Hi, my name is Anne McElheny.

And I'm Philip McAleer.

And welcome to the Ann and Philem Scoop.

Yes, so this is the weekly scoop.

This is the weekly scoop.

Which I met, I met someone at the weekend who said they preferred our daily virus.

You see, and so for those of you who are only tuning in once a week, you really need to get the daily virus. And the daily virus is an audio-only. Podcasts. Addition to our library, which you can listen to on any podcast platform. Yes, comes out every day, as in daily. Daily. That would be where the daily, from daily virus. I met someone in a bar where I was not socially distancing from them. And they said, oh, I prefer the daily virus to the scoop. She says, but she does. Thanks for that trouble there, Jenny. Yeah, thanks, Jenny. Thanks, Jenny. So, so, yes, so the daily virus, it is the, really is the place for the latest news, views, advice, and madness of the pandemic. And Phelam always puts that voice on as well when he says that.

So it's really charming actually, particularly when you're about, well, obviously, 19 weeks in.

19 weeks of me saying that in that voice.

Yeah.

And when you think about when we started this, when we started doing a daily virus podcast for the Ann and Phelam scoop, you know, really when we started, I was thinking, you know, five weeks for sure. You know, six. I was thinking it'll be over in four weeks and well, we'll do a week of cleaning up and mapping up and talking about what we've lived through. So, yeah, so next week is 20 weeks. That's very hard to believe. Can you believe? So this week is the last week of July.

Anyway, enough of that. We're going to have a guest later on. This is the scoop, the weekly scoop,

available on YouTube as well. So you can see us in charming color. Yes. Later in the podcast,

we're going to be joined by a guest, Elizabeth Nolan Brown, who's a senior editor at Reason Magazine.

We're going to hear the truth about sex trafficking.

It's very shocking, but it's not what you think.

And I can honestly say this is an interview that may very well change the way you think about this important topic.

So this is not often you can say that, but this may change the way you think. So don't

miss that later on in the podcast. And from the sublime to the ridiculous. Do you like that?

Controversial. Controversial. Our first story today is about the Obamas, keeping you up

today for the Obamas, because they've got really big news today. They have a big news

of what they've been working on. And we'll also be looking at how the Smithsonian decided to teach us all about racism and became, as Mr. Obama would say, became a teachable moment. A teachable moment for the Smithsonian. And we're watching a show called Brave New World on Peacock, and we'll tell you all about that. And Peacock, of course, is the new streaming service from NBC and if they wanted to give us money for advertising.

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