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Behind the Bastards

Part Two: Thomas Kinkade: the Evil-est Painter

Behind the Bastards

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News, Society & Culture, History

4.415.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Robert and Randy conclude the story of Thomas Kincade by talking about the massive fraud he committed and also some sex crimes.

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0:00.0

Call's media.

0:02.0

Oh, man, welcome back to Behind the Bastards.

0:09.5

You know, this is part two of our episodes on Thomas Kincaid

0:13.0

with Randy Mill Holland of Something Positive.

0:15.6

And in between recording episodes,

0:17.4

we usually do both parts on the same day.

0:19.9

And we'll always have a break in between.

0:21.5

So we can grab a little bit of lunch, you know, just have some minutes without the headset on, you know, recharge.

0:27.0

This time I sat down and I wrote an 8,600 word short story where Hitler and John Wayne Gacy solve a series of murders in 1980s New Orleans.

0:38.0

And you know I'm going to be honest, I'm having some mixed feelings about it.

0:41.4

Turned out more erotic than I had initially intended.

0:45.4

And I think largely, honestly, Randy, I think I mostly used it

0:48.8

as a vehicle to express a lot of my anger at the Federal Reserve.

0:51.8

Read it. I mean, I think that was all expected from everyone.

0:55.6

Like, I'm surprised it's not more erotic.

0:58.5

I thought that there would have been like a heaving scene where they talked about manhood and explosions.

1:07.0

I had to cut that because Hitler gives a speech about the gold standard at the site of the second murder that I really felt got across something important.

1:15.0

I'm going to put it up on my sub stack, Sophie.

1:17.0

We'll get it out there for all of the listeners.

1:19.0

He's the audience that you've written a thing and then not read it.

1:23.0

Sophie, you're not allowed to podcast the opinions I have about the Federal Reserve.

1:27.6

They'll come for me.

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