Hysteria

In our 44th episode of This F*cking Guy, Erin and Alyssa analyze the evolution of the clout-chasing chameleon, Megyn Kelly. From her fiery takes and fake*ass feminist days at Fox News, to being humbled by her racist takes at her NBC Morning show, to entering her villain era, launching her alt-right podcast and transforming into a human guitar riff, this may just be our most self-serving psycho guy, yet!
Sources:
Ronald Reagan: Informant (Salon)
Peeping Ron (Book Forum) 
Ronald Reagan’s shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness (Salon)
Ronald Reagan’s wartime lies: The president had quite a Brian Williams problem (Salon)
The Mendacity Index (Washington Monthly)
On a wing and a prayer (Alec Nevala-Lee)
Tear Down This Myth (Google Books) 
Reagan & Co. (The Washington Post) 
California: Credibility in Sacramento (Time) 
The Lion King: An Exchange (NY Books)
Reagan Expresses Horror at Claim That the Holocaust is a Hoax (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) 
The Myth of Ronald Reagan and the Nazi Death Camps (National Review)
The Stupidity of Ronald Reagan (Slate)
Paying Lip Service (The Village Voice)
The Road to Reagandom (Slate)
How Ronald Reagan's Time at General Electric Pushed Him to Conservatism (Lit Hub)
Ronald Reagan’s Millions (Rolling Stone)
How Prop 14 Shaped California's Racial Covenants (PBS Socal)
Here's the Rest of Him (Claremont Review of Books) 
Alla Nazimova (AFI Catalog Spotlight)
The Global HIV/AIDS Timeline (KFF)
History of the HIV Epidemic (Gilead)
When AIDS Was Funny Casts a Harsh Light on the Reagan Administration’s Indifference to HIV (HIV Plus Mag)
Short film “When AIDS Was Funny,” Reagan Press Secretary laughs off an epidemic (Q Notes Carolinas)
‘When AIDS Was Funny’: Short film reveals shortfalls of Reagan response to AIDS (MSNOW)
HIV/AIDS Timeline (history.com)
HIV/AIDS Historical Timeline (Philadelphia Center)
Snapshots of an Epidemic: An HIV/AIDS Timeline (amfAR)
The Iran-Contra Affair (Bill of Rights Institute) 
The Iran-Contra Affair (PBS American Experience) 
1983 Beirut barracks bombing: ‘The BLT Building is gone!’ (Marine Corps Times) 
H-Gram 080: Paved with Good Intentions—The U.S. Navy in the 1983 Lebanon Crisis (Naval History and Heritage Command)
When Reagan Cut and Run (Foreign Policy) 
40 Years Later, El Mozote Massacre Victims Vow to 'Keep Demanding Justice' (Common Dreams) 
The Massacre at El Mozote (Human Rights Watch)
Judgment Day’s Coming for U.S.-Backed Troops Who Slaughtered Men, Women, and So Many Children at El Mozote (Daily Beast) 
Pakistan’s Nuclear Program Posed “Acute Dilemma” for U.S. Policy (National Security Archive) 
New Documents Spotlight Reagan-era Tensions over Pakistani Nuclear Program (National Security Archive) 
New Documents Spotlight Reagan-era Tensions over Pakistani Nuclear Program (Wilson Center)
The Pakistan Aid Dilemma (Center for American Progress) 
Fact Check: It's Rumored that Ronald Reagan Had Alzheimer's Disease While Still in Office. Here's What the Evidence Says (Snopes)
Did Reagan Decline? (Sage Journal)
Hoover Makes Available the Newly Processed Papers of Nancy’s Reagan’s White House Astrologer (Hoover Institution)
How Nancy Reagan's Secret Phone-In Astrologer Became a Powerful White House Adviser — and Helped Oust the Chief of Staff (People)
Nancy Reagan: Controversial Moments During Her Life in the Public Eye (People)
Why Ronald Reagan Became the Great Deregulator (JSTOR Daily)
Looking Back On When President Reagan Fired The Air Traffic Controllers (NPR)
Reagan’s Legacy (SFAF)
The Other Time a U.S. President Withheld WHO Funds (John Hopkins)
How newly discovered audio is reviving debate over Reagan's legacy on race (PBS News)
It’s Time to End the Racist and Unjustified Sentencing Disparity Between Crack and Powder Cocaine (Civil Rights)
Reagan's National Drug Strategy (University of Michigan)
The Fairness Doctrine: How We Lost It and Why We Need It Back (SISYPHUS)
Portraits in Oversight: The Iran-Contra Affair (Levin Center)
Ronald Reagan Made Central America a Killing Field (Jacobin)
Guatemalan Slaughter Was Part of Reagan’s Hard Line (The New York Times)
Remembering US-backed state terror in El Salvador (Al Jazeera)
Ronald Reagan’s shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness (Salon)
The Key to Welfare Reform (The Atlantic)

