Just A Bunch Of Nerds Who Want To Help
The Dream
Little Everywhere
4.6 • 15.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Hey Dream Listeners!
We are so excited to announce our new Supercast channel, The Dream Plus! For only $5 a month you can now get every episode of The Dream (including our back entire back catalog) ad-free, along with bonus content and a new for the show AMA chat board, where you can ask Jane and Dann questions, suggest ideas and bring The Dream Plus community together! Click the link below to join The Dream Plus Supercast channel for only $5 a month:
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This week host Jane Marie talks to a microbiologist from the CDC. She describes the mood at the CDC after the shooting at their Atlanta Headquarters and 10 months of RFK and the Trump administration tearing one of our most critical government agencies apart.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, dream listeners, there's now an ad-free version of The Dream that you can subscribe to. |
| 0:05.2 | TheDreamplus at thedream.supercast.com, five bucks a month, gets you every single episode of this show with zero ads, which you love and I love. |
| 0:15.0 | And we're hoping that this will help us pay the bills and the main goal being that we can keep making the show. Go to the dream. |
| 0:22.4 | Dot supercast.com and subscribe. To make it easy, we have put the link in the show description. |
| 0:27.6 | Just look down underneath this episode. It says thedream.com and just click on that. Easy peasy. |
| 0:34.0 | You're going to get a lot of extra stuff too. We're working on all that. |
| 0:43.3 | Another thing you need to do, please subscribe to our Instagram. It's The Dream X, the letter X, Jane Marie. |
| 0:48.0 | See you over there. I'm Jane Marie, and this is The Dream. |
| 0:59.8 | Hi. I was listening to the real latest episodes, and I was thinking about my dream, which from a pretty young age was to be in science and then became that I wanted to work for the CDC. |
| 1:04.8 | And I did that. |
| 1:06.0 | I have been doing that for a while now. |
| 1:10.2 | I feel like voices like mine should probably be heard. |
| 1:15.0 | We got this voicemail on our tip line, 323-248-18. |
| 1:20.8 | And the caller bravely agreed to sit down for an interview, on one condition. |
| 1:26.5 | I don't feel comfortable doing this under my name or anything. |
| 1:33.5 | Like, I really have to be anonymous, which is wild because I'm just a scientist, but now |
| 1:40.3 | somehow my job is dangerous, which is a crazy thing to say. |
| 1:55.3 | Tell me your fake name and a little bit about who you are. |
| 1:58.3 | My fake name is Rachel. And I am a microbiologist. I have a |
| 2:04.8 | master's in microbiology specializing in infectious disease bacteriology, and I mostly work on |
| 2:12.6 | diagnostic-based research and surveillance. Who and the whatnot? |
| 2:18.0 | What is diagnostic? |
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