Put Up Or Shutdown

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In our penultimate episode, Abdul and Katelyn discuss the week’s public health news, which includes: Why Democrats are demanding Republicans extend healthcare subsidies How the shutdown has impacted funding to public health programs The new childhood vaccination schedule The CDC’s official approval of the Covid booster Then they look back on the last 6 years, and play some of Abdul’s favorite moments from American Dissected. Check out our shop at store.americadissected.com for our new America Dissected merch – including logo shirts, hoodies and mugs. And don’t miss our “Vaccines Work. Science Matters.” t-shirts! This show would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. America Dissected invites you to check them out. This episode was brought to you by: Quince: Go to Quince.com/AD for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. APHA: Listeners of this podcast get a 10% discount for the 2025 Annual Meeting and Expo using code: Dissected25.

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0:00.0	And here in America, our government remains shut down.
0:12.1	This is America Dissected.
0:13.1	I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-El-Said, for the second to last time.
0:16.7	And I'm your co-host, Dr. Caitlin Jedalina.
0:19.5	I'm recording this on Wednesday, October 8th at 11 a.m. Eastern time.
0:27.1	Caitlin, where are you right now?
0:28.6	Hello from Berkeley, Northern California.
0:32.1	How about you?
0:32.9	You're somewhere.
0:34.4	Yeah, I'm in Washington, D.C., occupied D.C.
0:37.4	where the government is shut down. Everyone said.
0:40.5	I'll be there next week.
0:41.8	Second and the last time, the next time we do this, we are actually going to be live in D.C.
0:46.4	And yeah, I'm looking forward to sharing some retrospectives of the show over the past five years together.
0:53.9	So I really appreciate you making it what it's been over the last, last year or so.
0:59.7	Yeah, what a wild ride for the past five years.
1:04.4	I know.
1:05.4	Yeah.
1:06.6	Got to help us.
1:08.0	All right.
1:08.9	Let's kick off with things happening here where I am, this government
1:12.8	shutdown. We're on the eighth day. Democrats are holding the line demanding that Republicans
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