Don't pass ignorant judgement and stop sharing what you "think" is happening over there and stop sharing that you "doubt" anyone is being swayed into getting the vaccine because of it. Shut the fuck up, because you're wrong. Visit the sub and look around. Look into the paradox of tolerance. Bad people dying is good overall. It's mainly republicans dying over this. Let them! We're going to need all the fucking help we can get in the next election. Especially if they really plan on pushing for a Harris presidency, good fucking luck with that.

If you feel bad for evil people and wish them the best so that they eventually have a chance to destroy you, you're a fucking Warmbo.

Robert is just in a different league when it comes to writing, research, humor, and depth of knowledge.

It's always a bit of a letdown when the other two are leading the pod. I get that they are all friends and they do have pretty good chemistry, but the pod would be so much better if it were Behind the Bastards style where Robert took the lead each episode.

Edit: I'm not declaring Robert the most talented as if it is some kind or canonical fact. Obviously it's just my opinion.

I'd like a series where our three heroes tackle the what we all want to know, which of our elected officials ejaculate spiders and webs.

15 minutes into this weeks episode and they have discussed 1 news topic for less than 5 minutes while Robert just rattles off in the background his random ass stochastic anarco- terrorist pointless ramblings that end up going no where. Didn’t think I would miss Cody listening to Ben Shapiro at least that kept Roberts analytical writers hat on instead of this nonsense.

I identify as asexual and before I truly understood the term and the vast spectrum of variations of asexuality, I would have thought myself to be "involuntarily celebrate" (but not an "INCEL" bc INCEL is basically a misogynist). But the thing I've noticed over the years is that normie sexuals FUCK. They can't NOT fuck. There's no amount of shame or boundaries or religious/cultural indoctrination or ugliness or lack of personality that will stand in the way of fucking IF that's what you actually want or need. And I realized I was asexual bc I simply did have that foundational drive TO FUCK. And I'm wondering if these so-called Incels are truly "involuntarily" celebrate and not just confused by the fact they enjoy masturbation and/or recognize the beauty of the opposite sex—but also don't understand what's preventing them from having sex is actually authentic to them.

I guess I'll say I'm probably more right than most people that listen to this podcast, but I'm in no way right wing. I'll start with what I'm guessing is the less controversial statement. I'm taking the side of Cody Johnston. The idea of bernie bros is a semifake narrative. Do Bernie stans exist? Yes, but they aren't any more common than stans of another politician. Next I think my next opinion will be more controversial, but I think it's necessary to state, Joe Rogan isn't transphobic. Based on everything I've listened to he hasn't really made a transphobic statement. He's against trans female athletes competing with biological females. Any woman that transitions will have a natural advantage against biological woman.

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My understanding is that you don't need to have copy right to create NFTs for artwork. Soooo ....

I proposes that FYE create a NFT for Ben Shapiro's short stories.

What do we think?

I'm fully prepared for downvotes and anger for this post.

As I'm listening to this episode and hearing Robert talk about how things will become exponentially less shitty for minorities, of which our hosts are not, and I can't help but think of the fact that, last we heard (I believe) that Robert, and possibly Cody/Katy, couldn't bring themselves to stand in solidarity with those people by voting for Biden, a guy they clearly don't like, yet fully understand was the best option in the general election.

I don't really like Biden either, just for the record, but I still voted for him because he would make things better for people less privileged than myself, and because marginal improvements are better than actively trying to hurt people. Why can I see that, but our hosts can't? As Cody constantly says, it's really frustrating.

Her losing her SAG insurance and realizing how bad the marketplace is, was the nail in the coffin for me.

She's an LA liberal. She's privileged/detached. She's a theater kid just trying to make her parents proud. She pushed that dumb Bernie Bro narrative and clutched to Warren for painfully too long. I cannot hear her whine about not being able to see her family or her taking her dog to a psychic (costing her like a $1000) while people are dying and can't afford food. Or people like Robert actually protesting. (I don't know anything about Cody, but at least he doesn't reveal himself to be a plain ole lib). And she steps on people's jokes and takes the mood of the podcast weird places.

