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Welcome to Behind the Bastards' Q&A special.

Happy New Year.

I'm Sophie Lichten, and I'm here with my business partner, Robert Evans.

Robert, how are you?

You know, bracing for the new year, getting ready to really take 2026 on, you know.

Somebody asked the last time you ate inside an Arby's. Is that their lore to that or is that just somebody asking me?

No, I don't have a history with Arby. I don't like Arby's. As a kid, I loved Hardys. I don't know why I think because Hardys is Carl's Jr., though, isn't it? I know they're owned by the same people. I swear to God, as a kid, I felt like the Curly fries were different. Like, that's what loved about Hardee's as a kid. Because I was born in St. Louis, and I have a couple of memories from there before we moved to the farm in Oklahoma, and one of them is eating at Hardies and them having the best curly fries. And then they're not being Hardys around. And I felt like, as a kid, all the other curly fries were inferior to Hardy's Curly Fries. Now, this is like a six or a seven-year-old me. So I'm not speaking up for modern Hardys. I'm not even speaking up for the quality of Hardy's Curly Fries back then. I was a child. But I don't have any Arby's lore is, I guess, where I'm ending there. I have

Arby's anger because it was like one of the last fast foods I ate before I stopped being able to eat

gluten. And it was terrible. It was not good. I would have liked, you know, any, almost anything else.

So, fuck you, Arby's. Unless you want to sponsor

us, then I love you. Yeah, if you want to sponsor us, Arbys, I'll tell people never to eat

any other food. I'll tell them that their lettuce is killing them, you know? I'll spread whatever

lies you want. There's lead in fucking Chick-fil-A, you know? I don't care.

Of all the bastards you've covered, have any surprised you by how awful they were?

Yeah, I mean, that's definitely how I mean, Georgia Tan would be a great one where I wasn't aware of this person.

And then I read the summary that like, yeah, she basically created modern adoption, but she was also really abusive to kids.

And I was like, okay, so this will be pretty bad.

And I was still shocked by how bad it was, right?

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