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This is Squawk Pod. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer.

Today on our podcast,

the market's worst outing in months.

I can't imagine that there are investors who saw this three, four weeks ago and thought,

okay, this is what's going to happen.

As fears of a highly contagious virus variant hit Wall Street.

I think we're going to look into the abyss.

The question is, is there a two or three month period,

which looks like the abyss,

and then the question is what's the other side look like?

And the push to vaccinate more Americans in the face of the Delta variant,

NBC News Medical Contributor Kavita Patel.

You're seeing that it can be easier to both get infected and to pass on this infection.

Plus the start of commercial. both get infected and to pass on this infection.

Plus, the start of commercial service to space.

The world's richest man Jeff Bezos becomes an astronaut.

Space industry analyst Adam Jonas on the road still ahead.

Talking about space today is like talking about the internet before the dot-com bubble.

Those stories today and much more including a possible media marriage.

crazier things have happened.

I'd love to meet Spongebob someday.

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