Hey everyone. This is Leon from Prologue Projects. As some of you may know, reading the intro to 5-4 is not my full-time job. I also make my own podcasts, among them fiasco, a show about political history in which every season we take a deep dive into a single

incredible story, like the Bush v. Gore election and the 1984 subway vigilante shooting.

Today, I'm inviting you to take a listen to our season on the Iran-Contra scandal,

which is being released on all podcast platforms right now for the first time ever.

Iran-Contra is one of those historical events that a lot of people only kind of understand.

I very much include myself in that. It was only after talking to dozens of people, including

the architects of both the Iran part of the scandal and the contra part, that I finally got my

mind around it.

My hope is that our version of this story is as entertaining as it is clear.

And my gut is that if you like learning about the past from 5-4, you'll be into this too.

I hope you check it out.

And if you like what you hear, you can find the fiasco feed wherever you listen to podcasts.

Enjoy.

Enjoy. On October 13, 1983, a Long Island dad named Kevin Katke spent his day at work dealing with bullshit.

Katki was a maintenance engineer at a Macy's department store in Bayshore, a down-on-its luck hamlet about an hour and a half east of New York City.

Katki came home exhausted from a series of disasters at the store.

First, the escalator had broken down.

Then someone poured a vat of grease down a drain, which caused the pipes to back up all

over the building.

Then the elevator stopped working.

He was really tired in a terrible mood when he got home and his wife was making a racket

in the kitchen.

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