Comments by "Victoria Eads" (@victoriaeads6126) on "Behind the Bastards" channel.

  1. 42:40 Prop is showing this throughout, but this moment is a particularly good example of how he's the perfect guest for this episode. He's got the knowledge to understand and explain some of this stuff on levels that Robert clearly doesn't have the experience to understand himself. It adds a lot to understanding this how this cult leader jackass connected with his followers.
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  2. "Please don't bring your plague." This was summer 2019. 😂 😬😱
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  3. Why would a relationship between them be grooming? Garrison is old enough to make their own decisions. I think they just like Robert's presentation style and tend to fall into that themselves.
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  4. Great job, Garrison! Well researched, well written... I'm looking forward to more.
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  5. I truly don't understand prejudice against dark toned skin. Oprah, for all of her character flaws, is a beautiful woman. We are all the same fricking species. Textured hair, flat hair, melanin, not nearly enough melanin to stave off skin cancer ... We are all cousins.
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  6.  @TroyConvers5000  I mean, that's just Robert anyway, so it's a solid gold troll job 🤣😂🤣🧡
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  7. That whole death in the Forum thing did reduce his further impact on policy.
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  8. NGL, I reread the original few Frank Herbert Dune books about a year ago. Interesting reading, but I'd forgotten how much of a cautionary tale Paul is meant to be in the overall story.
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  9. I love listening to Robert and Prop get to know each other over the course of this podcast. I've listened to some of the others where Prop came on as a guest, and it's clear that this becomes a friendship. Listening to it happen is giving me warm fuzzies, and since I'm listening to this just a few weeks after the 2024 election, I am really grateful for any warm fuzzies. Thanks guys, for being you. ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤎🖤🩶🤍🩷
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  10. We really do drink a ton at wakes and funerals, too. Not that drinking is ONLY an Irish thing...
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  11. 6:15 Jesuits are priests and nuns, not that it makes any difference to the story. For religious types they aren't so bad, they're into balancing the mind, body, and spirit. That includes an unusual level of tolerance to other religious groups. There is a Muslim prayer room at Georgetown University, and one of the chapels on campus is actually a Protestant chapel. Weirdly, the crypt chapel below that is a Catholic chapel, but that's Georgetown for you. They probably think the idea of a Catholic chapel being the foundation of a Protestant chapel has poetic significance 😂
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  12. Can't help but hear 'taint' whenever you guys say Tate.
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  13. I'm guessing he didn't get as high a profit margin from the Soviet system, so he decided that Fascism was better. It's not like he gave even the tiniest amount of crap about the efficiency of the factory or the well being of the workers 🙄
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  14. ​ @jesseharrold1812  at least. The first book alone was around 1000 pages, and you KNOW he would want to read the books to get the full context for a Dune series. Heck, you could probably just do one on Frank Herbert. Roald Dahl, too, he's even more problematic.
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  15. Please do series on the ancillary players mentioned here. There's a lot more to dig up on several of these topics.
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  16. Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice is obviously the most important commodity of the Reagan era.
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  17. Leaving out the Germany 1930s thing is important to them, but they are ok with saying they worked for Stalin's USSR. That's super weird.
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  18. I think they get a lot more play on the podcast streaming services, to be fair. This seems like a new endeavor, and I also hope it picks up more. I like how the visuals are included in the new ones, it's interesting.
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  19. Every time I learn something new about the Panthers, I gain more respect for them and their work.
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  20. For whatever record, Georgetown Prep is STILL a school for the scions of DC's most elite families. Not the only one, otherwise who would they play in sports that weren't dirty poor people, but it's definitely still got that vibe.
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  21. 18:24 "... Most IEDs..." I mean, it's not entirely wrong except in that the shield itself was SOOO wrong...
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  22. A better text is Journey into the Whirlwind by Evgenia Ginzburg. It's a tough read, but a good resource.
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  23. Proud to be a middle aged suburban mom who thinks both those guys are a$$holes.
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  24. @pmfg875  I agree. She's lovely, and it's always been clear that she's one of the sharper people you'll ever meet. I just don't know her personally. I am unconvinced that she belongs in the Halls of the Bastards, but I'm also not sure she doesn't, jury's still out for me. I sincerely doubt that I'll have a strong opinion either way by the end of the series. I have a moral objection to the idea of billionaires, but she certainly isn't the worst of them.
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  25. 48:27 Personably they mean breastfeeding, which was being tied as old fashioned coddling in those days. This wasn't too far off from the time of the baby bottles that killed kids because they were impossible to clean. It was the time of pushing HARD for women to choose formula because it was somehow better... And, you know, not freely made by the body, so spend that money...
