00:00Hi, buddy.
00:01Dude.
00:02Good to see you.
00:02It's been so long, man.
00:04I know, I missed you.
00:04I always miss you.
00:05There's like so many things that have happened.
00:08Want to tell me a few?
00:09Got a dog.
00:11Oh, man.
00:12I almost sat on him the other day, but no injuries yet.
00:15That would have been the end of him.
00:18Well, I'm happy to see you.
00:19And is your dog a bit of a yipper?
00:23He yaps.
00:25He yips and yaps?
00:25He yaps and yaps.
00:26Yeah.
00:28Well, today's episode, I think we should...
00:30I think we should win one for the yipper.
00:34You ever heard the saying, win one for the gipper?
00:36Yeah.
00:37What the fuck is yipper?
00:38Well, who's the gipper?
00:40Isn't that like the captain of the ship?
00:42No, that's the skipper.
00:44The gipper is Ronald Reagan.
00:47Yipper?
00:48The gipper.
00:50Well, what does yipper have to do with gipper?
00:52It just was a roundabout way, a cute way for us to get to the point.
00:55Win one for the gipper?
00:56Yeah.
00:57What is that?
00:58That's like, is that like a rallying cry?
00:59Ronald Reagan, when he was an actor, portrayed George Gipp in a movie called Newt Rockne All-American.
01:07Newt with a K.
01:08K and...
01:08Yeah, you knew that?
01:09I knew that.
01:09How'd you know that?
01:10I just know things.
01:12Not many.
01:13But I know that.
01:14Okay.
01:15Well...
01:15Because it's interesting.
01:16It's like Newt.
01:17That is impressive.
01:18With a K?
01:18Yeah, like knight.
01:21Knife.
01:21Knowledge.
01:22Knife.
01:23Knife.
01:23No.
01:24No.
01:25There's lots of them.
01:27Not.
01:28Not.
01:29Not.
01:29Not.
01:30Not.
01:30Not.
01:30Good.
01:31Yeah, there you go.
01:32Yeah.
01:33Born in like 1911 or something like that, I think.
01:36You know, he's old.
01:38Then he became a sports broadcaster after school.
01:41Hmm.
01:42Where he was a announcer for the Big Ten and then went and called, did a play-by-play for
01:50the Cubs.
01:51Really?
01:52Out of Des Moines, Iowa.
01:53I don't know jack shit about Riggs.
01:55Got noticed by Hollywood.
01:57Signed a seven-movie deal with Warner Brothers.
01:59Mostly they were B-movies.
02:02B-movies?
02:02Like, they weren't major blockbuster hits, but they did fine.
02:07Like, B's.
02:09Just try to find the most logical interpretation of what I've said and trust it.
02:14Well, you said B-movie and there is a movie called B-movie.
02:17One.
02:18And that came out many years after Ronald Reagan was an actor.
02:21He could have been making B-movies before B-movie.
02:25In a world there is a truth to that.
02:28Yes.
02:31His film and career is interrupted by World War II.
02:34He goes off, serves in the military.
02:36Oh!
02:37Right?
02:37I didn't know he was a soldier.
02:38Yeah.
02:39Nice.
02:39Gets back into acting, starts actually having some big hits.
02:42His resume is building.
02:43Yeah.
02:44Runs for governor of California and becomes governor of California.
02:48Like Schwartz.
02:49Exactly.
02:50Exactly.
02:50Arnold.
02:51Yes.
02:52Get to the chopper.
02:53Yeah.
02:54Yes.
02:54I'll be back.
02:55Right.
02:56That's the guy.
02:57Yeah.
02:57Those are the things he said.
02:58What else does he say?
02:59Oh, you got it.
03:00You nailed all of them.
03:01All right.
03:02So, he is governor of California for eight years.
03:06Okay.
03:06Not too long after that, runs for president on the Republican ticket in 1981.
03:14He'd also been the president of the Screen Actors Guild, which is the acting union.
03:18SGA.
03:19S-A-G, which S-A-G, of which I am a member, believe it or not.
03:23You're in the SAG?
03:23Mm-hmm.
03:24One thing that's cool is that they send me all the screeners for all the nominated movies
03:28for the SAG awards.
03:31DVDs?
