Speaker 1: Also media.
Speaker 2: Hey everybody, I'm Robert Evans. This is Behind the Bastards,
Speaker 2: a podcast by a man who is preparing for the
Speaker 2: entrance of the new regime, the need to go underground.
Speaker 2: So I'm in my chut block today. You know, if
Speaker 2: you're a tall white man and you wear a hoodie
Speaker 2: with a deer head on it, you're effectively invisible. So
Speaker 2: I'm I'm I'm prepared for the new world. Are you?
Speaker 1: You look great?
Speaker 2: Thank you, Sophie. I love my chud hits. It's actually
Speaker 2: incredibly comfortable. Hi. Every year after deer season, this exact
Speaker 2: hoodie comes on for sale at a store near me,
Speaker 2: and so I can get like three for five bucks
Speaker 2: each or some shit like that, and they're crazy comfortable.
Speaker 1: And uh per usual. I spent the last hour trying
Speaker 1: to make myself look nice enuf for the camera. So
Speaker 1: people aren't mean to me on the internet.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, very different, very unequal situation. But I'm also
Speaker 2: not going to spend an more time caring about my appearance.
Speaker 1: Fair enough. What are we doing today, Ert.
Speaker 2: Well, Sophie, the same thing we do every night, try
Speaker 2: to take over the world of podcasting. Oh wait, we
Speaker 2: already did that. Yeah, I guess let's answer some q
Speaker 2: and as from our fans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we put out a post on our Instagram
Speaker 1: at Bastard's Pod, and many of you sent in questions
Speaker 1: and so we're going to try to answer a lot
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. The gist of this situation is, folks, it's
Speaker 2: the end of the year. This is when all of
Speaker 2: the companies that buy ads are really buying ads, and
Speaker 2: it's it's you know, when everybody wants to get as
Speaker 2: many people listening as possible. And we decided, rather than
Speaker 2: doing something that's zero effort and like you know, running
Speaker 2: more episodes, which we do when we take a break,
Speaker 2: we wanted to give you guys a chance to ask
Speaker 2: us some questions and also make sure that we're providing
Speaker 2: you with new stuff because you crave new stuff. You
Speaker 2: won't stop demanding it every instant of our live. Sophie
Speaker 2: and I think of nothing but pleasing your insatiable appetites.
Speaker 2: So Sophie went on Instagram and asked if you guys
Speaker 2: had any questions.
Speaker 1: Robert, Yes, what was your least favorite episode to do?
Speaker 1: And why.
Speaker 2: Least favorite to do? I assume they're asking, ever, I
Speaker 2: hate I really unless it's a place where I have
Speaker 2: a specific interest. I really hate the Foreign Leader episodes,
Speaker 2: Like obviously Stallin's a foreign leader, but I've been reading
Speaker 2: about Stalin my whole live. Hitler's a four um, but
Speaker 2: I've read more books about Hitler than anybody who's not
Speaker 2: a Hitler scholar. But like jay or Bolsonyaro, right, I
Speaker 2: don't know much about Brazilian politics coming in Netan Yahoo,
Speaker 2: I don't know much about you know, politics over there.
Speaker 2: So like getting up to speed, not just because you can't.
Speaker 2: It's not just enough to like learn what was ntyah
Speaker 2: Who's childhood, Like, you also have to know like the
Speaker 2: dynamics of politics prior to him coming into power, and
Speaker 2: like the part like and catching up on all of
Speaker 2: that in a way that you don't totally embarrass yourself.
Speaker 2: Is is a lot of work, and it's also nerve
Speaker 2: racking because, like, especially again to go back to net Yahoo,
Speaker 2: this is a guy who I mean who had been
Speaker 2: involved in genocidal activity prior to where we are right now.
