This week Erin and Radha regroup while Loren takes a much-deserved vacation. They do a quick review on COVID-19 with the good (100 days no new cases in New Zealand), the bad (cases in Brazil, India, and the United States continue to grow), and the ugly (long-term economic consequences in the United States, India, and Brazil). They also dig into the recent explosion and protests in Lebanon and then go deep on the recent executive order impacting TikTok and WeChat. After reminding us that Afghanistan is still a thing, they talk about the lack of accurate and comprehensive briefings for POTUS and the mayhem that ensues, including quotes (and misquotes) by Robert O'brien (yes, he's the national security advisor!). To calm us all down, they then talk about pop culture from baseball movies (The Rookie, Bull Durham) to Arthurian legend-ish TV shows (Cursed).   Links Abbie Cheeseman, “,” NBC News, August 09, 2020 Elian Peltier, “,” New York Times, August 05, 2020 Dennis Wagner and George Petras, “,” USA Today, August 06, 2020 Nick Perry, “,” ABC7NY, August 09, 2020 Derek Hawkins, Marisa Iati, and Jacqueline Dupree, “,” Washington Post, August 09, 2020 “,” BBC, August 09, 2020 “,” Times of India, August 09, 2020 Elaine Chen, “,” Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2020 Michael Crescione, “,” Healthline, August 06, 2020 Swati Bhat, “,” Reuters, August 09, 2020 Ryan Browne and Jamie Crawford, “,” CNN, August 09, 2020 Brad Heath, “,” Reuters, August 08, 2020 Jim Sciutto, “,” CNN, August 06, 2020 Justine Coleman, “,” The Hill, August 06, 2020 Philip Bump, “,” Washington Post, August 04, 2020 Geoffrey Gertz, “” Brookings, August 07, 2020 Robert Chesney, “,” Lawfare, August 07, 2020 Chaim Gartenberg, “” The Verge, August 08, 2020 “,” New York Times, August 06, 2020