Everything's So Dumb, and It's Going to get Dumber
June 2, 2020 12:20 PM   Subscribe

Join Robert Evans (of Behind the Bastards) and Katy Stoll and Cody Johnston (of Even more News) have a bout a million podcasts between them, including The Worst Year Ever. They started this podcast in 2019 to cover the US Presidential race. Then the pandemic. Now the United States burning down.

It is a little more balanced than Evans' other podcasts, with the three hosts sharing researching and presenting rather listening and reacting to Evans. It also has more of a through line, following issues from week to week as they develop. Two recent episodes What You Need to Know about the Minneapolis Protests and Minneapolis Uprising: Updates from the Ground and Sky are more timely than the Democratic Primary candidate profiles, but there is a lot of good commentary here.
posted by GenjiandProust (6 comments total) 21 users marked this as a favorite
 
The second episode above deals at least as much with Portland, OR, where Evans was covering the protests, and LA, where all three presenters live, as Minneapolis. It's still very informative.

Also, I feel like Johnston and Evans don't talk over Stoll as much in this series.
posted by GenjiandProust at 12:21 PM on June 2, 2020 [2 favorites]


I listen to all of Evans' podcasts, and I'm realizing that I have a fairly massive man-crush on him. Highly recommended.

Cody does have an annoying tendency to interrupt Katy, though. She's patiently but firmly pointed it out on multiple occasions. Kind of disappointing from a left-leaning podcast.
posted by escape from the potato planet at 12:36 PM on June 2, 2020 [12 favorites]


The episode on Tulsi Gabbard is a great primer on why leftists should be incredibly suspicious of people painting her as any kind of leftie or peacenik.
posted by Pope Guilty at 4:48 PM on June 2, 2020 [5 favorites]


They did a three-parter on the how the furry community responded to Nazi/alt-right infiltrators. I will spoil it a little: canids are great at hearing dogwhistles and love to bite mean people.

Intro Episode: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-worst-year-ever-49377032/episode/worst-year-ever-goes-to-a-53840731/

Part One: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-worst-year-ever-49377032/episode/part-one-how-the-furries-fought-55634876/

Part Two: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-worst-year-ever-49377032/episode/part-two-how-the-furries-fought-55843374/
posted by Kye at 6:03 PM on June 2, 2020 [12 favorites]


The episodes about the furries were truly excellent, and I’ve recommended them often to my friends.
posted by a hat out of hell at 8:25 AM on June 3, 2020 [4 favorites]


Thirding the greatness of the furry episodes!
posted by JHarris at 12:05 PM on June 3, 2020 [2 favorites]


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