In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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In the Bubble is the go to place to learn more about the most important news events on YOUR mind. We take the time that’s needed to go beyond the headlines with A list guests from Andy's bubble. From Tina Fay to Tony Fauci. From the next vaccine to the next election issue. To an occasional dad joke. It’s Actual Facts from Actual Experts, every Wednesday from Lemonada Media.

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11.22.2023

We are dropping in your feed to share Lemonada Media's newest series, The Defenders. On Friday, June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Since then, it's been a barrage of bad news and bleak headlines. But ...

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11.22.2023 Listen Now: The Defenders We are dropping in your feed to share Lemonada Media's newest series, The Defenders. On Friday, June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Since then, it's been a barrage of bad news and bleak headlines. But ...
11.15.2023 In The Bubble Says Goodbye Part 2 Andy says thank you to the most important people behind In The Bubble, and they look back at their favorite moments from the last three years. Andy’s son Zach and his wife Lana return, his other son Cal makes his ...
11.08.2023 In the Bubble Says Goodbye, Part 1 Andy calls four of his most trusted COVID experts to discuss their favorite memories from the past three years of the show. Dr. Eric Topol, Dr. Ashish Jha, Dr. Katelyn Jetelina and Dr. Bob Wachter candidly reflect on the pandemic. ...
11.01.2023 Governor Phil Murphy Joins Andy For A Special Announcement Andy starts the show by making an announcement about what’s next for In The Bubble and a very big show we have coming up next week. Then New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy returns to discuss how the current situation in ...
10.25.2023 What House Dysfunction Means for America’s Future (with David Leonhardt) House Republicans still can’t elect a speaker after three weeks of infighting. New York Times columnist David Leonhardt joins Andy to look at what the speaker battle signals for the future of U.S. democracy at a time when the world ...
10.18.2023 Protecting Moms and Kids (with Dr. Diana Ramos) California is making a $4.7 billion investment in improving children’s mental health, and the state’s Surgeon General, Diana Ramos, will play an important role in the program's success. This week, we meet Dr. Ramos and learn how she’s working to ...
10.11.2023 The Woman Who Watched the Iceberg Collapse (with Elizabeth Rush) Author Elizabeth Rush went to the end of the earth to find the answers to her questions about climate change. In her new book “The Quickening,” Rush recounts her journey to the Thwaites Glacier, known as the Doomsday Iceberg, and ...
10.04.2023 What’s Happening With Your COVID Booster? (with CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen) CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen sits down with Andy to answer your most pressing questions about this year’s new COVID booster. When will the new vaccine be available to everyone who wants it? How will it hold up against new ...
10.02.2023 How Gen Z Might Save Politics (w/ Layla Zaidane) Could a united Gen Z hold the keys to a better future? Layla Zaidane, CEO of the Millennial Action Project, says that young politicians agree on many important issues, and her mission is to help young lawmakers to come together ...
09.26.2023 Why Labor May Determine the Next President (with Nicholas Kristof) As President Joe Biden joins United Auto Workers picketing in Michigan, Andy talks to New York Times Opinion writer Nicholas Kristof to test Andy's theory that working class people will be the battleground voters in 2024. They discuss how the ...
09.20.2023 Inside Joe Biden’s First Term (with Franklin Foer) When President Biden took office in 2021, he set out to fix the institution broken by his predecessor. Over his first two years in office, he accomplished many of his policy goals, and The Atlantic reporter Franklin Foer was there ...
09.13.2023 What You Need to Know About COVID Vaccines and Variants (with Katelyn Jetelina) Is the new BA 2.86 variant the latest in a wave of deadly outbreaks, or just a "scariant" that is all hype? Will the new COVID booster shots work against this latest variant, and when is the best time to ...
09.06.2023 How to Talk to Your Kids about Climate Change (with Elizabeth Cripps) As an environmental philosopher, writer Elizabeth Cripps spends a lot of time thinking about what we owe the next generation -- which includes her two young daughters, who she hopes to educate and empower to become climate activists as well. ...
08.30.2023 Why Some People Live to Be 100 (with Dan Buettner) Author Dan Buettner has spent his career traveling to places where people have lived the longest, healthiest, and happiest lives. He found that much of what we think drives health and happiness is misguided or just plain wrong. This week, ...
08.28.2023 How Our HealthCare System Needs To (And Can) Change What if we reimagined the health care system so it was incentivized to keep people healthy instead of just treating them when they got sick? That’s the discussion Andy has with Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) and Accountable for Health CEO ...
08.23.2023 COVID Variants, Summer Wave and Fall Boosters (w/ Dr. Celine Gounder) Two new COVID variants are making headlines this week as cases continue to rise across the United States. The new strain known as EG.5, also known as Eris, is now the most dominant strain in the U.S., while at the ...
