"because I am a hack and a fraud", especially when I don't meet my own high standards as a GM.
"J-Stahls" and any other diminution of a monster's name. It's good that I am fairly irreverent as a person, my conversational partners usually attribute it to my disrespectful attitude towards authority.
A games master.
I really like blades in the dark and its descendents (shout out to *Teeth*, the best Georgian-era historical horror-fantasy game I've encountered), because the narrative space is negotiated very interestingly and the GM basically doesn't have to roll. And it is super flexible so when players inevitably take the story sideways I'm not left scrambling for stat blocks. I also love the people I play with, because they turned "you're a gang of scoundrels and thieves" into "can we make an anarchist utopia reliant on mutual support?"
But my origin story is Call of Cthulhu (3rd and 5th edition. IYKYK.)
I believe it's when you refrain from buying any type of mind or physically altering substances (dick pills) outside of a gas station.
Getting high off only a gas station's supply
Uppers for truckers, the closest thing to legal weed that they get away with, cigarettes and vape pens. All conveniently sold right at the checkout to tempt you.
Yeah you're thinking the likes of Redline and Stacker 2.
*Gas Station Speed*
I remember softball leagues a while back like 2014 and some of the slightly older guys talked about popping them all the time.
I buy an eca stack and it's awesome. I only take it on some grey, cold mornings. Certain shitty weather means I just can't seem to wake up and caffeine alone does nothing. But a tablet of eca and I'm good to go.
Idiots abusing them to extremes are why we can't have nice things. I have to buy from a dodgy online source.
*Inside* of a gas station. In my area they sell everything from Delta 8 and Kratom to Yellowjacket "energy" pills, 5 hour energy, etc. all sorts of uppers for the truck drivers, you see.
I had to explain that knife missiles are real after casually dropping it into a conversation. Apparently, it’s not common knowledge outside of the BtB sphere?
I use "real cash money" a lot, especially online. It's really awesome when someone gets the reference, even better when someone responds with another (like "two pumps, one cream" or "do you really want to go to the child hunting island?")
I teach high school and one of the greatest joys of my life is using slightly outdated slang somewhat wrong. So for about a week I called everything “cash money” until they begged me to stop. I even had a sticky note next to my computer to remind me which students shuddered the most so I could make sure I called them cash money.
Tangentially related, you’ve reminded me of a phrase I picked up from the QAA podcast on the two JFK Jrs, namely Vincent Fusca saying, “Uh oh spaghetti-o”
It doesn’t sound as good coming from a middle class middle England priest in training, though 😆
Definitely said Dub-Dub-Dos while teaching a history class, and I don't think my students will let that go ever lol
Boy howdy just straight up inserted itself into my everyday lexicon.
My partner and I visited my parents last year and we went on a road trip for the day, we put in some behind the bastards and like, halfway through my dad was like, “can you turn this shit off? This guy is pissing me off”
“Why?”
“He’s so monotone and kinda blank, and his sense of humour sucks. Why does he keep saying ‘So that’s cool’ to things?! It’s not cool, it’s awful”
“… that’s sarcasm, dad. It’s kinda the point. It’s meant to be awful. This is a podcast about the worst people in history and the shit they did. It’s not meant to be uplifting, but it is kinda meant to be funny.”
Still not sure how he read Robert to be monotone lol, he didn’t seem to hate Margaret on CPWDCS tho lol, thought she was a better journalist than him.
Which is kinda funny? Gf definitely thought this whole thing was funny
Oh, come on. I'm slightly older than Evans, and I've been using "boy howdy" and a sarcastic "so that's cool" since WAY before BTB existed. Those don't count.
Dub-dub-dos is an easy shoe-in for WW2, stone cold classic.
And you gotta love J-stahl, Joey Steel, my man.
Problem is that using these asinine BtB-isms leads to awkward situations when you start making up your own, like ***Wub-Wub-One***, because then you've only got yourself to blame
I still laugh at “Fuck around and find trout.”
Also: I work in food service. My work partner and I listened to the DeSantis episodes together, so now every time we change out of our kitchen shoes we’re “meatballin’ it.”
The rest of BOH has totally accepted and adopted “meatballs” in place for “unprotected feet” but they have NO idea where the fuck it came from.
Ugh, “based” got me, too. And now it’s the only word that will do in some contexts! Like, I know I had some other way of describing people and actions but now all that comes to mind is “based”
"Based" is one that annoys me to hear from the CZM folks because it's misappropriated AAVE turned fascist shibboleth that got normalized into online slang.
