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The Al Franken Podcast

75: Laurie Garrett and Andy Slavitt – Where We Are NOW on COVID-19

The Al Franken Podcast

The Al Franken Podcast

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The Pulitzer-Winner (Garrett) and Biden Covid Advisor (Slavitt) take a deep dive.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. We're back after a five-week break. Of course, we had banked a number of terrific shows,

0:12.0

so we could air new ones each week. And thanks for listening. These were what we call

0:17.8

Evergreen shows. We had Brian Fogle about the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi,

0:26.2

who's the producer of the dissident. We had Adam Surwer of the Atlantic Monthly on his book,

0:33.6

The Cruelty is the Point, which makes a very convincing case that Trump, Steve Miller, at all,

0:39.5

we're trying to tell certain people, immigrants say, that we're going to make your life so miserable.

0:46.9

We're going to separate immigrants from their children and do nothing to keep track of them

0:52.0

so that we can traumatize families.

0:55.8

And that will discourage these people.

0:58.4

They didn't want from making the trip in the first place.

1:02.5

And that was something the Trump people did,

1:05.5

not in spite of the fact that it was cruel.

1:07.7

Being cruel was the added benefit.

1:10.8

And we had Norman Lear, who did the opposite,

1:13.7

a lifetime of creating comedy that gave us over a half century of laughter and whose point was to

1:21.6

create joy and provoke understanding and feelings of commonality. And we had just a great string of shows, you know, for a change.

1:30.2

Now, Peter, I don't think we'd ever put more than two good shows back to back before this.

1:38.7

But maybe you should take a five-week break, you know, every year with your boys.

1:44.2

An unprecedented run of perfect shows. I can't believe it. Yeah. I mean, barely ever a good show,

1:50.6

and this was five in a row. Truly amazing. And so, again, I think maybe you and your boy should

1:55.4

take a trip across the country every year. Great. I'll see it another month and a half. But you had a

2:02.9

great time, huh? We did, man. We had the best time. This is an unbelievably beautiful country.

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