152: Athlete A

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

As the 2016 Summer Olympics get underway in Rio, The Indianapolis Star newspaper breaks a story about rampant sexual abuse inside the world of US Gymnastics by team doctor, Larry Nassar. How could this happen? Who knew? And how deep was the cover up? Athlete A gets all the answers.

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0:00.0	Oh, girl, this is a true story.
0:02.0	My fingertips actually hurt the velocity
0:04.8	with which I was banging on the keyboard,
0:06.7	typing the notes for this.
0:07.8	One of my keys, like flipped up, like the end,
0:10.5	just flipped, it's true, it's all loose now.
0:12.7	I have more pages of notes on this
0:14.8	than I have for any other documentary, I think.
0:18.2	I think.
0:19.0	Oh God, should we give our content warning now?
0:28.8	Yeah, you guys look, this is Aphlead A,
0:32.0	is really rough, it's all about sexual abuse of minors,
0:35.5	and it was really, really hard to watch,
0:38.2	though it's a great documentary.
0:39.8	We, as always, grow right,
0:41.5	we're gonna be very delicate with how we say things.
0:43.7	We're gonna be the least trickery possible,
0:46.1	but just so you know, the content is terrible.
0:48.0	We're gonna do our best, but the subject matter sucks.
0:50.2	Yeah.
0:51.1	We should just record one content warning that says that.
0:53.5	The subject matter sucks, but we are going to try our best,
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