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Nixon, Reagan, and Closing Out With Dan and Ray
from The Manor-Born · #6
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
4 minTim spins further conspiracy riffing about Nixon's ouster, the Reagan assassination attempt and Hinckley's Bush family ties, jokes about the moon landing lens, then closes the show with plugs and sign-off.
- 54:33Rich people don't actually like good food — they like the status of eating in private clubs, while WASPs are famous for eating horrible bland food like toast sandwiches.
- 54:52Tim argues that food is what you really care about when you have nothing else.
- 55:34People don't want to know what things actually are — they just want to believe everything is fine.
- 55:48Nixon was paranoid and taped every conversation, which made him dangerous to a CIA power structure involved in Kennedy's death.
- 56:07Nixon was ousted through a third-rate burglary committed by very talented people who shouldn't have made those mistakes.
- 56:21Reagan was shot, and John Hinckley's family was about to have dinner with Neil Bush, George H.W. Bush's son, right after the assassination attempt.
- 57:10They're all going to die not knowing anything, but the show welcomes every theory.
- 57:25Dan brings up the Apollo moon landing being fake, which Tim dismisses as childish after they just discussed the two biggest seminal events.
- 57:42NASA gave Kubrick a special lens from a satellite on a Mitchell camera for 2001: A Space Odyssey, raising questions about how they got it.
- 58:37Tim's closing message: freeze your heart, use your mind, think your way out of everything — you'll feel your way out of nothing.
NixonJohn HinckleyKennedyJoe ListRonald ReaganGeorge H. W. BushApollo moon landingNASArich peopleDan Soder