Will #MeToo Face the Music?

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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On The Gist, Joni Ernst’s divorce filing. When Jessica Hopper started out writing about music, trolls and affronted fans didn’t tweet at you; they wrote you a letter. The world’s move to digital has changed that, and helped bring about the #MeToo movement (notice the hashtag?). But despite R. Kelly’s fall, Hopper says the rest of the music industry may prove resistant to change. Hopper is the author of a new memoir, Night Moves. In the Spiel, the Covington Catholic teens aren't the disease, they’re a symptom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following recording may contain explicit language.
0:02.8	I can't get more explicit than May.
0:05.7	Let's just say it may.
0:07.2	It's Tuesday, January 22, 2019 from Slate.
0:14.3	It's the Gisdai Mike Pesca, Iowa Senator,
0:17.4	Jody Ernst filing for divorce at issue.
0:21.3	Jody Ernst's husband, Gail,
0:24.6	has apparently been stymying his wife's career.
0:28.7	This is from the divorce filing,
0:31.2	refers to the summer of 2016.
0:33.8	And the summer of 2016, Jody Ernst writes,
0:36.8	I was interviewed by Candidate Trump
0:39.2	to be vice president of the United States.
0:41.9	I turned Candidate Trump down,
0:44.5	knowing it wasn't the right thing for me or my family.
0:47.7	I continued to make sacrifices and not soar higher
0:52.3	out of concern for Gail and our family.
0:55.6	Now I've got to say,
0:56.9	I do not know the facts or details of anyone else's marriage.
1:01.2	But if the allegation of spousal fault is that the husband
1:05.1	did support the wife all the way to her becoming a senator,
1:08.5	but failed to support the wife
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