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Hello everybody, welcome to your wrong about.

I'm Sarah Marshall.

And today we are talking about Ronald Reagan and the welfare queen, one of the great love stories of the 80s.

This is the first chapter in a multifaceted look at the character of Ronald Reagan and the character of the country that loved him.

And I am so excited to be bringing you chapter one with our guest Lacey Mosley of Scam Goddess.

I really love this conversation. I feel like this episode has more laughs per minute than almost any in this catalog, which is really saying something.

And it just felt in this conversation like the truth was apparent in many moments.

And I don't get a lot of that lately.

The welfare queen is a mythological figure constructed around a real woman named Linda Taylor, who was a Chicago resident who inadvertently became key to Ronald Reagan's 1976 presidential campaign.

And we argue here to his eventual success in capturing the heart of the American people and becoming King of the USA.

We talk here about Linda herself, but the conversation I think is much more about the narrative that became her legacy and how we're still living in the world that that story created.

There has been a lot of amazing Linda Taylor and welfare queen discourse in the last 10 years.

And a lot of it has been brought to us by Josh Levin who published the article The welfare queen and slate in 2013, which brought Linda Taylor to the attention of a public that was perhaps a little bit ready to re-evaluate its relationship to this myth and to the very real woman at the center of it.

And there are many other approaches to this story. It's I think one of the really important ones. And so if you're interested in learning more about the welfare queen and Linda Taylor, check out the queen by Josh Levin.

There's also of course an episode of scam goddess, but Lacey didn't the past. There's a lot of resources to check out. Take a look.

All right. That is enough from me. Here's our episode.

In Chicago, they found a woman who holds the record. She used 80 names, 30 addresses, 15 telephone numbers to collect food stamps, social security, veterans benefits for four non-existent deceased veterans husbands.

As well as welfare, her tax-free cash income alone has been running $150,000 a year.

Welcome to your wrong about the show where we do a pop up video of a Reagan speech. Here with me today is Lacey Mosley of the wonderful, the criminal scam goddess podcast.

I'm so happy that you're now visiting my show after you so wonderfully asked me to visit.

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