RNN Prime Exposure: Amoebas, Maggots & Brunch Grenades

Raya Nox is back at the RNN desk with a filthy, razor-sharp rundown of this week’s real public health news. From brain-eating amoebas in India and Legionnaires’ misting through Harlem’s cooling towers, to cholera ripping through Nigeria and salmonella turning holiday brunch into Russian roulette, nothing is safe — not even your eggs.

And just when you thought it couldn’t get grosser, Texas funds a $750 million sterile fly factory to stop flesh-eating maggots, while China warns travelers about chikungunya, the mosquito-borne virus that’s expanding faster than Starbucks.

It’s 15 minutes of unwrapped, unapologetic public health comedy — with one commercial break, a scandalous recap, and a word from CoColbie Productions about their new true-crime and history series Echoes of 9-5-6.

RNN: exposing what’s contagious, and who’s behind it.

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Dr. Oral Thruston is taking attendance — and your R-naught. In this outrageously unprotected lecture, Oral counts down the top 10 “R-Naughtiest” infectious diseases, from the slow-burn situationships to the superspread floozies. Joined by RNHD’s Surveillance & Notifiable Disease Officer Dr. Prava Shinn and RNUHO’s dangerously poetic Dr. Lucien Carrion, this classroom gets hot, hilarious, and scientifically airtight. Expect filthy metaphors, shameless flirting, and the kind of transmission talk you won’t hear in a textbook.

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In the sweltering Brownsville heat, Chef Gasto Enterik returns to confront the deadliest ingredient in your kitchen: the leftover. From counter-abandoned chicken breasts to fish that smells like it’s plotting revenge, Gasto takes listeners deep into the cold, dark vault of your fridge—and the microbial raves happening inside it.

With bulletproof food safety science, broken-English poetry, and more passion than a health inspector at a crime scene buffet, Gasto lays down the holy laws of refrigeration, reheating, and labeling. This episode covers:

• Why chicken has a strict two-hour room-temp limit (one if you’re outdoors)
• The one-day rule for fish, and why “maybe it’s fine” means “absolutely not”
• Pork, beef, and the bacterial mob hideouts hiding in your roast
• The Great Betrayal of cross-contamination
• Freezer purgatory and the art of safe thawing

If you’ve ever looked at a container in your fridge and thought, You gonna eat that?—Chef Gasto has your answer. And it’s probably “no.”

Disclaimer: Chef Gasto Enterik is a fictional character from the R-Naughty Wednesday Sketch Show. The food safety guidelines in this episode are real—Gasto is not.

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