 Good morning, John. So I was on TikTok a couple of days ago, and let's be honest, all of the other days as well. But on that particular day, I witnessed a lie, or at least a misinformation. It was one of those things where you say, I was today years old when I found out. This particular person was today years old when he found that the news stands for notable events, weather, and sports. This is what we call a folk etymology. People come up with origins of a word that makes sense, but aren't real, and they spread around because they make sense and they sound good to people. My favorite of these is hangnail, because it sounds so extremely straightforward. Hangnail. It's a hangy part off the side of your nail. The nail in question and hangnail isn't a fingernail, it's a nail. Like a nail that you would hammer into something. And that's what they called like a corn, because it was a patch that was very hard, like someone had nailed a nail into you, I guess? And then ang is a prefix that you put on something to say that it's painful. This is where angry comes from. So any like painful foot or hand condition was called an angnail. And probably because it makes more sense for a hangnail than other painful foot and hand conditions, it stuck around as hangnail for just that one condition. Anyway, that's not what I wanted to talk about today. While news does not stand for notable events whether in sports, there is something interesting we can learn from the etymology of the word news. The actual source it will be unsurprising to hear is from the word new. We took an adjective and we nouned it. It's just a pluralization of new. So like what's new with you, that's your news. But over time it became the news, not like my new information, just the news. And we need to understand that the news is not necessarily the importance. So let's say for example that like suddenly one day 2,000 people in America die of a disease, that would be news. But if 2,000 people die in America of a disease every day, it's not news anymore because it's not new. And this isn't a function of all the terrible people in the news industry, this is human nature. And probably for a good reason, like the new stuff is the stuff that you understand the least, that you do not really necessarily know how to deal with or live with or how it will impact you. But our bias for the new can break us a little bit. Like it can make it so that we are not properly understanding the world. This definitely hurts us when it comes to how we interface with ongoing crises. As an example, in most of the places where this video is being watched, the number of infants who die per thousand births is below 6. In Sierra Leone, it is 80 and I understand sometimes not wanting to sit with a statistic like that. It is kind of devastating. And it is also not news. In fact, it is down from 160 deaths per thousand when I was born in 1980. And if you want to talk about it in terms of news, going from 16% infant mortality to 8% infant mortality is good news. Regardless, 8% infant mortality is a bad situation. John, humans have a lot of biases that prevent us from understanding our world correctly. That's just a thing. Personally, I didn't get this until you like spent the time with me and helped me understand that we are just bad at dealing with ongoing long term crises. But because you did that and you also did the work to figure out the best ways to interface with problems like these, we now have raised tens of millions of dollars for partners in health. And if you have donated or you've been a member of the Awesome Sox Club or have bought stuff during pizza mess or have just been a member of this community, you have been a part of that because that is a thing that strong community can do. It can look past what is new to see what is important. And yes, pizza mess starts Monday in which John and I make videos like we did in 2007, five days a week. Am I excited or overwhelmed? Porque no los dos. Honestly, I'm extremely excited and I'm doing a thing. So we have text message updates this year. You can sign up. There's a link in the description. People who sign up for that, you will get messages from me throughout pizza mess, but then never again. So don't worry about that. It will not be an ongoing thing. Every day you're going to get one pizza themed dad joke from me. I will make this happen. I've got a fair number. I'm not all the way there. I'll get there. But also if you sign up for the text, you might get some like special access to some stuff. And if you want to get that text message pop up every time, you can open up pizzamess.com and an incognito browser, which I know is a very, very weird sentence. John, I'll see you on Tuesday. Monday! Monday! I'll see you on Monday!