Behind the Bastards

• in John Wayne (Part 2) at 8:40, describing Wayne's experience with dysentery during filming of his first starring role

• in The Primal Diet Con at 31:00, as a likely part of the process of natural selection that made many humans lactose tolerant

• in The War on Vagrants (Part 1) at 24:00, what Robert hopes happened to certain slave traders

• in Robert E. Lee (Part 4) at 20:40, what happened to Civil War soldiers on the field as a result of doing war during the 1800's

• in The Liver King (live version) at 20:18, being a consequence of consuming unpasteurized milk

• NOT mentioned in Alfred Hitchcock (Part 2) as a possible effect of a prank involving laxatives, he could have said it if he wanted to

• NOT mentioned in Scott Adams (Part 2) as the effect of eating a Dilburrito, but he sounded like he was getting real close to using those words

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I went to the same art school Thomas Kinkade did, and he even came to speak at my school a handful of times while I was there.

Even back then I hated his work so much I knew I would never like the man, so I never went to his talks and tried my best to avoid even looking at his works.

I am so glad to hear that Robert Evans decided to cover Thomas Kinkade on Behind The Bastards. Fuck Thomas Kinkade.

Thank all that is good he's dead. Yet another grave to add to the bucket lists of graves to defile.

I really only listen to Audio, I don't see myself ever watching the video so I guess it wont matter much to me. Others might like seeing the video?

Also, whats with the Donut as the logo? Did I miss something?

So I think I recognize one of the voices in the podcast that iHeart is humping" employees only" from some other podcasts, does anyone know how to find credits on iHearts terrible site?

I think it's Jared Logan from some of the Glass Cannon pods, but I can't for the life of me find it.

I did some major sleuthing (checked Reddit) and the prevailing theory appears to be that it's about the Piketon Massacre podcast. So here's my best transcript without the bleeps.

Gare: Trump's Rosie O'Donnell moment.

Robert: You know what bifurc-wha-we're gonna have to check that one out. You know what bifurcated

Sophie: Wait, wait, is he gonna c-is, is Trump's Rosie O'Donnell moment that he's also a Casey Anthony truther?

Robert: Uh I hope so. Ummm. 'Cause-Because I am.

Sophie: What what.

Robert: And you know who else is a Casey Anthony truther, Sophie?

Sophie: Uhh, this ad for the Piketon Massacre Podcast that might come up?

Robert: There's a non-zero chance that we get an ad for the Piketon Massacre Podcast. Here we go.

Also, announcing that I am opening a new Behind the Bastards Community over on Lemmy.world because the mods here seem to be inactive or have abandoned their accounts. /c/bastardspod@lemmy.world

You love to see it. 😆 🍿

There was an off-hand joke in the most recent episode about this, and if I remember correctly, there have been similar jokes before.

Prof. David Kaiser, an MIT professor who is both a physicist and a historian (aka the coolest guy possible) has done extensive research on this, and his work is particularly interesting because he has the expertise in all the relevant fields do dig through the archives.

It's been a long time since I've read him, but he concludes that the physics was widely known outside of secret government operations, and the fundamental challenges to building an atomic bomb are engineering challenges -- things like refining uranium or whatever. In other words, knowing that atoms have energy inside them which will be released if it is split was widely known, and it's a very, very, very long path engineering project from there to a bomb.

This cultural understanding that physicists working for the Manhattan project built the bomb is actually precisely because the engineering effort was so big and so difficult, but the physics was already so widely known internationally, that the government didn't redact the physics part of the story. In other words, because people only read about physicists' contributions to the bomb, and the government kept secret everything about the much larger engineering and manufacturing effort, we are left with this impression that a handful of basic scientists were the main, driving force.

The whole manual is just full of contradictory stuff. It's a red flag from Ur Fascism, like how syncretic ideologies are always contradictory

I heard about the vodka ban listening to Mike Duncan, and about how it was aimed at poor people. The temperance laws in Maine were also just for the poors. It got me thinking that drug prohibition is always to fuck over poor people. But then i remembered most laws are to fuck over poor people