to California with them, but the employees alleged that the compensation packages offered, they weren't sufficient. Yeah, ultimately, that's where we are here. And according to Deadline, I mean, this suit could end up including over 250 Disney staffers. And as far as Disney, they have yet to comment on the suit, but they have affirmed other commitments to park expansions in Florida. And

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sights on new targets, like wanted pregnancies achieved through IVF and contraception. But with all this, there's something that I want to talk about that's going to seem completely unrelated, but it isn't. I'm talking about climate change. Because with that, there's this stunning series of articles from the Grist, Vox, and the 19th. And they show many of the ways that climate change can have a huge physical toll on bodies that can bear children, impacting women from menstruation to conception to birth. Meaning that actually, in a way, failing to act on climate change is just another way of failing to protect women's health. And of course, because climate change is global, we're talking about women everywhere, not just in the States. So to that point, let's start with

Bangladesh, right? We all know that sea levels are rising. And in Bangladesh, it's perhaps worse than anywhere. Millions have been internally displaced by flooding. 860,000 people are now living in areas that could be under the high tide line by the end of this century. And already, sea level rise has pushed saltwater more than 62 miles inland. And the type of water there is key. Saltwater. Right along with a shortened rain season due to climate change, this intrusion of saltwater into the freshwater drinking supply is forcing them to pull more fresh water from

groundwater aquifers. And studies have shown that consuming this saltier water has negative, long-lasting effects on nearly every stage of a woman's reproductive cycle. In 2008, for example, Anira Khan, which is a researcher at Imperial College London, she visited Bangladesh. And there, she met a gynecologist who told her that an unusually high number of pregnant women were coming to him with gestational hypertension and preeclampsia, which are both conditions largely defined by a woman having high blood pressure late in her pregnancy. And importantly, patients with either condition have a higher risk of things like a preterm delivery or miscarriage, as well as low birth weights, which are linked to poor development,

cognitive impairment, cerebral palsy, and psychological disorders. So Khan conducted a survey. She found that more than 20% of the women living in coastal zones in Bangladesh had been diagnosed with high blood pressure, compared to less than 3% of women living in some inland areas. But they're also eventually discovering that women living on the coast, they were getting as much as three times their recommended daily serving of salt per day from drinking water alone during part of the year. And notably, consumption wasn't the only way that salt water was endangering women's health. With one of the examples provided being using salt water to wash cloth menstrual pads, that ended up making the cloth hard, which caused scratching that made the women vulnerable to infection. Additionally, women

working in shrimp aquaculture spend long hours standing in salt water, with that possibly leading to chronic uterine infections and even uterine cancer. And while that may be very specific to Bangladesh, salt water intrusion is not. It also threatens to infiltrate freshwater drinking supplies in countries like Egypt, Italy, Vietnam, and the United States. I mean, roughly 40% of the world's population lives within 60 miles of a coast. And 501 cities around the world are already reporting a saltwater intrusion crisis of some degree, more than a fifth of them being home to more than a million people each. I mean, one study, for example, actually claims that saltwater intrusion has become one of the main threats to the safety of freshwater supply in coastal zones.

And actually, last year, we saw seawater make its way into intake stations in Louisiana, meaning that more than 9,000 residents couldn't drink tap water from their taps. And though that got fixed there, experts are still warning that saltwater poses a long-term threat to that part of the state. With, in fact, Chris Russinello, a professor of geological sciences at the University of Rhode Island, saying, Saltwater intrusion is an issue along most of the coastline in America. California, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island being some of the states that are already confronting intrusion. You know, with that, another impact of climate change that we're also dealing with in the U.S. is extreme heat. In fact, the U.S. is the country where the impact of heat on maternal health has been the most extensively documented. And it began with Rupa Basu, a researcher at the

California Environmental Protection Agency. Because Rupa conducted the world's first large-scale epidemiological study looking at the link between temperature and preterm birth. And specifically, she analyzed 60,000 summertime births that happened in California from 1999 to 2006. With her finding higher rates of preterm births during higher temperatures. And while it's not yet clear exactly what the mechanism is, in the 14 years since Basu's paper, dozens of studies have confirmed that higher temperatures and heat waves are linked to preterm birth and even stillbirth. In fact, scientists have found an association between heat exposure and preterm birth rates in every developed nation and in the few developing nations where studies have been conducted. Like in India, for example, a study conducted among outdoor workers found that exposure to heat stress above 81 degrees doubled the risk of miscarriage. Also, research in Ghana published

last year found that exposure to temperatures above 87 degrees resulted in an 18% increased risk of stillbirth. And notably, as temperatures rise, so does drought and air pollution, which also increases the risk of preterm birth or low birth weight babies. Similarly, in some places, extreme heat events will also lead to more wildfires, leading to even more air pollution that could cause even more preterm births. And so with that, we see how all these different factors coming together make things worse. Yet another example of that is something climate change researchers have been talking about for decades, which is that a warmer planet produces stronger and more destructive hurricanes. With a study published last year, for example, showing storms become twice as likely to develop from a weak tropical cyclone into a

