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Robert

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Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Take to interactive CEO, Strauss Selnick, and our own chief business officer, Lisa Coffey.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Listen to Math & Magic on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

This is going to be a memory lane trip for Kat and me, because Kat, you also spent a sizable chunk of the aughts spending way too much time reading about incredibly online right-wing maniacs, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Yes.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Yes, I did.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Who are we talking about?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Great question.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Have you heard of clavicular?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Oh my fucking God.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Are we talking about clavicular today?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

A bit, yes.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Today and tomorrow, we'll talk about him a bit.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

We're explaining how you get from, you know, May 23rd, 2014, when Elliot Rodger goes on his shooting spree and killing spree in Isla Vista, California, which killed six and injured 14 and was like the first big incel mass murder event, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

And it's kind of the thing that put incels...

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

on the map.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

I'm going to guess most of the audience, the first time you heard incel was in the wake of that spree killing, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Unless you were a very online weirdo prior to May 23rd, 2014, you probably hadn't heard of these people.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

But through a series of very unlikely and in some ways confusing events, this subculture that kind of comes onto everybody's radar in the wake of this mass murder has kind of led most recently, and really just the last couple of weeks, to a massive degree of fame and general internet bemusement over this guy Clavicular.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

where this guy- So smashing your jaws with hammers.