08.16.2023 What Trump Robbed Us Of (with Samantha Bee) Comedian Samantha Bee has some Choice Words for Andy when she’s In The Bubble this week. In this wide-ranging conversation, Andy and Sam chat about what we’ve lost because of former President Trump, along with his front-runner status for the ...
08.14.2023 Why You Need to Say Yes to Affordable Housing America’s homelessness crisis is getting worse, despite the billions spent each year to fix it. Single family home prices continue to rise. In California alone, fewer than 20% of households can even qualify to buy a house. While the problem ...
08.09.2023 The New CDC director on the COVID Wave (w/ Dr. Mandy Cohen) COVID cases are rising in the U.S. -- does this mean we are on the precipice of a summer wave? That’s the question for the new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Mandy Cohen. Plus, the ...
08.02.2023 Equal Pay: How US Women’s Soccer Set the Mark (with Meghan Klingenberg) The U.S. women's national soccer team faces a difficult road to a threepeat at the World Cup as the round of 16 starts this weekend. But tough battles are nothing new for gold medalist Meghan Klingenberg. The former USWNT defender ...
07.26.2023 Radical changes ahead in health care (w/ Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel) The pandemic changed health care forever. In a special live episode taped with a virtual panel of expert listeners, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel lays out some of the biggest and most radical changes we will face over the next few years. ...
07.19.2023 Calling Out Hollywood’s Crypto Frontmen (with Ben McKenzie) Teen heartthrob turned anti-crypto crusader? It may seem an unlikely path, but Ben McKenzie, the former star of "The O.C.," didn’t take the easy path to wealth promised by bitcoin that many of his peers did. Instead, he looked beyond ...
07.12.2023 Good News About Drug Costs (Live from the Aspen Ideas Festival) More than 65 million people rely on Medicare for health insurance in the United States, and as Boomers continue to enroll, the agency is expanding its coverage while trying to contain rising costs. The person who heads this effort is ...
07.05.2023 Taking Stock of COVID-19 (with Dr. Tom Frieden) Three years after the start of the pandemic, former CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden returns to reflect on what we got right and what we got wrong in our response to COVID-19. Andy gets the definitive answer to the question ...
06.28.2023 The President Whisperer (with Anita Dunn) This week, Andy takes you inside the West Wing, as he chats with Senior White House Advisor Anita Dunn about what it is really like working with the president. Dunn takes us behind the scenes as she shares her insights ...
06.21.2023 Why Trump’s Attacks on the Justice Department are Preposterous (w/ Andrew McCabe) Now under indictment, former President Donald Trump could be on trial as soon as August. Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe joins Andy to run through the latest charges, the mountains of evidence Trump is facing, and the potential outcomes ...
06.14.2023 One Congressman’s Battle With Debilitating Anxiety (with Rep. Adam Smith) In an eye-opening and powerful episode, Andy talks to Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), one of the most powerful members of Congress, about the debilitating anxiety he faced for years and his road back. Smith tells Andy about the fight against ...
06.07.2023 Why You Should Never Underestimate Biden (with Jennifer Rubin) Despite what the Republican talking points say, the latest debt ceiling crisis ended in another victory for President Joe Biden. Washington Post opinion writer Jennifer Rubin tells Andy why she believes that Biden might be having one of the most ...
06.03.2023 Listen Now: Choice Words with Samantha Bee The producers of this series are excited to let you know about another Lemonada Media podcast, Choice Words with Samantha Bee. Each week on Choice Words, Samantha Bee sits down with people she admires to examine the biggest choices they’ve ...
05.31.2023 The Anti-Elon Musk (with Noam Bardin) Ron DeSantis’s disastrous campaign launch on Twitter Spaces drew public attention back to the ongoing collapse of Twitter since Elon Musk bought it. Users are fleeing, and Noam Bardin is hoping they will flock to his new platform, Post.news. Bardin, ...
05.24.2023 The Theatre Behind the Debt Ceiling Negotiations (with Catie Edmondson and Michael Feroli) Republicans in Congress are playing chicken once again with the nation’s debt ceiling. Are Republicans really ready to test what happens if both sides can’t come to an agreement, or is this just political theatre? Andy talks to New York ...
05.17.2023 Biden and the Border (with Michael Shear) Why didn’t the long-expected surge of migrants at the US-Mexico border materialize following the end of the Title 42 policy? That’s why Andy wanted to find out this week. So he called up Michael D. Shear, White House Reporter for ...