Speaker 2: But like certainly like it was the kind of thing
Speaker 2: where like because of how high the stakes are and
Speaker 2: how bad the things he was up to were like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, the anxiety about fucking that up. A
Speaker 2: same with Bolsonyaro, right, this guy who's fucking around the
Speaker 2: Amazon with indigenous peoples, this dude who is a very
Speaker 2: important part of this authoritarian trend. But also me, a
Speaker 2: guy who doesn't know much about Brazil. I'm always very
Speaker 2: anxious about those episodes. It's they're important to do. We'll
Speaker 2: be doing more of them next year. I just I
Speaker 2: always like stress out over because there's no not getting
Speaker 2: some stuff wrong, right, Like of.
Speaker 1: Course it's it's especially with history because it's so subjective. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: I really fucking hate when we do the like willedness
Speaker 1: camp school things and that, like horrific, horrific kids.
Speaker 2: I love suffering kids.
Speaker 1: Think they're in a safe place and then they get
Speaker 1: you know, insert horrible thing here. Those those episodes, I
Speaker 1: really really fucking hate those.
Speaker 2: I'm illa lead them up all day.
Speaker 1: We did get this question quite a bit, and people
Speaker 1: want to know how you celebrated the passing of Henry Kissinger.
Speaker 2: You know, to be honest, that was a pretty normal
Speaker 2: day for me. Like there's not a lot I'm glad
Speaker 2: he's dead, but like he lived an incredibly long life.
Speaker 2: And got to do most of the things he wanted
Speaker 2: and never really suffered. So it's like, how much like
Speaker 2: let's let's say I had a beer. You know, let's
Speaker 2: say I had a beer.
Speaker 1: Let's say I had a beer. So cryptic? What the
Speaker 1: fuck you sound so unwell? Robert? Is there an episode
Speaker 1: talk or individual that you have covered that I've left
Speaker 1: you shaken up or angry long after you completed the episode?
Speaker 2: Everything we do on healthcare, Yeah, every time we have
Speaker 2: done a healthcare I know this is the week that
Speaker 2: it is. Every time we talk about the US healthcare system.
Speaker 2: I'm fucking livid. Industrial the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster Union
Speaker 2: Carbide did in Bopaul, India as well, Like both of
Speaker 2: those are Union carbide affiliated disasters. Those drive me fucking insane.
Speaker 2: Like to some extent, I find those guys more offensive
Speaker 2: than a guy like Hitler, which is not saying that
Speaker 2: they're worse than hit because Hitler did kill more people
Speaker 2: than like UNID Carbide. But Hitler was like a guy
Speaker 2: who very honestly was about murdering people, whereas these guys
Speaker 2: are all pretending to be decent men, family men, you know,
Speaker 2: just you know, all I'm doing is trying to make
Speaker 2: jobs and provide a valuable part of the economy, and
Speaker 2: they are just killing people by fucking the city full.
Speaker 2: So yeah, those make me very angry.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you one that won't make you
Speaker 1: very angry, Robert, what is your opinion on modern Star Trek?
Speaker 1: I love most of it, so what they say.
Speaker 2: Uh, okay, Lower Dex is my favorite Star Trek thing
Speaker 2: since DS nine. Sure, I've seen some episodes of Strange
Speaker 2: New Worlds and there's I can see why people like
Speaker 2: it a lot. I'm kind of exhausted with that time
Speaker 2: period in the Star Trek timeline, Like I want new stuff.
