On The Ground At Tokyo 2020

What A Day

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🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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This year's Olympics is like no other, taking place in the midst of a pandemic, and in a city under a state of emergency in response to rising COVID-19 cases. We talked to The Washington Post's Ava Wallace about what it's like to report on the games this year, but also, the overall experience for her, for athletes, and for Tokyo residents at-large. Democratic donor Ed Buck was convicted in federal court on Tuesday in connection with the death-by-overdose of two Black gay men who he injected with methamphetamine. We discuss the significance of the conviction, and what the long road to accountability says about the way our justice system treats Black gay men. And in headlines: Tunisia’s president seizes judicial power, Activision Blizzard employees stage a walkout, and Hobby Lobby’s $1.6M Gilgamesh tablet is confiscated by the government. Show Notes: Washington Post: coverage by Ava Wallace – https://wapo.st/3BUVgmi Follow Ava Wallace on Twitter – https://twitter.com/AvaRWallace For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, July 29th. I'm Gideon Resnick. I'm Treville Anderson. And this is what
0:10.6	today where we are looking for a new apartment in a sports stadium that we can live in like
0:14.7	Kanye. Yes, you know, the smell of a locker room after the game is what I need to motivate
0:20.0	me to be my most creative self. If I am not within 30 feet of an Nathan's hot dog, I can't work. Sorry.
0:30.9	Okay, first things first here, Treville, you have been with us regularly for the past month. That
0:34.8	is not a coincidence because let's go ahead and make this thing official. You are a permanent part
0:40.4	of the Wadsquad. It is time for the ceremonial tattoo and our regular blood sacrifice.
0:46.8	Well, I don't remember that being in the contract, but I am excited to be here, also excited for
0:53.3	you Gideon and all the folks that are listening because you will be able to get some of my brilliance
0:57.1	every Thursday for the foreseeable future. So buckle up. That is what we are looking for. It has
1:02.7	been truly amazing to have you join us and we are excited for that brilliance to be with us
1:06.5	regularly. Okay, on today's show, Congress has apparently come together on an infrastructure
1:11.5	deal plus employees at Activision Blizzard staged a walk out. But first, a dispatch from the
1:16.5	Tokyo Olympics. I spent in a tube now every four days. Yes, the thing I look forward to the most.
1:23.0	Yes, so context there. That is my dear friend, Ava Wallace, and amazing reporter for the Washington
1:28.7	Post who has been in Tokyo covering the Olympics and doing what you just said. And I caught up with
1:33.4	her yesterday to learn about the protocols that she's had to take to cover the games, like frequent
1:37.6	testing, but also the overall experience for her for athletes and the city at large. To refresh
1:43.0	here, Tokyo is currently in a state of emergency in response to rising COVID cases. And just yesterday,
1:48.8	the city logged its highest number of new positive cases ever, even as no Olympic athletes did.
1:54.4	And to develop her people like Wallace, there are a lot of precautions that are in place, of course.
1:58.9	Some that are adhered to strictly others that are less so. She told me, for instance, about this
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