Horse Herpes Outbreak

Equine herpes outbreak forces changes at National Finals Rodeo. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So Nige, I'm gonna let you do a little choose
your own adventure here. Do you want to talk about
how Sony's PlayStation is turning thirty years old?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Oh, he used to be addicted to Tony Hawk's skate.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Or do you want to talk about how the National
Rodeo has been affected by horse herpes?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Oh, let's go horse herpees Daylight, Nevada.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Yeah, horse herpes outbreak forcing changes at the National Rodeo.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Good.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Now, if you've ever tried to go to Vegas around
December around this time, it's ridiculously packed. Not because tourists
are going or the weather's good, it's the rodeo. This
is like a big deal for bull riders, horse riders,
all that kind of stuff. So there's a little outbreak

(00:47):
going on right now, and one horse trainer says he's
out at least one hundred thousand dollars as a result
of this. The virus has been spreading from horse ranches
to horse ranches, most recently in Texas and in Arizona.
And if you watched any of those episodes of Yellowstone,

(01:08):
like when the cattle got some sort of bug, it
was bad. A lot of cattle died, so I'd imagine
it's kind of the same thing with the horses here.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
So like, so do they have like giant horse valtrex
pills that they was waiting to hear where that was
gonna go. Yes, they do have giants something like they have.
I mean, is it just like can they get some
CarMax for the lips? Do they have cold sores? Is
that what they're breaking out into? How does it work?

Speaker 1 (01:37):
I don't know if I've ever seen a horse with
a cold sore. Somebody who works with horses please let
us know. What does horse herpies look like? Is it
a big cold sore? And how does it happen? Which
girl from Southport infected the horses here? Geez, oh, stop it,

(01:58):
it's a joke. It's what's a joke?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
I think? With horse herpes, though, it's a lot more
involved than just a little bump on the lip. Yeah,
you know what I mean, right, I think it's like
fevers and infections and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
But some of these horses, man, their whole job is
to a stud, so to speak, and it's hard to
do that job properly when you know you're infected. So
that kind of ruins half your life. If you're a
horse like you're gifted with this amazing girth and then
you can't even use it. Stinks.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Should I type in horse herpes in the search engine?

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Do that? Because what are we gonna do? It affect
the computer. Nothing else works in here. Go for it. Nigel,
It's the Hammer and Nigel Show.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Oh God, oh,