Robert Evans

Oh, welcome back to, well, this is the Behind the Bastards feed, and this is normally where you get new episodes of Behind the Bastards, but every now and then we try something new.

And in the not-too-distant future, I'm planning to be launching a new podcast with my friend and fellow giant nerd, Joe Kasabian, also a fellow podcaster.

Hey, Joe, how are you doing?

Hey buddy, it's good to be here.

Yeah, and we're wanting to do, we're planning to do a podcast on Warhammer 40,000, which is a game system that some of you are probably aware of and others of you maybe aren't.

I think a lot of people know about this now.

It's reached kind of a point of cultural critical mass where I think a significant chunk of people on the internet are just kind of casually aware it exists in a way that they weren't when we were kids and started playing this.

Yeah, and the podcast, we'll talk later about what exactly the podcast, kind of things the podcast will be covering.

But this episode, I specifically wanted to talk about the intersection of Warhammer 40K and like pop culture and pop politics in the United States and elsewhere.

Because it's one of having a surprisingly large impact on like the way people communicate on the internet and the way people talk about Donald Trump in particular.

That's really weird.

But before we get into that,

Because I think that's the thing that's got to be relevant to everybody, even the people who, you know, aren't into the game at least can get something out of this stuff, which is why we're putting this up as our teaser episode in the Bastards feed.

But before we do that, Joe, you've got a book to plug.

Excellent.

Well, everyone should do that.

And everyone should listen to the episode, which you have no choice but to listen to because I'm going to start reading it to you and you're already listening to the podcast, right?

Yeah.

So if you're at all into social media and up to date on the current political horrors of our age, you've probably heard President Donald Trump referred to as God Emperor Trump.

Currently, that phrase alone returns about four million results on Google.