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  26. The thing that gets me, as a recovering catholic, is that some modern religious catholics are just as bad as the converts. No more the social outreach and support for the voiceless, now it's morphed back into a variant on prosperity Christianity. The whole message of real Christianity is kind of that this world is just a stopping off point, and you've got to work to be worthy of the next one, but prosperity types have this idea that, if they are wealthy and own stuff in this world, they will be super important in the next. It's the opposite of what is actually in the New Testament. Sheesh
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  27. @sophfro  I know. They are deliberately skipping some little, minor things. Like "honor thy neighbor as thyself." Minor ideas. 🙄
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  28. I'm so sick and tired of the idea that these poor, poor people who grew up in systems that privileged them and ONLY them need comfort and support to get over the idea of SHARING privilege, not even of losing any of their unearned privilege. GTF over yourselves and go away. There IS such a thing as an opinion that doesn't deserve a platform.
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  29. I think they knew what the practice was, but that they weren't sure of the meaning in context.
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  30. ...and I continue to scream into the void.
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  31. Pecker got MUCH more publicity last year. Yikes.
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  32. Mind you, I also don't ever plan to inhabit that head space where I might be able to see where bigots are coming from. I will continue to respect people until their actions cause them to lose my respect, regardless of their physical characteristics.
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  33. @marocat4749  sure, there could be a whole series
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  34. Huh. Yeah. Manafort ...uh.... "paid" for his crimes 🤬🤬🤬
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  35. Croce. "Krow-che." My mom spent time with him and his family growing up, because my grandad and he had investments together.
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  36. It was deliberately done that way, too. They were still trying to separate the processes to help foil spying efforts. In the end it was irrelevant, but they did try.
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  37. Completely not related to this video, but Rasputin was thrown into the Moika River, not the Volga. The Volga isn't even in St Petersburg. And I've been to both the room where he was painted and the area of the Moika where they would have thrown his body.
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  38. One gets some strong incel in the basement with poor hygiene and too much money energy from all of this.
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  39. Weird but true Russia story: I lived in Russia for a couple of years in the early aughts. One day, on Nevskii Prospect, my bus was late. Soon I realized why. There was a protest that day. A Stalinist Communist protest. Dozens of people were marching down Nevskii, full Red Army style uniforms, icon like portraits of Stalin hosted high. These folks were protesting how awful it was that Russia was....gasp....westernizing. It was actually a portent of the direction Putin was planning to go, but that was hard to see at the time. I was just struck by the absurdity of a protest against the fact that at the time they had the right to protest.
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  40.  @vonriel1822  Agreed, it's definitely an ironic name choice. It sounds bada$$, though, so they've got that nailed down 🤣😂🤣🌈💜
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  41. Bezos definitely seems to have his emotion chip disabled. He's either very good or very bad in bed, depending on whether he takes information about his partner's experience into account and how heavily it's weighted compared to his own. 😂
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  42. For the Gulag system, Evgenia Ginzburg's "Journey into the Whirlwind" is an important text. I say important rather than good, as it is well written, but understandably extremely dark.
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  43. This is part of why the Netherlands had had the money for all of those insane land reclamation projects they've undertaken over the couple of centuries. It's blood money from the type of DEI that was actually evil.
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  44. JULY 2019. FFS, this was a thing BEFORE the Cheeto recommended it?
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  45. Sir, children can ride ostriches. A child HAS, therefore, ridden a dinosaur, because modern dinosaurs are birds. Because Evolution. Mic drop.
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  46. Kincade's shit is only compelling in the way that hearing a train crash over the hill and seeing smoke on the horizon is compelling. You KNOW it's bad, and you KNOW what's just out of sight is from a deep place of nightmare.
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  47. They wouldn't want to know how to gamble, methinks.
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  48. 51:27 The first time I had to give a lecture in front of over one hundred people, I realized something. You are either going to be ok with it or you aren't. I was very relieved that day to discover that I'm fine delivering an hour long lecture to that many, and it turned out that I wasn't terrible at it, either, the students were pretty engaged. Good thing, too, because I had to do one once a week for a full academic year 😂
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  49. Uh, nothing you've got is virginal after learning about some of these people 😳 But really, the Curtis Yarvin series is one you should listen to if you found important information in this one. That POS is providing a lot of the "philosophical" underpinnings here. These guys always manage to gull the folks who think that they will always be at the top of a pyramid scheme 🙄 Ya know, the folks who think taxes paid by Americans on foreign imports, tariffs, will miraculously lower prices 😂
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  50. ​ @vonneely1977  That's just Robert when he's feeling spicy.
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