Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, December 21st, 1983.

We're building this entire episode, folks, around an event on that date, December 21st,

1983, which we were clued into by an eight word email from a listener, Joseph.

And so Joseph's email, I'm going to read it in its entirety, says,

Gerald Ford played himself on dynasty in 1983?

And I should be clear that email,'s eight words and it ends in four

question marks so so it's Gerald Ford played himself on dynasty in 1983

question mark question mark, question mark.

And then Joseph, our listener, provided a link to an article about Gerald Ford appearing on

the hit soap opera dynasty six years after leaving office.

It was a very, very brief appearance by my count, six words.

So we're doing this episode around an eight-word email about a six-word moment on television.

Hopefully we can find more words to say about it than that.

Let's see.

Here, as always,

Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley,

ready to say some words. Yes, well, we can keep it suitably short because Gerald Ford's presidency

was quite short as well.

Oh, wow.

Bird.

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