How Everything Got Out of Control (with Alex Gibney)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

Lemonada Media

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney chronicles the United States' failed response to the COVID-19 pandemic in his brand new film, Totally Under Control. Andy and Alex cover what went wrong and why. Hear the first draft of history get underway even as we live it.

Keep up with Andy on Twitter @ASlavitt and Instagram @andyslavitt.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode:

Find out where to watch Totally Under Control: https://neonrated.com/films/totally-under-control
Watch Andy’s full interview with Christiane Amanpour on why COVID-19 is the ultimate pre-existing condition: https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2020/10/16/amanpour-andy-slavitt-coronavirus.cnn
Check out Andy’s recent Twitter thread on COVID-19 becoming a national crisis: https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1318191727992311809
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0:00.0	We are going to win. We're not going to lose.
0:02.7	Our planet is at its breaking point.
0:04.8	The industry is in denial.
0:06.5	The politicians are selling us out to industry.
0:09.5	Pastake is the nightmare gift that never stops giving.
0:14.6	Welcome to Lemon Outta Media's latest series, Discarded,
0:17.6	in partnership with OnlyOne, hosted by me, Gloria Rivera.
0:21.9	Join us on our journey through the past, present, and future of plastic, out now.
0:31.0	Hi, In The Bubble listeners, it's Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
0:36.9	I love learning new things and talking to interesting people just like Andy does here on In The Bubble.
0:42.4	In my new podcast, Wiser than Me, I'm sitting down with the wisest women I could find.
0:47.6	Women like Carol Burnett, Jane Fonda, Darlene Love, Isabelle Ianday,
0:52.7	just to see what they have to teach me about how to live a full and meaningful life.
0:57.8	Tune in to get wise. Wiser than Me from Lemon Outta Media is out now.
1:02.6	Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
1:15.0	Lemon Outta.
1:19.5	And, Christian, COVID is the ultimate preexisting condition.
1:23.0	If what's at stake here is that people with preexisting conditions would be able to get discriminated
1:28.9	against by insurance companies, you imagine all of the places in the body that COVID impacts,
1:34.7	the lungs, the heart, the kidney, the brain, the limbs, the blood, circulatory system,
1:40.8	immune system. So imagine a college student who gets COVID now and apparently nothing's wrong,
1:46.4	but 15 years from now they get a heart arrhythmia or they have asthma.
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