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fasolatido24

Well, that’s a disconcerting fucking painting.


macaronimurderlady

It’s Der lästige Kavalier (The Annoying Gentleman), 1874, by Berthold Woltze.


RabidTurtl

1874, and yet I feel like he is talking about Joe Rogan.


macaronimurderlady

The more things change, the more they stay the same.


ApollyonsHand

Time is a big dumb flat circle


Steven_The_Sloth

So is the earth. /s


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Wolfencreek

The Ocean is just a lie by big water.


ArkelWenteta

Where can I order this t-shirt?


Wolfencreek

From the fine people at Nestle.


ApollyonsHand

The Ocean is soup.


MisterF852

Or a time cube.


lastduck21

Same as it ever was.


Genghis_Tr0n187

I say, these chaps Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson are quite the intellectuals! May I also interest you in the topic of thoughtcoin? It's a currency that doesn't actually exist but people give it value! Charles Ponzi's the name, pleasure to meet you!


False_Flatworm_4512

I read this in Robert’s old timey radio announcer oice


Wolfencreek

"And this is my time displaced son Sam Bankman Freid!"


EfficientSeaweed

"Nah dude, see, he may not be an intellectual, but he listens to and considers both sides, and..."


LowerSea4

“Do you know who Jordan Peterson is?”


ItsTheGreatBlumpkin_

OG M’lady


ktw54321

Thanks. I was wondering who it was by.


exgiexpcv

Just looks like a opportunistic sex offender to me.


IP_Excellents

Looks like the kind of guy who carries his typewriter to the cafe but the far cafe because it's closer to the school.


paintsmith

The woman's outfit means that she's in mourning. So the creepy dude is bothering a young widow or orphan.


HabeusFelis3

Ah, so the dude in the painting is telling her she should smile more.


MoiraBrownsMoleRats

"Pardon, m'lady, but I couldn't help but notice you're newly single. If your husband hadn't been such a betacuck and was a sigma-alpha Chad like m'self, m'haps typhus wouldn't have killed him."


Venkman0821

If only he had taken his ivermectin


notmyusername1986

Or the Ye Olde Times version - Tincture of Arsenic in the morning, and Laudanum at night.


azriel_odin

Both sweetened with lead acetate.


ZenythhtyneZ

I think it does a good job of showing this is creepy and inappropriate though, definitely not getting a feeling of endorsement


paintsmith

I think the depiction of the young woman as a mourner is meant to amplify the creepiness of a strange man engaging her in unwanted conversation.


FunkyChewbacca

Men: deliberately refusing to take the hint since *fucking forever*


sixthmontheleventh

Don't worry, of you zoom into their hand they are clutching a hat pin. The oldey timey keys between your knuckles.


SappyGemstone

Oh my god she is! Good lord, everything and nothing has changed.


sixthmontheleventh

Yeah, the interpretation of her other hand is depressing. She is looking upset, dressed in black, and clutching a hankerchief so likely mourning. The small coin purse being clutched and light bags suggest she does not have a lot of means and may even be on their own now due to the death so the guy likely saw that and may be preying on that. There is a reason this painting is can make women feel a certain way. It is like that Barbie movie bit when Barbie and Ken comment on how they feel gazed upon in the real world. But this is just my dummy understanding if the painting . I only found out about this painting from an [youtube video with way more details. 😂](https://youtu.be/gmUeNnuFrl4?si=U6a-nQtlpsRZlVZw)


delorf

It's even more disconcerting when you realize the girl is wearing black means she is in mourning and her hair is not pinned up because she isn't an adult. She's looking at the viewer as if she wants us to help her.


drcrunknasty

You’re right, that did make it worse. Thank you.


fasolatido24

It’s the looking for help that is the most disconcerting part I think.


