So my son has this book, he loves it.

A lot of you may be familiar about it's about an old lady who swallows a bat.

The bat is not all that she swallows over the course of this book.

This voracious old lady also swallows a ghost there's an

owl I think some bones and some other stuff the reason I've been thinking about

this is because this is the week that coronavirus ate the presidential

election and politics and every other story that's out there everything and what I mean by

that is it's been a big story, big public health crisis for a number of weeks now, but this was the week that it became the only story, and every other story became one that is in some way about coronavirus and that's especially true for

politics and the White House and the 2020 presidential campaign.

My fellow Americans.

Tonight I want to speak with you about our nation's unprecedented response to the coronavirus outbreak.

And on this week's nerd cast, that's what we're talking about. I'm your

host, Scott Lamb. So coming up first we're going to dive into the major

national address that President Donald Trump gave on Wednesday, and here

to break it down for us.

Hey Scott, how are you?

We have Political Editorial Director Blake Hounchel.

And now, Blake, can you take me, you were among the reporters and editors who were planning

around the, you know, planning the coverage of this speech

and then reacting to this in real time and also like witnessing the attempted

rollback of what Trump had just said to millions of people on TV.

Can you just take us inside the timeline of that a little bit?

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