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00:00Hi, Dana.
00:00What's up, brother?
00:01You've heard of Deflategate.
00:04Yeah.
00:04What's another gate?
00:06Onion Ring Gate.
00:07Or you said that they won't let you have onion rings outside.
00:10Yeah.
00:10Give me one more famous gate.
00:11Spy Gate.
00:12Spy Gate.
00:13Oh, uh, Watergate.
00:14There you go.
00:15Do you know anything about Watergate?
00:17Nixon.
00:171972, Nixon's re-election campaign.
00:20He's facing off against Democratic candidate George McGovern.
00:25Okay.
00:25Whom he beat in the election, winning 60% of the popular vote, which is the largest
00:33margin of victory by a presidential candidate in history.
00:36The reason that the Watergate scandal happened is because Nixon and his people
00:42were so worried about what the Democrats were cooking up and were so suspicious
00:48that they wanted to break into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee,
00:54which were in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C.
00:57to figure out what's their plan.
00:59Sounds stealthy.
01:00And those guys were caught.
01:03So they're not stealthy.
01:05They're not as good as ninjas as we thought they were.
01:07It was traced back to the Nixon administration,
01:12at which point he was, I think, subpoenaed to release tapes.
01:17He had voice-activated tapes in the Oval Office.
01:20And he had these tapes and he refused to hand them over in the investigation.
01:25And then this led to a constitutional crisis that had to deal with,
01:29is the president above the law?
01:33He's the only president in history to resign.
01:35Wow.
01:35Do you know who his successor was?
01:37George H. Dubb.
01:38No.
01:39Taft.
01:40I'll give you a hint.
01:41Played football at Michigan.
01:42Theodore.
01:43Or was it?
01:43No, that's the 40s.
01:46Fuck.
01:47I don't know.
01:48It's also not the 40s.
01:50Gerald Ford.
01:51Yeah, no.
01:51Was Nixon's vice president.
01:53Would have known that.
01:54And one of Ford's first acts as president was to pardon Nixon.
01:59Oh, so he came back?
02:00The nation needs to heal.
02:01We need to move on from this black eye.
02:04Respect, Gerald.
02:05Yeah, Gerald Ford.
02:06He sounds like a fullback.
02:07Ford played center and linebacker.
02:10Of course he did.
02:11He's the guy that he's the...
02:13Uh-huh.
02:13You know?
02:18There was a great movie made about the Watergate scandal that followed the investigative reporting
02:24on it.
02:25Was it called Watergate?
02:26It's called All the President's Men.
02:28It should have just been called Watergate.
02:30Out of that movie and out of that scandal, there was a famous character revealed.
02:35Hmm.
02:36Deep Throat.
02:37Yeah.
02:38You ever heard of this?
02:39Operation Deep Throat.
02:41Operation Deep Throat, boys.
02:43What's that?
02:44It's just, I don't know.
02:46It's got a funny name, though.
02:47Oh, you just threw that on there.
02:49I don't think it was called Operation Deep Throat.
02:50Oh, it was Operation Deep.
02:51The two journalists that were assigned to this story were Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
02:57They would meet with this guy, Deep Throat, in a parking garage.
03:03Depicted in the movie.
03:04You should watch this movie.
03:05It couldn't do anything better?
03:07I don't know exactly why they called the informant Deep Throat.
03:10Couldn't it have been, like, balls?
03:12Shaft?
03:13That's a different movie.
03:14In 2003, the identity of Deep Throat was finally revealed.
03:19Wow.
03:19As Mark Phelp, who was the associate director of the FBI.
03:23Okay.
03:23He famously said, follow the money.
03:26And it was by tracing the money that they were able to connect it to the Nixon administration.
03:31Watergate.
03:31It changed Nixon's legacy.
03:34Try saying it with a Philly accent.
03:36Watergate?
03:36Yeah.
03:38That's good.
03:39Watergate.
03:40It's fun.
03:40Water.
03:42Hey, they giving me water?
03:44My buddy always used to say that in school.
03:47Really?
03:47Yeah, Flip.
03:48Shout out Flip.
03:49That's the one that found me face down in a marsh.
03:53In a marsh?
03:54Yeah.
03:54Why were you in the marsh?
03:55Who knows?
03:56Behind mariachis.
03:57We all went out.
03:58I had two drinks.
03:59Next thing I know, I woke up in a marsh.
04:01Holy smokes.
04:02Yeah, I think I got roofies.
04:04Or I just got really fucked up.
04:06From two drinks?
04:07Well, you know, two drinks is more like 12.
04:12He dominated the election, so he didn't even need to do this.
04:15And he did it anyway.
04:16He must feel like a big stupid idiot after all that.
04:19I bet he does.
04:20He was welcomed back into the White House by subsequent presidents
04:24who would lean on him for foreign policy advice.
04:27He was a genie.
04:28He was good on China.
04:29He had a very good handle on China.
04:31Yeah, rubbed the lamp.
04:33China, Russia.
04:34Rubbed the lamp, out comes Nixon.
04:36Yeah.
04:36I don't know what I'm talking about.
04:38I don't either.
04:39You should watch the movie All the Presidents, man.
04:41I would watch it.
04:42You know, one time I was like,
04:43I'm gonna watch every movie on IMDB's top list.
04:46That was up there.
04:47I thought that'll be up there.
04:48But I did watch Schindler's List.
04:50Wow, good for you.
04:51And then I got to Lord of the Rings.
04:53I'm like, fuck this shit.
04:54I quit.
04:55It seems to be understood that he was excellent on foreign policy.
04:58He was very smart.
04:59Yeah.
04:59He understood decorum.
05:01Can you help me out with that one?
05:02His bedside manner.
05:04The way he presented himself.
05:06On his bed?
05:06His ability to connect with people, his sense of behavior.
05:11That's Watergate in a nutshell.
05:14I feel like I would have done pretty bad in the 70s.
05:17Why?
05:17Like, those fucking, those are staring me in the face, those drinks.
05:22And all I want to do is drink them.
05:24Don't drink them.
05:25I'm not gonna.
05:26But I feel like if I was in the 70s and I saw a bunch of fucking acid,
05:30I'd be like, I'm gonna eat all of it.
05:33Because you're hungry.
05:35That's Watergate.
05:36Okay.
05:36Watch all the president's men.
05:38Yes, sir.
05:39Try to stay away from Gates.
05:40And LSD.
05:42Yeah.
05:42All right.
05:43Good luck, Dan and Peter.
05:44Thanks, Franny.