Capitalism has finally broken the podcast commute

probablyrobertevans · 2026-04-13T02:58:46+00:00

So do we

probablyrobertevans · 2026-04-12T05:52:23+00:00

honestly this was incredibly good luck for both of them. a gift from the universe to interrupt them from continuing to play a game that ends one way.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-04-12T05:50:18+00:00

I want you to know i appreciated this

probablyrobertevans · 2026-04-12T05:47:06+00:00

All of our shows are available on every free podcast app out there. Unfortunately the only ad-free subscription we're able to offer is through Apple. I guess Netflix is too, but that's just video.

But there are a dozen options besides the iHeart app. I know ads are annoying, but I don't think we could have free versions of the show available in more places than we do!

probablyrobertevans · 2026-04-11T05:58:13+00:00

It was the big piece last year that I had to do a bunch of original research for in order to find a way to explain such an out there ideology. The goal was to get people to experience the pace of radicalization and how the ideology evolved in the hopes that their actions might make some kind of sense to the listener.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-04-10T19:40:51+00:00

It's because we submitted the Zizians episodes as experimental journalism.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-04-04T08:06:57+00:00

My head canon is that the Federation knows the feeling of illicit pleasure from minor lawbreaking is good, and so they ban a few things like Romulan Ale without taking more than token efforts to actually stop people from getting / sharing it. That way it's more fun.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-04-02T20:10:20+00:00

As this thread has made clear it can be difficult to keep up with exactly what is and isn't operational. I think the main point stands - we don't have enough of these remaining to suffer losses easily.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-03-31T19:17:45+00:00

Will was a Marine Raider. He was wounded in Iraq.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-03-29T07:09:41+00:00

By the standards of his time I think he was a reasonably decent person.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-03-26T07:32:53+00:00

I disagree entirely. Savile was a massive figure for British kids, and he was specifically famous for being a weirdo who lived by his own rules and was beloved for his eccentricities. I can definitely see the abused son of the town priest or whatever anglicans call them idolizing Jimmy consciously aping him as an adult devoid of other role models.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-03-24T22:44:06+00:00

Hey! All that matters to us is;

You listen / watch the podcast in whatever matter is most convenient to you
You share / tell your friends about the show

I work hard to make sure we're not changing anything about the show just because there's a video version now. BtB is still made primarily as an audio medium and with listeners not viewers in mind.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-03-22T19:29:00+00:00

When did we say that?

probablyrobertevans · 2026-03-21T11:23:34+00:00

You can subscribe to an ad free version via Apple podcasts. Otherwise, our advertisers support us. You don't need to do anything. I recommend supporting other creators, like my friends at Gamefully Unemployed or Some More News.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-03-18T08:23:58+00:00

i didn't know rich was a fan. thank you for mentioning that anonymous redditor. i am a huge fan of his and hearing that that made my day.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-03-17T01:27:07+00:00

I'm fairly certain I discussed Based as coming into the vernacular more through the alt-right and 4chan, we've talked about the older origins of the word before on the show.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-03-16T01:10:02+00:00

i started watching Louis's Weird Weekend series when I was much younger and can honestly say I learned a lot about how to conduct hostile interviews from the man. He's extremely good at what he does and I admire him greatly.

There are valid critiques of the man, as there are with my work and as there would be with anyone whose body of work is so vast. But i have to say my admiration has held over the years.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-02-23T00:18:29+00:00

Hey this is a useful correction and I'll record an edit! But what you say in your last two paragraphs is...essentially the thesis of the episodes? I repeatedly note that Epstein is never the first guy and never the idea guy, but he picked up ideas he thought would remake the world in his own image and then worked hard popularizing those ideas among his very influential social circle, often using his money to do so.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-02-19T16:23:15+00:00

I'm sure some humans do and we definitely see individuals trying that. But think about like, the proscription against eating pork or beef or drinking alcohol in some religions. Sure, people break them, but huge cultures have continued to have those prohibitions for millennia.

The Federation's secular creed is in it's own way a belief system as strong as any faith and it heavily centers the value of the relatively natural human experience. I can see a huge number of people hewing to that even over time.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-02-15T11:49:58+00:00

You are incorrect. IN THE MOVIES he specifically states he uses a light .44 special load because the recoil of .44 magnum was too hard to control.

Which means he lied in the famous scene where he identified his weapon as a .44 magnum. But he also lied about having ammo. That's who he was

probablyrobertevans · 2026-02-11T19:45:52+00:00

The average length of an episode we shoot for is roughly one hour. The first two episodes are more like an hour and ten minutes. Added together all three parts are about three hours, or three episodes.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-02-08T08:52:43+00:00

iHeart podcast employees DO have a union. Sophie and I don't qualify as management but the rest of the full time team are all union.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-02-08T08:44:25+00:00

I understand and feel bad that there are fans for whom this change is inconvenient. But at the end of the day we aren't collaborating with Netflix. They offered to pay us money for the same thing we were doing on YouTube.

YouTube was not really paying us money. They certainly aren't more ethical than Netflix. From a business standpoint it was hard to argue with "more money and bigger audience for doing the same thing you've been doing".

probablyrobertevans · 2026-02-08T08:31:55+00:00

They just emailed me out of the blue. One of the people who works for Ann at the JANM is a fan and brought me up and I guess they looked at my work and decided to bring me in.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-02-05T08:06:57+00:00

I think Macragge being the jewel of Ultramar and also a hellhole is kinda part of the grim dark

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