This brings me a smidgen of joy.

Having heard it advertised on BtB, thought I'd give it a shot and am well impressed. I'm not familiar with Molly Conger's other works, but I'll certainly be looking then up once I have listened to her stuff on this podcast.

She has a calm, even presentation, clearly plans her presentation well. She has a good tone and a measured delivery making her very easy on the ear and I am happily binging her back catalogue.

Recommended.

It only took me a full year but I have finally listened to every single episode of Behind the Bastards. I started listening around this time last year and I have to credit the vast majority of my 118,010 minutes of listening to podcasts on Spotify to BTB.

One of them is only 21. What happened to hiring the best people? https://archive.ph/aOuqZ

Musk publicly announced his endorsement of Trump on Twitter on the the 13th of July, 2024. JD Vance (backed by Peter Thiel) was announced as running mate on the 15th of July. Did Musk get advance warning, and jump on the Trump Train to thwart Thiel's influence/screw over his old rival?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJZOSv7Dadp94JKiO7rOcLJvnJlDmG/view

Yesterday while driving South on I-5 through Central California I was listening to Oprah part 4 and as they were talking about the hilarious teen slang and specifically the "hi-Ving" I happen to pass this rural highway art. Couldn't have planned it better. Was laughing my ass off.

The onslaught of executive orders and massive overwhelming changes being done at breakneck speed is unprecedented. I can't help but think that it's intentionally designed to provoke a reaction so that they can have a justification for a crackdown against all of The people that they perceive to be enemies.

Regardless of whether such a response would be justified, it definitely seems that way to me and I say that as a trans person. Either way they get what they want if no one does anything they get to move it breakneck speed if someone does they get to justify a crackdown. I think now is the time for alarmism. Be prepared and care for those around you.

Here’s the clip Robert mentioned.

https://www.tiktok.com/@olsenobsessed/video/7127759745691389230?lang=en

Featuring the late Anton Yelchin being pressured into attending one?

... I have not revisited that show in years. I remember Paget Brewster was great, as always.

Found in /Knoxville

I was on r/fednews and asked what it is the average citizen can do to help with all this bullshit going on.

The response I got was an overwhelming "Reach out to your representatives! Even if they support Trump".

I think it's probably more meaningful if it's not a copy/pasted message. Idk I think it may be more 'loud' to politicians if it's a thousand different voices all saying the same thing in their own words than just a copy/paste job. But if someone wants to write out something people can copy/paste please do so, I just don't think I'm the one to do it, I'm not the greatest at words.

Tell them that you see what's going on, the firing of non-political federal civil servants, the refusal to pay out federal grants/loans (that's your tax money he's hoarding!), the removal of DEI programs, the deportations of people who've lived here their whole lives, the threats that even citizens will be 'exiled', the Nazi salute being done on live TV at the inauguration of a US President (for fuck's sake) and so so so much more.

Let them know you're aware, let them know you're scared, let them know you're pissed. Republican politicians get shit done because their constituents are a loud bunch. We need to be fucking loud too. Be loud, be heard.

It takes like 10 minutes.

https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-signs-order-aimed-at-banning-gender-transitions-for-everyone-under-19_n_679957cfe4b09798def2200a

I was pleasantly surprised today when I realised that Robert was quoting a Philip Larkin poem during the most recent Oprah episode.

Obviously Robert's a very well read fella, I just wasn't expecting him to quote an English poet. Does anyone know any other times when Robert has quoted poetry on air?

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/28/trump-federal-workers-quit-severance

I’m using the operative term “must” because to excuse her actions is to expunge the guilt of every German/ Nazi who went along with the third reich as it was just the culture m/ environment.

Whether Iorah was consciously doing harm cannot be known but we do know that she saw how toxic the media ecosystem of day time TV was and chose not to fight it/ reject it.

To excuse this based on “well it was the way the industry worked at the time” has a lot of messy implications and the precedent can be used to excuse a lot of bastardry

Apparently, as a child he would "show off" by putting chicks and mice in a blender to feed to his hawks.

That's our Bobby!

https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3lgt6idfigs2m

At one point Robert introduces the Olsen twins. He mentions how they've been famous for basically their entire lives. Appearing in Full House and films like "The Parent Trap"

Except.

It was Lindsay Lohan in The Parent Trap! I thought for a moment I was having a Mandela-effect type stroke. So I had to look it up to check. And sure enough. It was Lohan!

Is Robert a hack and a fraud? Or did he just mix up child stars who went on to have breakdowns because it happens so often?

The answer is yes.

Have a nice day bastards