Weekly Wrap: #MeToo and Matt Lauer, Political Corruption, & Snoop Dogg Shenanigans

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🗓️ 11 October 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

New sexual assault allegations came out this week against prominent news, political and entertainment figures. A few years into the #MeToo movement, what are our expectations about whether or how men accused of sexual harassment and assault can return to public life? Also, crackdowns on political corruption in Chicago intensify, and cell phone use by audience members during performances has led to a heated debate in the theater world. Plus, Snoop Dogg's performance at a university this week causes controversy. Sam hosts this weekly wrap episode from member station WBEZ in Chicago. His guests are Greta Johnsen, host of the 'Nerdette' podcast and WBEZ weekend anchor and Dan Mihalopoulos, investigative reporter on WBEZ's Government and Politics team.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Sam Zavari. This week on the show, from Member Station WBEC in Chicago,
0:07.9	anchor and host of the NerDat Podcast, Greta Johnson, and investigative reporter Dan Mahalapalus.
0:15.9	All right, let's start the show!
0:20.0	Hey y'all, from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders. It's been a minute happy weekend from Chicago and the
0:25.7	studios of NPR Member Station WBEC. I'm here for some fun station visit stuff and I'm so happy to
0:31.5	be joined in studio by two WBEC stars, WBEC anchor and host of the NerDat Podcast, Greta Johnson.
0:40.4	And Dan, you know what, Betty's gonna tell you the last name better than I can, but
0:44.3	Mielopolis? Yeah, wait, no you said. Well, I mean in Greek or English. I want to do a rice,
0:50.0	say to Mielopolis is fine or Mielopolis? Mielopolis. Dan Mielopolis. That's great.
0:55.2	Investigative reporter on WBEC's government and politics team. Y'all, we are joined in studio
1:02.3	by my current song obsession at the moment when we pump this.
1:10.4	Greta knows what this is. Oh yes. Dan, you know what it is? Let's hear.
1:13.4	It is a theme song to the HBO drama succession. You feeling it out? I like it. I like it. You like it?
1:21.6	It's so good. Okay, so HBO succession is a critical darling of 2019. It is this family drama
1:28.9	that is believed by many to be based on the saga of the Murdock family of Fox News fam.
1:36.6	And I'm playing the theme song this week because the theme song has become its own sleeper hit.
1:41.6	People love it. And what's crazy is that this song has proven so popular and so catchy.
1:48.1	This week, one of the best rappers of our day, Pusha T recorded and released a rap remix to the theme
1:54.5	song of succession. Greta's freak out. Oh my god. Do you like it? Yes.
2:07.6	So, Vulture has reported that fans of this show have been asking for a rap remix since the show
2:13.1	launched. And finally, Nicholas Bertel, the composer of the song, he said, yeah, let's do it.
2:19.0	And he said, quote, there's only one person on the list of people to reach out to. Of course,
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