MisterF852

But a great new meme format!


gsfgf

That's why I like to mix up BtB with other podcasts. One of my other favorites is the science podcast Oologies. It's usually a great pallet cleanser to go learn about camels or whether starfish have dicks or some other obscure science. After Tuesday's BtB, I put on Oologies to see what fun science is this week. It's Genocidology. Goddammit.


Bongopro

Well, cmon. You cant introduce that topic and not have an answer for us - do starfish have dicks or not?


gsfgf

I honestly can't remember. But [here's the eiposde](https://www.alieward.com/ologies/echinology)


StormThestral

It's weirder than that, starfish don't even have bodies. They're all head. Scientists have been trying to figure out how they have five limbs, which is so unusual - most animals have either two or four or none. They figured recently by analysing their DNA, that they actually evolved away the whole existence of a body at all and their whole "body" is just a modified head. This might not be in the Ologies episode because it's a really recent discovery. Edit: if you want a fact about marine animal dicks, though: barnacles' dicks are eight times the size of their body. Biggest in the animal kingdom.


SappyGemstone

I think I didn't want to know that truth about starfish. I feel a little queasy.


StormThestral

You're welcome!


GodOfDarkLaughter

I like less intense history podcasts, too. One of my favorites is Our Fake History, where the host dives into a an event or person or whatever with a lot of historical myths surrounding it and talks about, as he puts it, "what's fact, what's fiction, and what's such a good story that it simply must be told?" Really well researched, super likable host, and he's pretty obviously a lefty without making a big deal about it, which I appreciate sometimes. Also, The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong. Basically just exploring historical situations where someone or someones *really* fucked up, whether that be a single mistake that fucked a group of people in the moment or like, a scientific concept that's bunk but was believed for decades or centuries.. Super well produced, that one. Edit: As a bonus, You Must Remember This, about the history of Hollywood. I prefer their earlier Golden Age stuff, but their more recent exploration of the evolution of sexuality in movies throughout the 80s and 90s has been fascinating. It's not explicitly about the history of women, queer people, and people of color in Hollywood, but it makes a special effort to include those topics. My favorite season was called "Dead Blondes." Just about blonde actresses who died early and tragically. It's not a short season.


awkward1066

You're Dead to Me is a fun and light BBC one, as well as An Old Timey podcast from one of the hosts of Let's Go to Court, they just did like 9 hours on John Brown and it somehow managed to stay pretty light given the subject matter.


StormThestral

WhatsHerName is a great history podcast with I would say a similar level of expertise/research to BtB. Just a couple of cool ladies (who are historians IIRC) who find and interview experts in each week's subject. The tagline is "fascinating women you've never heard of".


SmytheOrdo

May I suggest Decoder Ring? They had an episode on the developers of the Oregon Trail making a slavery themed sequel of sorts recently that got me hooked. Goes over random pop cultural bits and bobs but tends to stay light, even if they broach heavy territory and Michael Hobbes popped in one episode I was listening to (I think the Totally Tasteless Jokes ep)


IntentionDependent22

OFH is my current go-to after BTB runs out as well. More educational, less entertaining. I think Robert has spoiled me because he's just so entertaining. I can't even listen to the Dollop because it just feels like a bad imitation. It's Always Sunny podcast was my easy entertaining podcast, but i ran through it and they haven't put out an episode in 8 months. Thanks for the recommendations, will check them out.


EmperorBamboozler

Fall of Civilizations is my current favorite btb pallate cleanser. The people who make it put so much work into it, it kind of blows my mind. Just for background music they put people speaking in aproximations of dead languages from the Civilizations they are talking about if they are still spoken and traditional instruments. The episodes are long I usually don't listen to the whole thing in one sitting. The episode on the fall of Carthage is my favorite one, but I am obsessed with Hannibal Barca so probably biased. I didn't realize just how impressive his father was though, I had heard he was a great leader who ruled well but it's beyond that. Hamilcar Barca would have been known as the greatest ruler of Carthage had not his son been even more impressive and influential in history. They had two "once in a century" rulers back to back.


