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High-powered education, business connections, years of government service, and Success, says Slavitt, has been using his prodigious Rolodex-the product of a In May, In the BubbleĮxpanded to three times a week to cover a range of social and political issues,įrom climate change and gun control to abortion rights and the midterm In the popular vote to comedian Conan O’Brien. Theĥ6-year-old Slavitt was one of five nominees for best podcast host, runner-up Prestigious 2022 Webby Award as the best “Health and Wellness” podcast. Podcast in the country, trailing only the New York Times’s The Daily and At times, it was the third-most popular news Share of the sponsorship proceeds ($200,000 and counting) going to Michael Mina about the mechanics of rapid testing. Says, for a supremely practical discussion with former Harvard epidemiologist CNN chief medicalĬorrespondent Sanjay Gupta Zoomedin, and so, too, did Anthony Fauci,ĭirector of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and It featured his son Zach, who handled the statistical chores until Pennīeckoned, and a parade of high-profile guests that included Tina Fey, ChelseaĬlinton, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, and Beto O’Rourke. Pandemic-focused podcast for Lemonada Media that sometimes wandered into other On April 1, 2020, he launched In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt, a The formula, heĭecided, would be a somewhat improvisational blend of Winston Churchill andįred Rogers, interspersed with “dad jokes.” Storytelling, communication, the adventure of it,” he says. Pandemic anxieties and misconceptions with information, inspiration, and humor. The podcast wouldīe his grown-up twist on that teenage dream-a chance, as he saw it, to allay Year of Living Dangerously) a foreign correspondent.
Long before founding his own healthcare company and his high-profileĮxperience as a White House administrator and advisor, Slavitt-the editor of hisīecoming a journalist, perhaps (after seeing Peter Weir’s 1982 film The Was getting filled slowly and surely by misinformation, by misunderstanding.” “For a while, there was a huge void, and it The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed Slavitt, who detailed his role as “part-time helper, part-time critic, andįull-time public chronicler” of the pandemic in his 2021 book, Preventable: He said, ‘Dad, just have those conversations on theĪir.’ If there hadn’t been a void, there would have been no need,” says Me all day long talking to people: White House and government officials, Slavitt W’24, who one day said: “Dad, why don’t you do a podcast?” Thing was actually my son’s idea,” Slavitt recalls. Holed up in a Minneapolis suburbwith his wife and two sons,Īndy Slavitt C’88 W’88 was no different. Mostly home, looking for something to do. R emember lockdown? Back in March 2020, the supposedly inessential among us were “Making this country better for the people who have been ignored for too long.”īy Julia M. “I have one thing I care about,” he says. If there is a crisis (and there have been a few lately), Andy Slavitt C’88 W’88 knows which expert to bring “in the bubble.” When he’s not taping his award-winning podcast, the former insurance executive and federal administrator has a day job: funding innovation in healthcare for those who need help the most.
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