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Is there a particular way of buying the ebook of A Brief History of Vice that gets you more money?
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Jun 29, 2020 03:05
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I consistently get the Geico pass the rock ad, ads for The Breakfast Club podcast, and lately a lot of ads for Black haircare products 🤔 I look forward to Garrison's eventual takeover after Robert holes up in his compound and is banned from podcasting by the FDA.
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I live in rural Michigan in an office where credibility works backwards and only stories from people you know personally carry any weight. Experts? You don't know them. They could be lying. Not like my Facebook friend, who is a doctor that I know personally through Facebook. This results in me having to sit there while someone repeats a FWD:FWD:FWD: email, claiming their friend said it. They haven't yet told me that they know a veteran who tackled an atheist professor, but it's only a matter of time. This is all to say that I have started referring to Robert as "my friend in Portland" to save time. Sorry about the troubling parasocial relationship, Robert.
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Rubin's horrible stand-up catapulted me back to the early aughts when terrible comedians could coast on pointing at things and saying "that's gay", except apparently this dude decided he'd get in on the action by pointing at himself and saying "I'm gay" and waiting for the homophobe laffs to roll in.
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GunFondler42069 posted:that actually bums me out. i had a hard time figuring out how to read the ad but I actually love WoW, it was a big part of my childhood and i'm happy to push it. That ad in particular actually made me smile, something about the apparent enthusiasm for WoW in the middle of a somewhat downer episode was very funny. "Real life sucks, screw this, we're going back to WoW."
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Dec 4, 2020 06:28
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Is there any more iconic crossover moment than Robert telling Jordan to put the mic down? 
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Dec 5, 2020 18:08
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You could really hear Robert trying not to laugh as he read the police statement complaining about people throwing hot dogs at them.
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Dec 7, 2020 20:39
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I was so excited for the John Birch Society ep with JorDan and it lived up to all of my hype, I can't wait for part two. Eagerly awaiting the limited release of Bastards Brand Fucksticks (they're just normal hard candy sticks in a very difficult to explain jar).
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Dec 16, 2020 18:09
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I've never had to stifle laughter at work because of an editorial note before.
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Dec 22, 2020 20:42
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THE ECONOMIST!  I love that Jamie's response to BJ Dick completely validated the decision not to tell her about Daddy.
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Dec 28, 2020 23:16
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Every time someone mentions racist suffragettes and Sojourner Truth I remember how they edited her speech and get mad all over again.Sojourner Truth posted:May I say a few words? I want to say a few words about this matter. Frances Dana Gage's edit posted:Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?
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Jan 5, 2021 17:09
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Jan 13, 2021 23:50
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The other day I was thinking about how great it would be to have an LBJ episode, but ONLY if it focuses on his weird fixation on his own genitals, and ONLY if the guest has never heard him ordering pants so that we can hear Robert inflict that on them in real time.
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Robert if you wanna zag on Jamie, StrixNebulosa has been posting 1970s era Cathy comics with occasional context that you could text back. Here's where they start in the 2020 comic strip megathread and here's the 2021. (if you clear the user filter you can also read other newspaper comic strips, if that's a thing you want to do to yourself for some reason) Ack!
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The Sigma male thing is very interesting to me as a terminally online lady because... well, a lot of reasons. A major flaw in the false Alpha v Beta, Chad v Incel type binary is that it's always been a thinly veiled reskin of Jocks v Nerds bullshit. And it's 2021, where nerds provably get laid. Variations on the Alpha and Chad concepts have tried to explain why dorks who aren't incels continue to have sex, but it's still obvious to anyone with eyes that plenty of women are attracted to men who don't fit the concept of an Alpha Male. So there's plenty of young men who want sexually available women, but aren't interested in becoming an Alpha Male when they can plainly see that it's not actually necessary to do that. Along comes the Sigma male concept to say: actually, those nerds you see getting laid are a third type of man, who is also you. It's carefully designed to appeal to the kind of guy who fantasizes about getting an opportunity to beat someone up and seeing everyone be surprised that the quiet nerd is a secret badass. I could be your angle... or yuor devil 😈 The interesting part is where they seem to specify "wanting an independent woman". Because that's usually lovely-dude code for "I want a woman who demands nothing". And it ties into being Not Like Other Girls, because when you're Not Like Other Girls that means you don't want dumb girly stuff like nice dates and romantic gestures and a man who puts forth any effort into his appearance whatsoever. The Sigma male is like the other side of that coin, where you're Not Like Alphas, who pursue women and try to make themselves attractive, but you're also Not Like Betas, who buy girls flowers and try to do nice things for them. The actual message of the Sigma Male concept seems to be: embrace being shy and not wanting to put forth effort, and shut the gently caress up. The actual effect of this is that you say most women are too needy and you want an independent woman, and a woman who has wrapped her identity in being one of the good ones thinks that's actually great! And by shutting the gently caress up, you allow other people to project onto you without your actual personality getting in the way until it's too late and the sunk cost fallacy has kicked in. Which could totally have worked! There's a lot of guys I probably would have had bad sex with if they hadn't opened their mouths and ruined it by saying dumb poo poo. Plenty of redditors seem to have utilized these techniques completely by accident, judging by r/relationships. I assume the grift is mostly in putting ads on videos men can watch that tell them they're actually fine the way they are and also secret samurai, as well as selling them books that tell them they're great.
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PFT having to go get his knife was absolute gold.