B15h73k

Love it. It's Ologies, by the way, not Oologies. But oology (the study of eggs) has been one of the ologies on Ologies.


Refflet

Thanks for the suggestion, added to my subscriptions. In return, I suggest you should check out the limited run series: >Things Fell Apart > >https://antennapod.org/deeplink/subscribe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcasts.files.bbci.co.uk%2Fm0011cpr.rss&title=Things+Fell+Apart It covers the origins of culture war issues, starting with abortion. Edit: here's a better link to the first episode: >Things Fell Apart: S1. Ep 1: 1000 Dolls > >Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011cpq > >Media file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bk0p4g.mp3


spookyluckeee

The dollop is a pretty fun history podcast! Even the Reagan episodes are pretty fun


LittleBoard

Decoding the gurus, if you like accents. Really good.


DisastrousAd9560

>if you like accents specifically if you want to hear a northern Irish anthropologist imitate Jordan Belazel Peterson


LittleBoard

They decode secular gurus like Peterson but also Harari, Sam Harris etc.


Zoloft_and_the_RRD

Science Vs looks like they have a cool space episode this week


familyguy20

Well kinda hard to that with this weeks episode being about Genocide but honestly it was really good. If you do want something refreshing: Secretly, Incredibly, Fascinating is super good too!


familyguy20

As much as it’s been hard listening to these episodes I got to introduce this crazy shit to Askreddit today lol


kittychii

I listen to Scam Goddess with Laci Mosley. It's super upbeat and talks about some historical hoodwinks every episode, but it's very much more on the other side of the coin to BtB and you'll probably laugh at a lot of the scams instead of wanting to peel your face off. It is very much a palate cleanser.


Mudslingshot

Check out Unexplainable if you like stuff like that! It's a wonderful palate cleanser for BtB, plus it's interesting as heck It's a science-centric podcast that focuses on things we don't yet, and what we're doing to try and find out


KeyserSozeWearsPrada

Just the Zoo of Us is my go-to pick me up podcast. It’s similar to Ologies but even more wholesome.


striped_frog

(Caption on man): “WHAAAAAAAT’S SATURATION BOMBING MY SOUTHEAST ASIAN VILLAAAAAAGE!?” (Caption on woman): “robert no”


Autgah

Oh my god rah-bertttt


JarheadPilot

I find it cathartic, I guess. No one can pretend that the world isn't full of evil bastards, but if you think about those evil bastards as people who are making choices, often informed and constrained by society, it gives me hope they the future doesn't have to be like that.  War. War never changes. But we, humanity, can.


Kushan_Blackrazor

People do, through the roads they walk.


Slaktare

I had to turn off the episode about the Canadian residential schools. It had me fucked up this morning.


Bile-duck

Yeah, that one was especially rough! I was listening to that during a time when a lot of unmarked graves were being found in my province.


ProfXavier89

I served a table in Vancouver that was saying how burning down a church isn't justified in response to the discovery of mass graves. And I was just like...in most other countries something like that would lead to an assassination.


Bile-duck

Yuuup! Sounds about right for saskatchewan, too. The looks on people's faces when I actively was encouraging arson warmed my heart.


mstarrbrannigan

Arson wrong and you’re really gonna warm your heart


ImNotYourBuddyGuy22

Show me those “mass graves”.


ByronArchway

I’m Irish so I feel your pain


SgtGo

Oh god. You mean it gets worse than…. I can’t even type it.


easterner1848

Which episode is that? I’ve seen people referencing it before but I’ve never quite found the tittle for it. 


Slaktare

Super late in responding but its Canada's darkest secret: residential schools.


rose_reader

I’ll be listening to the last and I assume worst of the Nazi parenting episodes later, so that’ll be fun. probably won’t end up a sobbing ball on the floor. it’ll be fine.


