The Pill Plot | 2: The Blueprint

The Conspiracy Tapes

Sony Music

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We meet the mastermind behind the pill plot, a wealthy gadfly named Larry Lader. He builds a team of fixers who will help search for the “Jane Roe for the 1990s.” A wild goose chase ensues as the team scrambles to find the right person—a pregnant woman who is willing to put herself, and her freedom, on the line. They almost give up hope, when a Bay Area anarchist punk comes forward. Unlock all episodes of Cover Up: The Pill Plot, ad-free, right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month — that’s all episodes, all at once, all ad-free. Just click ‘Subscribe’ on the top of the Cover Up: The Pill Plot show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. You can follow the show’s host on Twitter @TJRaphael Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Bench.
0:02.0	The Bench.
0:11.0	Previously, on cover up the pill plot. Keep the clinic closed.
0:14.0	Keep it closed.
0:15.0	You can take a pill, no one knows you're having an abortion.
0:17.5	And in this day and age, that's what you need.
0:20.5	The Federal Drug Administration issued an import alert that banned anyone from bringing
0:25.3	our U4A6 into the country for personal use.
0:28.3	This is something that we need to defend women, so we became outside agitators.
0:37.0	I guess I'll start by asking, how did you first meet Larry?
0:41.0	I'll never forget the first time I saw him. It was my mother's birthday, June 24th, 1961.
0:50.0	Joan later was studying in Italy at the time and she took her mom to this remote beach along the Amalfi coast.
0:58.0	There was almost nobody there and about 5.30 in the afternoon as we were leaving, we literally bumped into Larry.
1:07.0	The backdrop is so cinematic. You can just imagine the scene. Joan, this Scottish student, a secluded beach,
1:16.0	and this mysterious American stranger, Larry.
1:21.0	His hair was dishevelled.
1:24.0	He had on an old t-shirt and old swimming trunks
1:28.0	and nothing terribly great to look at.
1:32.0	He invited us for a drink and we stayed and
1:35.6	chatted and he was the most fascinating guy I had ever met. Larry is in Italy for work.
1:45.0	He's a writer, stringing for places like Life magazine and the New Yorker.
1:49.7	He's in Italy searching for his next great story.
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