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PBS, NPR, the Fed, Wuhan, and 'Jaws'

JL;DR SUMMARY Discussing current Republican political strategies, the podcast delves into how the GOP, under Trump's leadership, bucked traditional political norms to enact significant conservative policies, from defunding NPR and PBS to moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Trump AdministrationSteven SpielbergPbsNprRepublicansJawsU.S. China RelationsGain Of Function ResearchPublic BroadcastingConservative Agenda

Places mentioned

Wuhan, Hubei, China
"And, no, it's not the consensus. And Congress has already said, all things being equal, we probably shouldn't really be doing a lot of gain-of-function research. Said that in 2017. And the Washington Post is positing that holding back on gain-of-function research because the dangers outweigh, the risks outweigh the possible rewards is a political act when, in some ways, it's almost the opposite of a political act. It is a risk-benefit, it's a, you know, it's, it's a calculation that you make based on rueful experience of the past five years when this country was nearly destroyed by something that we know did happen, which was significant gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab."
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