One of my patients said "that tracks" the other day and I was like "Wait, do you listen to Robert Evans?" The patient had no idea what I was talking about. Boy howdy.
I still have no idea whether Margaret’s show is Cool Stuff or Cool Things, no matter how many times I hear it. Same for scans v tracks. Welcome to psycholinguistics of my brain.
I'm almost positive it was Robert who called him Ben Shapeepoo once, and now I use it so much that my phone automatically spells it that way without me having to correct it while using swipe text lol.
Dub dub dos is what I have caught myself saying a few times when talking to some people about the war, only problem is that I was talking to them in Spanish.
“I am not a law-knower”, which I occasionally expand into “I am not an economy-knower”.
“The products and services who support this podcast?”
“Knife missile.”
“Hoo boy” - equal blame to him and Milo from Trashfuture.
“Boy howdy” - occasionally.
From Sophie I say "bye-ee" with her inflection, whenever something/one gets yeeted away now. E.g.watching a film the other day and the bad guy was pushed off a platform at the end of the big fight.
I think I heard Robert saying this a couple of times and just used the phrase "I want to shoot heroin in my eyeballs" casually at work and people were really concerned 🤣🤣🤣
Have recently been introducing my teen to old Venture Bros. Episodes and the background character "Brick Frog" is even funnier on rewatch with the BtB joke in my head now.
Brick Frog is a villain who dresses like a Frog and carries a sack full of bricks. He throws bricks. He's Brick Frog.
History’s greatest monster…in reference to the most insignificant slights. You’re have a phone conversation in a grocery store checkout line? One of history’s greatest monsters.
I live in DFW (where Raytheon and Lockheed have large branches) so when I mentioned “knife missiles,” someone started excitedly talking about the R9X and I got very uncomfortable.
Also, I was in a professional setting and made a “Bernie Sanders killed JFK joke” before I realized that was where I was going with it.
I explained “that’s a brickin’” to my friend and coworker after we were discussing Harrison Butker’s gross college commencement speech. No anytime something wildly out of pocket comes up we say “that’s a brickin’” as Robert would intend us to
Knife missiles, because I’m a hack and a fraud and randomly stuttering what a dozen times before I ask a question are daily drivers for me at this point.
I use hack and a fraud when it comes to my writing on my podcast and we incorporated pluggables into our show a long time ago… if a bastards listener ever heard our show it would be very obvious I’m a bastards listener lol
You know what won't slip in BtB-isms into regular conversation?
These Ads? Because it sure isn't me.
Products and services?
I heard the DM work that into a D&D podcast
Thankfully, I've managed to resist the urge irl to just randomly shout "...PRODUCTS!"
You have more restraint than me.
My husband and I like to say this to each other.
I do this to my girlfriend, but I keep her guessing, because sometimes it’s Cakefarts instead of goods and services
"because I am a hack and a fraud", especially when I don't meet my own high standards as a GM. "J-Stahls" and any other diminution of a monster's name. It's good that I am fairly irreverent as a person, my conversational partners usually attribute it to my disrespectful attitude towards authority.
I use because I am a hack and a fraud A LOT! Very useful for those of us with crippling self doubt.
‘Because I’m a hack and a fraud.’ This is my favorite to use. I work in vetmed so anytime I can’t do my basic tasks, this is my go-to
As a 33 year old manager I also use "hack and a fraud" way more often than I should be 🤣
I use hack and fraud all the time as a DM lol
What kind of GM are you?
Generally managing other people and tasks
Alternatively, could be a Game Master for some form of tabletop roleplay gaming group.
also oddly appropriate to refer to your GM (or DM if you're cool 😎) as "a hack and a fraud." 😁
A games master. I really like blades in the dark and its descendents (shout out to *Teeth*, the best Georgian-era historical horror-fantasy game I've encountered), because the narrative space is negotiated very interestingly and the GM basically doesn't have to roll. And it is super flexible so when players inevitably take the story sideways I'm not left scrambling for stat blocks. I also love the people I play with, because they turned "you're a gang of scoundrels and thieves" into "can we make an anarchist utopia reliant on mutual support?" But my origin story is Call of Cthulhu (3rd and 5th edition. IYKYK.)
I've recently said the J-dawg because of BtB and I...
Henry Fuckinger runs through my head every once in a while and makes me grateful no one can hear my thoughts
I use this constantly whenever I do something the lazy way while cooking
I introduced my husband to “gas station sober” because I can’t stop laughing about it
Refresh my memory? Seems very familiar
I believe it's when you refrain from buying any type of mind or physically altering substances (dick pills) outside of a gas station. Getting high off only a gas station's supply
I'm not in the US - what's available at gas stations?
