
About this episode
Would a can of Vienna Sausages outlast mask mandates? CDC director Rochelle Walensky thinks so. Elon Musk joins the ranks of Mary Katharine's husband as an Ideas Man, a comedian and an MSNBC host butt heads, and California experiences a bacon shortage.
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00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
11:15 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
11:22 - Covid updates: California reinstates indoor mask mandate, Philadelphia requires vaccines for indoor dining, first Omicron-variant death in the UK
13:12 - CDC director Rochelle Walensky says masks are for now, not forever
16:13 - Dr. Angelique Coetzee, one of the doctors who discovered Omicron,
22:55 - Time magazine names Elon Musk Person of the Year
29:24 - Sarah Silverman butts heads with MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid
33:01 - Bacon shortage in California
38:35 - Tornadoes rock Kentucky
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