Part Two: The Pol Pot Episodes: How A Nice, Quiet Kid Murdered His Country
Behind the Bastards
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🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Robert continues the story with young Pol Pot's years in France where he and his friends radicalize themselves in what has to have been the deadliest book club of all time.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast about really our first genocidal bastard |
| 0:11.5 | who is legitimately considered a nice guy, which is a nice writer to everybody, that nice |
| 0:18.1 | does not mean good. |
| 0:19.6 | Lots of nice people who are evil that is so |
| 0:22.9 | i was gonna say yeah also a reminder of course you know you don't have to be an asshole to be the top |
| 0:29.0 | of your field so no no no you don't have to be an asshole to be the top of your field um yeah robert |
| 0:36.5 | what i don't know why you say that to me i'm still mad about last time the top of your field. Yeah, Robert. |
| 0:38.5 | What? |
| 0:39.1 | I don't know. You're saying that to me. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm still mad about last episode. |
| 0:42.3 | You're still mad about the fact that I want to see what Pol Pot |
| 0:45.2 | looks like producing a podcast? |
| 0:47.0 | Yes. |
| 0:47.2 | What if we just put him on 16th minute for a week? |
| 0:51.2 | No, I would never replace Jamie Loftus. |
| 0:54.2 | Never. Maybe. |
| 0:54.5 | Maybe Pol Pot and Jamie will find out that they're like a Fleetwood Mac deal, like just |
| 1:00.5 | like perfect, perfect musical partners, you know? |
| 1:03.3 | Like just a historic talent match. |
| 1:06.6 | You've watched that, that Silver Springs video one too many times. |
| 1:10.0 | I've been watching the 1997 performance of Silver Springs a million times. |
| 1:13.8 | I know you have. |
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