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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Lee Atwater graduates high school after a brief stint in an insane fraternity then becomes a college Republican leader and starts his career as a dirty tricks expert for political campaigns.
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0:00.0 | Coalzo Media |
0:02.8 | Schumer, I hardly know her. |
0:07.0 | No. |
0:07.4 | Welcome back to Behind the Bastards of Podcasts that just started the worst way a podcast can start. |
0:13.3 | I think we can all agree. |
0:14.4 | I didn't like that. |
0:15.7 | It was unenjoyable. |
0:16.8 | It's compulsive. |
0:17.8 | Like Lee Atwater, I can't control it, you know? |
0:20.9 | So you can't be angry at me for it, you know? Just like we can't be angry at Lee Atwater for all the people he hurt. That's the way it works. Anyway, I'm Robert Evans. This is Behind the Bastards. Part two of our series on Republican strategist Lee Atwater, the guy who invented modern presidential elections. My guest today, |
0:38.9 | as with the last episode, Garrison, D-A-V-I-S. That's so that if there are any two-year-olds |
0:46.3 | in the audience, they can't spell your last name, Garrison. They don't know what I'm saying. |
0:50.5 | I was going to do this whole episode as another extremely successful political operator, Chuck Schumer. |
0:57.1 | But then I realized I don't know what Chuck Schumer sounds like. |
1:00.4 | So now I'm just stuck with these glasses falling off my nose. |
1:03.5 | I think it's something like, hoodoo-doodle-do I'm Chuck Schumer. |
1:07.5 | That's basically it, right? |
1:09.0 | Do not think that is how he sounds. |
1:30.4 | I think that's pretty close. I've certainly heard him speak before, but... Yeah, I think it sounds like that. You know... It's however you imagine, like, if somebody was made of stone trying to speak. Yes, like, that's exactly what I did. You're right, Sophie. Thank you for praise. I appreciate it. I live off of it. |
1:32.4 | We'll return to this topic later, I guess. |
1:32.9 | Yeah. |
1:33.4 | Sure. |
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