Listening to that famous Speeks press conference, and then realizing he threw his lifelong friend Rock Hudson to the wolves to die in squalor while he supported Heston being a vile monster...it just makes it worse. I remember when Reagan died and seeing Nancy looking at him in the Rotunda. And my mom talking about what a shame it was he died and how much they loved each other. And I was in my early-mid 20s and said: Well, given how he treated gay people and avoided dealing with AIDS, I think she's probably wondering if she's going to Hell too, just by association. My mother was very angry with me for that one. Nowadays, I think I was probably being too nice.
@@Saliferous oh, I am well aware of how much his "trickle down"/Gilded Age Redux economics have royally shafted our country. But the slimy, despicable things he did to gain power made him about as bad as Nixon in that way. The difference is that Reagan genuinely thought it was the right thing to do. He was a useful idiot to all the Atwaters and Freidmans he listened to. And our generations (millenials and Gen Z) will be spending our entire political lives (when we really have the voting power over other generations) hopefully fixing what the older generations let that man, and the current Republicans they have a fascination with voting for, have done to our country. I'm disgusted that my little girls have less control over their lives than the GRANDMOTHERS had, and if they get power again, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Their nostalgic times were fantastic for white, heterosexual men like me, but worse for practically everyone else.
I'm pretty certain everyone alive during and after Reagan has a friend or loved one who suffered, or even died because of Reagan. Partly or even directly. I can say both my Uncle directly, and Father, and some cousins indirectly.
I agree. No one is forced to be a politician. It is a choice. So when someone chooses to be become a politician there should be a loss of privacy (i.e. more transparency) in addition to the privileges. I agree with Mr. Evans 100% on this one.
Nancy's voice was fairly subdued, not as high-pitched. There's a famous clip where Ronnie falters mid-speech and she salvages it by prompting him, fairly easy to find.
I was 20 in 1983. I wasn’t fully aware of what was going on around me then - I just knew I didn’t like the Reagans. I did enjoy that their kids, Patti and Rob, didn’t meekly toe the line behind Dad, tho :)
I learned that pronunciation during middle or high school in the 90s; teacher was doing some kind of anti-bullying lesson or something and insisted it was "kleek." I've never heard anyone else say it like that until today.
Weird that Jesus was willing to wash the feet of the poor, cure the sick blind deaf and even get crucified for our sins... but draws the line at gay people existing
Listening to that famous Speeks press conference, and then realizing he threw his lifelong friend Rock Hudson to the wolves to die in squalor while he supported Heston being a vile monster...it just makes it worse. I remember when Reagan died and seeing Nancy looking at him in the Rotunda. And my mom talking about what a shame it was he died and how much they loved each other. And I was in my early-mid 20s and said: Well, given how he treated gay people and avoided dealing with AIDS, I think she's probably wondering if she's going to Hell too, just by association. My mother was very angry with me for that one. Nowadays, I think I was probably being too nice.
Oh, he threw not just Gay people to the wolves.
We're all dealing with the fallout of the Reagan administration.
@@Saliferous oh, I am well aware of how much his "trickle down"/Gilded Age Redux economics have royally shafted our country. But the slimy, despicable things he did to gain power made him about as bad as Nixon in that way. The difference is that Reagan genuinely thought it was the right thing to do. He was a useful idiot to all the Atwaters and Freidmans he listened to. And our generations (millenials and Gen Z) will be spending our entire political lives (when we really have the voting power over other generations) hopefully fixing what the older generations let that man, and the current Republicans they have a fascination with voting for, have done to our country. I'm disgusted that my little girls have less control over their lives than the GRANDMOTHERS had, and if they get power again, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Their nostalgic times were fantastic for white, heterosexual men like me, but worse for practically everyone else.
Every election is the conservative party wistfully hoping for a return to Reagan
I'm pretty certain everyone alive during and after Reagan has a friend or loved one who suffered, or even died because of Reagan. Partly or even directly. I can say both my Uncle directly, and Father, and some cousins indirectly.
They died because of their lifestyle, not because of who was sitting in the oval office.
@@petebondurant58Just like Herman Cain
@@Newton-Reuther Or Elvis, or Kurt Cobain...
"nobody is going to look at the Kavanaugh Hearing date abd look up famous pandemics"
That aged like milk and wine at the same time
I agree. No one is forced to be a politician. It is a choice. So when someone chooses to be become a politician there should be a loss of privacy (i.e. more transparency) in addition to the privileges. I agree with Mr. Evans 100% on this one.
We all remember nancy's voice. It was pretty much just *gluck gluck gluck*
The goat
@@Bi0mega The Throat Goat.
Nancy's voice was fairly subdued, not as high-pitched. There's a famous clip where Ronnie falters mid-speech and she salvages it by prompting him, fairly easy to find.
Good ol' Throat Goat saving the day.
I was 20 in 1983. I wasn’t fully aware of what was going on around me then - I just knew I didn’t like the Reagans. I did enjoy that their kids, Patti and Rob, didn’t meekly toe the line behind Dad, tho :)
The Bonestripper mentioned!
Lovetheshow
Jerry Zipkin looks like the Dragonball fusion of Tyrone Power, and Rudy Juliani…
54:05 "so much jocular reaction here"
"It isn't only the jocks, Lester" oh yeah hur hur indeed, buddy
My favorite Reagan joke is "Nancy? Is this heaven? It tastes like... ass-flavored jellybeans"
This may sound weird but Optimus would go on to die a few more times. And one of those times was from space aids.
Did he call the supposedly gay clique a kleek? It sounds like one of those weird kkk words from another episode. lol.
I learned that pronunciation during middle or high school in the 90s; teacher was doing some kind of anti-bullying lesson or something and insisted it was "kleek." I've never heard anyone else say it like that until today.
Jesus, the kids in cages and cuffs didn't end well 😂
That Slack alert at 54:00 during the arseholes in the press room clip >.
i too imagined it was a gourd :/
17:09 listening to this days after Trump talked about Arnold Palmer’s dong
LoL
I absolutely was about to comment about that! Our discourse sure has become... something, eh?
Reagan seems like Trump's ideological father. The former walked so the latter could run.
Reagan would have never been Pro Russia though
Private Heel-spurs can only run away
Except the Trump was a Democrat back then
Weird that Jesus was willing to wash the feet of the poor, cure the sick blind deaf and even get crucified for our sins...
but draws the line at gay people existing
It’s “Go, and sin no more,” not “Go, and keep sinning.”
FAIL DOWNVOTED WTF. A NORMAL podcast intro?!? Wtf is this bullshit? I come here for whacky intro’s that make Sophi mad lol.
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