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Russian Plague Causing Quarantine

Hammer + Nigel Show Podcast

October 5, 2026

Russian health authorities have placed hundreds of people in quarantine after a deadly virus leaked from a lab. It’s being compared to a “plague” like virus.

Speakers Hammer, Nigel

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Hammer (0:01)

Well, Hammer, tell me, have you seen this movie before? Russian health authorities placed hundreds of people in quarantine after a deadly virus leaked from a lab.

Nigel (0:14)

That's a conspiracy theory. It had to have been a bat.

Hammer (0:21)

There's tons of wet markets in Siberia. Sure, right?

Nigel (0:27)

You kids and your drugs. There's no way it could have been any sort of lab malfunction. It's got to be a wet market bat, a pangolin.

Hammer (0:37)

This is being compared to the plague, the pneumonic plague, like a virus. And there's hospitals in Siberia that have been shut down and under quarantine. And, you know, they're saying they, whoever they is, are saying it's not expected to become a global pandemic, but...

Nigel (1:00)

I mean, when has Vladimir Putin ever lied to us? So I feel pretty good about this.

Hammer (1:05)

Yeah, sure. I mean, the same with President Xi back in COVID six years ago.

Nigel (1:10)

I mean, if Putin says it's the gospel, you got to believe him.

Like, if you thought China covering up COVID was bad, wait until you see Putin trying to cover up the plague escaping out one of his facilities. You think you're going to get any sort of transparency there? Not a chance.

Hammer (1:28)

Well, the good news is with this, whatever they're talking about, everything I've read, it's like you could control it or cure it with some antibiotics if you contract it.

Nigel (1:42)

OK.

Hammer (1:42)

I mean, if you get a face full of the mnemonic plague, like this person did, they dropped the vial of whatever they were doing in that lab, which bio weapons.

Nigel (1:53)

Oh, something in your throat there. You OK?

Hammer (1:56)

That's what they do, of course, in Russia with that kind of crap is bio weapons.

It's not a secret. But the plague-like thing that we're talking about here apparently could be subdued with antibiotics.

Nigel (2:13)

OK.

Hammer (2:14)

If untreated, yeah, you're going to die.

Nigel (2:17)

Here with another way to treat this is Dr. Fauci.

Hammer (2:21)

Oh, you should wear a mask.

Nigel (2:23)

OK. Thank you. Thank you for that. Forever. Don't ever stop wearing the mask. The droplets may escape. Oh, God, this little troll.

Just hearing him talk about that, in that little clip that we had, brings back so many bad memories. And the last thing I think this world needs is another raging mask debate.

The president is trying to have us cover the mass debate.

SPEAKER_4 (2:55)

CBS, Target, and Walgreens are getting in on the mass debate.

SPEAKER_3 (2:59)

The mass debate now taking center stage at local restaurants.

SPEAKER_4 (3:02)

It's nine minutes after six now, and there's a new video of a raging mass debate. The mass debate in Georgia is getting ugly. The great mass debate in West Virginia might soon be coming to an end. This mass debate is far from over.

SPEAKER_3 (3:14)

How many mass debates have you gotten into?

Nigel (3:16)

Love to hear.

SPEAKER_4 (3:16)

The mass debate was taken to a whole other level.

SPEAKER_3 (3:19)

Bishop David Zubik tells Pittsburgh's Action News 4 he found himself in the middle of a mass debate.

SPEAKER_4 (3:24)

How deep are into this pet store mass debate? So we're going to begin with this thing we're calling the great mass debate.

Nigel (3:32)

It's the last thing any of us want is another raging mask debate. You got to put a long pause in there because if not, it sounds like something else.

Hammer (3:42)

Imagine if they start putting up plexiglass again because of the plague in this country.

Good God. And the mask, yeah, don't even get me started.

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