CLASSIC: Hollywood’s Abuse Epidemic

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.2 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

For decades people knew that sexual abuse occurred in Tinseltown. It was an open, dirty secret just behind the curtain of the most popular films, tv and stage shows in the country. And the victims of abuse rarely spoke out -- when they did, they risked the ruination of their careers (or worse). In 2017 this began to change. World famous producer Harvey Weinstein was outed as a serial sexual and physical abuser, prompting his exile from his film company and encouraging numerous other victims of abuse to speak out. As the world wrestles with these revelations, more and more questions surface: Who knew what, and when? How far does this system go? Learn more in this classic episode.

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0:31.4	Welcome fellow conspiracy realists to our classic episode for today.
0:37.3	Just a quick heads up.
0:40.2	This episode does contain descriptions of abuse, descriptions of manipulation and cover-ups
0:47.8	as such.
0:48.8	It may not be appropriate for all listeners, but we believe this story is important.
0:53.6	You remember several years back when we recorded this, we talked not just about the predator
1:03.3	Harvey Weinstein.
1:05.2	We also talked about the systemic cover-ups of abuse in Hollywood.
1:10.6	Yeah.
1:12.0	This is a wide-ranging discussion about what it used to take to make it in Hollywood and
1:18.1	the system that was in place there of abuse.
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