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What's illegal my U.S. invasions of several countries, actually, that have been happening

recently and also my entire life?

I'm Robert Evans.

This is Behind the Bastards, a podcast about bad people, the worst in all of

history, several of whom are currently in the Trump administration, where they have recently

orchestrated what is already ramping up to be a bloody war with Iran. We're covering what's

happening in an ongoing basis on our daily news podcast. It could happen here.

But, you know, that's not what we do over at behind the bastards. You know, we're not,

we're not breaking news here. Our specialty is like pieces of shit. And that makes us, I think,

well suited to talk about why is stuff, like, why is the Western

world's relationship with Iran what it is? Like, how did all of this shit start? Like, what was

going on that kind of led to the present situation? And if you want to tell that story, you have to start with the 1700s and the 1800s

and the period of like particularly what's called the Great Game, which is, you know,

kind of this thing that happens at the height of British and Russian imperialism.

And you have to talk about the Shah, the very first Shah of Iran, because it's the

shahs of Iran that lead us to the current regime in Iran and that lead us to a lot of things

about the current conflict and like why it's taken on the dimensions that it's taken on.

So in order to talk about all of this, we're bringing on my buddy and Dr. Kava Hoda, also a podcaster, much more impressive than doctor. I should have led with podcaster Kava. I'm sorry. Welcome to the show. And musician. Thank you so much. And musician. Many things. You're a multi-talented, a polymath. The key is to be bad at all of them.

That's the key to doing this right. If you want to do multiple things, not a polycrap mess, but yeah.

You want to know what you are good at, though. What? What am I good at?

Being my friend. It's my best job. Also being a doctor and a podcast.

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