03:31Yeah, that's what they send you.
03:32I actually like that.
03:33Let's go back to the old days a little bit, you know?
03:35I'd throw them right away.
03:37Okay.
03:37Well, yeah.
03:37I don't have a DVD player.
03:39Well, you could.
03:40If you had any sense of pride.
03:45He runs for president in 1981, and this begins the Reagan era.
03:50Mm-hmm.
03:51It's 1981 to 1989.
03:52What's up with all these old presidents?
03:55Why don't we ever have someone young?
03:57A young buck?
03:58My guess would be that we'll probably head back in that direction after this recent run
04:03of elders.
04:04Who's the youngest we've ever had?
04:05John?
04:06Kennedy.
04:07God, yeah, he's hot.
04:08Yeah.
04:08We need some hot presidents, dude.
04:10There you go.
04:11Yeah.
04:11So...
04:12You're hot.
04:15I've told too many stories about jerking off to be president.
04:18Yeah, but you're in the SGA, and you're fucking...
04:21You're on Netflix, like...
04:24This is not enough to overcome the amount of cumming jokes I've made on the internet.
04:29Okay.
04:30Famously, his big thing was Reaganomics.
04:33Mm-hmm.
04:34Because he came into office at a time of stagflation.
04:37Do you know what stagflation is?
04:37Yeah, you taught me this.
04:38Yeah.
04:39Remember?
04:40Yeah, I don't remember, but you taught me.
04:41He actually sort of slowed inflation and improved the economy.
04:46Stagnated it.
04:48Well, that...
04:50If he stagnated the economy, that would mean he brought it to a stop.
04:54He stagnated inflation.
04:56Stagnated the bleeding.
04:57Yeah, that's fine.
04:58I can live with that.
04:59Yeah, thanks.
05:01You're taking shots that, you know, I see what you're going for, but you won't allow them
05:07to be, you know...
05:08Well, it's pretty simple.
05:09It's stag and inflation.
05:10You put the two words together, stagflation.
05:12That's not what you said, and it's not...
05:15It is what I said.
05:16You said stagnation of the inflation.
05:22Some shit like that.
05:26It sounds like an album for, like, Run DMC or something.
05:30He has survived an assassination attempt?
05:32Oh!
05:33He was shot...
05:33Where?
05:35On his body?
05:36I think he was shot in Rome.
05:37No, I meant on his body.
05:38Oh.
05:39Good question.
05:40Head?
05:41Oh, no.
05:42Who's fucking killing him in Rome, dude?
05:44That has nothing to do with us.
05:47Very early into his presidency, he survived an assassination attempt from a guy named John Hinckley in Washington, D.C.
05:56He was shot, and it was because Hinckley wanted to impress the actress Jodie Foster, on whom he had developed
06:06an erotic fixation as a result of her role in the movie Taxi Driver.
06:11He wanted to impress her?
06:12That's right, by killing the president.
06:14I have a take, by the way.
06:15You're not going to address any of that?
06:17That was insane!
06:18Well, I don't know any of those people, but I know of Jodie...
06:21Have you seen Taxi Driver?
06:22No.
06:23De Niro, Scorsese, very early, very noir, very good movie.
06:27Pinot noir.
06:27Um, I feel like it wouldn't be that hard to assassinate a president.
06:35Um...
06:36For the record, I would never try this.
06:37I think that there have been recent assassination attempts on the president, and my guess is that with each successive
06:44thing like that, the security gets tighter and tighter and tighter.
06:48I'm just saying.
06:49There's a lot of golf being played.
06:51Did they kill him?
06:52They...
06:53Obviously they didn't kill him, Francis.
06:54He was president for eight years.
06:58He's considered one of the better presidents.
07:00Wow.
07:00He's like upper, upper third rankings historically, a president.
07:05I thought he was just like this actor that was just there for fun.
07:09No.
07:09No.
07:09He was incredibly well-spoken.
07:12He was handsome.
07:13He was gallant.
07:14He had class.
07:16He's kind of like the father of modern conservative thought.
07:22Okay.
07:23All right.
07:23Well, that's Reagan.
07:24Sweet.
07:24Thank you for having me.
07:25Enjoy it.
07:25Yeah.
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