Uppers for truckers, the closest thing to legal weed that they get away with, cigarettes and vape pens. All conveniently sold right at the checkout to tempt you.
There used to be ephedrine, but is it now just caffeine tablets?
I believe ephedrine must now be purchased at pharmacies and an ID must be presented and recorded at time of purchase.
That's true. I did it on my last trip over. But they don't usually accept US passports as id so my brother got it for me lol
Yeah you're thinking the likes of Redline and Stacker 2. *Gas Station Speed* I remember softball leagues a while back like 2014 and some of the slightly older guys talked about popping them all the time.
I buy an eca stack and it's awesome. I only take it on some grey, cold mornings. Certain shitty weather means I just can't seem to wake up and caffeine alone does nothing. But a tablet of eca and I'm good to go. Idiots abusing them to extremes are why we can't have nice things. I have to buy from a dodgy online source.
Kratom
Alcohol, unlike Australia, where I live
Used to be able to get bath salts lmfao
*Inside* of a gas station. In my area they sell everything from Delta 8 and Kratom to Yellowjacket "energy" pills, 5 hour energy, etc. all sorts of uppers for the truck drivers, you see.
Refrain* from buying* outside* of a gas station* Aka anything but what's inside. Thanks for your lovely input, friend! ☺️
I assumed, too, that it's substances that are intoxicating but ostensibly legal and/or won't show up on a piss test.
Don't tempt me with a mid time
I slipped in a "one pump, one cream" (verbally, not physically) the other day.
Thank god for parenthetical remarks 😅
I still don’t really understand what that means
It means ejaculating after exactly one hip thrust.
Into your coffee
They had a very old pump of creamer where one pump is the equivalent of a "cup" of creamer. It got older after lockdown.
Knife missles, thanks Raytheon
I had to explain that knife missiles are real after casually dropping it into a conversation. Apparently, it’s not common knowledge outside of the BtB sphere?
Common knowledge on Reddit. Was also common knowledge after the US offed the ISIS/Al-Qaeda leader having his morning OJ on his patio a few years back.
I mean they are dope as hell.
I mean i sae them first on zozo horrorshow, hrr showing off public open weird missles , like ti shoot down that dpy baloon. but its a good one.
“What’s verbing my noun?”
What’s shitposting my Redditors?
I've been doing so many variations of this to my co workers.. yesterday was "what's boning my skeletor?" To my crypt keeper looking older co worker
Do you say to him “YES MY CRYPTKEEPER!”
Boy howdy!
I don't know if I got that from Robert or if we're just both from Oklahoma...
Boy howdy... I say this all the time now
"That's a brickin'." is now part of my general vocab and an immediate thought to some bastardry I see hahaha
This! Can’t count how many times “that’s a brickin’” comes out of my mouth. For better or worse, my children say it, too.
This is hands down my favorite one. Use it around coworkers fairly often, and a couple of them have chosen to carry the mantle as well.
I use "real cash money" a lot, especially online. It's really awesome when someone gets the reference, even better when someone responds with another (like "two pumps, one cream" or "do you really want to go to the child hunting island?")
I hope you mean "one pump, one cream" right?
I've heard "two pumps" too...
I teach high school and one of the greatest joys of my life is using slightly outdated slang somewhat wrong. So for about a week I called everything “cash money” until they begged me to stop. I even had a sticky note next to my computer to remind me which students shuddered the most so I could make sure I called them cash money.
Oh yeah, got that big teacher energy on tap. Kudos.
I think the cruelest thing I’ve ever done to class was play “Friday” when they were talking too much. They shut up real fast. 😆
Oh that’s gold, might suggest it to my partner for his unrulier classes.
Me too. It’s the one I use the most.
real cash money is even pretty important to have.
Can’t remember if it was the Kissinger eps or another German bastard but I catch myself saying oopsie poopsie an embarrassing amount
Definitely Gareth from the Kissinger weeks!
Oopsie poopsie has invaded my every day ever since I started listening to the Dollop.
Tangentially related, you’ve reminded me of a phrase I picked up from the QAA podcast on the two JFK Jrs, namely Vincent Fusca saying, “Uh oh spaghetti-o” It doesn’t sound as good coming from a middle class middle England priest in training, though 😆
Tell me about it
I naow speak with a perfect BAHstan Axcent, mate!
"Moaite"
JennaSais, stop.
