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Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast that you're listening to or like watching right now.

I think like 10% of the audience watches, but it's impossible to tell because streaming numbers are famously opaque.

But you know what's not opaque? Our guest for the podcast today,

the great Jamie Loft is here to help us finish the epic saga of One Taste, a Bay Area

Orgasm cult that went way too far. Jamie, welcome back to the show. So good to be here. I am

famously translucent. It is nice to not be opaque. Yeah, I do wonder who's watching. But usually I feel like if someone is watching, they'll let you know and they'll let you know exactly what looks wrong about you. So I'll get back to you with the numbers.

Good to know.

We also have on the podcast today our producer, Sophie Lichten, who is not showing up through video because you don't need to, you just need to justify that to you.

You maniacs watching the show.

You don't need to know why Sophie's not going to be on video.

She's not.

Deal with it. Yeah, we don't need another subreddit about if I'm safe or not, guys.

Yeah, podcast listeners, you can just continue ignoring all of this. It's 2026. I'm not, of course,

I'm unsafe. What are you talking about?

Are you excited to conclude this epic story?

Because we had a little bit of a break, a longer one than we usually do, between the first two parts and the third.

So, you know, I expect things have been building up, edging, if you will, as we wait for, you know, the conclusion here.

I liked, it did feel kind of like method podcasting that you sort of left me hanging on the edge of something thrilling for like 10 days.

And now I'm, I'm ready to, what is like, is enlightenment, this feeling of knowledge coming?

Like what is, if knowledge is coming, what is that?

That's enlightenment, Nirvana?

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