Outbreak
Unclear and Present Danger
Jamelle Bouie
4.7 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John discuss Wolfgang Petersen’s medical thriller slash action movie “Outbreak.” We spend the bulk of the episode discussing the experience of watching this movie having lived through a pandemic, as well as the pandemic fears of the 1990s that might have inspired this film. Unfortunately, a few technical difficulties meant the audio quality isn’t as high as it should be, but we did our best to compensate and we appreciate your patience.
Connor Lynch produced this episode. Artwork by Rachel Eck.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Jamel. |
| 0:02.1 | This episode, we had some technical difficulties that affected the quality of the audio. |
| 0:07.0 | We tried her best to get that quality back up to par, but you may notice that it sounds a little different, and we apologize. |
| 0:14.4 | Thank you for listening, and next episode, everything should be back to normal. |
| 0:22.3 | In a remote African jungle, |
| 0:24.6 | a small monkey is captured. |
| 0:28.4 | Bound for a pet store in America, |
| 0:30.9 | the animal carries a deadly virus. |
| 0:33.6 | Ah, that's what. Your town. Your town is being quarantined. |
| 0:45.3 | We got 19 dead. We got 100 more infected. It's spreading like a brush fire. |
| 0:49.3 | What are you talking about? |
| 0:50.3 | If one of them's got it, then 10 of them got it now. |
| 0:52.3 | And if one of them gets out of Cedar Creek, we have a very interesting problem. If that bug gets out of there, 260 million Americans will be dead or dying. I'm leaving with the team in an hour. From the heart of a small California town. Damage Sam, I want to save these people same as you. To the inner circle of power in Washington. The most optimistic projection for the spread of the virus is this. |
| 1:13.6 | 24 hours, 36 hours, 48 hours. |
| 1:18.6 | The greatest medical crisis of all time... |
| 1:21.6 | We can't stop it. |
| 1:23.6 | Begins. |
| 1:24.6 | Try to remain calm. |
| 1:29.3 | Many people are dying and are going to continue to die unless we find this monkey. |
| 1:34.3 | There will be panic the likes of which we have never seen. |
| 1:37.3 | There you are. |
| 1:39.3 | Attentionion, Portland residents. |
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