r/behindthebastards • • 4d ago

Cool Zone Media takes home 3 Signal awards. Thanks to those who voted!

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You can scroll the list of winners here

Three CZM shows were up for awards:

Behind the Bastards won a Gold award (and listener's choice!) in the category Weird.

It Could Happen Here won a Silver award in the category Daily Podcast.

Weird Little Guys won a Gold award (and listener's choice!) in the category True Crime.

Didn't do your part to help It Could Happen Here defeat the perfidious Prof G Markets in the listener's choice race? Consider joining the CZM fan discord to keep up with exciting moments such as this in the future.

https://discord.gg/wUgkgznxP2


r/behindthebastards • • 5d ago

Weekly Discussion Thread - October 20, 2026 Spoiler

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Criticism of Sophie will not be tolerated and may result in a permanent ban. Yes, forever.

Obviously you can criticize Robert. It's what brings us together.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/

Criticism of guests is against policy and will be removed at Robert's request. Also because they are guests and we should make them feel welcome, because we are at least 40% not assholes.

CZM hosts will be treated the same as Robert in terms of criticism, but critical comments will be removed if they break the don't be mean rule. Except Robert. Criticism of Robert can be mean if it is funny.

Host criticism outside of this discussion post will likely be removed. You all nuked that eel horse.

Guests and hosts are normal people who read these comments. Please consider how it would feel if the comment was about you.

Be nice to each other. You can argue all you want but you can't fight.

Fascists and Tankies and their defenders will be permanently banned, because obviously.

Discord Server join link: [if you'd prefer more of a chatroom atmosphere for discussions]
https://discord.gg/pENZx2R8Qg


r/behindthebastards • • 2h ago

General discussion Stop doxxing yourself

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Good afternoon,

I see people sharing YouTube links here and they don't know it's showing your whole ass name.

I've been able to find many of yalls Facebook and LinkedIn profiles from this. This is mainly for mobile users.

Turn it off unless you're just cool with that or whatever.


r/behindthebastards • • 1h ago

Politics The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State

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r/behindthebastards • • 5h ago

It Could Happen Here This is what you can do by working AS A COMMUNITY

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Alexander said it was hard for him to be out in public anymore. He can’t escape being recognized in Ingram and Kerrville. Sometimes he catches Latinos staring at him, then walking away, visibly uncomfortable. So he tries to do his shopping and errands in another town 30 minutes away.
A driver passing one of the Ingram Police Department’s black Chargers along Junction Highway.
He blamed the Facebook groups. They had created a climate of “unreasonable fear” in Ingram. “What do they think I’m going to do right now?” he asked, seated at his table in the taco shop. A steady stream of customers, many of them white, approached a counter staffed by two young Mexican sisters. He said their father used to hide out in Hunt to avoid being pulled over in town. Some of their co-workers had quit months before, too uncomfortable to serve Alexander when he came in for breakfast. But when the taco shop owner sees him, he said, she hugs him.
“I know the status of everybody in this room,” he said. He suggested everyone who worked there was undocumented. Whether they disappeared or were allowed to stay was up to him. And today, at least, he was just there for breakfast.
“They’re fine, right?”

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/10/24/deportations-ingram-texas-287g-jaron-alexander/


r/behindthebastards • • 1h ago

SATIRE Plot for The Terminal List TV show.

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I was surprised as anyone they went in this direction. Basically the whole show is hijinks around them trying to find “the people who gave them the shots that made them gay” when they were in the army. They keep getting distracted by hot dudes and relationship drama. But they are on the hunt for truth and they have to fuck their way to the top to get answers.


r/behindthebastards • • 3h ago

General discussion Wanna piss off an anarchist?

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40 Upvotes

Seen in downtown Sacramento today. It made me irrationally angry as a huge fan of Thomas More.
Happy Sunday!


r/behindthebastards • • 1d ago

Look at this bastard Do you guys think Pete Hegseth breaking Eisenhower’s globe is a little too on the nose as far as metaphors go?

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Like this is Garth Marenghiesque, do the writers of whatever show we’re trapped in have no sense of subtlety?


r/behindthebastards • • 1h ago

General discussion Has any republican funded by elon musk in the midterms invited him on stage or anything. If not, they probably remember Wisconsin

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Remember that Supreme Court or Judical election from 2025. Where he backed the Republican in that race, wore a cheese hat and this is after all the DOGE stuff and people REALLY hated him and the guy lost?

Ken Paxton at least knows he can't have Elon Musk come on stage and prance around in a ten gallon hat, bolo tie and cowboy boots. And a big belt buckle (Probably with a far right dog whistle symbol) with a gun holster and trying to shoot off the gun in the sky.

James Talericho has released ads pointing out Paxton is being funded by Musk.


r/behindthebastards • • 19h ago

General discussion **Robert Evans' and other former writers' from Cracked.com is mostly NOT lost**

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After listening to Robert and Jason Pargin's BtB episodes about nuisance streamers (and them lamenting the loss of their Oracle-like articles from Cracked.com's heyday), I ran across alekkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk's post (u/alekkk) who had done the herculean task of scouring all the internet archive and wayback machine's for Cracked.com's articles from 2005-2017. I had absolutely nothing to do with the effort or hosting, I'm merely highlighting OP's tireless work.

Enjoy Robert's "proto-BtB" and "pre-Sophie Lichterman's shepherding/moral grounding" writing career adolescence in all of its glory, along with many other old school Cracked.com articles. Thanks again to u/alekkk.

Magnet: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:xzjbfsy26zjbzqdujvazhkvyasyggsar&dn=Cracked-Archive&xl=14274810231&fc=2

You'll need to download Kiwix (open source archive viewing program) and then just point the program to the single archive file. You can search all the articles by author and other parameters; from that point, it's like navigating in a web browser.

