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If you want to run as fast as Usain Bolt, eat 100 chicken nuggets every day, says your new nutrition and exercise coach, Mary Katharine. Oh, and definitely don’t eat the food served in Beijing’s Olympic village. An update on mask wars, the second week of Joe Rogan drama making the front pages, and New York City kids go vegan on Fridays at school. 

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00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show

07:06 - Segment: The News You Need to Know 

08:25 - Joe Rogan opponents slam his past use of the N-word

14:18 - George Washington University president walks back plans to investigate a series of posters criticizing China’s human rights abuses and the 2022 Olympics in Beijing 

25:47 - Mask wars update

37:15 - Ominous background caught in ski jump picture from Beijing Olympics 

37:50 - Olympic athletes report poor conditions in Beijing’s Olympic village, from quarantines to insufficient meals

42:30 - 2022 Olympic viewership tanks, and Kristen Soltis Anderson has a clue as to why 

46:02 - New York City mayor Eric Adams directs publics schools to go vegan on Fridays