Andy calls Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders to talk about M4A. Yes, they discuss Medicare For All but they also get into the Senator's new strategy for ending the pandemic: Masks For All. It's something the two of them have worked on together. Bernie also discusses the political dynamics within the Democratic Party and the Senate as a whole, along with how he and Vice President Biden are collaborating on major policies.

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• Here’s the latest CDC report on how long the coronavirus stays in the air: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/9/20-1806_article

Watch the aerosolization video Zach mentions in his Zach Fact: https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1281264040099094528

• Read more about the Paycheck Security Act that Senator Sanders introduced in May: https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-warner-jones-and-blumenthal-introduce-paycheck-security-act-to-keep-millions-of-workers-on-payrolls-during-pandemic
• From Senator Sanders: An Emergency Response to the Coronavirus Epidemic: https://berniesanders.com/issues/emergency-response-coronavirus-pandemic/
• From Senator Sanders: Priorities for the Next Coronavirus Relief Package: https://berniesanders.com/issues/priorities-next-coronavirus-relief-package/
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• Check out the Biden-Sanders unity task force recommendations: https://joebiden.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/UNITY-TASK-FORCE-RECOMMENDATIONS.pdf 
• Watch Senator Sanders ask Dr. Fauci if he supports giving free masks and vaccines to everyone in America: https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/video-audio/fauci-agrees-masks-and-vaccines-for-all

Here’s the new reusable, silicone rubber face mask Andy mentioned: http://news.mit.edu/2020/reusable-silicone-rubber-face-mask-0709

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On the Gist, renaming in Burlington, New Jersey.

In the first half of a two-part interview, novelist Curtis Sittenfeld is here to discuss Rodham, her new novel exploring an alternative history where Hillary Clinton never married Bill. She and Mike discuss the origins of the novel, how her skills aren’t in the public part of politics, and what it’s like to create such a fiction.

In the spiel, Joe Biden keeping quiet.

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