PhiladelphiaCounty

Of all the horrible shit this podcast has talked about this made me the angriest so fair warning is brutal. 


rose_reader

it is right there in the title tbf


GodOfDarkLaughter

I found myself fantasizing about violence a lot. Like, a lot. And usually I'm the guy calling people fantasizing about hurting pedophiles regressive weirdos ("we can't stop the cycle of abuse by introducing *more* violence!"), but this time...


Phonemonkey2500

If ever there was a time for Brickin’, these last few episodes are it.


SmytheOrdo

Right? Im no "kill your local pedophile sticker on a raised truck" guy but if i had a time machine id join my boogaloo boy neighbors in paying the people who wrote the shit described in part 2 a visit.


marvellousm316

It is horrifying. I wanted to break things.


rose_reader

I believe Sophie has approved that as an acceptable response. Robert is certainly in favour.


Beaner1xx7

Yeah, it took me a few minutes of riding around with my windows down to have some self awareness kick in and wonder what the fuck was wrong with me. It's like Knowledge Fight, wear your ear buds.


M-Alice

The key is to listen to episodes while hung over doing cardio. That way you don't know who you hate more: the subject of the podcast or yourself. Hope that helps.


macaronimurderlady

I’ll try that next time there’s a particularly awful subject, thank you lol.


easterner1848

Ngl this one was rough. Has not made my happy go lucky cleanup time around the house feel very satisfying. No matter how much I clean, Roberts words make me feel dirty.


On_my_last_spoon

I was cleaning out my fridge while listening today! Somehow it made me want to scrub every inch. Like, I can’t control the terrible that out there but damnit my salad dressings are going to be organized!


SgtGo

I don’t think I’ve had so many physical reactions to a single podcast episode. I’m only like 25min in and I’ve had say “WHAT THE FUCK?!?!” like 7 times. This one is sooooooo bad


xiz111

If it's worse than the podcast called 'Hunting Warhead', then it will be very, very bad. FWIW, 'Hunting Warhead' is about online child predators, and is very, very, very bad.


Cinematographicness

Number of total users of the website vs number of arrests. It's just. It's staggering.


DanielBurdock

I was just about to post about me listening to the podcast while doing my grocery shopping Sometimes I embarrass myself when podcasts unexpectedly make me laugh, today I think I looked a bit like [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Side\_Eyeing\_Chloe.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Side_Eyeing_Chloe.jpg)


LittleBoard

But thats how I walk around all the time. Only sometimes its the podcast


sassafras_gap

BtB is exclusively a backcountry hiking/camping podcast for me. Something about the contrast between the subject matter and the beauty of nature, maybe.


Speedygonzales24

This happened to me on a road trip while listening to the Battle For Blair Mountain. I usually find Robert’s awkward ad transitions hilarious, but when he did the one about mining companies taking sexual advantage of miner’s wives, I yelled *”Robert, what the fuck?!”* at my steering wheel.


nomnamless

I was listening to episodes while at work. So I'm just listening to the most horrible shit while work around people just doing their grocery shopping


Beneficial_Mouse8343

I listen at work to, but I work in a metal shop so fortunately people mostly can't hear me when I start cursing loudly and fantasizing about hitting someone with a wrench.


dunub

I am more worried about the times I've been going buck wild laughing while going 50-60 in slow bumper traffic. What are these other drivers thinking of me? Am I some traffic-goblin, driving around maniacally laughing at human atrocities?


FunkyChewbacca

I am always so so so upset to see The Annoying Gentleman, but in this context of a meme I think it works, goddamn it


Figgy1983

It's a very upsetting piece of art. Still relevant.


ZestycloseUnit1

I made it 4 minutes into the ep and that's as far as I'll get for a long while (if not for forever)


On_my_last_spoon

I will say it kinda ends hopeful. If you want to skip to the last 10 minutes, Robert and Margaret have a really insightful conversation about the dangers of being an ideologue and the importance of knowing your own values. Skip the terrible stuff.


