About a New Pandemic?! and the Billion Dollar Ballroom

About this episode

The episode discusses the potential of hantavirus becoming a new pandemic and examines Trump's funding requests for a White House ballroom.

With hantavirus the talk of the town, the gang examines whether it's actually at risk of becoming a new COVID-like pandemic — spoiler: it's not — as well as the hype cycle around this sort of terrifying news that drives clicks. They also dive into the latest developments in Trump's quest for a White House ballroom, as $1 billion Secret Service funding requests begin to raise eyebrows. Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:16:08 - New Pandemic?! 00:42:27 - Billion Dollar Ballroom 01:05:32 - Emails 01:27:29 - Wrap-up Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Andrew Heaton, Jen Briney, Justin Robert Young

Topics covered

• pandemic risk
• hantavirus
• Trump
• Secret Service funding
• news hype
• political commentary

Keywords

• hantavirus
• COVID
• pandemic
• Trump
• Secret Service
• funding
• news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Secret Service

Places: White House

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