Speaker 2: I want fucking a like do one where Rikers like
Speaker 2: an old admiral and we're fucking dealing with starfleet politics
Speaker 2: back on Earth at San Francisco. Give me anything where
Speaker 2: we're moving forward on the timeline, but we're not leaping
Speaker 2: into like weird future warshit Like, I'm not mostly interested
Speaker 2: in that stuff. I'm mostly interested with. Actually, part of
Speaker 2: why I love DS. I love TNG because it's really
Speaker 2: looking at like what is would a utopia be in
Speaker 2: a sense that's actually imaginable as something real that like
Speaker 2: something that could exist in some ways. And then Deep
Speaker 2: Space nine is asking what would the dark sides of
Speaker 2: that utopia be? In particular, not even the dark sides,
Speaker 2: because it's less that and more kind of like what
Speaker 2: the culture series, you know, dealt with, Like what happens
Speaker 2: when this utopia and the people in it inevitably make
Speaker 2: contact or collide with reality or not reality because they
Speaker 2: live in reality, but with places that are not utopia,
Speaker 2: with places that are different, that are worse, that have
Speaker 2: different values, Like what are those clashes like? And that's
Speaker 2: what I love in my Star Trek. I don't Star
Speaker 2: Trek's never had good space battles. I'll say that, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, every now and then you get like a
Speaker 2: Wolf three five nine or something. There's some pretty cool
Speaker 2: shit there, but like, fucking a, there's that one scene
Speaker 2: in Serenity is a better space battle in terms of
Speaker 2: like an interesting, cool looking space battle that ever got
Speaker 2: shot in Star Trek. But I don't watch Star Trek
Speaker 2: for space battles. I've got other shit for space battles.
Speaker 1: That was very thorough.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Uh this question, who is your fantasy guest?
Speaker 2: Fantasy guest? Uh? Marissa Tomay During the my cousin Vinny.
Speaker 2: Uh were were talking about fantasy here.
Speaker 1: I think they wow very specific. I think they mean,
Speaker 1: if you could have anybody come and guest on the podcast,
Speaker 1: who would your dream?
Speaker 2: No, yes, I know what they meant. I would love
Speaker 2: to have I don't even know if I'd do an episode.
Speaker 2: I would just love to talk with either Alan Moore
Speaker 2: or Verner Herzog, like specifically, if I had Herzog. The
Speaker 2: thing I most want to do with Herzog. I guess
Speaker 2: we could record it, but I don't really care if
Speaker 2: we do is I'd like to cook a meal with
Speaker 2: Verner Herzog. Sure, but I think, uh yeah. In terms
Speaker 2: of funny people, I think Will Ferrell would probably be
Speaker 2: a really good guest. He's far too famous for us,
Speaker 2: but he seems like he's got a good sense of
Speaker 2: humor about these kinds of things.
Speaker 1: Can you guess who mine is?
Speaker 2: Who's yours? Can you guess yours is Harry Styles?
Speaker 1: Nope? Okay, there's only one obvious answer.
Speaker 2: Because it would be it would be like really funny
Speaker 2: to bring Harry Styles one and just to like Unit
Speaker 2: seven thirty one, just like NonStop four hours of the
Speaker 2: most nightmareish stories of torture.
Speaker 1: And you just go like treat people with kindness. What
Speaker 1: are you talking about? No, that's not who it is.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, there's only there's only one person it could be. Okay,
Speaker 1: who I'm waiting to see if you know?
Speaker 2: No, I don't. I gave you my guess.
Speaker 1: The listeners are disappointed.
Speaker 2: Okay, they're lists of pointed.
Speaker 1: It's it's Lebron James.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, Yeah, I mean we could try. We could
Speaker 2: talk about two experts like us. I mean, I think
Speaker 2: a lot of people would enjoy hearing our different feelings
Speaker 2: on ball handling, on three pointers, other basketball stuff. Those
Speaker 2: aren't the only two basketball related terms I know.
Speaker 1: Guys, I think a lot of people would want to
Speaker 1: hear your opinion on ball handling. Rob anyways for an.
Speaker 2: Outbreak, Sophie, Yeah, the subreddit's going to be very uncomfortable today.
Speaker 2: We are back Robert.
Speaker 1: This question was asked five hundred and fifty two thousand times.
Speaker 1: One can we expect a sequel to After the Revolution? Uh?
