The Great Awokening comes to Congress
Explain It to Me
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.4 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I once saw a study indicating that giving people a placebo |
| 0:04.2 | has modest health benefits, even if you tell them |
| 0:07.3 | it's a placebo. |
| 0:08.2 | Yes, I have also seen this. |
| 0:10.0 | It is very curious. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm here with Matt Eglaceus, and congressional |
| 0:29.9 | reporter for Vox.com Tara Goulshawn, who knows more |
| 0:33.5 | after having been on the Hill reporting for a year |
| 0:36.0 | about the culture and conflicts there than either of us, |
| 0:38.9 | which is great. |
| 0:39.8 | Because today we're going to be discussing Congress's |
| 0:42.9 | harassment problem, and really Congress's ethics problem |
| 0:45.6 | generally. |
| 0:47.0 | You might think that Congress is dodged a bullet, |
| 0:49.0 | because Roy Moore, who was almost certainly going |
| 0:51.5 | to be under pressure to be investigated by the ethics |
| 0:53.6 | committee, if he got elected for having allegedly, sexually, |
| 0:57.3 | assaulted a 14-year-old girl back in the 70s, |
| 0:59.9 | and also dated several other teenagers, |
| 1:02.9 | was not elected on Tuesday night in a stunning loss |
| 1:06.0 | to Democrat Doug Jones. |
| 1:07.7 | However, if anyone on the Hill thinks |
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