Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is Abby Martin.

This is Robbie Martin. Thanks for joining us.

So we're doing a double podcast this week release. We just did one covering all the Russiaphobia stuff.

And now we're going to talk about the crazy sexual assault, rape allegations that have been just taking over, you know.

And there's so, so much going on and, you know, the Me Too thing and the Harvey Weinstein thing.

And it's just kind of exploded over the last couple of weeks with allegations and other people being outed as sexual predators

in a lot of different industries.

So, yeah.

Should we just jump right into Harvey Weinstein or did you want to say anything to start?

The last time we really delved into the subject was after the Bill Cosby allegations became like a title wave that, you know,

couldn't be denied anymore. We did a podcast about the idea of this, this concept of a

conspiracy of silence. You know, there's a lot of people who, you know, say that conspiracies

at a certain level usually aren't technically possible because there's too people who, you know, say that conspiracies at a certain level usually aren't technically

possible because there's too many people, you know, out there who would say something or blow

the whistle or reported to authorities. But what came out of sort of this, the Bill Cosby rape

allegations and Jimmy Saville and, you know, Terry Richardson,

and all these other high up, like, protected, you know, sexual predators slash rapist

was that it sort of proves that that's not necessarily the case that you could have

people very high up in the entertainment industry or who have power

who are able to get away with heinous shit for decades. And for some reason, all their colleagues,

their bosses, their employers, just keep it under the rug, brush it under the rug and keep it

silent to protect their employee. Or even people who are underneath that silent, um, to protect their employee, um, or even people who are underneath

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