{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"This F*cking Guy: Ronald Reagan","description":"In our 43rd episode of This F*cking Guy, Erin and Alyssa dive deep into the past of the Jelly Bean Jack*ss, Ronald Reagan. From his B-list acting days, to \"fighting\" WWII from Culver City, to being an FBI rat, to his unforgivable  handling of the AIDS crisis, to mucking up foreign affairs for decades to come, this may be one of our most deluded guys yet.\n\nFor a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here (https://youtu.be/cFZ8vx5N650) . For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast, episode title, and episode date.\n\nSources:\n\nRonald Reagan: Informant (Salon (https://www.salon.com/2012/08/19/ronald_reagan_informant/) )\n\nPeeping Ron (Book Forum (https://www.bookforum.com/print/1903/a-long-awaited-book-on-ronald-reagan-s-secret-alliance-with-the-fbi-10030) )\n\nRonald Reagan’s shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness (Salon (https://www.salon.com/2013/09/29/ronald_reagans_shameful_legacy_violence_the_homeless_mental_illness/) )\n\nRonald Reagan’s wartime lies: The president had quite a Brian Williams problem (Salon (https://www.salon.com/2015/02/07/ronald_reagans_wartime_lies_the_president_had_quite_a_brian_williams_problem/) )\n\nThe Mendacity Index (Washington Monthly (https://washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0309.mendacity-index.html) )\n\nOn a wing and a prayer (Alec Nevala-Lee (https://nevalalee.wordpress.com/2017/05/02/on-a-wing-and-a-prayer/) )\n\nTear Down This Myth (Google Books (https://books.google.com/books?id=hQPDaWrlngoC&pg=PA217&lpg=PA217&dq=martin+treptow+myth&source=bl&ots=coqaBYZidy&sig=cOKaoOHfN7HEle49JH81keuoF2k&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tBTVVLm6EsykgwS584KABQ&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=martin%20treptow%20myth&f=false) )\n\nReagan & Co. (The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/03/05/reagan-38/26b480c6-3d54-46d0-b0fe-1c426c139847/) )\n\nCalifornia: Credibility in Sacramento (Time (https://time.com/archive/6631361/california-credibility-in-sacramento/) )\n\nThe Lion King: An Exchange (NY Books (https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1998/03/05/the-lion-king-an-exchange/) )\n\nReagan Expresses Horror at Claim That the Holocaust is a Hoax (Jewish Telegraphic Agency (https://www.jta.org/archive/reagan-expresses-horror-at-claim-that-the-holocaust-is-a-hoax) )\n\nThe Myth of Ronald Reagan and the Nazi Death Camps (National Review (https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/02/the-myth-of-ronald-reagan-and-the-nazi-death-camps/) )\n\nThe Stupidity of Ronald Reagan (Slate (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/06/the-stupidity-of-ronald-reagan.html) )\n\nPaying Lip Service (The Village Voice (https://www.villagevoice.com/paying-lip-service/) )\n\nThe Road to Reagandom (Slate (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/01/ronald-reagans-conservative-conversion-as-spokesman-for-general-electric-during-the-1950s.html) )\n\nHow Ronald Reagan's Time at General Electric Pushed Him to Conservatism (Lit Hub (https://lithub.com/how-ronald-reagans-time-at-general-electric-pushed-him-to-conservatism/) )\n\nRonald Reagan’s Millions (Rolling Stone (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ronald-reagans-millions-58017/) )\n\nHow Prop 14 Shaped California's Racial Covenants (PBS Socal (https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/city-rising/how-prop-14-shaped-californias-racial-covenants) )\n\nHere's the Rest of Him (Claremont Review of Books (https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/heres-the-rest-of-him/) )\n\nAlla Nazimova (AFI Catalog Spotlight (https://www.afi.com/news/alla-nazimova-afi-catalog-spotlight/) )\n\nThe Global HIV/AIDS Timeline (KFF (https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/global-hiv-aids-timeline-050313.pdf) )\n\nHistory of the HIV Epidemic (Gilead (https://www.gileadhiv.com/landscape/history-of-hiv/) )\n\nWhen AIDS Was Funny Casts a Harsh Light on the Reagan Administration’s Indifference to HIV (HIV Plus Mag (https://www.hivplusmag.com/stigma/2015/12/07/watch-when-aids-was-funny-casts-harsh-light-reagan-administrations-indifference) )\n\nShort film “When AIDS Was Funny,” Reagan Press Secretary laughs off an epidemic (Q Notes Carolinas (https://qnotescarolinas.com/when-aids-was-funny-unearthed-audio-reagan-administration/) )\n\n‘When AIDS Was Funny’: Short film reveals shortfalls of Reagan response to AIDS (MSNOW (https://www.ms.now/msnbc/when-aids-was-funny-short-film-reveals-shortfalls-reagan-response-aids-msna735296) )\n\nHIV/AIDS Timeline (history.com (https://www.history.com/articles/hiv-aids-crisis-timeline) )\n\nHIV/AIDS Historical Timeline (Philadelphia Center (https://philadelphiacenter.org/hiv%2Faids-history) )\n\nSnapshots of an Epidemic: An HIV/AIDS Timeline (amfAR (https://www.amfar.org/about-hiv-aids/snapshots-of-an-epidemic-hiv-aids/) )\n\nThe Iran-Contra Affair (Bill of Rights Institute (https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/the-iran-contra-affair/) )\n\nThe Iran-Contra Affair (PBS American Experience (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/reagan-iran/) )\n\n1983 Beirut barracks bombing: ‘The BLT Building is gone!’ (Marine Corps Times (https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2019/10/23/1983-beirut-barracks-bombing-the-blt-building-is-gone/) )\n\nH-Gram 080: Paved with Good Intentions—The U.S. Navy in the 1983 Lebanon Crisis (Naval History and Heritage Command (https://www.history.navy.mil/about-us/leadership/director/directors-corner/h-grams/h-gram-080.html) )\n\nWhen Reagan Cut and Run (Foreign Policy (https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/02/07/when-reagan-cut-and-run/) )\n\n40 Years Later, El Mozote Massacre Victims Vow to 'Keep Demanding Justice' (Common Dreams (https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/11/40-years-later-el-mozote-massacre-victims-vow-keep-demanding-justice) )\n\nThe Massacre at El Mozote (Human Rights Watch (https://www.hrw.org/reports/pdfs/e/elsalvdr/elsalv923.pdf) )\n\nJudgment Day’s Coming for U.S.-Backed Troops Who Slaughtered Men, Women, and So Many Children at El Mozote (Daily Beast (https://www.thedailybeast.com/el-salvadors-el-mozote-massacre-was-horrific-the-wait-for-justice-long-but-its-coming/) )\n\nPakistan’s Nuclear Program Posed “Acute Dilemma” for U.S. Policy (National Security Archive (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2021-08-30/pakistans-nuclear-program-posed-acute-dilemma-us-policy) )\n\nNew Documents Spotlight Reagan-era Tensions over Pakistani Nuclear Program (National Security Archive (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2012-04-27/new-documents-spotlight-reagan-era-tensions-over-pakistani) )\n\nNew Documents Spotlight Reagan-era Tensions over Pakistani Nuclear Program (Wilson Center (https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/new-documents-spotlight-reagan-era-tensions-over-pakistani-nuclear-program) )\n\nThe Pakistan Aid Dilemma (Center for American Progress (https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-pakistan-aid-dilemma/) )\n\nFact Check: It's Rumored that Ronald Reagan Had Alzheimer's Disease While Still in Office. Here's What the Evidence Says (Snopes (https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-rumored-ronald-reagan-231901827.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAE3mADPxuQqvHRX4WeHQgFMBDtOTDK6_2TOoFQAc50H_1gy87uTeNvvvRd2oI9-JVLeNfIoJNK1t7KZT4ZcslaIXX6Zk_16G992UW533C86rMZnFY64zH61D2z_bEbCWDlZcLsHk8p8km8CwXxEUCE6lkkJia9DvXTIYoFswr6Jl) )\n\nDid Reagan Decline? (Sage Journal (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3233/JAD-240294) )\n\nHoover Makes Available the Newly Processed Papers of Nancy’s Reagan’s White House Astrologer (Hoover Institution (https://www.hoover.org/news/hoover-makes-available-newly-processed-papers-nancys-reagans-white-house-astrologer) )\n\nHow Nancy Reagan's Secret Phone-In Astrologer Became a Powerful White House Adviser — and Helped Oust the Chief of Staff (People (https://people.com/nancy-reagan-secret-white-house-astrologer-joan-quigley-11791163) )\n\nNancy Reagan: Controversial Moments During Her Life in the Public Eye (People (https://people.com/celebrity/nancy-reagan-controversial-moments/) )\n\nWhy Ronald Reagan Became the Great Deregulator (JSTOR Daily (https://daily.jstor.org/why-reagan-became-the-great-deregulator/) )\n\nLooking Back On When President Reagan Fired The Air Traffic Controllers (NPR (https://www.npr.org/2021/08/05/1025018833/looking-back-on-when-president-reagan-fired-air-traffic-controllers) )\n\nReagan’s Legacy (SFAF (https://resources.sfaf.org/collections/status/reagans-legacy/) )\n\nThe Other Time a U.S. President Withheld WHO Funds (John Hopkins (https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2020/the-other-time-a-us-president-withheld-who-funds) )\n\nHow newly discovered audio is reviving debate over Reagan's legacy on race (PBS News (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-newly-discovered-audio-is-reviving-debate-over-reagans-legacy-on-race) )\n\nIt’s Time to End the Racist and Unjustified Sentencing Disparity Between Crack and Powder Cocaine (Civil Rights (https://civilrights.org/blog/its-time-to-end-the-racist-and-unjustified-sentencing-disparity-between-crack-and-powder-cocaine/) )\n\nReagan's National Drug Strategy (University of Michigan (https://policing.umhistorylabs.lsa.umich.edu/s/crackdowndetroit/page/reagan-s-national-drug-strategy) )\n\nThe Fairness Doctrine: How We Lost It and Why We Need It Back (SISYPHUS (https://sisyphuslitmag.org/2018/07/the-fairness-doctrine-how-we-lost-it-and-why-we-need-it-back/) )\n\nPortraits in Oversight: The Iran-Contra Affair (Levin Center (https://levin-center.org/what-is-oversight/portraits/the-iran-contra-affair/) )\n\nRonald Reagan Made Central America a Killing Field (Jacobin (https://jacobin.com/2021/05/greg-grandin-empires-workshop-latin-america) )\n\nGuatemalan Slaughter Was Part of Reagan’s Hard Line (The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/05/19/what-guilt-does-the-us-bear-in-guatemala/guatemalan-slaughter-was-part-of-reagans-hard-line?eafs_enabled=false) )\n\nRemembering US-backed state terror in El Salvador (Al Jazeera (https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/12/11/remembering-us-backed-state-terror-in-el-salvador) )\n\nRonald Reagan’s shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness (Salon (https://www.salon.com/2013/09/29/ronald_reagans_shameful_legacy_violence_the_homeless_mental_illness/) )\n\nThe Key to Welfare Reform (The Atlantic (https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/welfare/whitmaf.htm) )","author_name":"Hysteria","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5166619-hysteria","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43737883/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}