The Access Hollywood Tape (2016) w/ Roy Wood, Jr
This Day in Esoteric Political History
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
It’s October 7th. This day in 2016, the Washington Post published excerpts of a tape of Donald Trump talking to Access Hollywood host Billy Bush about how he commits sexual assault.
Jody, NIki, and Kellie are joined by The Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood, Jr. to talk about the impact of that tape, the way the Trump campaign quickly reacted by arranging for the release of Hillary Clinton’s emails, and other memories of that moment.
Check out Roy on tour this fall, and listen to “The Run,” the podcast Roy is hosting about the 2016 Chicago Cubs, produced by Jody.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Jody African. |
| 0:10.8 | This day, October 7th, 2016, the Washington Post published a 2005 recording of Donald Trump casually |
| 0:19.6 | bragging about how easy it was for him to sexually assault women. This is the |
| 0:24.8 | Access Hollywood tape which landed about a month before the 2016 election. It |
| 0:28.8 | caused total chaos amidst a fall that was basically total chaos. It also caused the Trump |
| 0:34.8 | campaign to scramble and arrange for the release of a trove of Hillary Clinton |
| 0:38.3 | emails and try and muddy the news cycle. I can hear the stress levels among our listeners rising as I simply describe the basic |
| 0:45.7 | facts of this one day in 2016. |
| 0:48.9 | But I don't know, let's pick at that scab, shall we? |
| 0:51.6 | I'm here to do it it as always are Nicole Hammer of |
| 0:54.9 | Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley. Hello there. Hello Jody. Hey |
| 0:59.3 | there. And our special guest for this episode is Roy Wood Jr. |
| 1:04.7 | Brilliant Comedian and actor and correspondent on the Daily Show |
| 1:09.5 | among many other things. |
| 1:10.8 | Roy, thank you for doing this. Thank you for having me. That was quite a day. That was quite a day. We will get into it. I will also say though part of what Roy is going to do on this episode is going to tie this story, |
| 1:23.7 | believe it or not to Major League Baseball, slightly related to a project that Roy |
| 1:27.3 | and I are working on. We will get there. We will build to that. But Roy, let's go |
| 1:31.1 | back to that day 2016. I feel like this is one of those I will always |
| 1:36.8 | remember where I was when type stories and so I'm curious just where you were |
| 1:41.7 | when you heard this, |
| 1:42.8 | but then Alto Roy, you know, did you initially process it |
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