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AceOfFlames posted:For me nothing can beat those two ladies from the Reagan's astrologer eps who just kept yasqueening her and undermining Robert almost every step of the way. I can definitely understand cheering for someone screwing over Reagan but they seemed adamant in ignoring the other people she ended up hurting in the process. Yeah I found them really frustrating. You can applaud someone loving over the Reagans but they're were just far too positive about a woman that ended up hurting a lot of people.
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He hasn’t been on in a while but Billy Wayne Davis is a good guest. Fake edit: If you still read this thread Robert, bring him back on. Real edit: Check out the Tiger King episode. https://overcast.fm/+4cUN-CCU8 or April 13th 2000 if you use a bad podcast player. goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 07:01 on Aug 16, 2022 |
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lonelylikezoidberg posted:I like Matt Lieb because he makes me laugh when he talks about loving a big mouth billy bass. If you want more Matt Lieb I highly recommend the Frotcast. Also I’m very excited for his upcoming The Wire rewatch podcast.
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Phetz posted:If you want more Matt Lieb I highly recommend the Frotcast. Also I’m very excited for his upcoming The Wire rewatch podcast. Seconding; after he guested on the Harlon Carter episodes I decided to check out Pod Yourself A Gun since I've been watching The Sopranos for the first time with my wife (other than a few half-remembered scenes caught over parents and roommates' shoulders) Matt Lieb and Vincent Mancini are the perfect blend of insightfulness + being a dumb idiot for me, and they generally have very funny and thoughtful guests on. I haven't dipped into the Frotcast yet but I'm thinking once I finally catch up on PYAG I might just become a regular frotcast listener so I can keep my Lieb and Mancini intake up
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goatsestretchgoals posted:He hasn’t been on in a while but Billy Wayne Davis is a good guest. As far as i know, Billy wayne davis got understandably tired of either not being paid or being paid smaller amounts than he wanted to be a regular guest on the show
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Ain't you heard? Guests are paying to be on top podcasts. More seriously that seems kinda petty. There's supposed to be a symbiotic relationship between the guest and host where they share audiences for a net benefit to both.
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I only ever saw anything about it from billy wayne, and i only half remember it, but i got the vibe that btb and cool zone media just kind of expected billy wayne to be available for them on the reg and weren’t paying him? I could be wrong, naturally. They might pay and billy wanted more money, or he wanted his own podcast, who knows?
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Phetz posted:If you want more Matt Lieb I highly recommend the Frotcast. Also I’m very excited for his upcoming The Wire rewatch podcast. I love the frotcast but the magic died when Ben the ear rapist died of cancer. E: also when Brendan and Brett left to have kids. Also Vince hasn't been the same since he has been married and happy.
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The impression I got from Billy Wayne was that he was being asked to guest on a lot of podcasts where he was contributing a significant amount to the entertainment value without compensation, something that became more of an issue when he could no longer do stand-up shows and there was therefore nothing for him to promote. He seems to still get along with Robert, it sounds like iHeart has started paying guests something instead of nothing, and he's doing a tour now, so it would be nice to see him come back. I've seen suggestions that iHeart doesn't want him back because of his principled stance against unpaid appearances, but that feels conspiratorial compared to being busy with his own thing and not considering guesting worth his time.
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I heard the CIA wouldn't allow Robert to lend Billy Wayne his knife, so it ended in a bitter breakup.
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B33rChiller posted:I heard the CIA wouldn't allow Robert to lend Billy Wayne his knife, so it ended in a bitter breakup. This is actually what is going on, iheart was demanding that robert not give out machetes and billy wayne demanded a machete
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iHeart got sick of all the food-throwing and separated them the way teachers won't let certain children sit next to each other.
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B33rChiller posted:Post your insane BTB fanfic ITT Robert is an active investor in ………..‘s child-hunting island
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B33rChiller posted:Post your insane BTB fanfic ITT Everett False posted:
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Regalingualius posted:Robert is an active investor in ………..‘s child-hunting island Well, the kids need a safe place to learn safe firearms handling, and how to field dress a deer. Public service really.
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B33rChiller posted:Post your insane BTB fanfic ITT Isn't that what got the last thread locked?
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This just makes me miss WYE, where Katie would try to keep the goons on-topic before finally giving in and joining the riffs on spider-web cum or whatever. Those geeks...  I can see why you'd want to keep Robert and Cody apart if you wanted to ever get anything done, though.
