Melissa Murray
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3,183 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
Melissa Murray’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like you have done so many things in your career and you've covered so many important topics.
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Why did you decide to focus on the Reagan presidency and this plot to basically capture the courts?
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So what you just said just reminded me of something.
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Do you remember back in the eighties when they had those designer impostors?
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Like if you love Giorgio, you'll love Primo.
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I'm Jean not if you love Injustice, you'll love the Roberts Court.
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Chicago.
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You start off with the dawn of Ronald Reagan's presidency.
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So morning in America, if you will.
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And the point of the book, I think, is that Reagan's kind of an ancillary figure.
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Like we think of him as, you know, the father of American conservatism, but he's very quickly sidelined in this story.
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You describe him as, quote, merely a sunny figurehead and his sunny nature.
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Is actually in stark juxtaposition to the people under him who are literally fueled by anger and grievance.
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Fueled by
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Like they are pissed off.
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Like they've been in the wilderness for so long.
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And you talk about four very influential men from the shadows.
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These are Ed Meese, Paul Weyrich, Joe Kors, and Robert Bork.
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And your description of them is absolutely hilarious.
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You call them, quote, a disheveled police enthusiast with a punitive streak, that's Ed Niees, an ultra-religious college dropout with a thing for trains, that's Paul Weyrick, a joyless, paranoid beer magnet who believed that zip codes were an insidious government plot, that's Joe Kors, and a testy conservative contrarian who was a one-time advocate for the New Deal, Robert Bork.
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