Speaker 2: Well, the book's done, basically, I'm almost I've finished the
Speaker 2: rough draft. I'm almost through with the first draft, which
Speaker 2: is when I read through the rough draft, chapter by
Speaker 2: chapter and make the edits that occur to me to
Speaker 2: make it make sense. I think probably in January, I'll
Speaker 2: put out the first three chapters just as kind of
Speaker 2: a teaser, but I'll be you know, working with my
Speaker 2: editor to get it in the shape. But very soon,
Speaker 2: very soon. It's taken much longer than I had hoped
Speaker 2: it would. In my defense, both my parents died since
Speaker 2: publishing the first one, so you know that's not really
Speaker 2: an excuse, but it's going to make you feel bad,
Speaker 2: and so you're not going to like follow up with
Speaker 2: complaining that the book's not out yet. I'm manipulating you.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm a monster. I know it, but I'm
Speaker 2: good at it.
Speaker 1: You're allowed. Uh, you've referenced that there are people who
Speaker 1: start to look into but ultimately find that there isn't
Speaker 1: really enough there for an episode. Who came the closest
Speaker 1: to being worthy of doing a whole episode about? But
Speaker 1: who was the most disappointing person that you weren't able
Speaker 1: to do an episode about.
Speaker 2: I know that's happened. It has there's been, and usually
Speaker 2: when that happens, it's not that there's not enough, it's
Speaker 2: that there's just like not enough information about what they did,
Speaker 2: you'll hear like a reference to like some CEO who
Speaker 2: did this like really fucked up thing, was like fucking
Speaker 2: eating poor people or whatever. Shit. But it's like, well,
Speaker 2: all I've got is like three sentences from an old newspaper.
Speaker 2: I can't really get an article out on that. Honestly,
Speaker 2: names aren't coming to mind. The closest I can come
Speaker 2: in terms of what I remember is like I almost
Speaker 2: didn't get to do the Beau Brummel episodes after hours
Speaker 2: of research, because I did kind of come to the conclusion,
Speaker 2: you know, there's some bad side effects as a result
Speaker 2: of what he did, but that's nothing like not that
Speaker 2: morally reflects on him in a negative way, Like he
Speaker 2: wasn't trying to make generations of men more limited in
Speaker 2: their fashion choices. He just like liked what he liked.
Speaker 2: And likewise, I guess, uh, there's been a handful.
Speaker 1: Of people where you've been like where people are like,
Speaker 1: it's not a say that you've looked into them. People
Speaker 1: are like, why don't you do an episode on so
Speaker 1: and so? And you're like, because they're fucking.
Speaker 2: Boring, Like like Ben Shapiro, what am I going to say?
Speaker 2: What are you say? What is there really to say
Speaker 2: about Ben? You know, I have looked into him. I
Speaker 2: did think about it, and like at this point he
Speaker 2: does have a negative impact. He's just boring, and like
Speaker 2: that's a big I will say when it comes to
Speaker 2: if your question is ever, why haven't you done so?
Speaker 2: And so the answer is usually either I think they're
Speaker 2: boring and if it's someone where that you're like, well,
Speaker 2: there's no way he thinks this guy's boring, this guy's
Speaker 2: objectively interesting. It's because that's going to be a shitload
Speaker 2: of work. And like I'm always triaging the like the
Speaker 2: Lawrence of Arabia episodes, which seems to have gotten a
Speaker 2: good reaction. I think I had to read like five books.
Speaker 1: For I was.
Speaker 2: I was working in the background, slowly getting through material
Speaker 2: for yeah, starting in like January, and not everything is
Speaker 2: like but like Kissinger was like that. Kissinger was like
Speaker 2: a year of background work. And the current big one
Speaker 2: that I'm very slowly working on is doing another Nixon,
Speaker 2: doing a Nixon probably six parter because it's it's fucking Nixon,
Speaker 2: but at least a four parter, and that's gonna take
Speaker 2: me a while because I really don't. There's so many
Speaker 2: stories because you could put that much effort into everybody,
Speaker 2: but it's a lot of folks. You would just be
Speaker 2: reading stuff that's largely repeating similar bits with slightly different
Speaker 2: takes with Nixon, everyone who digs into him. There's so
Speaker 2: many stories. There's so many people who know crazy shit
Speaker 2: about Nixon. You really almost can't come to an end
Speaker 2: of collecting fucked up Dick Nixon stories. Like it's almost
Speaker 2: an it's almost like our most renewable resource on planet
Speaker 2: Earth is stories of Richard Nixon being a freaking weird know,
Speaker 2: so it takes some time.