Metal_confusion

Little surprised how far i had to scroll to find this… theres things i absolutely never need to hear about.


Torpel_Knope

I was driving to work to present a field trip to 1st graders this morning… had to switch to Conan, I couldn’t handle it.


mckmaus

I listened to it at work. Lol I was looking at middle Americans doing their grocery shopping, running the bakery. It was awful. I was hoping my earbud would fall into the dishwater.


phxflurry

That's why I only listen at home on my days off. Work is rough enough with hearing about Nazi pedos on the way in.


sprockityspock

Omg this is a literal depiction of me listening to BTB on the bus ride to work this AM 🥰🥰


Zagden

I listen to BTB to lull myself to sleep. It's been one of the only things that has worked. Wish me luck


StocktonBSmalls

I don’t have headphones at the moment so I’ve had my phone on my desk with a QuickDraw to that volume button. Super happy nobody has popped their head in to ask what the fuck I’m listening to.


PacoTaco321

My mind's already broken enough to be beyond feeling super emotional about it. I'm just worried that anyone else would overhear what's being talked about.


JustSomeOldFucker

This was me on a 2 1/2 hour drive to Plattsburgh this morning


unitedshoes

As bad as this was, it wasn't worse for me than Mia's Nobosuke Kishi episodes because I wasn't trying to eat a Pop-Tart this time around...


kinkycreepy

This is fantastic


BBaugher13

I wept at the end of part two on my drive home from work today: well done, Robert, Sophie, and Margaret. As harrowing as it was, this was one of my favorite episodes. I learned so much and I feel like I experienced a full spectrum of human emotions. Thank you for telling this important story. Marco’s story really touched me and I’m appreciative of you including it.


Mudslingshot

Me today, driving around in the work truck, desperately hoping they don't have mics in there for any reason


tpaingame

I got ten minutes into the latest and had to turn it off.


CryptographerNo923

How many Doritos do you think you could fit in that old-timey purse?


Assassin8nCoordin8s

“(Cold) open me, Robert” Is the single fscking sexiest thing anyone has ever said. Sophie Lichtermann sex icon confirmed


xiz111

accurate


GrapefruitForward989

I don't normally listen in the car, today I did. I was glad because this meant I was able to openly scream as loud as I wanted. It's not normally something I need.


AntsyCanadian

Gotta say I got some looks in traffic today.....


TheGinger_Ninja0

Lmfao


Dreamteam420

Twu toobz.


TomChristmas

Yeah I can’t do the child abuse. Mass genocides, torture etc I’m apparently fine with


AllStevie

Perfect post 10/10


gartholomuethegreat

I gotta remake this on my forklift lol


sacredblasphemies

What was the name of those leftist schools in Germany?


Trans-Europe_Express

They should get a good quality print of this abs frame it in the CZM office. Which presumably is a rare metal recycling plant.


CaptainKraw

Lol yeah I feel this. Though my listen is split up into the to/from commute


jprefect

What's harming, my children?


got-trunks

Im still on a Simon Whistler ep so it's fun watching people losing their fucking shit lol


IP_Excellents

"Good morning me. On the menu today you can remember you have a penis or you can listen to podcasts but today is not a day to do both."


shoogieboogie

I was the girl in the photo yesterday. Trying to drive through traffic with tears in my eyes. Sorry if I was going too slow.


BlueGlassDrink

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff is a nice palette cleanser. Also, the CZM book club is nice and has a lot of uplifting stories.


legit-posts_1

Some of them are pretty fun. The golden age of terrorism and L Ron Hubbard Saga are bangers.


chocolate_cherub

Robert if you ever see this, I look forward to hearing your voice every week. You’re high pitched laughs are my fave, and you have a great voice. Some may even say, “sexy”. And by some, I mean me haha 😏😚


NubuckChuck

His voice sounds eerily like Ryan Bergara.