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Pod Save America

“Darkest before the Omicron.”

Pod Save America

Crooked Media

News, Politics

4.683.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The White House gets ready to fight a new variant and the same old Republican Party, Brown University Dean of Public Health Dr. Ashish Jha discusses what we know and don’t yet know about Omicron, and actor Kal Penn stops by to chat about his new book, You Can’t Be Serious, and play another round of Take Appreciator. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, please visit crooked.com/podsaveamerica. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.

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0:00.0

The Supreme Court has had a busy summer loosening gun restrictions in states,

0:03.4

overturning Roe versus Wade, and severely threatening our Miranda rights.

0:07.0

I'm Leah Litman, and each week on StrixCurtney, I'm joined by my co-hosts and fellow law

0:11.3

professors, Melissa Murray and Kate Shaw, to break down the latest headlines and the biggest legal

0:15.8

questions facing our country. It's more important than ever to understand the repercussions of

0:20.0

these Supreme Court decisions and what we can do to fight back in the upcoming midterm elections.

0:24.6

Listen to new episodes of StrixCurtney every Monday, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:49.8

Welcome to PotsAve America, I'm John Favre. I'm John Lovett. I'm Tommy Vittor.

0:53.1

On today's show, the White House gets ready to fight a new variant and the same old Republican

0:56.8

party. Dr. Shish Jha is back to discuss what we know and don't yet know about Omicron.

1:02.2

And our friend Cal Penn is here in the studio to chat about his new book and join us for a round

1:06.6

of take-appreciator. But first, check out the latest episode of offline. I talk to Crooked's

1:11.8

own Durey McKesson, who makes the case that Twitter can sometimes be a force for good. How about that?

1:18.8

And make sure to catch up on the latest episode of hysteria with Aaron Ryan and the

1:23.0

list of Master Monaco. Their recent guests have included Katie Currick, Monica Lewinsky,

1:26.8

Amanda Knox, Premier LeGiappal, and more hysteria drops every Thursday and offline drops every

1:33.7

Sunday right here on your PotsAve America feed. All right, let's get to the news. Here's what the

1:39.2

White House needs to do right now. Avoid a government shutdown by Friday. Avoid a catastrophic

1:44.3

debt default within a month or so. Get Joe Biden's economic agenda through the Senate and deal with

1:49.0

rising prices and following approval ratings by finally ending the pandemic, which may have just

1:53.6

become more difficult with the emergence of a new COVID variant called Omicron, a development that

1:58.6

the president addressed this morning. This variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic.

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