4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Mike tells Sarah why the biggest scandal of Reagan's presidency provides more (depressing) lessons about current politics than Watergate. Digressions include Mormons, Top Gun and the X-Files. Both co-hosts have considered what they will name their deliberately boring tax-shelter corporations.
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0:00.0 | Like, everything I know about Central American politics, I learned from the movie Salvador, |
0:04.0 | which is also why I had a crush on James Woods from all of high school, which I feel weird about all the time now. |
0:20.0 | Welcome to Your Wrong About, a show that we do every Saturday morning instead of going to brunch. |
0:25.0 | Now that everyone knows what the show is about, it's mostly about eggs. |
0:28.0 | Your Wrong About is a show about us taking issue with things that other people are perfectly able to enjoy, |
0:35.0 | and then making it impossible for them to enjoy in an uncomplicated way forever. |
0:39.0 | So really brunch, we could totally do a brunch episode. |
0:42.0 | I am Michael Hobbs, I'm a reporter for The Huffington Post. |
0:45.0 | I am Sarah Marshall, and I am a writer for the near-public and Buzzfeed. |
0:50.0 | And today we're talking about Iran Contra. |
0:53.0 | I was born in 1982. I was four years old and all of this happened. |
0:57.0 | So I never had any sense of Iran Contra at all when I was growing up. |
1:03.0 | It was only when I started researching this that I sort of came to understand what it actually was. |
1:08.0 | I always thought about it as like this weird, complicated footnote that nobody ever really talks about |
1:13.0 | and doesn't seem to have left any lasting legacy. |
1:16.0 | I think I learned about a Iran Contra like I first heard of it because I was reading some list |
1:21.0 | or I was compiling some list for myself of women in the 80s who had been embroiled in Washington |
1:28.0 | in Cider-type debacles and who were then seen as the reason that a powerful man was ruined. |
1:34.0 | Fawn Hall was the secretary or somebody for Oliver North who now has a TV show on Fox, I guess, |
1:41.0 | and that she and a Rosemary Wood kind of away had shredded documents for him or helped him shred documents |
1:48.0 | or was called on to testify. That's what I got. |
1:52.0 | There was a lady with a hair style involved somewhere. |
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