Oh, welcome back to Behind the Bastards, the podcast that you're listening to right now.

It's about the worst people in all of history.

And we've got one of my favorite guests and the host of the podcast on our network, Sad Olegark, which just got a new season.

Jake Hanrahan, Jake, welcome back.

How you doing?

Thanks for having me, mate.

Long time I speak, man.

How have you been?

Ah, you know, I've been all right, tired, like everyone, I think, especially where I am, lots going on.

How about you? Yeah, like, your country's like actually fascist now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're really speed running things, huh? Yeah. Everyone's saying it for years, and I was like, oh, no, they actually, it's happened. Oh, no, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's fucked up, man. It has been fun to see all of the, like, debate go out the window and like, no, no, yeah, okay.

No, it's straight up.

Like, it's actually, like, very scary because it's happening here as well, like, in England.

And it's like, ah, there's like some consolidation of extreme authoritarianism happening. Yeah. Yeah, it's happening and it's happening at the kind of speed that almost seems farcical. Yeah. So that's good. I feel upbeat. I don't know. I don't know. Like, it's weird, too, because it's one of those, like, you would, I'd always kind of expect in the back of my head that if things got this bad this quickly, there'd be stuff to do other, like, beyond just, like, work.

Like, that that wouldn't be the primary concern is still, like, making rent and, and, and getting by.

But everyone I know is walking around being like, yeah, it's crazy how fast things are going.

Also, like, I got to take my kid to a doctor's appointment at three.

Yeah, no, that's actually, I was talking to my friend about this to the day.

I was like, the kind of rapid descent into state control and authoritarianism is actually

really boring.

Like, it's just happening and that's it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And I'm still going to like birthday parties and stuff. Like, okay. Yeah. My friend came from a holiday and he was like, oh yeah, I got fingerprinted and my mouth swabbed and everything. I was like, why? You're a British citizen. You're coming back to England. Like, what the fuck? Yeah. talking to, and I'm in the same boat, planning overseas trips and being like, well, now

I have a phone, I bought just for flying that has, like, the minimum of everything on it, because I'm going to have to hand it over to Border Patrol, and I don't want anything interesting to be on there, you know? I mean, this must be what it's like for people in, like, you know, countries that have been doing this a little bit longer or a little bit more direct.

Yes, it is.

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