10/5/2025: Vaccine Court, The Tequila Heist, This is Rob Reiner

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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With vaccinations increasingly a point of political tension, correspondent Jon Wertheim reports on the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program – a “no fault” vaccine court that balances the public health benefits of widespread vaccination with rare cases of harm to individuals. Founded in the 1980s, the program has paid out billions of dollars to thousands of Americans. International crime groups are finding new, sophisticated ways to infiltrate the global supply chain online, stealing hundreds of millions of dollars of goods per year. Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi reports on the growing threat of cargo theft and how 24 thousand bottles of Guy Fieri’s tequila vanished on their way to the warehouse. Correspondent Lesley Stahl visits Rob Reiner on the New Orleans set of Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, the long-awaited sequel to his 1984 cult classic, This Is Spinal Tap. Four decades after launching the now-beloved mockumentary genre with a fully improvised classic, the director of When Harry Met Sally, Stand By Me, A Few Good Men, and The Princess Bride reunites the band for an encore. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's a lot going on right now.
0:02.9	Mounting economic inequality, threats to democracy, environmental disaster, the sour stench of chaos in the air.
0:11.2	I'm Brooke Gladstone, host of WNYC's On the Media.
0:15.0	Want to understand the reasons and the meanings of the narratives that led us here, and maybe how to head them off at the
0:22.4	pass, that's on the media's specialty. Take a listen wherever you get your podcasts.
0:36.7	The chances of serious vaccine injury have been likened to lottery odds, lightning strikes.
0:43.1	But if you are one of the unlucky few, you can file a case in vaccine court.
0:48.6	I represent both vaccine injured children and adults.
0:51.9	Most of them will start the conversation by saying, I'm not anti-vax. Why do you think they need to tell you right off the bat? They're not anti-vax, but. There's a lot of public pressure that people think you're some kind of a crazy person or you're out there. And also because most people have never heard of a vaccine injury, they're rare. Tonight's story involves a celebrity chef, a rock star, and a highway heist that even Hollywood couldn't dream up.
1:16.1	Well, when the president of your company calls and says, you're not going to believe this, but he lost two truckloads of Santo Tequila.
1:22.7	Lost.
1:23.6	I said, well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, is this a hijacking?
1:26.0	Not quite.
1:27.4	International cyber criminals have found new ways to steal hundreds of millions of dollars of goods.
1:33.4	It looks like a Costco in here. You've got everything.
1:36.1	Yes.
1:40.0	41 years after the cult classic, This is Final Tap.
1:44.0	All right, here we go!
1:45.0	Rob Reiner and the band have come back together for a sequel.
1:50.0	Close.
1:51.0	Yeah.
1:52.0	Very close.
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