Part One: How the British Empire and U.S. Department of Defense Murdered an Island Paradise

Behind the Bastards

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🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Robert welcomes Andrew Ti back to the show to tell the story of the Chagos Islands, a paradise founded by former slaves that was wiped out by the British empire so they could lease it to the U.S. as an air base.

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0:00.0	Cool Zone Media.
0:05.0	Media.
0:05.0	Ah!
0:07.0	All right, you happy?
0:08.0	Are you happy?
0:09.0	People on the subreddit, I did another atonal screech to open an episode
0:13.7	fuckers there was like one person on the separate
0:16.4	there's a massive thread there was a massive threat of people
0:19.2	complaining that I no longer do atonal shrieking
0:21.8	oh no I was that's not it. Oh no, I was not it.
0:23.2	I was going to say there was like one person of a subreddit
0:25.1	that was like, I really enjoy these cold opens.
0:27.6	And then I didn't continue reading the thread
0:30.0	because I knew what the rest of it would be.
0:31.4	So thank you to that one person.
0:32.8	Yeah.
0:33.8	Look folks my assumption was that the atonal shrieking was something I did because I was
0:38.2	out of ideas for how to open shows and you were all if I kept doing them
0:42.0	eventually everyone would be like wow
0:43.5	Roberts really lost it I love I tried to be creative in new ways but I'm just
0:48.0	going back to it right like that's the real lesson it works of fame is never change or grow as a person.
0:55.4	So I won't.
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