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Hi Robert. Just wanted to say I love your podcast even though I skip half the episodes for the sake of my own mental health (due to the subject matter, not the podcast itself). Keep up the good work!
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If we are doing requests, I'd love to see an episode on Shoko Asahara and Aum Shinrikyo. It's mind boggling how the world has utterly forgotten what was essentially a real life version of COBRA.
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Shinji2015 posted:Man, the Last Podcast on the Left episodes on Aum Shinrikyo were amazing. The poo poo they did. I loved those episodes too but whenever Henry breaks out his "hilarious" Asian accent I feel horrendously embarrassed to be listening. To their credit they don't do that sort of thing anymore.
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Apr 17, 2020 02:06
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Happy Hedonist posted:Hey Robert, may I request an episode on Flint? Between the sit down strike, white flight, and the current water crises there is a rich history there that should be told more often. That reminds me that anyone interested in BtB should also check out Swindled. They are on hiatus right now but their last season finale was about Flint. Much like BtB, episodes can alternate between crushingly depressing and rather humorous thanks to the host's deadpan delivery. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Apr 22, 2020 |
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Apr 22, 2020 07:50
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Bust Rodd posted:The Regan fortune teller lady is one of my faves too because his guests end up siding with her when she was clearly taking advantage of sad and mentally ill people (like the President and his wife) but they just are like completely Ra Ra Ra around her girl boss energy. Deeply upsetting conclusion but still good content I got the impression it was just as much "gently caress Reagan" as "You go girl", imho.
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Apr 24, 2020 13:16
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Neo_Crimson posted:I haven't listened to every podcast, but did they really get a Koch Industries ad, or was that just a joke? It's not a joke. A lot of the time podcast ads are inserted automatically by an ad network the podcasters partner with with no input from the latter which occasionally leads to stuff like this. Of course misguided ad attempts even without algorithms: the host of Swindled, a podcast that's as anti-comsumerist, anti-corruption and anti-captialist as they come, was personally contacted with an ad proposal from the Mike Bloomberg campaign of all people (whose ads ALSO appeared on BtB) AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 07:00 on May 7, 2020 |
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May 7, 2020 06:56
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Jacob Wohl is worth covering because the guy is hilariously dumb.teen witch posted:Jacob “800 dogs in DC” Wohl Jacob "Let me put a picture of Christoph loving Waltz in my fake company's LinkedIn employee listings" Wohl.
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Jun 5, 2020 15:35
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https://twitter.com/bouboutyassine/status/1270287174840266752 Shame they didn't cut off the hands. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Jun 9, 2020 |
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Jun 9, 2020 15:54
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Halloween Jack posted:he'll be found in a burnt-out car after committing suicide by driving a machete into the back of his head. That's how I want to go.
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Jun 15, 2020 16:49
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bobjr posted:Is there anyone Oprah pushed on her show that didn’t turn out to be a bastard? Funny how this is running at the same time Wondery started a show about James Arthur Ray and the people he killed at his sweat lodge.
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Jul 7, 2020 21:28
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Chairman Capone posted:Or like the Quaker Oats radiation study. Basically Quaker Oats funded an MIT study on how the body absorbs radiation, which it did by creating a bogus "science club" at a school for mentally handicapped boys and secretly feeding them oatmeal that had been laced with radioactive materials. The crazy thing is that Quaker Oats did this to get good promotion at a time when they were competing against Cream of Wheat, and this is part of the reason why Quakers Oats became so dominant and Cream of Wheat faded. So they ran a radiation experiment...to advertise oats? 
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Aug 13, 2020 21:49
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I'm sure Dani Shapiro is a lovely person but my God, did I get sick of hearing her voice from the Family Secrets ad. Glad that seems to have subsided.
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Aug 18, 2020 10:39
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apatheticman posted:Garrison is pretty good at the podcasts. I know right? Robert pulls a random teenager from a cloud of tear gas and he absolutely nails it. Is this what teens are these days? When I was that age I was doing... well, nothing.
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Aug 19, 2020 20:01
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fatherboxx posted:get well soon robert! Behold the power of Machetecine! (Seriously, if you're reading this, get well soon, Robert.)
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Aug 23, 2020 16:24
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Man, I want a BtB ep on Aum Shinrikyo so bad.
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Sep 5, 2020 07:36
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GunFondler42069 posted:it is not an editing error, we are unsure why this is happening for some people Get well soon Robert! May the healing power of machetes nurse you back to health!
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Sep 16, 2020 08:19
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DC Murderverse posted:I’m listening to the first part of the Golden Age of Terrorism and I have not laughed this hard at a podcast in a long time. Who knew that taking command of an airplane through threat of being shot in the face would be so light and hilarious? It really says a lot that that two parter is probably one of the funniest eps in the podcast in months. I had heard the name Carlos the Jackal multiple times but never imagined he was essentially Castor Troy from Face/Off.
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Sep 25, 2020 09:17
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Even though I am sure that this Cecil Rhodes ep will go horribly horribly wrong, I am already fully on board 20 mins in with the combination of Robert's British accent and Prop's energy.
