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Oh my goodness, welcome back to Behind the Bastards, the podcast about the very worst people in all of history, and we have a very special episode for you this week.

We are talking about, finally, we're going to give the first two episodes that will be a multi-part series about Muhammad bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.

And to talk about this, obviously, the only guest we could bring on for this episode is a guy I think most people are aware of, one of the world's leading experts on Saudi Arabia.

My former colleague at Cr, David Bell. David,

welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. Yeah, if anything, I'm going to be teaching you a thing

or two. Yeah, a lot of people don't know this. You live for 47 years in Saudi Arabia.

That's true. Which is impressive because you're not that old. Yeah. No. No, that's several years.

Several years more than I have existed. Yeah, I think that's actually older than Muhammad bin Salman. Yeah. Yeah. That's very good. So you're more qualified to talk about the country than the king of the country. Well, not the king. He's not actually the king. He's the crown prince, and he's

going to be the king, and he's effectively ruling the country. But you know how it goes with

these sort of royal families. Of course I do. Like I said, expert. Yeah, expert on Saudi Arabia.

In addition to that, you and I lived together for a period of time in the late aughts.

We did.

We worked at Cracked Magazine together.

You are currently a writer and script polisher and finisher offer at some more news and even more news.

Yes.

And you also co-run the podcast network Gamefully Unemployed with our also fellow former roommate and

colleague Tom Reimann, which hosts several of my favorite podcasts, including Fox Mulder's

Maniac and the new Hymboos.

Hemboos, which is about Supernatural.

Yes, it's your Supernatural rewatch podcast.

Yeah, it's not even a rewatch.

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