05.10.2023 Is This the End of Clickbait? (with Ben Smith) As BuzzFeed News shuts down this week, former editor-in-chief Ben Smith joins Andy to reflect on BuzzFeed’s successes and pitfalls and the end of the first digital era of news. Smith explains how they used metrics and analytics to change ...
05.03.2023 Who Should Get a Second Booster? (with Dr. Eric Topol) New guidelines from the CDC have people wondering: Just who should get a second COVID booster? In the Bubble favorite Dr. Eric Topol returns to break down who should get boosted, who should get a second booster, and who can ...
05.01.2023 In The Bubble (with Andy Slavitt) In the Bubble is the go to place to learn more about the most important news events on YOUR mind. We take the time that’s needed to go beyond the headlines with A list guests from Andy's bubble. From Tina ...
04.28.2023 How to Rebuild Our Country After the Pandemic (with Carmen Rojas) A tidal wave of federal money is set to flow into communities across the country as programs like the American Rescue Plan Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act disperse funding. Andy speaks with Marguerite ...
04.26.2023 Tucker Carlson and Our Blue Check Society (with Scott Galloway) Tucker Carlson’s ousting from Fox News shocked the masses on Monday. Andy processes the news with writer and business entrepreneur Scott Galloway, who offers his thoughts on the breakup and predicts whether we’ll see Carlson make a run for president. ...
04.24.2023 An Easier Path to Curing Disease Under Our Nose (with David Fajgenbaum) Dr. David Fajgenbaum nearly died five times from Castleman Disease before deciding to find a cure for the rare disorder himself. As the clock was ticking, he discovered that the inexpensive kidney transplant drug sirolimus could save his life. Nine ...
04.21.2023 How to Solve the Water Crisis in the West (with Luke Runyon) The seven states that rely on the Colorado River for the bulk of their water supply can’t agree on how to share the depleting resource. It’s a scary, interesting, and messy lesson on how to live amid climate change-induced scarcities. ...
04.19.2023 Awaiting the Supreme Court’s Abortion Pill Opinion All eyes are on the Supreme Court this week, as the temporary stay in the Texas mifepristone case expires. Andy speaks with Fatima Goss Graves from the National Women’s Law Center about the confusing rulings and what she expects the ...
04.17.2023 The Clarence Thomas Problem (with Michael Waldman) A bombshell report from ProPublica found that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been receiving undisclosed gifts from a conservative billionaire for decades, including luxury vacations and yacht outings. Is this an ethical crisis? Andy poses that question to Michael ...
04.14.2023 The Hole the GOP Keeps Digging on Abortion The Dobbs decision may be in the rearview mirror, but the abortion issue remains front and center. In fact, it’s becoming a winning platform for Democrats, as seen in the recent Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Andy calls up New York ...
04.12.2023 The Coordinated Attack on Trans Rights Why are conservative politicians launching a coordinated attack on transgender people right now? They’re implementing a power strategy used time and time again on countless marginalized groups in societies around the world, from Jews in Nazi Germany to gay people ...
04.10.2023 How Mark Cuban Defines Wokeism and Dunks on Pharma Mark Cuban has invested in more than a thousand companies, but only one has his name on it: Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs. Started in 2022, his business aims to disrupt the health care industry by selling prescription drugs at ...
04.07.2023 The GOP Takes on Gen Z In the latest iteration of voter suppression, members of the Republican Party are trying to prevent college students from voting by getting rid of polling places on campuses and disallowing college IDs as valid forms of identification. They say it’s ...
04.05.2023 Why the U.S. Government is Taking on TikTok What’s truly behind the proposed bill in Congress to ban the TikTok app? Andy thinks it may have more to do with U.S.-China competition than national security or our children’s mental health. He explores that opinion with investigative journalist Julia ...
04.03.2023 The Arrest of Donald Trump Former President Donald Trump is expected to surrender for his arraignment in New York tomorrow. What is Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case, how will it impact Trump’s presidential primary campaign, and is this just the beginning of his legal ...
03.31.2023 The Politics of COVID (with Sheryl Gay Stolberg) The question of where COVID came from has been clouded by politics since the beginning. New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg separates the facts from political persuasion by discussing the latest evidence behind the two leading origin theories, how ...
03.29.2023 What the White House is Saying About COVID Now (with Dr. Ashish Jha) The White House is ending the public health emergency and disbanding its COVID response team. Andy calls up outgoing coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha to find out what this means for the American people. Jha explains why the band is breaking ...
03.27.2023 ‘You Can’t Back Down’: A Conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci To honor the third anniversary of In the Bubble, Andy calls up his friend and former NIH director Dr. Anthony Fauci to reflect on the pandemic and the indelible mark it left on his career. Fauci shares his advice on ...

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