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Thinking of those eary WYE ever episodes, I believe that is when Sofie learned that she can just yell at people and its great. She was this occassional squeek in the back ground, but months of riding roughshode on Robert (who, at the time, I think was still doing harder drugs) made her a very present and assertive presence in the show to the point BtB is no good without spicy Sofie telling Robert to loving act right. I don’t know how much of that is them being their performative selves, but it a delightful dynamic. I don’t know if any of you listen to the Ron Burgandy podcast, but his producer Carolina has an intentional character arc where she starts out as this mousy push over and by the middle of the second season she’s telling Ron to shut the gently caress up and is now nearly as crazed as he is. I am simple man and I love poo poo like that. Marsupial Ape fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Aug 17, 2022 |
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Marsupial Ape posted:Thinking of those eary WYE ever episodes, I believe that is when Sofie learned that she can just yell at people and its great. She was this occassional squeek in the back ground, but months of riding roughshode on Robert (who, at the time, I think was still doing harder drugs) made her a very present and assertive presence in the show to the point BtB is no good without spicy Sofie telling Robert to loving act right. I don’t know how much of that is them being their performative selves, but it a delightful dynamic. The power of machetecine.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Isn't that what got the last thread locked?
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Todays episode sounds pretty interesting, I'm always interested in how Rome went to poo poo.
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The episode title is so stupid I'm skipping it to avoid doing psychic damage. Robert's asides about Rome that I remember are very much in the "I read a very outdated pop history once" realm.
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Grand Fromage posted:The episode title is so stupid I'm skipping it to avoid doing psychic damage. Robert's asides about Rome that I remember are very much in the "I read a very outdated pop history once" realm. I wonder what he's talking about it can't be that-OH GOD IS TOO SPICY twerking on the railroad fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Aug 18, 2022 |
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From listening, it sounds like he's using Mike Duncan's The storm before the storm, as his source.
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Zeniel posted:From listening, it sounds like he's using Mike Duncan's The storm before the storm, as his source. Wild. I wonder if the titles are created by some clickbait person at the company.
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Grand Fromage posted:Wild. I wonder if the titles are created by some clickbait person at the company. If the Roman republic is your TurboNerd expertise, then what books do you recommend? I would also like to become a Roman Republic TurboNerd.
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Grand Fromage posted:Wild. I wonder if the titles are created by some clickbait person at the company. I mean Robert did used to work for Cracked I figured he's just in the habit of giving his works incredibly hyperbolic titles
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Marsupial Ape posted:If the Roman republic is your TurboNerd expertise, then what books do you recommend? I would also like to become a Roman Republic TurboNerd. I'll spare you the essay on why I don't think the "Roman Republic" framing is correct and just accept the popular conception here. Nothing comprehensive, just approachable stuff I remember reading: The Storm Before the Storm, Mike Duncan, about the period immediately before the first civil wars. SPQR, Mary Beard. This is a wide overview book but Mary Beard is great. Livy is pretty readable as primary sources go. The Punic Wars, Adrian Goldsworthy. Daily Life in Ancient Rome, Jerome Carcopino. Not sure what's recent and good, I've mostly been reading about late antiquity and the medieval empire for a while.
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Grand Fromage posted:I'll spare you the essay on why I don't think the "Roman Republic" framing is correct and just accept the popular conception here. Nothing comprehensive, just approachable stuff I remember reading: Cool. I think Beard was one of Robert’s sources. I’ll start with SPQR.
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I liked the episode as a non expert at least, nice and breezy, didn't try to go too far in depth, basically the story of the things-you-need-to-know and the guy with a nice aroma of "yeah people are people no matter when but the romans were really hashtag relatable"
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I gotta at least know what he was claiming was the police state part. Sulla's proscriptions?
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Grand Fromage posted:I gotta at least know what he was claiming was the police state part. Sulla's proscriptions? I was only half listening but I think it was the Urban Cohorts and the Vigiles under Augustus. The former because they removed the ability of the people to riot to resist unpopular laws and actions, and the Vigiles because they were eventually granted the ability to enter any home and report crimes they saw?
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No, Robert said he considers the corruption of the Praetorian Guard as the beginning of the Roman police state.
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Marsupial Ape posted:No, Robert said he considers the corruption of the Praetorian Guard as the beginning of the Roman police state. Hah, I didn't realize I hadn't actually finished the episode. This is actually where the episode ends up in the last 20 minutes or so, yeah.
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this podcast has covered a lot of disgusting and heinous acts but nothing compares to the evil that the BTB Reddit just did to Sophie https://twitter.com/robertmccleery6/status/1561830429711269891?s=21&t=1UmqqJJ4a6SBojnmj_Kq8Q insinuating that various corporations engage in human trafficking is all in good fun but insinuating that someone likes the Boston Celtics is beyond the pale
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Robert, please tell Sophie I'm sorry. I don't know her, and she has no clue who I am, but I am sincerely saddened by this development.
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I love when people say words they've only ever read and not heard, probably because it's a bit they play up on the dollop Ar-schapllego
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Maybe Robert should do an episode on the writer of this email: https://twitter.com/jamieloftusHELP/status/1562100298960629761?s=20&t=_oOLt5QeAHubI4FmnJsrCw Seriously, gently caress that guy.
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