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Oh, welcome back to, well, this is the behind the Bastards feed, and this is normally where you get new episodes behind the bastards.

But every now and then we try something new.

And in the not too distant future, I'm planning to be launching a new podcast with my friend and fellow giant nerd, Joe Kasabian, also also fellow podcaster. Hey, Joe, how are you doing?

Hey, buddy. It's good to be here. Yeah. And we're wanting to do, we're planning to do a podcast on Warhammer

40,000, which is a game system that some of you are probably aware of and others of you maybe aren't. I think a

lot of people know about this now. It's reached kind of a point of cultural, critical mass.

I think a significant chunk of people on the internet are just kind of casually aware it exists

in a way that they weren't when we were kids and started playing this.

Yeah, 100%. I remember back when I first heard about Warhammer through the books,

like nobody really knew what it was other than other people that would fall into that fan zone.

But now anybody who doesn't even know it's a miniature, maybe they know it from

the like the total war games or whatever.

Yeah.

It's definitely the biggest it's ever been.

Yeah.

And I, the podcast, we'll, you know, talk later about what exactly the podcast kind of things

of the podcast will be covering.

But this episode, I specifically wanted to talk about the intersection of Warhammer 40K and like pop culture and pop politics in the United States and elsewhere.

Because it's one of having a surprisingly large impact on like the way people communicate on the internet.

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