Hello there news freaks. So spoiler alert, Vader is Luke's daddy. Also, we're going to be doing an episode on Ronald Reagan pretty soon,

specifically next week, also we're actually doing two episodes.

But newsperson, haven't you already done like a dozen episodes about Reagan already?

No!

Is his name in the title of those episodes? No, nice try listeners.

Although it may have seemed like that because just about every political, economic, and

social challenge we face today can, in some measure, be traced back to

him.

And so instead of giving him a bunch of guest appearances, we thought we would shine a spotlight

on him with the hopes that he'll melt.

As a primer for this upcoming two-part series, we thought it might be helpful to revisit an

episode of the Shodi from nearly three years ago titled The racist history of

austerity politics in America written by our director Will Gord in which Ronald Reagan

and his enduring impact is heavily featured.

This episode came out about six months into the Joe Biden presidency

and just a few months after the passage of the nearly two trillion dollar American Rescue Plan Act.

But despite the frankly massive size of this spending bill,

in a break from their decades-long protocol of screaming bloody murder

about the national debt, the Republican Party was instead

fixated on a series of seemingly bizarre culture war issues like Dr. Soyce, yes that's how

it's pronounced, and Mr. Potato Heads alleged lack of Dick and balls.

At first glance, if you were to listen to the words Republicans have historically said

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