We want to hear the real story behind the rock artists, the albums, and the songs that have become the soundtrack of your life straight from the legends who live with them?

I'm Adam Reeder, the Professor of Rock, and on the Professor of Rock podcast, we go deep, deep into the heart of the music that defines us and our greatest memories.

Exclusive interviews, behind the scenes moments, and the untold truths of Rock's greatest hits,

told by the artists themselves, stories you won't find anywhere else. If music moves you,

this is your backstage pass. Subscribe now to the Professor of Rock podcast. It's August 2nd,

1998, a Sunday in the summertime, when the pace of Washington slows a bit.

Congress goes on vacation, schools and colleges are on summer break,

and interns have descended on the city for a few months.

That summer, there's one story everyone seems to be talking about.

As you know, in a deposition in January, I was asked questions about my relationship with Monica

Lewinsky.

That's President Bill Clinton addressing the nation the day he testified before the grand jury.

At that point, Independent Counsel Ken Starr was still investigating Clinton.

His report wouldn't come out until September. It was the

biggest presidential scandal since Watergate. But this podcast isn't about Monica Lewinsky. It's

about another intern, who came to D.C. in 1998, 28-year-old Christine Merzion. She didn't come to Washington to work in the White House.

Christine was a scientist, by all accounts, brilliant.

She had studied cell biology at Yale,

and earlier that spring,

she completed her Ph.D. in biochemistry

at the University of California, San Francisco.

She was at the very end. It was a summer intern at the National Academy of Sciences.

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