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Despite being on this site since 2005, I somehow didn’t know anything about Chris Chan aside from the name. Pretty sure I’m worse off now. Though I guess that’s the Behind the Bastards guarantee.
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Testekill posted:You gotta wonder how things would have gone if she had a different upbringing, maybe she'd have always been a hosed up individual but it really seems like the parents couldn't figure out how to raise a severely autistic child.
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Did Helldump ever turn into persistent IRL harassment? I mean, Robert was describing numerous people seeming to befriend Chris Chan, setting up dates (finally, a boyfriend-free girl!), and then welp, it was all for the lulz. It’s like she’s in a perverse Truman Show, except she knows she’s being watched. I can’t imagine what that would do to a person.
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Tarantino at least went to anti-police brutality protests and pissed off a bunch of cops. So he has that going for him. He did, by his own admission, know “enough to say something” about Harvey Weinstein. I don’t think that’s atypical for people in his position, but that doesn’t excuse him either.
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teen witch posted:Even as someone who likes a crime podcast (ok it’s just Criminal and Casefile), good lord timp posted:And then thinking about that rear end in a top hat made me realize there's a much better cartoonist target: Scott Adams. Now that would make for a good episode. What the gently caress happened to Dilbert's Dad to make him such a fuckwit?? I'd love to hear that story covered by Robert
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Dangerous Person posted:I think it's a patreon episode but Qanon Anonymous did a good one on Scott Adams
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These episodes are a microcosm of how powerful, selfish, out-of-touch assholes can make things much worse for vast numbers of people.
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The worst guest IIRC was the one on the Reagan episodes. I stopped listening because I found the guest to be painfully unfunny and annoying, and I mean that literally. Which is a shame, because hoo boy, what a bastard to have to skip out on.
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Subway’s white chocolate macadamia nut cookies are some of my favorite cookies on Earth.
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The Columbus series seemed to end abruptly. I know there was a whole lot more genocide and mayhem left to discuss, but instead the last thing Robert covered was Columbus’s deliberately writing down his route incorrectly so that nobody could intercept him/get in on the pillaging action for themselves.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Might there be a Part 3? I get a little frustrated when a topic gets more than two episodes without that being made clear at the start, because I like to listen to them all together.
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AceOfFlames posted:The lovely applause clip after Dirlewanger finally died after days of non stop beatings was perfect.
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Shinji2015 posted:The only ads I ever get are ads for other iHeart podcasts, and I live in the US
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“Admit it: you have an addiction. You’re addicted to true crime.” I mean, I guess BTB is true crime in a way 
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rotinaj posted:9/10 of the ads on behind the bastards for me are just for betterhelp online therapy
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“We’re just two best friends, chattin’ about our lives, and tryin’ to be a little better every day  ”— the hosts of 500,000 different podcasts
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The Nygard episode was very america.txt considering that his vast wealth kept him safe despite being accused of sexual assault by a vast number of women, but he hosed with ONE billionaire's property, and welp.
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I would like Robert to do an episode on whoever created the True Crime podcast because goddamn am I sick of these ads. Please give me more ads about gold scams instead. Pleaseeeeeee
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Snuffman posted:Out of all the podcasts I listen to, I'd happily pay Behind the Bastards for ad-free if it were an option.
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In the BtB sub, someone posted about the ad issue today. Robert commented and said there will be a way to listen ad-free soon: https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/107oipv/comment/j3nxjrb/
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I like that in mid-November or so, the gold ads began to open with “frustrated that we didn’t get the red wave we were promised?”Regalingualius posted:I’ve been listening to episodes of the Behind the Police and Insurrections miniseries on Spotify, and there’s been some fucky ad-cuts where someone gets cut off mid sentence for unannounced ads, they resume where it left off, and then a few minutes later the regular ad break happens.
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I’m glad they covered how Tate and other awful people raise their profile by deliberately saying outrageous things and then reaping the attention of the media/internet. It reminds me of an interview Dan from Knowledge Fight did on Decoding the Gurus. He was saying that internet dunk culture is very good for Alex Jones because tons of people share Alex’s stuff and say “look at this loving clown!” And the vast majority of people agree that he’s a loving clown, and the sharer gets their dopamine from all the likes, but then just a few % of people go “hmmm, this guy actually sounds interesting, I should check out his site.” No such thing as bad publicity etc. There’s no real defense against it either. People aren’t not going to share outrageous stuff, because it’s good for the sharer to do so. Hell, I had never heard of a few apparently super-famous people (Logan Paul, The Liver King, Tate) until their scandals broke or they got busted, because then virtually all the content creators I follow were making videos about them in order to get views from all the controversy. The click/view-based economy is one of the worst things to happen to humanity.