category three, four, or five hurricane within a single day. And actually some climate scientists are suggesting we add a sixth category to the scale that we use to measure the power of hurricanes. So of course, it's not only worse, it's more. With researchers already predicting that the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is going to be among the worst ever. Which to keep on topic here, fertility clinics are just as vulnerable to storms as any other infrastructure. And that's important because with IVF, everything has to go right. And specifically, there are two procedures that have to happen at a very precise moment. There's the egg retrieval, which has to take place approximately 36 hours after the last hormone injection or the egg will be lost. And then there's the embryo transfer,

which if you don't get right, sets back the whole process by at least a month. So, you know, even a traffic jam or delayed flight that can throw the whole timetable off. And for a growing number of prospective parents living in coastal areas, all it takes is a single storm. And when we look back to things like Hurricane Ida, which hit New Orleans in 2021, we know things like the Audubon Fertility Center by itself. They had to cancel at least 10 IVF cycles, delay the start of several others, all of which, of course, can be devastating for would-be parents. Which, I mean, you're already talking about an emotional and physical toll, but also it's a monetary one. IVF is incredibly costly. I mean, the average cost of a single IVF cycle in the U.S. is around $12,000. For some clinics, I mean, they charge as much as $30,000 per cycle. You know, many patients,

they need more than one cycle to get pregnant. And all of this is made that much more notable because more than half of the fertility clinics in 13 states are at risk of hurricane damage based on data from the CDC and FEMA. With it even getting to a point where the American Society of Reproductive Medicine has actually highlighted the need for clinics to adapt to increasingly threatening hurricane seasons. But also part of the reason I mention all these different things, which obviously, you know, they are of different levels of concern, is to highlight that the problems that we're facing and the solutions for them, they are complex and interconnected. Because even with as long-winded as I've been maybe to this point, in no way have we touched on the majority of dominoes. Right, like

another one is there's a link between climate change and the spread of malaria, which wouldn't you know it, another domino, because it's three times more likely to develop into a severe case in pregnant women than non-pregnant women. And then so many of the issues and the solutions they have to do with addressing inequalities, making healthcare more affordable and accessible, just making people more aware of the risks that exist. It's just all a messy, messy web of interconnected things. I think it's why when one big thing starts spiraling, everything spirals with it. And then finally today, we've got an announcement and I want to talk about yesterday. Starting with congratulations to this week's SeatGeek prize winner. That's $500 towards any tickets on SeatGeek, which if you're the next one, you could go see your favorite artist, comedian, or play. I mean,

there's over 70,000 events to choose from, right? And that's because SeatGeek and The Daily Dip are still giving away up to $1,000 in tickets every week. And you should definitely enter today if you haven't already. Just add code PDS to your SeatGeek app profile for a chance at the weekly $500 prize, no purchase necessary. And $1,000 prizes are available to Daily Dip subscribers who add code PDS newsletter, doubling entries and winnings. But then finally, let's talk about yesterday, right? Comment, commentary. Starting with the fact that we did not have a shortage of comments about the mandatory naked sauna sessions. What a weird situation. Like, I feel uncomfortable texting someone that works for me at 5.01 p.m. I cannot imagine what it is to have a brain that's like, yeah, mandatory nude sauna sessions together. But there y'all were saying things like him calling

them my narrative girls really doesn't help him beat the creep allegations. With folks like Chayden replying, yeah, that made me feel violently uncomfortable. With some making Weinstein comparisons. Meanwhile, you had others like Brad trying to offer a better option. Saying, quote, hey everybody, here's a voucher for a free sauna session. Please go enjoy it before next week's meeting so we can all have a similar point of reference when we discuss the project. Seems much better that you all have to be naked with me this afternoon. And Shy Girl saying, I was just thinking that if he genuinely wanted it done for work, he could just send employees on their own. There is not a reason to force them to attend

with him. No, my man was like, you're going to be naked in the sauna and we're going to have direct eye contact. Uninterrupted, the first one that looks away has to give the other a massage. Also, we had Duff the Psych saying, I'm a psychologist and it's often required for people training to be a psychologist or a therapist "'to get their own therapy to understand "'what it's like firsthand. "'But we don't do therapy with our bosses.'" But yeah, I don't know what else

could be said about this situation. I know that oftentimes I say, "'Don't be stupid, stupid,' "'but maybe it would be more appropriate to say, "'Don't be creepy, creepy.'" Well, that is where today's show is gonna end. Thanks for watching. I love yo faces, and I'll see you on Monday.