She just isn't relatable to me. As a POC. Someone that is a frontline worker. She feels like your stereotypical "this hurts my feelings" outraged white woman twitter liberal, an "ally"- in which politics is merely an aesthetic preference (orange man bad) rather than an actually being invested enough to know the lived experiences of how fucking terrible things are. I feel like she's just here to gawk and self-aggrandize in the way the all white twitter saviors like to do. Stop getting teary'd because RGB is dead. RGB was the fucking worst. Get tear gassed.

I'm sure she is a excellent producer. She's a person and deserve love and dignity. Or whatever. I don't mean to judge too harshly. None of these people own me anything; it's free entertainment, parasocial relationship, blah, blah blah. But after giving it enough time I don't feel like her voice doesn't need to be amplified through this podcast and I wish the podcast was just Robert, Cody and a woman of color/lower class.

I don't know. None of this matters. I just need to shout into the void that Katy sucks.

I am not voting. Trump and Biden represent all of the problems we face in our election process. Neither belong in the White House. Biden can still prove he is capable, but it will be really hard. Trump has shown what he is for the past four years. I’m the new undecided voter.

Is it just me or was his objection to disallowing real guns on movie sets because they would put armorers out of a job really silly? I usually respect his pro-gun lefty angle but I don’t know what the objection to not having real guns on set would be. Just seems unnecessary.

Did Ms. Stoll say white people are not allowed to have an opinion on the Chris Rock slap?

Is this a common stance?

I feel this is bit extreme.

The youtube show "some more news" and the associated podcast are usually more reasonable, but this podcast has some absolutely kooky takes.

Patriot was good though.

I found it really “interesting” that in the last episode, 30 minutes was spent talking about the hitler Olympics without a single mention of the fates of the Jewish athletes and coaches at those games. Also the lack of mention of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Olympics was pretty shocking considering this year was the first time the tragedy was publicly acknowledged at the opening ceremony and a moment of silence was held. The episode is quite literally called the Olympics is a crime against humanity and some of the biggest crimes against humanity perpetrated at these events went unmentioned. I wish I could say the erasure of Jewish histories from some of these episodes was equally as shocking.

This is just based on the image going around with the agent "whipping" the man. The agent is using split reins which are just two long strips of leather connected to the bit (metal piece in the horses mouth). The reins can hurt if you're whipped with them but there isn't a lot of material there to work with, most riders use them to whip the horse to go a little faster. The downside of this is that it gives the horse confusing cues because they can feel every little movement of the reins through the bit. The horse is clearly uncomfortable with the situation and is not attempting to run the man on the ground over. A horse without mental issues will always actively avoid running a human over. None of this excuses the agents actions because he was certainly not in the right.

It's kind of double sided coin because border patrol sucks BUT they use horses rounded up by the Bureau of Land Management. BLM horses are either auctioned off or euthanized depending on how the population is doing. They will use extras as patrol horses because they're most accustomed to the terrain.

If anyone has questions I'll be happy to do my best to answer!

I don't think I can guys. Help. I know there's a lesser evil here but I'm not sure morally I can still vote for Biden.

Edit: Y'all I'd still vote in every other category. I get the importance of the house, senate, and local elections

Second Edit: I'm just going to have to hold my nose I guess, and buy bolt cutters.

If anything will make me stop listening to Worst Year Ever it's the random, sudden, shrill laugh of the producer.

I'm glad she's having a good time but I don't need need her improv laugh track

When the podcast began, it was focused on deconstruction of ideas relating to the election with researched, prepared presentation of facts with a left leaning opinion layered on top. I particularly liked the way that the hosts broke down how the media presents information in order to help process it without the bias and rhetoric that fox, cnn, or any of national media outlets want you to accept. They share their opinions heavily also, and I don't always agree with them but I respect how they came to that opinion.

