Trump Vs. Cancer Research
Slate Daily Feed
Slate
3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
President Trump has proposed cutting $2.5 billion from the National Cancer Institute, which in addition to cuts to the National Institutes of Health and research universities almost makes you wonder: whose side is he on in the fight against cancer?
Guest: Angus Chen, cancer reporter for STAT news
Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey Jack, I'm seeing your business everywhere. Have you got a new marketing person or something? |
| 0:04.8 | You could say I've got a new secret weapon for print. Print? Oh, Vista print, right? That's not a secret. |
| 0:10.8 | How did you know? Come on. Custom posters, branded mugs, stylish flyers. Only one place prints all that. Vista print. |
| 0:17.7 | Yeah, I got business cards, stickers, t-shirts, booklets, signage, even photo books from my last holiday. |
| 0:22.6 | Print everything for your business with VistaPrint. |
| 0:25.6 | If you need it, we print it at vistaprint.co. |
| 0:28.6 | . |
| 0:29.6 | The Monopoly game at McDonald's is back. |
| 0:32.6 | There's over two million pounds worth of cash prices to be won. |
| 0:36.6 | And a chance to get your hands |
| 0:37.8 | on some epic prizes. Go on, it's your go. |
| 0:43.0 | 18 plus UK ends 21st of October, selected menu items, at may be required, may depend on winning |
| 0:48.0 | moment, see victory rules.co.ukuk.uk.org. |
| 0:53.8 | I'm going to start this episode by telling a story about myself. |
| 0:57.8 | It makes me a little uncomfortable. |
| 1:00.0 | I was trained to keep the focus on other people. |
| 1:04.0 | But here we go. |
| 1:07.2 | Three days before Christmas in 2023, I was diagnosed with early stage lung cancer. |
| 1:13.9 | I was 48 with a three-year-old son. |
| 1:16.9 | I'm not a smoker. |
| 1:18.4 | I had no risk factors. |
| 1:20.4 | My tumor was found accidentally on an unrelated scan. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Slate and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.