Speaker 1: Which episode received the most backlash from fans?
Speaker 2: Backlash? I uh, you know, I had some there was
Speaker 2: some frustration over an episode we did that was I
Speaker 2: think it was mixed. It's always really mixed, even when
Speaker 2: there is like about that doctor who was like doing
Speaker 2: really bad surgeries for trans people. There were some folks
Speaker 2: who had some specific frustrations with that, and then some
Speaker 2: folks who didn't. And you know, ultimately it's one of
Speaker 2: those things where when you're dealing with stuff like that,
Speaker 2: there are probably multiple right ways to do it, but
Speaker 2: you know, it's tough. I think, like The biggest thing
Speaker 2: that I the biggest thing that frustrates me in terms
Speaker 2: of like feedback from listeners is when people will be like, obviously, figure,
Speaker 2: this person has autism, why didn't you bring that up?
Speaker 2: Or that's an explanation for this behavior, why didn't you
Speaker 2: bring that up? And the answer in every cases that
Speaker 2: person has not been diagnosed with anything. All I have
Speaker 2: is the behavior. Multiple other things could explain the behavior.
Speaker 2: I am not going to just declare Jeffrey Bezos to
Speaker 2: have autism based on my zero experience as a diagnostician
Speaker 2: because he didn't like music, right, Like, there are other
Speaker 2: reasons people might not like music, and it's just kind
Speaker 2: of an interesting detail about how he's sort of disconnected
Speaker 2: from a lot of the people around him. That can
Speaker 2: be explained by many different things. But it's not my
Speaker 2: job to be like, this is what I believe is
Speaker 2: going on with Jeffrey Bezos. So now we all have
Speaker 2: to act like it's true, because it's probably not.
Speaker 1: Hey, Robert, uh huh, We're kind to read up on
Speaker 1: Robert's Warzone journalism or whatever older pieces maybe out there.
Speaker 2: Man, there's I mean, most of it was on cracked
Speaker 2: dot com. Some of that found its way into it
Speaker 2: could happen here, at least my conclusions based on it.
Speaker 2: There was a video that you could view in VR
Speaker 2: that was like a three sixty video documentary of some
Speaker 2: of my time in Mosel that was published through the
Speaker 2: e W Script's network. I think that one was called
Speaker 2: twenty four Hours in Mosl or something like that. They
Speaker 2: was broadcast also on a bunch of TV networks. I
Speaker 2: don't actually know if the link is up. A decent
Speaker 2: number of things that I wrote back then, for like
Speaker 2: local news, have become lost media, because that's how that
Speaker 2: shit be. Yep, but you could. You should still be
Speaker 2: able to find some of the stuff on Cracked that
Speaker 2: I did, so yeah, I would say check that out there.
Speaker 1: Let's let's do a fun one before the next adbreak, Robert.
Speaker 1: If you were a spice girl, what would be your
Speaker 1: spice girl name?
Speaker 2: If I were a spice girl, my spice girl name
Speaker 2: would be doesn't want to say anything mean about the
Speaker 2: Spice girls because I am close to several women who
Speaker 2: grew up in love with the spy sgirls.
Speaker 1: Yes, what would you so? Your your Space?
Speaker 2: That was my name? Yes, your Space game? My name?
Speaker 1: Your spice girl name is afraid of women.
Speaker 2: Spice specifically afraid of the women that I like Spice.
Speaker 1: Yes, afraid of women I like Spice, got it.
Speaker 2: Afraid of offending them based on making having a bad
Speaker 2: take about the Spice girls Spice.
Speaker 1: I think I think I would be producer Spice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's probably fair too.
Speaker 1: It's time Brad's again. We'll be back, Robert, We're back.