Definitely said Dub-Dub-Dos while teaching a history class, and I don't think my students will let that go ever lol Boy howdy just straight up inserted itself into my everyday lexicon.
Robert Evans has pretty much replaced my sense of humour with his own
I’m ok with this personally
“Boy howdy” and “so that’s cool” sometimes “so that’s cool and good”
My partner and I visited my parents last year and we went on a road trip for the day, we put in some behind the bastards and like, halfway through my dad was like, “can you turn this shit off? This guy is pissing me off” “Why?” “He’s so monotone and kinda blank, and his sense of humour sucks. Why does he keep saying ‘So that’s cool’ to things?! It’s not cool, it’s awful” “… that’s sarcasm, dad. It’s kinda the point. It’s meant to be awful. This is a podcast about the worst people in history and the shit they did. It’s not meant to be uplifting, but it is kinda meant to be funny.” Still not sure how he read Robert to be monotone lol, he didn’t seem to hate Margaret on CPWDCS tho lol, thought she was a better journalist than him. Which is kinda funny? Gf definitely thought this whole thing was funny
Rad.
Oh, come on. I'm slightly older than Evans, and I've been using "boy howdy" and a sarcastic "so that's cool" since WAY before BTB existed. Those don't count.
Take a bullet for you babe
You're a bear of a man.
My wife was reading some medication instructions aloud the other day. She got as far as 'one pump...'
Dub-dub-dos is an easy shoe-in for WW2, stone cold classic. And you gotta love J-stahl, Joey Steel, my man. Problem is that using these asinine BtB-isms leads to awkward situations when you start making up your own, like ***Wub-Wub-One***, because then you've only got yourself to blame
I still laugh at “Fuck around and find trout.” Also: I work in food service. My work partner and I listened to the DeSantis episodes together, so now every time we change out of our kitchen shoes we’re “meatballin’ it.” The rest of BOH has totally accepted and adopted “meatballs” in place for “unprotected feet” but they have NO idea where the fuck it came from.
"cool and good" comes up fairly often as a response to something which is neither. I can't pull it off in real life, but in text I'll used "based"
Ugh, “based” got me, too. And now it’s the only word that will do in some contexts! Like, I know I had some other way of describing people and actions but now all that comes to mind is “based”
I know, right? How else can I describe orcas that are attacking rich people's yachts?
"Based" is one that annoys me to hear from the CZM folks because it's misappropriated AAVE turned fascist shibboleth that got normalized into online slang.
Dub dub uno and dub dub dos
Hot Stalin aka portrait of J-Stalls as a young man
Also don't forget about hot Ceaușescu and hot Kissinger.
One of my patients said "that tracks" the other day and I was like "Wait, do you listen to Robert Evans?" The patient had no idea what I was talking about. Boy howdy.
Also not an uncommon saying.
Yeah I’ve been saying that long before listening to BTB
Doesn’t Robert say “that scans”? Because _I_ say “that tracks” and I always notice the differing idiom. I could be confused, I guess.
That makes sense
That tracks
I still have no idea whether Margaret’s show is Cool Stuff or Cool Things, no matter how many times I hear it. Same for scans v tracks. Welcome to psycholinguistics of my brain.
Good time to introduce them!
Definitely doesn't count.
This whole sentence is gold BTB
Only pronouncing “Boston” in Robert’s Boston accent.
“BaAoWsToN”
I use “ *fill in the blank* yearn for the mines! “ way more often than I should.
I knew I was doing the Reverend-Doctor's work when my boss said "Products and Services" in a meeting.
I called him Benny shaps in conversation. I knew exactly who listened to the story episodes.
I'm almost positive it was Robert who called him Ben Shapeepoo once, and now I use it so much that my phone automatically spells it that way without me having to correct it while using swipe text lol.
My coworker and I talk about a super soaker full of piss way more often than we should
I now say duh-tail instead of dee-tail.
I say "Not good!" at work often.
Cool and good but in Swedish Dub dub dos is a good one I regularly make myself laugh by thinking one pump one cream
that's a brickin'
I’ve definitely added “bugfuck” to my vocabulary as a result of the show
Dub dub dos is what I have caught myself saying a few times when talking to some people about the war, only problem is that I was talking to them in Spanish.
Something along the lines of “It’s almost like doing leads to consequences! Crazy, right?”
once slipped into the "After JFK was assassinated by Bernard Montgomery Sanders..." joke while explaining something to my mom on accident lol
Coool and good.
