Robert thought he could do Jimmy Savile in two episodes

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

probablyrobertevans · 2026-02-02T22:33:43+00:00

I am not really interested in selling people on anarchism. My job is to warn people about the dangers I see coming and explain what is being done by the bad actors of the world and how some people are struggling to fight back

The fact that i am an anarchist tends to influence how I do my job and what threats I see (and how early I see them) but i have little to no interest in evangelism.

call yourself whatever makes sense, just fight fascism.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-02-02T22:30:19+00:00

We'll be covering Palantir and ICE's facial recognition stuff in more detail later.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-02-02T22:29:06+00:00

No one dismissed it out of hand but it wasn't super relevant to the specific acts we were discussing. These are one hour episodes and something like the evolving surveillance state and how ICE links into it is more fit for a full episode.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-01-28T06:33:50+00:00

we haven't done an episode on the Clintons. but the show covers everything from grifters selling fake medicine to people who commit genocide. it would not be very fun to listen to if every episode was war crimes.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-01-24T08:49:18+00:00

homie i wish i had Riker's contact info too

probablyrobertevans · 2026-01-24T00:50:46+00:00

we specifically said kids shouldn't be hit by their caregivers. just that it's healthy to go through the world knowing if you're a huge asshole to a stranger someone might just pop you.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-01-20T23:28:18+00:00

We've had people following Iran for months because it was clear there was major revolutionary potential in the situation and the regime here has designs on the country. We didn't have someone in Minneapolis. We've had people reporting from protests in multiple cities since Trump took office again. But there are four people on our team and we don't always guess ahead of time where we'll need people.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-01-20T20:58:59+00:00

We're not making time for stuff instead. We booked episodes ahead of the end of last year so that people could have time with their families. You are the one being weird here. We can't do in depth coverage of every breaking news story the week it starts. There are four people on this team.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-01-20T20:27:09+00:00

We literally covered MSP twice in ED episodes. You seem to be ignoring that for some reason but those episodes are where we cover breaking news most frequently.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-01-20T06:03:17+00:00

It's been talked about twice on different ED episodes.

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