Part Three: Lee Atwater: The Political Dirty Tricks Artist Who Gave us President(s) George Bush
Behind the Bastards
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
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Summary
Robert concludes the story of Lee Atwater by discussing his greatest success and then his sickness and fall from power and influence. We also talk about the Grammy nominated album he made with Isaac Hayes.
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| 0:00.0 | I still have Japanese Kit Kat in my mouth. All right. All right. Let's just start the episode |
| 0:08.3 | with that. Welcome to Behind the Bastards, the podcast where Garrison is the bastard by secretly |
| 0:13.7 | revealing to us their Japanese Kit Kat habit. The Masha Kit Katz are so good. Yeah, it is a $20,000 |
| 0:20.7 | a month habit. |
| 0:21.8 | It's destroying their life and finances. |
| 0:24.2 | But this is Behind the Bastards, a show where we don't judge unless you're one of the worst people in all of history, which Garrison is not yet. |
| 0:30.7 | Garrison, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:32.1 | The tariffs are really, really hurting this. |
| 0:35.6 | The Japanese Kit Kat addicts. |
| 0:37.1 | My monthly budget has skyrocketed. |
| 0:42.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.4 | Someone who knows something about math, |
| 0:45.2 | to police tell Garrison how to make Inns meet |
| 0:46.9 | with their $20,000 a month KitKat habit. |
| 0:49.5 | That's how I feel about my obsession with Korean sunscreen. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm like, God damn it. |
| 0:53.8 | Oh, that makes sense. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, no, totally. |
| 0:56.1 | You do kind of look like every white woman in the Korean sunscreen shop. |
| 1:00.0 | Jesus Christ. |
| 1:01.2 | It's a better. |
| 1:02.2 | It's frankly a better product. |
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