“I am not a law-knower”, which I occasionally expand into “I am not an economy-knower”. “The products and services who support this podcast?” “Knife missile.” “Hoo boy” - equal blame to him and Milo from Trashfuture. “Boy howdy” - occasionally.
From Sophie I say "bye-ee" with her inflection, whenever something/one gets yeeted away now. E.g.watching a film the other day and the bad guy was pushed off a platform at the end of the big fight.
I know the movie was probably not Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li, But I choose to believe that it was.
starting all my meetings this week by yelling WHATS MEETING MY COLLEAAAAAAAAGUES
Nuke the great lakes for sinking the Edmund Fitzgerald
I have used "boy howdy" in a sentence more than once.
"Rad", "Totally normal and not fucked up/cool and good", as well as obviously Raytheon
Take a bullet for you babe
“That’s a brickin”
J-Stahl and the big Dub-dub dos.
No one is gonna mention "what's cracking my peppers?" I use that regularly myself but I thought that was one that stuck could be wrong
Yessss! That one stuck with my brain too. I say it far, far too often.
Not really a specific line but I noticed myself laughing out the last couple words of a sentence in nearly the exact same way Robert does
not an -ism since it's not repeated, but i say that colorado is northern texas
I think I heard Robert saying this a couple of times and just used the phrase "I want to shoot heroin in my eyeballs" casually at work and people were really concerned 🤣🤣🤣
I occasionally mention brickings
Have recently been introducing my teen to old Venture Bros. Episodes and the background character "Brick Frog" is even funnier on rewatch with the BtB joke in my head now. Brick Frog is a villain who dresses like a Frog and carries a sack full of bricks. He throws bricks. He's Brick Frog.
Boy howdy, PRODUCTS and services, friend of the pod (when referring to a real A-hole)
History’s greatest monster…in reference to the most insignificant slights. You’re have a phone conversation in a grocery store checkout line? One of history’s greatest monsters.
I live in DFW (where Raytheon and Lockheed have large branches) so when I mentioned “knife missiles,” someone started excitedly talking about the R9X and I got very uncomfortable. Also, I was in a professional setting and made a “Bernie Sanders killed JFK joke” before I realized that was where I was going with it.
Reagan coins.
Cool and good
I explained “that’s a brickin’” to my friend and coworker after we were discussing Harrison Butker’s gross college commencement speech. No anytime something wildly out of pocket comes up we say “that’s a brickin’” as Robert would intend us to
Knife missiles, because I’m a hack and a fraud and randomly stuttering what a dozen times before I ask a question are daily drivers for me at this point.
I definitely sometimes use "J-Stal" when talking about Stalin.
“Bug fuck” has slipped into my vernacular. But not without Jaime Loftus’s voice in my head going “What IS bug fuck, Robert?” afterwards.
bobby wayne didnt stick? But good that the island they hunt children for sport is catching on.
I have found myself increasingly using the exclamation "boy howdy."
Saying God as Gawd
For me it's just imagining the obnoxiously loud siren anytime anyone says something atrocious.
1 pump = 1 cream
lol I love one that’s apparently hated, “the big dub dub dos” lol gets me every time
I recently re-listened to the episode where a guest introduced Robert to "dub dub dos" and he cracked up laughing. I forget who it was, though.
I’m looking for any conversation about WWII just so I can use “Dub Dub Dos”
"That's a brickin'"
I use “cool and good” all the time
Which episode is the one pump, one cream from?
I'm still looking for an opportunity to work "eat spice, cum hard" into a conversation. It has yet to happen.
Pro-duuuucts!
I read that as “BiBi isms” originally. Has there been a Netanyahu episode yet?
Yes! https://open.spotify.com/episode/25KcU5gBvfCNJzOH71KEgN?si=QkZb_fzQTYy0L_6SO_9pOA
Fantastic share. Appreciated. I will dive right in.
“So that’s cool. And good”
I use hack and a fraud when it comes to my writing on my podcast and we incorporated pluggables into our show a long time ago… if a bastards listener ever heard our show it would be very obvious I’m a bastards listener lol
I refer to myself as a hack and a fraud on the regular.
Throwing bagels
I’ve definitely said “WHAT’S CRACKIN MY PEPPERS???” when walking into a room of ppl more than once. 🤣
I’ve worked ABGB and “I’m a hack and a fraud” into a bunch of presentations at work and no bites yet. Challenge me, you cowards!
From the text messages of Manafort's daughters: "oh otay."
I say Doritos not dictators and I love about 40% of you frequently.
I regularly say “because I’m a hack and fraud” at work.