Rob Lamb

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7,220 appearances 31 recordings 4 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 2d ago

Rob Lamb’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Stuff To Blow Your Mind · From the Vault: The Devil You Know, Part 1 · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

These are all very voice-verified

vital for peaceful relations between nations. voice-verified

No one knows what I'll do easily slides into no one knows what I'll honor. voice-verified

No one no one knows what treaties I would uh will I'll actually stand by and so forth. voice-verified

Um, you know, to bring this back to Dungeons and Dragons, I think any DD player worth their salt knows that while you might well enter into a pact with a lawful evil devil, you never enter into a pact with a chaotic evil demon. voice-verified

Because the lords of the nine hell are going to stick to their letter of the contract, if not the spirit of the contract. voice-verified

But demon lords, such as the Demogorgon, will honor nothing and there is no coherence even within themselves. voice-verified

They're just pure ambiguity. voice-verified

and you can't strike any sort of deal because they won't s they won't stand by it no matter what. voice-verified

Whereas the devils being lawful evil, they may look for that wiggle room. voice-verified

They may find ways to um, you know, to to avoid the spirit of the deal, but they're still bound to the letter. voice-verified

then you slide into chaos. voice-verified

Pure chaos. voice-verified

Uh, McManus, uh, back to her paper though, she found that madmen theory may be helpful in crisis bargaining, but only under certain conditions, namely when employed by military weak leaders. voice-verified

So we're not talking about a true superpower here that can engage in like true, mutually assured destruction. voice-verified

Rather, we would be dealing with a state that could do a lot of damage, but in striking voice-verified

Out would just thoroughly destroy themselves. voice-verified

So the idea here is that no one would take this hypothetical nation or the leader of this hypothetical nation seriously unless they presented an air of madness. voice-verified

And then perhaps, hey, they might do it anyway if provoked. voice-verified

They, they, you know, they're unhinged. voice-verified

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