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I had to explain Adventists to my mom the other day because we got these in the mail: We live in Michigan 
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I know they said shirts but drat do I want some stickers that say EAT SPICE CUM HARD Maybe with a big 🚫 over Kellogg's face.
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I just finished reading King of Confidence, and it feels like a good general book recommendation for this thread--some top-quality old-timey Mormon grifter poo poo, if you're into that kind of thing.
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I'd seen the story reposted for years and never questioned it, but is "Michael Jordan made Special K cry" just another "secret White House cheese room"? 🤔
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Yeah, that's what I meant by a White House cheese room situation — I don't know if anyone was ever actually intended to believe that a White House insider goon had revealed the secret of the room with the century-old cheese wheel still inside, but years later there were folks sharing it as a fact with unsuspecting goons who lacked context. Also I dunno poo poo about sports so I missed what I'm sure were meant to be obvious tells in that OP.
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As someone whose ASMR gets triggered by woo-woo bullshit, energy work always makes me wonder how many people go to someone to get paid attention to in a touchy-feely non-sexual way with a soothing voice, get weird brain tingles, and go, "I can feel the energy! It's working!!" It has to have happened at least once, right?
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Apr 20, 2021 17:09
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It's weird because people keep using the phrase 'only good podcast' but no one is talking about BirdNote, the podcast that updates every single day with two minutes of bird facts. I mean, Behind the Bastards is obviously extremely good, but Robert has never dedicated a portion of the episode to describing a dove sunning itself in a garden, and I don't think there's ever been any meaningful integration of birdsong. It's always been the show's major flaw, but it felt rude to bring it up.
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I can't tell if putting 'porn for ladies' ads on these last two episodes is extremely inappropriate or actually appropriate as hell. The funniest part is that I was actually already familiar with the site (unless you heard a different ethical porn streaming subscription ad). Very high production values, but runs into the problem I see a lot, which is assuming that women who are interested in paying for ethical porn aren't also into the nasty poo poo that's extra-hard to find ethically. Alas, my demographic must continue to settle for not letting anyone look at our ebook library. Getting an ad for the porn site run by the sex toy store I shop at on one of my favorite podcasts did make me feel very Seen, however.
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Getting an ad during WYE for chew was funny, but getting nothing but the same ad for chew, over and over, back to back, was extremely funny.
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Oh poo poo, BtB cameo from divabot! I really need to read that drat book.
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Dec 7, 2021 15:44
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Killing Santa really was next-level.
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teen witch posted:It was actually BtB that turned me onto KF and I adore the weird frenetic energy, but it’s something definitely not for everyone. Same. Something about KF hits my abyss-gazing buttons exactly right. I tried listening to Tuckered Out because of the similar concept, but without Jordan's incredulous screaming I couldn't handle it. Or maybe Tucker's lies are just too loving boring to be anything but frustrating. But I think having someone get so mad he starts barking incoherently is vital to my enjoyment.
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fishing with the fam posted:I was thinking about giving Knowledge Fight a try after hearing the hosts on BtB, but was intimidated by the massive backlog of episodes. Can you just jump in any time and not be completely swamped by what I can only assume is an insane Alex Jones background history? Yeah, basically--sometimes they'll reference "we've talked about that before" but usually if it's important they'll cite a specific episode. Someone made a spreadsheet here and the 'notable drops/bits' column has been essential for me when I want to go back and relisten but can't remember when the gently caress it was. Episode 67 is about the protocols, episode 281 is really vital to understanding how Alex believes things, I think 305 covers 'discernment' but I should relisten to double-check, 325 gets into more of his fundamental beliefs, and in 340 they really dig into Steve Pieczenik. I've also been re-listening to the Mark Richards episodes lately, so I also suggest giving episode 79 a try and going in blind because the less you know about Mark Richards the funnier it is to experience for the first time. There are probably more good ones early on but my memory is hazier because it was a while ago.
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teen witch posted:Even as someone who likes a crime podcast (ok it’s just Criminal and Casefile), good lord Unfortunately 'true crime' can refer to a lot of things, and the majority of the most popular stuff (especially when it comes to podcasts) is of the, "trust no one, buy a security system, never help a stranger, put your DNA in a database, always cooperate with cops, it's wine o'clock somewhere!" variety. It sucks because everyone knows the best episodes of Forensic Files are the ones where it turns out the cops lacked basic competence and couldn't stop accusing the same guy for no reason even as an absurd amount of evidence piled up to the contrary. See also: season two of In The Dark.
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I used to get the sentiment but then I had to spend a regular amount of time surrounded by openly hateful bigots. Now it's like. Man. What I wouldn't give for a coworker with the grace and tact to lie to me. Getting nostalgic for the days I could be mad about a microaggression. But obviously personal sentiment is going to vary wildly based on lived experience as well as personality.
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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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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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Papyrus.
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AceOfFlames posted:By the way, that 3-hour video they mention is pretty great: It's been recommended to me a couple times but I decided to actually watch it today! As a sped-up podcast weirdo this is my first time hearing Cody at 1x. 
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Last I heard of Dan Carlin he has continued being aggressively just-asking-questions both-sides-have-points 'centrist' including in a six hour podcast about slavery. Where he deliberately avoided modern sources to avoid being too political? About slavery. He apparently was unaware that the word 'quadroon' existed, which didn't stop him from using it. No idea what he's been up to since then, I also stopped listening years ago (so I've missed two episodes I guess). Now I have a different Dan satisfying my need for comically long podcasts of in-depth research, but this one comes out more than once a year.
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8 years old is way too young to be posting on these forums
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