Part Two: Thomas Thistlewood: Slave Plantation Owner and Diarist
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recording uh-huh i do miss now that we used to script the zoom lady going recording in progress
I know, I know. Whatever happened to the Zoom lady? I don't know. Another job taken by automation. I think it was an automated job to begin with. I think that was a robot. Who complains when the robots get taken, their jobs taken by other robots, you know? We need solidarity with some of the robots against the other robots is what I'm saying.
I think WALL-E from that movie, WALL-E is the one.
Oh no, I hate that son of a bitch.
What? I love WALL-E.
I'll fight Wally.
Leave Wally alone.
I don't like him at all.
Why don't you like Wally?
It's not his business coming around picking shit up, you know?
You're so dumb. That's literally what he's programmed for. You're such a hater.
I am. I'm fundamentally a hater because that's my job. I'm Robert Evans and this is Behind the Bastards, a podcast for haters, by haters, often about haters.
Produced by a lover.
Produced by a lover. And our guest today, T.T. Lee, would you like to talk about a guy we hate again some more?
You know, do I have a choice?
No, no. We're recording.
No, you know what? This is what I love to do on my Friday nights.
Is to be forced to hear about a bad man. Yeah, I was forced to read about him. Yeah. I mean, I forced myself. This is all fundamentally on me. Yeah, I made my choices. I could have written about anyone.
I will say if I had to hear it from anyone, I would choose you, Robert Evans.
Well, thank you. So if I had to choose to tell anyone, I would tell you because you and I share the deepest bond that two people can at work, which is you both accidentally took a huge dose of mushrooms together while filming a video for the internet. Oh, yeah.
That is still very much, yeah, never forgotten. Every once in a while, someone will bring that up, a stranger, like, did you get high on mushrooms once online? I'm like, yeah, that was me. And I always say, by the way, it was cleared by legal. It's completely legal.
It was cleared by legal. Those were legal mushrooms. They're unregulated, you know? They were. They were completely legal. They were very unregulated. A lot was unregulated in those days. uh the internet um before like 2016 you know yeah what a wild time before everything got worse yeah speaking about stuff that's much worse than that let's get back to this horrible guy in jamaica thomas thistlewood this is an iheart podcast guaranteed human
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–21:42
2
What was Thomas Thistlewood's view on enslaved people compared to livestock?
21:42–27:25
3
How did Thistlewood document his violent acts in his diaries?
27:25–36:22
4
What role did satire play in Thistlewood's understanding of his actions?
36:22–41:11
5
How did Thistlewood's practices reflect societal norms of his time?
41:11–1:11:10