professor david goodman. _ control. professor david goodman, thank - control.control. professor david - goodman, thank you forjoining us on newsday. and tested to get your thoughts. —— fantastic. before we go, for the aspiring writers out there having trouble finishing their great works, it might be time to head to this coffee shop in tokyo. it's known as the "manuscript writing cafe" — and the deal is that before you leave, you must finish the project you've been working on. as you go in, you have to write down your goal and the amount of time you need to finish. then, throughout the day, the staff will check in to see how your work's going. and that's the perfect cure for procrastination! i certainly could do with some of that. i would love to know whether any of you would as well. thanks so much for joining us on the programme and, for me and the team at newsday, do stay with bbc news for the latest global headlines and analysis. thanks for joining us. hello again. it was southern areas of both england and wales that had the best of the sunshine on tuesday,

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goodman. we end today's show with propublica investigative reporter j. davidane, whose new book is out today called "pandemic, inc.: chasing the capitalists and thieves who got rich while we got sick." this week dave wrote a viral twitter thread about the book that began -- "let me tell you a crazy story. it's consumed 2 years of my life. as covid-19 shut down the world in april 2020, i decided to follow the money. i began with a call to a no-name federal contractor who'd somehow landed a $35m deal for masks. hours later, i'm on a private jet." again, those are words of j. david mcswane. welcome to democracy now! congratulations on the publication of your book. take us from there, why did you go on the private jet? >> these are the early weeks of the pandemic, late april -- early may 2020, really scary times, no vaccine, masks in short supply, hoitals overrun, and this contractor who i had found in federal purchasing data had really come out of nowhere and had a really sizable deal that stood out. in addition to that, he was applying supposedly 6 million masks