Summary
This week Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco discuss the surprising ways COVID-19 could reshape the electoral map, plus TIME correspondent Molly Ball joins to talk about her new book “Pelosi” and the speaker’s unexpected penchant for chocolate ice cream. Then Megan Gailey stops by to breakdown the good advice from the bad advice. Hot tip: don’t wear a bikini to a wake! Then, Sanity Corner.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and Aaron Ryan. This week, Time Magazine's Molly Ball, Alyssa Master Monaco, and Megan Galey join me to tackle |
| 0:15.7 | the following questions. Is the secret to why Nancy Pelosi is such an effective speaker? |
| 0:21.3 | Chocolate ice cream for breakfast? Could COVID-19 reshape the |
| 0:25.0 | electoral map in a good way? What makes truly bad advice and why are we so |
| 0:29.4 | susceptible to it? All this and more right now. |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome to another groundhog day of the COVID-19 pandemic. Same as yesterday, same as tomorrow. |
| 0:43.4 | So here's the entirety of my creative output from this week. |
| 0:47.6 | It's a joke, and the joke is, what do you call food that is only pretending to be Italian. |
| 0:53.0 | Imposter. |
| 0:55.0 | Okay, now let's move on to calling my friend, |
| 0:59.0 | former White House Deputy Chief of Staff under President Obama, |
| 1:01.0 | an honorary member of the Ingalls family, |
| 1:04.0 | Alyssa Master Monaco. |
| 1:07.0 | Hello. Hey, Alyssa. Hello, |
| 1:14.0 | hey Alyssa. |
| 1:16.0 | Well, hello, Aaron. |
| 1:18.0 | You're a lawn mower in the background. |
| 1:20.0 | I swear to fucking God, I don't know what to do about it'll be gone soon. |
| 1:23.6 | It sounds like, you know what it sounds like is like, have you ever seen midsummer? |
| 1:28.6 | Probably not. |
| 1:29.8 | It's like the horror movie where they do all kinds of bad stuff. It sounds like a kind of ceremonial |
| 1:38.5 | chanting in the background from midsummer. It's, I mean I don't watch horror movies but believe me when I heard the |
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