The "I read baseball scores to Hitler" needs to be added to the intro of the show

"My guardian said I can't speak.' LOL!

Honestly one of the funniest & most depressing things I've ever experienced.

i've listened to these reagan episodes so many times but they never get old. patton taking the headphones off and walking away in response to "my guardian says i can't speak" makes me lose it every single time

So glad they got Patton. He's one of my favorites.

29:00 "I'm gonna take questions now from the bowling trophies." I have never laughed so hard in my life.

At 29:30 when everyone just gets up from the table - amazing!! I actually already listened on Tuesday and had to come watch the video just to see their reactions.

*pours rice from cup to cup* "See, Mommy? It really does trickle down."

My brain is still in recovery from so many high level ideas.

I thought I knew a lot about Regan. This laundry list of surreal atrocity and unbelievable absurdity blew my brains out all over my phone. You can't make this stuff up. Thanks for making me laugh tears through it. I couldn't have made it otherwise.

"That's a stapler." Beer came out my nose

Gareth and Patton just feed off each other so well

Dollop is probably best content on internet

Patton popping off at the "My guardian won't let me speak" destroyed me

August 2020...listening this and not surprised where the current situation came from.

Crazy how these Reagan episodes sound like the Trump era.

Patton should be a regular. The chemistry between these guys is dynamite!

"Nadine, get me Gomer Pyle" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀⚰️

Thank you for this. I had no idea. This is the first of your videos that I’ve ever seen. I’ll watch more. And, Patton, I love you!! You are ALWAYS a delight. I respect your knowledge and perspective.

Remember how Michael J. Fox's character, Alex Keaton, on "Family Ties" became a favorite because of his love for Reagan and conservative ideology? The 1980s were a nightmare.

I literally started crying with laughter at work during the cockatoo bit holy fuck

I am listening to this for like the 5th time if not more. Does not stop being funny. Amazing

trump was basically just reagan on speed run

Ooohh I was not prepared for 29:00. This can't be real. Spoke too soon "Princess David"

5:13 Oh it wasn't just Rambo 3, which disappeared from public for like 7 years strangely around the early 2000s, but also the bond film The Living Daylights.

You forgot one of the funniest, most outrageous opinions when Reagan said that trees are the major source of pollution.

1:09:50 and onwards is pure gold.

Gare bear! Lookin fresh. Also thank you for doing these on politicians. I know you guys didn't initially want to cover them, but it makes me feel less crazy.

Disappointed no one has made a video compilation of all the moments described here (that are in youtube). Because that would have been great.

I have never laughed so hard while being infuriated.

This is the best thing I have ever watched!!!!!

My one complaint is that I just wish there was one camera held on a static shot of all three of them. I feel like there's great visual reactions that get missed because we wait too long to cut to someone, or sit on the other person/pair for too long.

This was brilliant

Lester Kingsolving was still on the radio in Baltimore MD in 2018 on AM 680 WCBM.

fascinating and lol hilarious. thanks for some much needed distraction and laughter!

That Neil Gorsuch bit towards the end dropped like a fucking bomb.

I was just petting Lassie over here. that's a stapler.

Can you guys do the history of taxation? That would be great, thanks!

29:06 😂

Are any The Past Times from the studio available? That'd be gold

Careful, they get really loud at times. Lower your volume

Mr. Peppers has a cold.

Funny how Trump is using the exact same strategy as Reagan when he stands in front of a helicopter to answer questions.

The cake is NOT a lie.

I love this! but y'all need to consider compressing that audio a bit!

Good podcast. Hoped for more on the USSR

In the darkness, Ronald (Reagan) said, quote "My guardian says I can't speak". After one of his assistants shut the lights off at the press conference he just said that to. Is The Thick of It and Veep actually real?

Thank you for exposing Ronnie Ray-gun.

patton did a great job

I think one of the few things Reagan had over Trump was living in the pre-Internet age, being senile, and having a "folksy Americana" charm. That's my theory as to why the American public didn't like hearing negative news stories about him, I could be wrong since I wasn't there. But under all of those "advantages" was something completely sinister.

