Part One: That Time eBay's Private Spies Went To War With Some Bloggers
Behind the Bastards
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🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Robert sits down with Jason Pargin to lay out the insane story of how eBay corporate security, with the tacit endorsement of their executives, waged a relentless shadow war against two elderly bloggers for no reason really.
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| 0:00.0 | Call's media. |
| 0:02.0 | All right, everyone. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome back to Behind the Bastards. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Robert Evans, and we have some sad news for the audience up at the top of the episode. |
| 0:14.0 | Yesterday morning at about 0-800 hours, |
| 0:17.0 | Sophie Lickerman's plane left Tokyo bound for Manila. |
| 0:21.0 | It was shot down over the sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors. |
| 0:26.1 | She'll be back next week, but with me this week is our beloved returning guest, |
| 0:31.1 | Jason Pargan. |
| 0:32.8 | Jason, do you think that mash joke is going to work with our audience? |
| 0:37.0 | How many more visitors have seen mash? |
| 0:40.0 | Like years before I was bored. It's so dangerous because if there's any kind of an air disaster the day this episode's supposed to go up, |
| 0:50.0 | then we've got to go in and well no that just makes it funnier I guess that makes it fun the only time I've removed a joke for something like that was we made some jokes at the start of the COVID pandemic when I assumed it was going to be like a SARS situation and we we cut |
| 1:05.0 | those bad boys out before air because that did not age well with the entire |
| 1:09.6 | country lockdown. |
| 1:20.0 | Jason Pargan, you are a my former boss over at cracked. Cract.com, which is was briefly defunct but is now funked, but neither of us work there anymore. |
| 1:26.7 | You are the author of a number of wonderful books. |
| 1:31.3 | Do you want to talk about the book that you've got that's going to be out in about two weeks at the time which people hear these episodes? |
| 1:37.5 | Yes, the book is a standalone novel called I'm starting to worry about this black box of doom. |
| 1:45.0 | It is not a part of any series. |
| 1:47.0 | It doesn't require any prior knowledge of me or this podcast or anything else. |
| 1:52.0 | Anyone can enjoy it as long as you enjoy books. |
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