Well that didn’t happen. And that other thing didn’t happen. And my faith in the American people has been bruised. But perhaps by the time you hear this podcast, we will have a legal and honest count of the Electoral College and be on the long road to a new administration.
I can’t wait. I’m running out of wine. (But I have plenty of whine. See what I did there?)
Election Day is over but the process of transformation is far from done. Even if we have our old, worn out, and self-dealing Senate Majority Leader, we will have a Senate that will have to learn to “play nicely”, as we said when our kids were in nursery school. If Joe Biden is president, you know he will encourage that, as working in a bi-partisan way was vital to his work as a United States senator. And Mark Kelley will serve the people of Arizona! And perhaps we’ll see another Democratic senator from Georgia.
Further, we are all bracing for a winter spike in coronavirus. I know people are trying to prepare for that without hoarding. We don’t actually know what it will feel like. If the imminent spike is anything like April and May in New York, we will have to stay home more than we’ve done, and be more conscientious about social distancing. If we’ve learned NOTHING ELSE IN 2020, it is to be patient.
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Lisa Birnbach and Barry Levine
Speaking of long games, the full story about Trump’s dead dreadful pedophile friend, Jeffrey Epstein is still murky. His BFF Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison, awaiting her trial in 2021. My guest this week is Barry Levine author of the new book The Spider: Inside the Criminal Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. I’m fascinated by this story because I believe the reach of these two creeps goes far into the fortresses of power across the globe.
Photo credit: Dafydd Jones
As promised in my podcast, here's the photo from Barry’s Book:
Epstein with Donald Trump and his children Eric and Ivanka, then nine and twelve, at the NYC Harley-Davidson Cafe opening in 1993
With difficulty, the five things that made life better for me this week.
1. My Family
2. My Health
3. My Old Friends
4. My New Friends! (Over the last couple of years I’ve been surprised to make new friends. I do feel grateful for them.)
5. The Resistance
Barry Levine
Barry Levine’s 5 Things:
1. Watching the animated Peanuts Charlie Brown Halloween and Christmas shows with my daughter, now in high school, every year because she enjoys them as much as when I was a kid.
2. Starting every single day, no matter where I am, with a visit to Starbucks for a Trenta black iced tea with extra ice - no matter whether it’s summer or the coldest day in winter.
3. Drinking dirty martinis at an old writers bar in Manhattan with former newspaper colleagues and telling war stories. The stories get better and better with age like a fine wine.
4. Going to the annual antiquarian book fair every spring at the Park Avenue Armory in New York - and seeing the greatest modern literature first editions in perfect dust jackets.
5. Pulling out a reporter’s notepad and simply putting pencil to paper in this high-tech world with the very same enthusiasm all these decades later since I did it first for my high school and college papers.
More About Barry Levine
Barry Levine, author of The Spider: Inside the Criminal Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
Published by Crown | Penguin Random House.
Twitter @barryscoopking
Facebook @ barry.levine.792
Website: www.BarryLevineauthor.com
The 5 Things That Make Life Better podcast is recorded and produced at The Field in NYC https://thefieldtv.com
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