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"Stand By Your Man" with Brad Simpson - Still Watching American Crime Story Impeachment

Still Watching

Vanity Fair

Arts

4.21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Vanity Fair's Katey Rich and Richard Lawson are Still Watching the FX true crime anthology series American Crime Story: Impeachment, covering the Clinton Affair of the late 1990s. This week covers the eighth episode of the series, "Stand By Your Man," which aired Tuesday October 26th on FX. This episode features Katey's interview with American Crime Story Executive Producer Brad Simpson who discusses the overall structure of American Crime Story: Impeachment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

An ASMR guide for Marmite first timers. First, toast your pillowy soft bread. Push that.

0:10.0

Libri spread that butter. Stroke that Marmite open. Dip that knife and spread that. Don't overload.

0:22.0

Untaish that. Marmite. Love it. Hate it. Get it on.

0:30.0

Hi. How'd you know it's me? I have color ID.

0:34.0

Oh, what's the say? What's the trip? It does? Yeah. I have an unpublished phone, the idiot.

0:39.0

The great story here is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.

0:48.0

May 91, Bill Clinton harassed me on the job and then basically told me let's get this between ourselves.

0:58.0

We had no sexual relationship with this young man. There is not a sexual relationship that is accurate.

1:08.0

Hello and welcome to still watching the podcast from Vanity Fair that is currently covering American crime story, Colin Impeachment.

1:16.0

I am Katie Rich. And I'm Richard Lawson. If you haven't listening to Richard and Sonya on succession.

1:22.0

This is an impeachment episode. We have a lot going on right now. Just make sure we get all of our things straight.

1:27.0

This is the one about power brokers in the corridors of power in America doing terrible things.

1:32.0

Those are different shows, right? It's that one. Yeah. Yeah. One of them is lightly fictionalized.

1:37.0

The other is, well, actually, I don't know. We're in a real hall of mirrors here.

1:43.0

We are here to talk about. We are here to talk about the eighth episode of the season, which I think will probably be known as the Hillary Clinton episode.

1:52.0

Richard last week, you and I talked about episode seven, which we thought was the Hillary Clinton episode because we saw Edie Falco's Hillary Clinton really come into focus and you spoke with her about it.

2:01.0

But here we are. And this is an episode with some of our familiar characters like Bill Ginsburg and Monica Winsky and Ken Star.

2:08.0

But it's really Bill and Hillary and the aftermath of this, the scandal going public.

2:13.0

Yeah. It's funny when I talked to Edie Falco. She was kind of coy about it. She was like, no, I mean, they told me, you know, it's a small part.

2:19.0

Like I just, you know, just wanted to be part of the team, whatever. And, you know, this isn't quite the sort of single focus episode that say Sarah Paulson got in Mrs. America.

2:28.0

But it's still pretty significantly a Hillary episode. And so I think that Falco was maybe trying to like misdirect a little bit about how big a role she would have at least in at least one episode.

2:39.0

Yeah, it must be funny working on the show and figuring out what constitutes a spoiler because there's a lot that we know. But then the focus of the show takes is complicated.

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