Robert walks Blake Wexler through the life and times of Carl Schmitt, a legal scholar born in Imperial Germany who would come to create the blueprint for how fascist movements could destroy liberal democracy from within. (2 Part Series)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey everybody, welcome to Behind the Bastards, and I know what you're all saying. Congratulations, Robert, on finally being appointed the new Pope of the Catholic Church, Pontifex Maximus. I was as surprised as anybody. I wake up in the morning, I see a phone notification that says...
you know, Vatican Conclave appoints new Pope Robert, and then the rest of the title got cut off, but I understood what the rest of it was, obviously. I've been celebrating the last couple of days, have not really checked in online, but am now going to check in with my guests for this day, Sophie Lichterman, well, not my guest, but my co-host and producer, and our guest for today, Blake Wexler.
Do either of you have a boon to ask now that I am the literal mouth of God?
So I got an email saying I was Pontiff Wex, and I don't know if that was a typo or what hasn't.
No, that's a new position I've created specifically for you. Thank you. Yes, you are responsible solely for the spiritual guidance of all Blakes and all Wexlers. Oh, boy. So it's a fairly large responsibility. Yeah. Well, there's not a lot of Catholic Wexlers, I guess. Yeah. Well, then you got a lot of work ahead of you, don't you, my friend? Yeah, I do.
Robert, I have a request. Uh-huh? Can you heal LeBron and make him 30?
I've already done it, Sophie. Oh, thank you so much. Yay. Gaze upon it and know it. Yes. God has already touched him. He has another 40-year career ahead of him.
Thank God. I just don't know if I could do it.
He's going to be dunking until his 60s. Fantastic. He's going to be praying for death, begging for anything but another season with the Lakers. No. But we won't let him stop. Yeah. We won't let him stop. That's the plot to Space Jam 3, by the way, is LeBron begging to stop playing basketball. Begging to die? Yes, that's what God wants, is Pope I know.
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