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As stupid as it is, there’s a lot to be said for how these types are just plain good at speaking confidently, and that can help them bypass critical analysis because people unconsciously think that there’s no way someone would be speaking like that if they DIDN’T know what they were talking about. That’s why, like, Jordan Peterson can matter-of-factly deliver a word salad analysis of a Bible story and his fans think he’s a genius despite their having no idea what he just said.
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I get that Robert and Sophie can’t control all the ads. But Robert also personally reads ads for awful companies like Better Help. Soooo
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Oh, just that they don’t actually help people or pay their therapists much. And that they sell your data to companies like Facebook. Super cool for them to jerk around people who might be having mental health crises and then tell Zuck about how depressed you are. Every podcast I listen to that has them as a sponsor periodically has people showing up in that podcast’s sub saying “please stop taking money from BetterHelp. Here was my very bad experience with them…” I have never seen that for any other advertiser.
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I read a lot about Bobby Fischer and don’t recall hearing about him becoming a raging anti-Semite until after he was world champion. The stuff about him offering to show his uncircumcised dick is new and kinda surprising. I kinda want to dig into the sources; Mia glossed over and poorly characterized so many of the chess bits that the episode kinda sucked for me, and I can’t help but wonder about the overall quality of the info that went into this. Like, “they played a bunch of games, nothing exciting happened, they didn’t play well” was the summary of the 1972 world championship? Fischer’s “game of the century” was NBD? Uh, no. No. I realize Fischer sucked as a person, but lovely people can still be good at things (not that this excuses their personal shittiness). Doubly also, I am now sincerely wondering how much effort it would take to train an AI that removes the ad breaks from these episodes. They use the sample bumper jingles before and after each one that can be used to make the audio cuts; shouldn’t be too hard (???) Zugzwang fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Feb 14, 2023 |
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I played part 2 at 1X speed instead of the usual 1.5X and found it much easier to follow. This one was actually about bastardry while part 1 felt too much like them making fun of a weird kid. One thing that Mia only touched on was Fischer’s antics after playing his rematch with Spassky. As Mia noted, Fischer’s match was illegal and he was wanted by the US authorities for playing it. At one point, he was being sheltered by the Polgárs, a famous Hungarian chess family (all three daughters are masters, with Judit being the strongest woman player ever). They also happen to be Jewish. Bobby, despite being literally protected from arrest by these people, would not shut the gently caress up about how the holocaust was a hoax and all kinds of other antisemitic stuff. Like, it’s almost all he talked about. Eventually the dad László said “Bobby, did my relatives just vanish through some kind of magic trick?” and they booted his rear end out.
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Why is Robert trying to cancel Jorp’s free speech?
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The episode on The Liver King was fun. I have heard $100k cited as the amount of money people spend on drugs to get ready for a year's Mr Olympia competition, so just lol that he spent even more than that. Though I suppose that's what it takes to go from "really jacked for a normal person" to "comic book character jacked" in a short amount of time.
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Inzombiac posted:Good grief I am still two years behind BtB but I don't want to skip anything.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Good lord Jack Welch was a piece of poo poo I know that folks on places like this site use "number go up" sarcastically a lot, but it's true; evidently a huge percentage of our supposed leaders and luminaries are myopic twits obsessed with improving some metric in the short term, even if doing so will wreck the same metric in the long run.
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Sophie's "Oh, Robert..." look is unmistakable.
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Pack it in, Androidailures
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Maybe he is avoiding Patreon so he doesn't indirectly fund Pomplamoose
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Considering all the hype, yeah, this was a letdown. It was also highly entertaining because of the guests and the types of people covered. I imagine that most owners of major sports franchises are bastards on an equal or worse scale, correcting for the fact that not all sports inherently destroy the players' bodies like pro wrestling/American football do.
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Shinji2015 posted:I think the difference between Vince and say, a Dan Snyder, is that for all of Snyder's awfulness, he hasn't warped American football in the same way Vince warped pro wrestling. Snyder can be divorced from football (he just has been!), but Vince and wrestling are forever linked, and you can't talk about one without the other. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the episodes on NYC real estate developer, star of The Apprentice, and failed Reform Party presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump that end in 2007. Zugzwang fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Jun 3, 2023 |
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The latest series is about Stockton Rush and the Groversub. Well that was fast.
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"The most unrealistic part of Terminator 2 isn't the time travel or the flesh-covered robots, it's the tech entrepreneur who, when warned that his invention would destroy the world, decided to put a stop to it" I'm dying
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Is there a way to listen to the subscription outside of Apple Podcasts? Because I haven't used this app in a long time and am being aggressively reminded why that is.
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