Trump has literally plagiarized the Reagan playbook. Holy fuck.

29:20 the best dollop moment ever?

In fairness, none of these guys were old enough at the time to be aware of any of this. I am the same age.

Does anyone know where I can source the "fillet of sole" AIDS joke? That seems unreal.

GARY GARY GARY !

2:04 story continues (barely any ads tbh)

Hilarious and horrifying

The vaunted Triple Headphone Toss

Fan suggestion In 2024: Richard Nixon with Conan O'brien

Wait, THAT'S where Borked comes from?!?!?

32:00 I'm a loathe to defend Ronald but they really take the "I'm all confused now" from the debate out of context. Barbra Walters interrupted him before he could make a rebuttal, said it's time for closing statements, and then backtracked and said unless you want a rebuttal but we also need a closing statement. Then Reagan says he's confused. BUT he then rambles and struggles through his closing statement kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rpmKZLx2ls-nqIE.html unrelated my favorite joke of the ep 1:07:53

Charles J. Guiteau would have loved Reagan! So many letters being actually read!

29:34

2:06

15:57

it was a chocolate cake and not a good one

I'm picturing the future, between twenty and forty years from now (and if the equivalent of podcasts are still a thing) doing this same exercise when re-examining the Trump era. Yeesh! Yikes! AmmaGawd!

So. Fucking. Funny.

I saw a biography of Ronald Reagan in the "graphic novels" section of a bookstore once and thought it was funny, but...yeah, his life really does scan like a cartoon. Damn.

And people still praise him

9:18

Ah nice! another bummer episode. We are all doomed.

16:27 I think there is truth in this observation. If you put people in a prison they will lose hope. He is referring to Sisyphus. No goals, no life.

Anyone know what the text he's reading from is?

Second?

love this stuff but boys wear your headphones- dave is quiet as a mouse at times and gareth blasts off his jokes- i have a hard time finding the right volume to enjoy it all at.. sorry for whining.

Dave mispronounced Grenada; thought everybody old enough to remember the invasion would remember the pronunciation. I'd actually forgotten how often Reagan said things that sound Trump-like in their idiocy and separation from reality.

I revisit this part 1 and 2 to be reminded of how terrible Reagan is and of course to laugh at the GOP hero.

what a bunch a pirates!

First

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bLCEp6xkqZzQoZ8.html and here it is, we're doing everything we can

Neal Brennan is the new Reagan.

Third

fifth it is

how can we just get the write up of all the effing ridiculous things RR said and did.

Remember when Hillary praised Nancy Reagan for her efforts to fight AIDS?

So, The Reagan Years were my adolescence, and I'd like to start by thanking Ronnie for introducing me to punk rock. It's really special, especially now, to see someone thoroughly dissecting the literal $hit$how that was the reagan admin. Was absolutely the vile sprout that has spawned a trump-blossom. Still, that leprechaun's false incredulity at 9:05 is a little distracting. Quit acting like you are so woke you can't comprehend a time you were clearly alive to experience firsthand. Yes, 30 years ago, "faggot" was the ultimate put-down in school, and it was cool to publicly mock homosexuals. Maybe if you didn't clutch your pearls and say "omg those cavemen!!", we'd recognize that it still goes on right this minute, and be more willing to recognize systemic ...um...no, not prejudice...not discrimination...it's...systemic assholeness? subb'd/liked/bell'd

Reagan was trash

You think Reagan had a pudding brain, get a load of Joe Biden!

My parents were pretty poor in the 80s and they told me they were just flabbergasted that Reagan was at all popular or supported by much of the country because every day they read about some new dipsh*t failure or gaffe. Then they got a TV and were like, “Oh, he sounds like a friendly old grandpa. That’s how he’s done this.”

Of all the things where I know I shouldn't just shove it down my relatives' throves' and scream "SEE, DO YOU SEE NOW HOW STUPID THIS FUCKING GUY WAS?" I think this is the most comedic.

2:31