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'Jam Session' — We’re Talking About Harvey Weinstein (Ep. 363)

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The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins are joined by Sean Fennessey to unpack the avalanche of bleak news about Harvey Weinstein (2:30) and examine Hollywood’s attitude toward misogyny (10:25). Then, they call staff writer Kate Knibbs, who discusses Lisa Bloom’s brief legal representation of Harvey Weinstein (23:25). Link: Kate Knibbs’ piece on Lisa Bloom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪

0:05.2

Welcome to Jam Session. Another week, which we have to talk about Harvey Weinstein. I'm Julia Lippen.

0:09.7

I'm Amanda Dobbins. This is going to be a special. We're talking about Harvey.

0:12.8

Yeah. It's just been a very bleak story since the beginning.

0:17.0

And seemingly only getting bleaker.

0:18.9

It's been a hard week.

0:20.1

Yeah. So we were all last recorded last week on Thursday after the initial New York Times article came out.

0:27.2

Since then, there has been another New York Times article in which Gwyneth Paltrow,

0:32.4

Angelina Jolie and many other women offered more accounts, alleging Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment.

0:40.4

Yeah. In assault.

0:41.6

And then there was the New Yorker article by Ronan Farrow that had several testimonials just really harrowing ones

0:47.2

of other women kissing him of sexual assault and harassment.

0:51.2

And then there's also been a flood of actors and actresses and other Hollywood people commenting,

0:59.7

both support for the alleged victims, decrying Harvey Weinstein,

1:05.2

and then the occasional extremely tone deaf, extremely dumb support messages from people like

1:10.8

Lundilo Han. But we'll ignore them going forward.

1:13.5

Yeah. It's safe to say that this has taken over Hollywood.

1:16.3

Yeah. 100%. It's also just taken over the news.

1:19.4

Like it led the New York Times for well over 24 hours.

1:23.1

And it's not like it'd been like a quiet period in the world.

1:26.4

It's a hot topic.

1:27.5

Yeah. We should say also. So the first article was written by Jodie Cantor and Megan Tuey in the second article

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