Speaker 1: Can you believe it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. It's crazy. When did you decide bTB
Speaker 1: was going to be your next thing? Was it something
Speaker 1: you've been building towards in your life? Was it becoming
Speaker 1: a pod a major goal? Or did it just sort
Speaker 1: of happen.
Speaker 2: I'm going to explain this to you in a way
Speaker 2: that also explains some questions that we can't answer directly
Speaker 2: about why do you guys work for X or you know,
Speaker 2: are involved with you know, such and such company?
Speaker 1: Answer that we can, Yeah.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm gonna do. Sure. Yeah. So, I when
Speaker 2: I was late into my time at Cracked, I was
Speaker 2: getting bored of writing, doing the kind of articles I'd
Speaker 2: been doing for years. There these personal experience pieces where
Speaker 2: I'd interview someone and then turn their life experiences or
Speaker 2: the reporting that i'd done into like a listicle, and
Speaker 2: podcasts were starting to blow up. I was interested in
Speaker 2: the medium. I'd done one through Cracked and found aspects
Speaker 2: of it pleasant. And the thing I had pitched was
Speaker 2: something based on my special interest, which is the Nazis.
Speaker 2: You know, I had done an article that had done
Speaker 2: very well on things you don't know about the Nazis,
Speaker 2: that had delved into things we've touched on in some
Speaker 2: episodes of the podcast, you know, all of these these
Speaker 2: very weird that we talked. I talked about Carl May
Speaker 2: you know, in Hitler's obsession with these cowboy novels and
Speaker 2: how that impacted the Third Reich and so that sort
Speaker 2: of stuff, and I was like, I want to do
Speaker 2: a series where every season I talk about a different
Speaker 2: dictatorial regime and all of the crazy weird facts about it.
Speaker 2: So season one be ten episodes on like these weird,
Speaker 2: fat things you don't know about the Nazis. Maybe we'd
Speaker 2: move on to Saddam Hussein or staff. And then we
Speaker 2: all got shit canned, and I remember, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: you have good friends among your coworkers. When like, as
Speaker 2: we're all getting drunk, one of the people who hadn't
Speaker 2: gotten laid off was Alex Schmidt, good old Schmitty, and
Speaker 2: Schmitty and I are talking and I'm like, oh, so
Speaker 2: I had this great and Schmitty's running podcasts at cracked
Speaker 2: and still employed, and I'm like, I have this great
Speaker 2: idea for a show, and Schmitty, being a very good friend,
Speaker 2: is like, don't tell it to me. So I didn't,
Speaker 2: and you know, I spent the next couple of weeks
Speaker 2: getting fucked up like you do when you get laid off,
Speaker 2: and then had a call with Jack O'Brien and Sophie
Speaker 2: was on that call because Jack had left a few
Speaker 2: months earlier to work at Stuff Media, which is the
Speaker 2: company that was producing shows like you know stuff, you
Speaker 2: should know, stuff, you should know, you should know stuff.
Speaker 2: They don't want you to know.
Speaker 1: All that stuff They missed a history class. It's the
Speaker 1: house Stuff's worked team out of that was originally out
Speaker 1: of Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and our boss is actually the guy you started
Speaker 2: mental flaws like this is these are all.
Speaker 1: For one of the guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, one of the guys. These are all folks
Speaker 2: who came out of the same era of digital media
Speaker 2: as me, who were all pivoted, had pivoted to podcasting
Speaker 2: a little earlier. So I had my meeting with my
Speaker 2: old boss Jack, and I tell him my idea for
Speaker 2: this dictator show that I want to do.
Speaker 1: Let's pause for five seconds.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: When Robert says, I've mentioned this previously before. But when
Speaker 1: Robert says he tells his idea for a dictator show,
Speaker 1: first of all, this is my first this is my
Speaker 1: first interaction with Robert is. He's like running through a
Speaker 1: wind tunnel.
Speaker 2: I was jogging in San Francisco underneath a bridge, as
Speaker 2: I'm often doing near dog Patch if you're curious.
