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Welcome to Amped Up. This is your host Ryan Knight and our guest today is Rose McGowan.

Rose is an activist, a cultural resetter, the author of the New York Times

bestseller, Brave. She is the Time Magazine Person of the Year. Rose, welcome to Amped Up.

Thank you for having me, Ryan, and I really appreciate being on Amped Up because as we know, you and I get very

amped up about wanting to throttle the system.

Yes, yes we do.

And I thank you for being heroes.

You are a voice for truth and a voice that

has meant so much to the progressive movement.

And I'm just, I'm humbled and honored to be doing this conversation

and doing this work with you. I want to start off on one of our favorite topics

and talk about the the double standard and the hypocrisy in the Democratic Party when it comes to

sexual assault and rape culture and the Me Too Movement. You have been a very outspoken defender of Tara Reed,

who we have had on this show

and whose harrowing account of sexual assault

by President-elect Joe Biden has more

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