Erin and Alyssa get into Pete Hegseth’s new testosterone policy, and the latest on the Tate Brothers arrest. Then they do a supersized Sani-Petty with producer Caroline and sprinkle a little joy into the week to celebrate Alyssa’s last episode!
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US military to start screening for testosterone deficiency, Hegseth says (BBC 7/16)
Estrogen patches are hard to find, and it may not be resolved any time soon (CNBC 6/26)
Will the Tate brothers be extradited from the US to the UK? (BBC 7/20)
Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested on rape, trafficking charges. What to know. (Washington Post 7/19)

Erin, Alyssa, and guest host Heather Gardner discuss the latest on the tragic killings by ICE Officers, the death of Lindsey Graham, and the explosive and gross consequences of last year’s DOGE cuts. Then they reflect on what this past Love Island teaches us about American literacy and relationship culture. They wrap up with sani-petty conversations about Meta AI features and The Five Star Weekend.
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ICE Ordered to Cease Most Vehicle Stops After 2 Killings in a Week (NYT 7/14)
Trump says he spoke with Sen. Lindsey Graham hours before his death (NBC 7/12)
Who Is Darline Graham Nordone? Lindsey Graham's Sister Appointed to Serve Out His Senate Term (Time 7/13)
Who is Dr. Annie Andrews? Senate candidate is in the spotlight after Lindsey Graham’s death (The 19th 7/13)
Experts warn of ways screwworm could spread in the US and new difficulties in keeping it at bay (The Guardian 7/13) 
Flesh-eating screwworm arrives in US with case detected in Texas cattle (BBC 6/5)
Trump’s CDC Stopped Monitoring Explosive Diarrhea Parasite Before Outbreak (Newsweek 7/10)
New Mexico Accuses D.O.J. of Obstructing Epstein Ranch Inquiry (NYT 7/9)
The End of Reading Is Here (The Atlantic 7/8)

In our 43rd episode of This F*cking Guy, Erin and Alyssa dive deep into the past of the Jelly Bean Jack*ss, Ronald Reagan. From his B-list acting days, to "fighting" WWII from Culver City, to being an FBI rat, to his unforgivable  handling of the AIDS crisis, to mucking up foreign affairs for decades to come, this may be one of our most deluded guys yet.
For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast, episode title, and episode date.
Sources:

