Part One: Behind the Bastards Q&A: 2026 Edition
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Happy New Year, everybody. Welcome to Behind the Bastards. I'll be leading this episode. I am your executive producer, Sophie Lichterman. I'm going to ask Robert some of your questions. Robert, how you doing, buddy?
I'm doing, you know, it's that fun time of the year where... The holidays are over. We still don't quite have to work, but also I can feel it coming, the real world, having to get back into the real world, you know? Yeah. So that part's not great, the looming knowledge that the stuff that you were like, ah, the world's over, news is over, I don't have to pay attention to anything for the next period of time. Well, that period of time has come to an end, and it's time to re-engage with reality. I'm at that part of the year. So, you know, mixed.
Yeah. What was a highlight for you over your semi-time off?
I don't know. Not really any particular highlight. I just didn't do much.
Excuse me. We had a party. Thank you. And your highlight, was it starting fire with the lightsaber torch I got you?
Yeah, you got me a lightsaber torch that I started a fire with. That was fun.
You looked really cool.
You got me some nice liquor. That was fun.
I did. You looked very cool that night. Robert got me... Every year, Robert gets me some kind of really cool weapon. At the beginning of 2025, he got me a Bowie knife after I had surgery. Everybody else sent flowers. Not my business partner, Robert. Got me a really cool axe one year, a machete. What you called... Sophie, this is your purse knife, which was one of my favorite things you've ever said to me.
And this year... Everyone needs a purse knife, yeah.
You got me this thing.
Yeah, yeah, it's like a, it's a Moroccan, like, ceremonial dagger. So, you know, you're supposed to, it's like a, it's a, I think it's like 100 years old. You're supposed to, you know, wear it at weddings and kind of fancy events like that. I can do, I could stand to do some rehab on the blade for you.
Cool.
Because it's kind of dull at the moment. But yeah, you could cut, you could cut like a, like a, like a goat's throat with that if you had to. If you're being attacked by a goat and had to defend yourself with a knife, you know, it would work for that.
It's pretty cool. You also, one year for my birthday, got me this horseshoe knife that looks like a horseshoe, but it's for a cheese board. I get compliments on it all the time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love that knife.
Robert's a great gift giver, everybody.
It's easy if you're just getting knives.
Yeah, but nobody gives me a knife the way you give me a knife, you know what I mean?
Thank you.
We got 481 comments on the thread asking for questions for this Q&A as of time of recording, which is New Year's Day, everyone. I'm going to ask as many as we have time for. You ready?
Let's do it. Let me get a slug of my Mountain Dew Baja Blast.
Shut the fuck up. That's what you're drinking? Yeah, baby. Is it good?
Yeah, sugar-free Baja Blast.
Do I need to drink that? Because I've got a Schweppes. Is that how you say it? I don't even know if that's how you say it. You say what? It's bad? Schweppes? Got a Schweppes? Schweppes.
Yeah, that sounds right. I know what you're talking about.
That's a good ginger. Wait, do I need to drink that?
I wouldn't recommend it. It's not good.
Fair enough.
How do Robert and Sophie reflect on their holiday experiences?
Unless you want to sponsor us, Mountain Dew, then.
Yeah, sure. Then it's great.
Then we'll say whatever you want. Anyways, what are your tips and tricks for identifying false information while doing your research?
Well, hmm, that's tough because there's such like a wide variety of false information, right?
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