Welcome to Morning Meeting, where AIR MAIL’s Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey take you inside the stories people are talking about this week—and tip you off to the ones the editors are talking about for next week. We cover the people shaping your world whom you want to know more about (and more often the stuff they don’t want you to know about). This week’s guests are Scott Z. Burns, who wrote the screenplay for Contagion and now channels the mind of the coronavirus (19:30), and Reeves Wiedeman, talking about how he discovered a bizarre WeWork-related film starring Gwyneth Paltrow’s cousin (6:50). You can listen by clicking Play below. But be sure to subscribe at Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you don’t miss an episode.

Episode Eight: Exclusive—A Pre-Election Interview with the Coronavirus

Plus: Scott Z. Burns, the man who wrote Contagion; a WeWork-related film with Gwyneth Paltrow’s cousin; and more