Speaker 1: And he uh, I could hear you know, half the words,
Speaker 1: and it was like bad guys, history worst And I
Speaker 1: was like, yep, I would like to produce I thank
Speaker 1: you so much.
Speaker 2: And unhinged, unhinged.
Speaker 1: But old Jack O'Brien was like, okay, yeah, because Jack
Speaker 1: actually had stolen me. Actually actually Jack actually actually stole it,
Speaker 1: stole me. I can't even say that us.
Speaker 2: It's a terrible word.
Speaker 1: So I worked at a company that bought how stuff works.
Speaker 1: And I was working at that company doing like project
Speaker 1: management stuff, which is kind of like why it makes sense,
Speaker 1: why I'm so so able to control the amount of
Speaker 1: shows we have because a lot of my background was
Speaker 1: in that and Jack. When Jack came on to run
Speaker 1: the la version of and it was originally just comedy
Speaker 1: of the How Stuff Works team, he stole me from
Speaker 1: that other company. Thank you, Jack. Yeah, And soon after
Speaker 1: that I got to meet Robert and changed my life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, that's that's the well. And during that
Speaker 2: meeting again, my show had been my idea had been
Speaker 2: seasons about like each season about a different dictatorship, and
Speaker 2: Jack was like, what if every episode you just switch
Speaker 2: and give a different you know, a couple of episodes
Speaker 2: a different monster, and you can go back and forth
Speaker 2: and revisit different aspects of topics, which is a much
Speaker 2: better idea. It would not the show would not have
Speaker 2: worked as in a seasonal format the way that it
Speaker 2: does as a weekly, even though making this into a
Speaker 2: weekly show has destroyed my life, but in a good way.
Speaker 1: Well it's not even just that, because it started as
Speaker 1: weekly and then and then you're like, man, would it
Speaker 1: makes sense if we like split things into parts? Mm hm,
Speaker 1: So now it's now it's a twice weekly show at least.
Speaker 1: But yeah, oh, our origin. Hm, that's so cute.
Speaker 2: But yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyways, we worked at this company called how Stuff Works
Speaker 1: and for Stuff Media whatever whatever. They went publicly by
Speaker 1: how Stuff Works and then the company was called Stuff
Speaker 1: Media and then all of a sudden one day they
Speaker 1: were like, oh, hey, by the way, we just got
Speaker 1: bought by iHeartRadio. You work for them now? And we
Speaker 1: were like, yep, cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I don't know nothing to do here, and
Speaker 2: that's how life is. And you're in media.
Speaker 1: When you're in media, you know, I really I really
Speaker 1: like our team. And that's all I'm gonna say about that. Robert,
Speaker 1: Can you give us a cat update?
Speaker 2: Cat update? I mean, they're cats, so very little changes
Speaker 2: in their day to day life. If things are doing.
Speaker 1: Well, there's many questions about your cat then just you
Speaker 1: know anything interesting.
Speaker 2: I mean, Saddam Hussein had a problem two years ago.
Speaker 1: Are you telling this story?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he tried to have There's a blanket he likes
Speaker 2: to have sex with that's usually on my couch. I
Speaker 2: mean he's been he's been neutered, but he still tries
Speaker 2: to have sex with it. And that blanket got a
Speaker 2: seed that's like a sharp seed. It's one of those
Speaker 2: seeds that's like sticks to your pants in it, and
Speaker 2: he managed to get wedged inside his urethra and it
Speaker 2: nearly killed him. But he's fine now, fine, Now. There
Speaker 2: haven't been reoccurrences of any urinary shoes, which are very
Speaker 2: serious in male cats. If your male cat isn't peeing,
Speaker 2: get it to the vet immediately. Hours matter, hours matter.
Speaker 1: The most amazing thing about that story is I once
Speaker 1: made Robert during this time, shortly after after we knew
Speaker 1: that I'm the same, it's gonna be okay. Uh, join
Speaker 1: a call with a well, let's just call him an
Speaker 1: entertainment person that was not being a chill guy, and uh,
Speaker 1: do you remember this story on a project we decided
Speaker 1: we ultimately decided not to work on.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, decided to work on.
