I have to say, this movie was, I guess I thought it would be bad in the way that these conservative

movies that we do on the podcast are bad. It was so much worse, but also so much weirder

than I could possibly have imagined. Yes, including, very importantly, what the setup is.

In other words, what is the excuse they've come up with to tell you the life story of Ronald Reagan?

I was surprised.

Yeah, so the movie is about Ronald Reagan, but really right away from the top, it's about Ronald Reagan and the Cold War.

And fascinatingly, bizarrely, the framing for this film is that it is a story being told by a XKGB agent, played by John Voight, to a younger agent.

Why? I don't quite remember or understand.

He basically goes to John Voigt and he's like, comrade, tell me, why did Russia lose communism?

Yeah, yeah.

And John Void is like, to tell you this story,

we have to tell story of Ronald Reagan.

My official title was endless at the Committee for State Security,

our beloved KGB.

But I was psychologist, profiling those who could become threats to our nation,

sometimes decades away.

And it sets up this deranged framing device where John Voigt is a KGB officer who spent his entire life

fixated on, almost you might say psychosexually fixated on, Ronald Reagan.

He studied him in his entire life, including when he was a child somehow, and is retelling

the tale of Ronald Reagan through the eyes of the people he defeated.

It's actually quite artful. I mean, it's artful in a like a dumb, dumb, dumb way.

But if the film was a little bit more sophisticated, like if it was more like the quality of depictions of

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