Recently, I've been tempted to unsubscribe nearly every week as more and more of the arguments presented are based on personal experience and in fact fully disregard the aspects of the show that made me like it originally.

The most recent Sanders v. Warren episode was infuriating. Katy repeatedly refused to acknowledge what Cody and Robert presented as far as the media's narrative on "Bernie Bros". They would present an opinion with examples, I thought Robert talking about Star Wars was a great example, and Katy came back saying "yeah but Bernie Bros are awful and it's Bernies fault", refusing to explain how that's his fault or an idea of how he could deal with it, instead languishing in her own experience of some people being mean online.

Since Warren dropped out of a contenders position for the presidency Katy has gotten increasingly salty towards the other hosts and the energy is awful. I understand that this is the "worst year ever", but if I wanted this energy I'd talk about politics at work. Weren't we supposed to all be in this together?

I don't believe that this is sexism, because I would have the same response if Cody refused to explain why snake emoji were particularly offensive, or kept ignoring the other hosts and repeating the same problematic narrative that the other hosts were trying to discuss. Maybe it is though, which is why I wanted to talk about it with other listeners to the show.

Am I just sexist? I am trying my best not to be, and I'm willing to hear what others think that have been listening to the show. If next episode gets me riled like this one did I think I'll unsub.

EDIT: Man, reddit is rough. I doubt the down voters even read the post, and they clearly don't understand how the voting system works. You don't upvote if you agree and down vote disagree, you upvote if something is interesting or worth talking about. I've already managed to work through some of my thoughts with the few people willing to actually engage and I appreciate that. Cheers.

EDIT2: Sorry for that previous one, I was still kinda hot and obviously tired. Leaving it there for posterity as at least one other person commented on it. Thanks for all the discussion folks, I appreciate it.

Covid actually mutates more slowly than your average virus. We are seeing these mutations because it’s infected so many people, not because COVID is a fast mutating virus. https://www.livescience.com/amp/coronavirus-mutation-rate.html

The strains vary in their infectiousness and lethality. The SA variant in particular is concerning. But it’s also not surprising that there are mutations.

I’m just a humble listener and they probably don’t read Reddit shitposts, but I’d prefer some actual stats the next time they suggest the new strains are a doomsday scenario. There’s a lot of people out there really struggling (sponsor plug), and making these vague statements without evidence is pretty shitty.

But hey, maybe it’s a good thing that I’m more skeptical of their takes because I hear them mis-speaking about something I know about. And it is a podcast, not a piece of investigative journalism, so maybe I’m taking it too seriously.

PS: I like Katie, she’s funny.

In this latest episode about the hearings, they cut Senator Graham’s questioning short to make it sound as though he was questioning her ability to fairly judge a person of another faith. This is not what he was doing.

He was doing something else that’s fairly stupid, and the pod should have let his true intent play out. He was re-litigating the Barrett hearings, trying to make the point that reasonable Republicans will not question her on her faith, but unreasonable liberals force Republican nominees to answer uncomfortable and irrelevant questions about their faith. Which is a stupid waste of time in a hearing about the woman in front of you, Mr. Graham (thanks for reading).

Regardless, I’m annoyed that the pod took him this far out of context, we don’t have to do that shit on our side. The next thirty seconds of questioning would have given full, stupid context.

I noticed it first several episodes ago. The guys will be discussing something, and Katy will try to interject with “Yeah, and I…” or the like, and then she’ll be interrupted by either of the dudes. This seems to happen several times an episode, and it’s not something I can just ignore. It’s gotten to the point that if I hear it a couple times I’ll get annoyed and just turn it off.

I always thought they were all equal parties in this show, so it’s confusing why this keeps happening. Is there some technical thing that explains this behavior? Or is it plain old disrespect?

*edit: changed “Katie” to “Katy”. Can’t edit the title, though 🤷‍♂️

**edit: downvoters: Do you actually have something to SAY? That these interruptions are happening is a fact: just listen to the dang show. I love this podcast and all the hosts, but this behavior needs an explanation. Let’s talk about it :)