Speaker 1: But it was like it was going to be a
Speaker 1: very unpleasant phone call. And Robert gets on and Robert
Speaker 1: has maybe spoken to this man for ten seconds once,
Speaker 1: and he's like, hey, how's it going, Robert? And Robert's like,
Speaker 1: my cat got a seed stuck up his urethra. And
Speaker 1: I really treasured that moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so do I That.
Speaker 1: Was beautiful for me. Let's do let's do one more.
Speaker 2: Okay. I love questions. I love answers. I love answering questions.
Speaker 2: I love questioning answers. You know all of those things.
Speaker 2: A good time, Robert Sophie.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I say your name with who
Speaker 1: else would I be asking? I mean, besides Anderson? Anderson? No,
Speaker 1: what activities do you?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: This is for both of us. What activities do y'all
Speaker 1: do to ease your mental health after researching and hearing
Speaker 1: about awful things?
Speaker 2: That's an option.
Speaker 1: This is mine. This is my answer right here, this
Speaker 1: beautiful dog I'm holding and for the audio only people,
Speaker 1: I'm holding up Anderson and she looks quite beautiful. You
Speaker 1: should do.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, tragically, I've been sober for a while, and we'll
Speaker 2: be staying sober. So I just get depressed and then
Speaker 2: get better and better at shooting a gun. That's how
Speaker 2: I spend my free time.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, do you want that on the internet?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 1: I don't know. You could have. You could have said,
Speaker 1: I go for runs most days.
Speaker 2: I go for runs most days. I lift weights, I
Speaker 2: push body armor and high firing a handgun. Yes, I
Speaker 2: do all these things.
Speaker 1: You have farm animals that are wonderfully magical.
Speaker 2: I do have farm animals in which I trained hitting
Speaker 2: moving targets in the woods.
Speaker 1: You have wonderful friends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes I trained shooting stuff in the woods with them.
Speaker 1: Your business partner is a very supportive person.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, lots of that. I missed drugs, Sophie. I
Speaker 2: hate being sober, but it's okay. I've been doing it
Speaker 2: for years. I'll keep it up. It's just miserable.
Speaker 1: Great, buddy, Well, give the people a Boston rob and
Speaker 1: then we'll be on our way.
Speaker 2: And boy, you've Boston nnkey? Is that good enough for
Speaker 2: you people? Does that make you happy? Is that what
Speaker 2: you want? No one's ever happy when they get what
Speaker 2: they want.
Speaker 1: We'll be back on Thursday with another round of questions.
Speaker 2: Questions, Robert, So how they say it in Boston.
Speaker 1: At this point, Robert, what percentage of them do you love?
Speaker 1: The number went down from forty that's for fucking sure.
Speaker 2: No, that's probably still about right. That's close close enough
Speaker 2: for government.
Speaker 1: Work for me. Thirty two percent.
Speaker 2: Thirty two percent. Wow, you guys really got to pump
Speaker 2: your Sophie numbers up. I don't know. I feel fine
Speaker 2: about our fans, you know, Look, there's a lot of them,
Speaker 2: and so some chunk of them are always going to
Speaker 2: be doing something weird and off putting. But usually when
Speaker 2: I encounter our fans, it's in the context of them
Speaker 2: like doing something nice that's helpful to people out in
Speaker 2: the world, Like run into a lot of fans handing
Speaker 2: out food, run into a lot of fans being street medics,
Speaker 2: run into a lot of fans protesting genocide. So I'm
Speaker 2: generally very positive towards our fans, especially the ones who
Speaker 2: are a forkliff certified. You are really the ones that
Speaker 2: we do this for. You know, whenever I close my
Speaker 2: eyes before sitting down to write an episode that I
Speaker 2: know is going to really take it out of me,
Speaker 2: I thank to you guys driving your forklifts, and you
Speaker 2: know that that gives me the fuel I need to
Speaker 2: go on.
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