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Oct 6, 2020 12:14
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I'm just surprised they didn't go into the weird grandma incest dream from Maps of Meaning. Then again, it's the kind of thing so hard to slot in, it would require a segue clunkier than Robert's ad transitions. 
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Oct 22, 2020 22:04
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If we’re getting deep into the most heart breaking and disturbing aspects of the Panic, then at least I hope we get into the silly as gently caress “Proctor and Gamble is Satanic, look at their logo” bit to balance it out. That debacle was probably the most QAnon-like event of the panic.
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Oct 27, 2020 21:44
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Having Lacey on to discuss Gregor McGregor on BtB is spot on because while McGregor is otherwise perfect as the subject for podcasts about con artists like Scam Goddess, Lie Cheat and Steal, etc, the sheer amount of people that ended up dead because of him kind of takes the fun out of the story and sends him straight to BtB/The Dollop territory. This is a great middle ground.
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Nov 11, 2020 07:53
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GunFondler42069 posted:1. I like the team I work with at iHeart (esp sophie) and no patreon I could reasonably get would pay us all living wages and healthcare This is pretty much reason enough in my book. It just wouldn't be the same without Sophie.
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Dec 4, 2020 11:27
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Bust Rodd posted:I haven’t listened to BtB in a long time besides the JORP eps, had to take a break, but the Knowledge fight guest eps are as good as the Billy Wayne Eps, those guys are extremely funny and smart and I like them a lot Every so often I still listen to the "Alex Jones sort of confesses to murder" clip. One of my all-time favorite podcast moments.
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Dec 5, 2020 17:11
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OJ MIST 2 THE DICK posted:much like the podcast this thread has branding issues You know what DOESN'T have branding issues?
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Dec 18, 2020 09:24
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GunFondler42069 posted:we're launching a new miniseries on fascist insurrections You are a goddamned machine, Robert. Your work ethic is impeccable.
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Jan 14, 2021 14:45
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teen witch posted:big putsch energy Do military coups count (i.e. all the CIA backed fuckery)? If so, then Pinochet should definitely be there.
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Jan 22, 2021 08:43
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Bust Rodd posted:I took an entire class in college called “Papal Indescretion” and it was about all the most hosed up popes and all the insane bacchanalia that they got up to. And of course there's good old Alexander VI AKA Rodrigo Borgia AKA the guy you fist fight at the end of Assassin's Creed II.
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Jan 29, 2021 18:58
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My condolences Robert. Take all the time you need.
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Feb 3, 2021 07:59
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One interesting detail about The Third Wave: as Garrison mentioned, they made a TV show. What he didn't mention is that there they made The Wave a pseudo Antifa group that "goes too far" 
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Feb 16, 2021 12:33
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In terms of dangling story threads, I'm like Robert in the Third Wave episode: how the gently caress did that teacher get Chairman Mao on the phone?
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Feb 21, 2021 21:32
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I still cannot believe that there was a time in history where hats were such a big deal that it led to stuff like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_Hat_Riot Also, I just got back from the supermarket and there was a white guy in his mid 20s shopping while wearing a freaking top hat. That was weird. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Feb 24, 2021 |
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Feb 24, 2021 20:20
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Samovar posted:At the risk of trying to hard on something that isn't really important, I think there are many male-identifying people who try to desperately quantify all things, since they have been taught it is unmanly to be emotional/reflect on emotions, so this is the closest way they feel it is manly for them to deal with the sadness of isolation. And yet, mention pronouns and those same men will scream "Why do you have to make things so COMPLICATED?" or "You can't just create new categories for yourself!"
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Mar 9, 2021 09:43
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Maybe that's part of Rush's punishment in Hell.
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Mar 12, 2021 13:19
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Stuff like this is why I never say anything remotely political or controversial on the Internet under my real name and if I ever become famous enough to be expected to keep a regular social media presence, I will either have it all done via a PR firm or fake my own death.
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Mar 16, 2021 20:42
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Sorry for your loss, Robert. My condolences.
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Apr 10, 2021 07:15
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DC Murderverse posted:I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one who hopes that LeBron James runs for president after he retires from playing ball Unfortunately, his association with known sexual abusers like Pepe Le Pew and the Droogs might make that difficult. EDIT: And we got a shoutout to the OG Space Jam in this last ep! Probably the only time in history in which Space Jam and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were mentioned in the same conversation. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Apr 15, 2021 |
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Apr 15, 2021 09:42
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GunFondler42069 posted:oh my god Future ep? (I can't seem to find any corroborating sources on that story other than a YouTube comment, though. Is there any actual truth to this besides Jordan being a known rear end in a top hat or just copypasta?) AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 08:45 on Apr 16, 2021 |
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Apr 16, 2021 06:06
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DC Murderverse posted:
Boooooooo.
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Apr 17, 2021 07:26
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You should have gone with “Gorilla Channel”, that’s probably the more in vogue term these days (though even that feels like a thousand years ago)
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Bust Rodd posted:
This should be in the OP of the Disco Elysium thread on games (though with Final Cut it's a bit outdated)
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