Weekly Wrap: Afghanistan Withdrawal, Coronavirus Fears

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🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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It's an all-NPR show! Sam talks with two fellow correspondents about big stories in the news this week. Stacey Vanek Smith, co-host of NPR's The Indicator from Planet Money, tells Sam about the "coronabump" — consumer goods and services that are seeing a spike in business because of the virus outbreak. And NPR's Quil Lawrence talks about the negotiated withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan after nearly 20 years at war. Then Sam talks to Shankar Vedantam, host of NPR's Hidden Brain, about how we can keep our fears of coronavirus in perspective.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Sam's Aunt Betty.
0:02.8	This week on the show, NPR Veterans Current Sponsored
0:06.9	Quill Lawrence and co-host of the NPR podcast, The Indicator,
0:12.6	Stacy Vanick Smith.
0:14.3	All right, let's find the show.
0:18.7	Hey y'all from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders.
0:20.8	It's been a minute, happy weekend.
0:22.9	To my guests and to my listeners, we've got two great guests joining me from New York this week.
0:28.0	Stacy Quill, hello, hello, hello.
0:30.0	Hi Sam.
0:30.6	Hey.
0:31.2	I wish y'all were here in California with me where it's nice and sunny this morning.
0:34.4	We're bitter New Yorkers, we'd rather be over here.
0:36.5	Exactly. We have fewer cases of coronavirus.
0:38.7	That's I think that's I think that's all that's the only car we've got to play right now.
0:42.6	Too soon so soon.
0:44.1	Harding.
0:44.6	Harding.
0:45.3	It's so great.
0:46.4	It's okay, it stays in.
0:47.7	Listen, you have the beach, you have all this produce,
0:50.8	And I can't go anywhere this weekend.
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