Ronald Reagan: Informant (Salon)
Peeping Ron (Book Forum) 
Ronald Reagan’s shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness (Salon)
Ronald Reagan’s wartime lies: The president had quite a Brian Williams problem (Salon)
The Mendacity Index (Washington Monthly)
On a wing and a prayer (Alec Nevala-Lee)
Tear Down This Myth (Google Books) 
Reagan & Co. (The Washington Post) 
California: Credibility in Sacramento (Time) 
The Lion King: An Exchange (NY Books)
Reagan Expresses Horror at Claim That the Holocaust is a Hoax (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) 
The Myth of Ronald Reagan and the Nazi Death Camps (National Review)
The Stupidity of Ronald Reagan (Slate)
Paying Lip Service (The Village Voice)
The Road to Reagandom (Slate)
How Ronald Reagan's Time at General Electric Pushed Him to Conservatism (Lit Hub)
Ronald Reagan’s Millions (Rolling Stone)
How Prop 14 Shaped California's Racial Covenants (PBS Socal)
Here's the Rest of Him (Claremont Review of Books) 
Alla Nazimova (AFI Catalog Spotlight)
The Global HIV/AIDS Timeline (KFF)
History of the HIV Epidemic (Gilead)
When AIDS Was Funny Casts a Harsh Light on the Reagan Administration’s Indifference to HIV (HIV Plus Mag)
Short film “When AIDS Was Funny,” Reagan Press Secretary laughs off an epidemic (Q Notes Carolinas)
‘When AIDS Was Funny’: Short film reveals shortfalls of Reagan response to AIDS (MSNOW)
HIV/AIDS Timeline (history.com)
HIV/AIDS Historical Timeline (Philadelphia Center)
Snapshots of an Epidemic: An HIV/AIDS Timeline (amfAR)
The Iran-Contra Affair (Bill of Rights Institute) 
The Iran-Contra Affair (PBS American Experience) 
1983 Beirut barracks bombing: ‘The BLT Building is gone!’ (Marine Corps Times) 
H-Gram 080: Paved with Good Intentions—The U.S. Navy in the 1983 Lebanon Crisis (Naval History and Heritage Command)
When Reagan Cut and Run (Foreign Policy) 
40 Years Later, El Mozote Massacre Victims Vow to 'Keep Demanding Justice' (Common Dreams) 
The Massacre at El Mozote (Human Rights Watch)
Judgment Day’s Coming for U.S.-Backed Troops Who Slaughtered Men, Women, and So Many Children at El Mozote (Daily Beast) 
Pakistan’s Nuclear Program Posed “Acute Dilemma” for U.S. Policy (National Security Archive) 
New Documents Spotlight Reagan-era Tensions over Pakistani Nuclear Program (National Security Archive) 
New Documents Spotlight Reagan-era Tensions over Pakistani Nuclear Program (Wilson Center)
The Pakistan Aid Dilemma (Center for American Progress) 
Fact Check: It's Rumored that Ronald Reagan Had Alzheimer's Disease While Still in Office. Here's What the Evidence Says (Snopes)
Did Reagan Decline? (Sage Journal)
Hoover Makes Available the Newly Processed Papers of Nancy’s Reagan’s White House Astrologer (Hoover Institution)
How Nancy Reagan's Secret Phone-In Astrologer Became a Powerful White House Adviser — and Helped Oust the Chief of Staff (People)
Nancy Reagan: Controversial Moments During Her Life in the Public Eye (People)
Why Ronald Reagan Became the Great Deregulator (JSTOR Daily)
Looking Back On When President Reagan Fired The Air Traffic Controllers (NPR)
Reagan’s Legacy (SFAF)
The Other Time a U.S. President Withheld WHO Funds (John Hopkins)
How newly discovered audio is reviving debate over Reagan's legacy on race (PBS News)
It’s Time to End the Racist and Unjustified Sentencing Disparity Between Crack and Powder Cocaine (Civil Rights)
Reagan's National Drug Strategy (University of Michigan)
The Fairness Doctrine: How We Lost It and Why We Need It Back (SISYPHUS)
Portraits in Oversight: The Iran-Contra Affair (Levin Center)
Ronald Reagan Made Central America a Killing Field (Jacobin)
Guatemalan Slaughter Was Part of Reagan’s Hard Line (The New York Times)
Remembering US-backed state terror in El Salvador (Al Jazeera)
Ronald Reagan’s shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness (Salon)
The Key to Welfare Reform (The Atlantic)

Erin and Alyssa dissect the fallout from the latest Graham Platner allegations, the vital status of Mitch McConnell, and the BS Americans endured in the name of Freedom 250. Then the president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health, Christian Lobue, joins to talk about the organization’s exciting partnership with Olivia Rodrigo’s all-female music festival, Daisy Chain Fields. They wrap up with a World Cup edition of the Sanity Corner and an update about the show.
For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast, episode title, and episode date.
Democrats begin pulling Platner endorsements after Maine Senate candidate faces sexual assault allegation (PBS 7/7)
Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her (Politico 7/6)
As health rumors swirl, GOP leaders say they’ve spoken with McConnell (WaPo 7/7)
House Democrats accuse Trump of 'hijacking' America's 250th birthday for his own gain (NPR 7/2)
‘You are all that matters to me’: White House aide left adoring notes for Trump in ‘private spaces’, new book reveals (The Independent 6/23)