Ed Helms

It's a brilliant plan, and it keeps all of the workers healthy, and they save the reactor.

There's still a partial meltdown.

There's a lot of damage done, but they prevent basically a Chernobyl from happening.

That very easily could have been North America's Chernobyl.

And I love this story because it's, you know, I grew up in a Southern Democrat household.

My dad was very politically engaged and we loved Jimmy Carter.

We always, he was like a venerated figure in our home.

But I feel like sadly in sort of the popular memory, he's considered kind of wimpy.

You know?

Even though he did a lot of really badass stuff, both as a president and especially as he's one of the most productive post-presidents we've ever had.

And I think of him as a hero.

I always have, and I've always resented this kind of popular sentiment that he's just sort of this wimpy, ineffective guy.

But this is like a great little nugget of proof that he was a really courageous badass with serious leadership and

I can really accentuate this point even more with a detail about this story, this snafu in your book, that when I said, I know what happens, this is what I'm talking about.

His urine was radioactive for how long?

Like three months afterwards.

Yeah.

That's a badass.

Yeah.

Okay, make fun of Jimmy Carter all day long, but have you had radioactive urine?