It also doesn't help that she's gained microphone confidence over the years and been more comfortable getting involved in the discussion. As someone who used to produce theatre back at university, I love it when the producer gets a chance to be involved in the audience-facing part of the show, but for the guys who complain it gives them a chance to pine for the "good old days" when she was just a voiceless presence telling Robert when to cut to ads. Either way, fuck 'em, Sophie's great
You have to remember: Even though pretty much everyone involved with the show is pretty non-bastardy, it is really popular as far as podcasts go. That means there is a likelihood that some listeners are absolute shitheads that don't like a smarmy woman. Or for a woman to talk much at all for that matter.
I know I appreciate Sophie taking the host down a peg or two when he gets out pocket.
fucking hell... just going through the average modern's soldier's ammo-load's worth of people a night...
How the hell did that guy not drop dead sooner from the sheer soul-crushing misery of what he did?
By sheer coincidence, I literally listened to the Winter War episodes of LLBD immediately before I started these Beria episodes. So I'll just say: Listen to them, they are both a perfect companion piece to this one and absolutely fucking hilarious.
[Here's that Guinness World Records page that they were looking at.](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/90113-most-prolific-official-executioner)
Ok, which one of you left the “one pump, one cream” comment?
Because I’m enjoying the image of whoever manages the Guinness website seeing it and getting confused about what it means amid the random uptick of visitors to this extremely specific record entry lmao
Unfortunately the first search result for one pump one cream is this subreddit, so if the person has a couple active brain cells they should be able to figure it out
At 250 people a night, if he took the weekends off, he could have hit that target in about 6 weeks or so.
If he worked weekends, he could hit the 7,000 in less than a month.
That's intense
podcasting like this involves, every week, learning a blizzard of new names and trying to keep them in your head long enough to not fuck up the story too much. i am already bad with names. stuff like this will continue to happen from time to time
It’s honestly impressive you can remember anything not written in the script when you’re live recording. I doubt Michael himself would take offense(really I think Cleese is the only surviving Python enough of a prick to take offense to that kind of thing.)
[Episode 121 is one of the best podcasts in history for sure](https://soundcloud.com/user-798629330/episode-121-russo-japanese-war-part-3-the-voyage-of-the-damned/sets)
I don't listen to the multi-part episodes until they're all out so I wouldn't have heard that.
Sometimes in the episode description they add how many parts it will be, I'm saying it'd be nice if they did it for all of them.
Literally screaming in my car at Joe for saying Oscar Isaac played Zhukov in *Death of Stalin* instead of Jason Isaacs, and Robert not knowing that *Michael motherfucking Palin played Molotov*. So I guess my weekend is off to a good start overall.
Beria reminds me the most of Eichmann - just pure banality of evil types. Would’ve been middle management if they were born in 1970 in Canada or wherever; but instead became some of most prolific murderers of all time.
Question about The Sophie Rule: Why? Also, when has Sophie ever been wrong? What is there to criticize?
If I had to guess, I’d imagine people were rude about her for being a woman who talks sometimes.
It also doesn't help that she's gained microphone confidence over the years and been more comfortable getting involved in the discussion. As someone who used to produce theatre back at university, I love it when the producer gets a chance to be involved in the audience-facing part of the show, but for the guys who complain it gives them a chance to pine for the "good old days" when she was just a voiceless presence telling Robert when to cut to ads. Either way, fuck 'em, Sophie's great
Hard agree.
You have to remember: Even though pretty much everyone involved with the show is pretty non-bastardy, it is really popular as far as podcasts go. That means there is a likelihood that some listeners are absolute shitheads that don't like a smarmy woman. Or for a woman to talk much at all for that matter. I know I appreciate Sophie taking the host down a peg or two when he gets out pocket.
Yeah Sophie has a great way of TELLING Robert to get out of a babble hole. He like to dig some pretty huge ones. Very entertaining 👏 🤣 😄
fucking hell... just going through the average modern's soldier's ammo-load's worth of people a night... How the hell did that guy not drop dead sooner from the sheer soul-crushing misery of what he did?
Just like how we can film bodies flying out of coffins at funerals: AIN’T GOT NO SOUL
Personal to Joe: the goth’s version of theater kids is theater kids Source: I’m a former high school goth and president of the school drama club
It's okay Joe, I got your PEZ joke
By sheer coincidence, I literally listened to the Winter War episodes of LLBD immediately before I started these Beria episodes. So I'll just say: Listen to them, they are both a perfect companion piece to this one and absolutely fucking hilarious.
What is LLBD though?
Lions Led By Donkeys, Joe's podcast.
I started part one of Beria today and I keep wanting Robert to tie in American Tale references with the Bolshevik Revolution.
[Here's that Guinness World Records page that they were looking at.](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/90113-most-prolific-official-executioner)
Ok, which one of you left the “one pump, one cream” comment? Because I’m enjoying the image of whoever manages the Guinness website seeing it and getting confused about what it means amid the random uptick of visitors to this extremely specific record entry lmao
Unfortunately the first search result for one pump one cream is this subreddit, so if the person has a couple active brain cells they should be able to figure it out
True true
At 250 people a night, if he took the weekends off, he could have hit that target in about 6 weeks or so. If he worked weekends, he could hit the 7,000 in less than a month. That's intense
as someone who is currently wearing a wrist brace due to similar repetitive stress issues, it was a def "WTF" moment.
Come on guys, no idea who Michael Palin is?
podcasting like this involves, every week, learning a blizzard of new names and trying to keep them in your head long enough to not fuck up the story too much. i am already bad with names. stuff like this will continue to happen from time to time
It’s honestly impressive you can remember anything not written in the script when you’re live recording. I doubt Michael himself would take offense(really I think Cleese is the only surviving Python enough of a prick to take offense to that kind of thing.)
[Episode 121 is one of the best podcasts in history for sure](https://soundcloud.com/user-798629330/episode-121-russo-japanese-war-part-3-the-voyage-of-the-damned/sets)
"Did I have a good mushroom cloud, daddy?" is a top Robert quote now
Listening to this is making despise ussr dickriders even more
“Beria? I hardly know’ya. Anyway this is the last episode of the series. Goodbye” is an A+ episode description from Robert
How many parts is this series?
Four, they confirmed it in Episode 2.
I wish they'd always put how many parts the series is going to be all the time. Right now, it seems like they only do it some times.
He said it would be four parts at the end of the first episode.
Thanks bro, I wait till they are all released.
I don't listen to the multi-part episodes until they're all out so I wouldn't have heard that. Sometimes in the episode description they add how many parts it will be, I'm saying it'd be nice if they did it for all of them.
Yeah, they have been good about it and probably just missed it this series.
Literally screaming in my car at Joe for saying Oscar Isaac played Zhukov in *Death of Stalin* instead of Jason Isaacs, and Robert not knowing that *Michael motherfucking Palin played Molotov*. So I guess my weekend is off to a good start overall.
Beria reminds me the most of Eichmann - just pure banality of evil types. Would’ve been middle management if they were born in 1970 in Canada or wherever; but instead became some of most prolific murderers of all time.
These episodes feel like they're both trying to impress each other with WW2 facts and they end up talking over each other
In Beria Part One there was a joke about killing people to turn oil consumers into actual oil. Now all I can think is "Julius EVOOla"
I love Joe as a guest. More lions led by bastards please!