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Today, Explained

Prostate of the union

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.4 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin drew flak after trying to keep his prostate cancer surgery a secret. Health journalist Howard Wolinsky explains that’s super common among men, who don’t like being probed about their prostates. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by David Herman, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin made a public appearance this week.

0:05.0

Good day, everyone.

0:06.0

Thanks for working across time zones.

0:09.0

His first, since he vanished without leave while being treated for prostate cancer.

0:13.6

Now this made news because pulling a runner is typically not the done thing for defense secretaries,

0:18.8

but also right down to the 911 call Austin was trying to keep this secret.

0:23.6

Can the ambulance not show up with whites and sirens?

0:27.8

We're trying to remain a little settle?

0:31.0

Yeah, I understand.

0:32.3

Yeah, usually when they turn into a residential

0:34.0

neighborhood they'll turn them off but they're required by law to run with them with

0:37.4

the main street. Serious, if we need them to take them to

0:40.9

to Walter Reed Medical, is that a possibility?

0:43.4

We're going to talk about why all the secrecy, and if you're a man of a certain age,

0:47.2

you might already know exactly why, so we're going to answer some of your harder questions

0:50.9

too.

0:51.8

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