Podbit · Giggly Squad
Hannah Berner's grandmother would spend all day managing the house, then put on a full face of makeup and lay out a perfect dinner exactly as her husband called to say he was an hour away. Later she got a secretary job where she wore Thierry Mugler sets and charmed everyone — whether or not she could type.
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A TikTok showing housewives from different decades prompts the episode's most historically irreverent segment. Paige opens with an honest admission: if all her friends collectively decided to become tradwives, she would probably go along with it. But then the real question emerges — which decade? The options range from the 1950s full-dive domestic era to the rebellious 1980s, with a detour through Rosie the Riveter and the post-WWII pushback when men returned from war and tried to reclaim domestic authority. Paige lands firmly in the late '60s/early '70s: drugs are available but still from a doctor, so they feel sanctioned; gossip is rampant because everyone's on the phone all day. Hannah's grandmother is offered as evidence — a woman who would spend all day making the house perfect, then apply a full face of makeup the moment her husband called from an hour away, and who later became a glamorous secretary in Mugler sets. Hannah's own verdict: she would have been labeled hysterical and lobotomized, then wonders, genuinely, whether you can smoke weed on a lobotomy.
Paige tells Hannah that their friendship didn't just change her career — it changed her whole life. Before Hannah, Paige didn't know she wanted to say more things or be louder. She also ended most of her sentences as a young woman with 'and then I'll be married,' until she realized marriage might just cause more problems.
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Lebanese terrorists backed by Iran were holding American hostages throughout the Reagan presidency. Reagan had loudly campaigned against negotiating with terrorists — putting him in an impossible position that his team quietly decided to ignore.
During the Iran-Iraq War, the US openly supplied Iraq with weapons, training, and intelligence. At the same time, Oliver North was secretly funneling missiles to Iran. The US was playing both sides of a shooting war.
Oliver North traveled to Iran under the alias 'William P. Goode' with a fake passport. CIA Director William Casey allegedly gave him cyanide pills so he could kill himself rather than be tortured if captured. He returned safely and the deal moved forward.
The Pentagon sold missiles to the CIA for $3,700 each. The CIA sold them to Richard Secord at cost. Secord sold them to Iranian middleman Ghorbanifar for $10,000 each. Ghorbanifar charged Iran even more. The profit — including $3 million in interest in one Swiss account — was diverted directly to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.
America secretly transferred 2,000 missiles and missile parts to Iran in 8 shipments over more than a year. Only 3 of 7 hostages were released. Three more were taken. The net result was zero freed hostages and a full-blown constitutional scandal.
On October 5, 1986, a CIA Contra supply plane flew a weapons drop at 2,500 feet in broad daylight. A Sandinista soldier shot it down. The only survivor, Eugene Hasenfuss, had borrowed a parachute from his skydiving brother. He was captured, paraded in front of cameras, and told the Sandinistas everything he knew.
The CIA supply operation used a front company called Southern Air Transport, widely known to be a CIA cover. Crew members of the downed plane carried their Southern Air Transport employee IDs in their wallets. One also had a business card directly linking him to Oliver North's office in Washington.
When the scandal broke, Oliver North and his secretary Fawn Hall conducted what became known as a 'shredding party,' destroying a day's worth of documents. The full truth of Iran-Contra may never be known because of what was fed through that shredder.
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