2:26:53 You know, this is your cucumbers... They don't know though. That's the joke of it they don't know and they screwed Spain by some false report saying it was Spanish cucumbers We'll listen to the report and then we can discuss Nobody knows the exact source so many react with fear In Spain, cucumbers are being thrown away by the cartload The country's been accused of being the source of the deadly strain of E. coli, so veg traders destroy produce to try to... Veg traders! How does that one feel for you John? VEG TRADERS! ...preserve their reputation Others assert their food is safe but demand more information
2:27:34 An alarm like this can't be raised without having reliable information. We don't have it, neither does Germany and neither does the European Union. Vegetable markets in Germany have suffered. This market manager says tomatoes and cucumbers all safe here Scientists are trying to identify the strain of E.coli One possibility is that it's come from food that health conscious women eat cucumbers because they're low calorie So this is what interesting, is that apparently women are dying of this This doesn't attack everybody but primarily women which is kind of weird Well they think its because of what he explained Which is something Because more woman eat healthy That's what he's trying to say
2:28:22 But the problem is there's enough cases of this and epidemiological models should be in play showing where it's centered and where it's coming from. And you should by now, you'd think I mean in the United States we're isolating stuff within weeks generally speaking as always a farm in Salinas but that's beside the point Damn those Salinas farms. But we tend to find the place pretty quickly and they seem to be completely befuddled by the whole thing Or perhaps women are just particularly susceptible to this strain of the bug At present, mostly adult people young adults and preferably women are severely affected. I like the use of the word preferrably women hello? Preferably! He says preferably Well that's probably some arcane usage that we're not familiar with Or maybe he just wants it to be... He wants all women to die Listen
2:29:17 young adults and preferably women. I'm telling you, preferably women! We have... Preferably women are going to die from this ugly virus. Are severely affected the reason for this is still unknown There is some very sophisticated scientific investigation going on to try to identify the- This is great, so they show a guy with a couple of Petri dishes. Very sophisticated investigation! But the real work is old fashioned detective work asking all the victims what they ate when they ate it Is that proper English? At? Et? What they et when they et isn't it eight I mean well I would say eight when they ate it Did you at this morning
2:29:59 Ah, ah eh, a saute. Where they bought it and trying to find the patent In the absence of hard evidence many sources come under suspicion until the source is definitely identified The best advice remains use yet most hygiene when preparing food Stephen Evans, BBC News Berlin. theoretically you could unless it's inside the fruit which is always a possibility because it can get in through different mechanisms but you can cook anyway once it's cooked its okay cuz I mean it's not like cucumbers cooked or like well you know so we may have to do that there are other uses for cucumbers
2:30:52 Mm-hmm. Anyway, so that's how I started the show in case you didn't notice my opening line! I'm glad we have a throwback at the very end of the show beautiful So usually this is kind of coincidental friend of mine sent me a link i just sent it to ya which will put into shown us called travel trots dot CEO UK and it's a interactive map of areas of massive diarrhea. And very interesting actually, and the funny thing is there's countries that believe this E-coli came out of Africa Really? Who's they? The mysterious they This is a great site! There's a ticket that pops up on my screen
2:31:37 By it's an airline ticket from Brown Air Did you get this did you look at the sign and get the brown area? Yeah, that is diarrhea destinations. Yes on your travels Don't let the travel trots ruin your trip Oh my goodness click on a continent then country to see how likely you are to get diarrhea Let's click on your click on one of them middle African countries now I'm clicking on Europe Germany Nice sound effects. 5% of respondents had it, this is bogus! 5%, they're saying it's safe I mean safe in Germany. I like the sound effects on this, this is pretty good. Anyway its just a funny site but its in the news lets put it that way The E-Cola seems to have been some... I'm sorry thats your website
2:32:31 a new strain of uh... e-coli that's not and i did not good for the world health organization has weighed in at the quick look on them well they are break doesn't look as though it's increasing rapidly that that the germans from the european stinking may well have paid don't worry everybody is also if we are from the world or the world health organization nothing to fear but of course Because there's an incubation period between being exposed and falling ill, which might be as long as two weeks. The outbreak will look as though it is going on, look as though it increasing in size when perhaps the suspect food or whatever that is has been taken off the market. Only time will tell. We know about these kidney complications... It's a new strain? Is it a more vicious strain?
2:33:16 Well, so far it looks as though it may well be. I think we'll have to wait and see until all the dust has settled before we can be certain of that but it certainly is as nasty as any of these particular kinds of E-coli that we've seen in the past The proportion of people getting the Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome which is the kidney complication affects the blood and goes on sometimes to affect the brain and heart seems to be really quite high in this outbreak, in fact very high. And it's affecting people outside the normal risk groups that are very young and old as well. As long as we're killing women that is all groovy, that's preferable I don't know...I'm not alarmist but I think its weird
2:33:57 How we're not seeing immediate huge response, you know big news stories I mean maybe it's still forthcoming Maybe the penis thing with the boner and the boxers was just too much for Wolf Blitzer to handle anything else But I do know that in Gitmo Nation Deutschland and now Gitmo nation East people are starting to freak out They're very worried. And we have to track down this source right? The kind of like the ground zero of this E-coli Yeah, you have to track down the source. Now it could've been some one tainted supply of one type of food that could be, you know, got parsley for all you know that got into the food supply and then it got eaten up and now is the end of it? And then it'll disappear we never know what happened which is a possibility at least in way this guy describes it but generally speaking
2:34:47 You should be able to figure out, you know there's got to be somebody that can figure this out. I mean it didn't just mysteriously appear out of the blue all over the place Well maybe we just want to kill off the women and reduce the population seems preferable preferably Preferably it seems exactly what we want to do so And uh...I gotta hurry up because I gotta get the show up and then were off to go um Get the rental van And Sunday, well hopefully there will be a show. Say hi to the listeners in Palm Springs California and Death Valley By the way just outside of Palm Springs as you're heading there on that road There is shopping mall outlet mall on the left side of the freeway Just before you get to Palm Springs That is one of the best in California You should go there and buy something
2:35:38 And what should I buy? I don't know whatever you think you whatever you bite an outlet mall Okay fine, so be careful. What you do with that cucumber everybody And we will be back with you coming from the Gitmo Nation Hot Pockets Across America 2008 Tour Van, the test van on Sunday. Currently here at the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in Gitmo Nation West I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where i did have something clever to say but I lost it in this shuffle somewhere maybe next week ill have it Im John C Dvorak We'll talk to again on Sunday
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