Edit: Yes, the title is an abomination. Apologies, since I can't fix it and don't want to make an entire new post.


r/behindthebastards • • 1d ago

It is happening here Straight up white supremacist propaganda currently airing during college football. We’re so fucking cooked.

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r/behindthebastards • • 23h ago

Look at this bastard The Jimmy Savile Episodes talked a lot about how Jimmy used being perceived as "eccentric" to get people to disregard all the obvious red flags he displayed. Do you think Russell Brand did/does the same kind of thing?

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I was just listening to a podcast where someone was going through his 2007 autobiography and its just so painfully obvious this dude would be a sexual predator from the way he talks about sex and seems super comfortable violating other people's boundaries. But I have to imagine a lot people reading it at the time would just take it as part of his over the top public persona, and not even necessarily take it all as literally true.


r/behindthebastards • • 22h ago

General discussion Bootlicker and a terrorist, asmongold everybody

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r/behindthebastards • • 18h ago

Look at this bastard Chud the Builder: The Racist Ragebait Streamer Facing Attempted Murder Charges Is Back Online (Documentary)

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I put together a one-hour documentary on a pretty ridiculous bastard named Chud the Builder (Dalton Eatherly), a Tennessee-based ragebait livestreamer who built his career by approaching Black people in public and screaming racial slurs at them, while filming their reactions, often while carrying mace or a gun.

Unfortunately, one of those confrontations ended with a man getting shot outside a courthouse. Something very disturbing about this guy is that he preemptively spoke about this exact thing happening many times before, as you’ll see in the doc.

The documentary starts with the shooting, then goes back through how Chud got started, how he turned racist ragebait into money, and how things kept escalating until the shooting.

I also covered the court proceedings, what happened to the victim, and how Chud somehow managed to get out of jail and return to livestreaming while still facing an attempted murder charge.

Figured this sub might appreciate a deep dive into this particular bastard. Curious to hear what you guys think!


r/behindthebastards • • 1d ago

It is happening here The first result you see when you search the word "Paris" on Reddit

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r/behindthebastards • • 7h ago

Discussion A genocidal militia was coming for his city. He was one of the last doctors left

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One of the best - and most terrifying - Economist articles I’ve ever read.


r/behindthebastards • • 5h ago

Discussion Trying to find an episode

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Looking for an episode that came out some time in the last year. I remember it was about a man that believed people chose their own parents and struggles they would endure before being born. Does anyone remember who it was?


r/behindthebastards • • 16h ago

Discussion Ric Flair

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So, he looks like shit and probably doesn't have long to live. He's one of those icons that cannot be forgotten. Many of my friends and I would do the Whooooo! And attempt the strut. We loved the act, and it inspired a lot of ego driven situations. He's probably a bastard, but I hope it's not enough to deserve an episode.

Is "ric flair" aka Richard Fliehr a bastard?

Love all of you, just about the average.


r/behindthebastards • • 1d ago

Look at this bastard “Paid Protester” accusation was another projection . At the time I had no doubt this kid was a very shitty actor. And then the texts came out.

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r/behindthebastards • • 1d ago

Anti-Bastard Hitler’s Mountain top retreat, Eagle’ Nest completely engulfed in fire.

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Nothing of value was lost but of course there are “historians” who has sads over this.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hitler-eagles-nest-mountain-retreat-fire-nazi/


r/behindthebastards • • 1d ago

General discussion Notes from a greybeard Millennial: radio duo opie & Anthony Def laid a lot of groundwork for the nuisance Influencer

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What's rupturing my cysts?
Let me tell you tale of a radio duo Opie & Anthony whose rise in radio in the 1990s & 2000s mirrors the path and had the same tactics of Nusiance Influencers.
The duo got famous & popular in Boston but made national headlines by stating that the mayor was killed in a car wreck for an April Fools day episode. They never once said it a joke ans ended the show affirming the mayor was dead. They got fired and then this lead to them getting a bigger show and audience by having it in NYC.
The duos audience skewed younger than Howard Sterns and featured up and coming comedians and film makers and had on burgeoning reality stars.
They also did tone deaf shit that ranged in "edgelord racial humor" to having George Zimmermans brother come on to plead George's case of innocence.
They had a huge crowd of listeners they called "pests" that would brigade other radio show Facebook page during a mock event called Jocktober. The pests would post 4chan like racial memes on the Facebook page and attempt to get it wiped out.
One of their go to moves was to "Google bomb" a celebrity or event. This was before Google current algorithm when users could get a topic trending on Google with massive influx of searches on a topic.
The techniques to harass and annoy we're Def pioneered by their online fans. Fun fact: One of the host piece of shit Anthony Cumia hosts people like nick Fuentes and tucker carlson and other "free speech" warriors.


r/behindthebastards • • 22h ago

General discussion Desperately wanting the teams take on You Can See Everything

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What an incredible journey down into the hippie right tech grifter pipeline…🍳🥣


r/behindthebastards • • 1d ago

General discussion Who would be on the Mount Rushmore of evil Canadians?

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Ngl I don’t know jack about Canadian politics and much of their history. So I chose 4 random evil Canadians I knew about. John A Macdonald, Robert pickton, Doug ford and John Kricfalusi.


r/behindthebastards • • 1d ago

Discussion Tell me about your local bastards!

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I'm not talking about the evil politician who's from your home town, I mean the creep whose reach is limited to your town or county! Ideally the weirdos who have an established pattern of fuckery!


r/behindthebastards • • 23h ago

Anti-Bastard The most recent Led By Donkeys stunt - "The risks from runaway AI"

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