Coming up on today's show: 

• U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) talks about her work in Washington and this week's passage of burn pits legislation.

• The majority of the New York City Council members are new and are part of a class that is the most diverse and progressive in city history. Over the next year Brian Lehrer will get to know all 51 members. This week, Councilmember Selvena Brooks-Powers talks about her priorities for District 31, which includes the neighborhoods of Arverne, Brookville, Edgemere, Far Rockaway, Laurelton, Rosedale, and Springfield Gardens.

• According to a meta-analysis of COVID data by the medical journal The BMJ, approximately 5% of people with a confirmed case of coronavirus have suffered from a long-term loss of smell or taste. Zara Patel, MD, director of Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery and an associate professor of otolaryngology at Stanford, discusses this health issue and responds to listeners affected by loss of smell.
  
  
• Listeners share the ideas for the TV pilots and screenplays in their back pockets.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.