r/behindthebastards • u/VillageGrouch • 20h ago
Does anyone (else) ever just burst into tears, sobbing uncontrollably at random while listening to BTB?
Just curious for no reason. Shut up I’m not crying you’re crying.
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u/Nerexor 20h ago
The Raoul Wallenberg episode gets me every time. Do crimes, save lives.
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u/vseprviper 15h ago
Got the t shirt, love explaining it to people ^
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u/Codeofconduct 13h ago
My husband and I both got a hoodie and my big ass water bottle prominently has the sticker on it.
I work in local gov in a shit position and rock my do crimes save lives gear proudly. I have been asked a couple of times by colleagues about it and I have told them they should Google the name on my shirt! I think people were concerned that it was a J6 thing at first sadly.
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u/Anghellik 14h ago
The quote from the young boy getting his mom back from what he thought was certain death is the point that hits me every time I listen.
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u/Stockz 5h ago
I graduated from the University of Michigan and at our graduation the school's president gave a speech about Raoul. Dude is a fucking hero and saint. There are more famous alums- James Earl Jones, Lucy Liu, Tom Brady, Gerald Ford- but none has done more good for humanity than him.
Also, one of my friends who I graduated with works at the Holocaust museum in DC. It's located on 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place. Which seems fitting
Also also, he was the 2nd person (behind Churchill) to be made an honorary US Citizen. Which makes me wonder why I didn't know about him until I was 22.
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u/RepublicLegal6512 20h ago
the playing of “so long it’s been nice to know you” this week really got me. My granddad lived through the dust bowl. just made me sad for him.
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u/bradatlarge 19h ago
Same. My source of eye water was the book The Worst Hard Time which I read a long while back and that song made me remember how heartbreaking some of those stories were
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u/TCCogidubnus 19h ago
I wouldn't say "at random". Usually it's for one of three things: being overwhelmed at the horror of man's inhumanity to man, being overwhelmed at the sacrifice of those trying to care for their fellow people, or because something is incredibly relatable.
If you're crying and not knowing why, I would always recommend chatting to a friend and maybe a doctor. It may well be being triggered by the content of the episodes but you're not aware of what you're reacting to, or it may be that you're suppressing a lot of feelings and the show is allowing them to come out for some reason.
Or maybe you're just prone to crying and it doesn't mean much - I almost cried at the new Wallace and Grommit because of the relationship between a man and his dog being beautiful, so I'm certainly not judging.
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u/ParryHooter 14h ago
Well if sweet/tragic telling of humans and their dogs get you have I got something for you:
https://thepetrifiedmuse.blog/2015/06/20/every-dog-has-his-day/
Especially think Patrice’s is beautiful.
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u/NonagonJimfinity 18h ago
Yup, thats why i haven't listened in about 2 years.
I'll be subscribed till im bones but man, i need to be in a very particular mood to not feel incredibly angry/sad.
I can usually listen to the episodes about pathetic man babies though, like segal and the like, they make me laugh, but i get so bummed out when i learn a new "thing that should be used for good is owned by nazis".
Plus i got diagnosed with autism this year, so now its on my record, so every once in a while the podcast makes me straight up panic knowing the base that wants me dead keep getting fed.
So yeah, i had to limit my time with BtB.
They could get me back with less machette talk and more hatchet talk though, i just think they are neat.
Plus you can slip them out your sleeves all sly like.
While snapping your fingers to a beat.
Or whatever 20s axe gangs do.
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u/thedorknightreturns 16h ago
Congrats to the diagnosis , tism gang😏,
and america has to be stressful right now, but i chose to focus on the good knowing to deal better with needs and feel less weird?!prayers that trump cabinet is too busy fighting themselves over being able to do bad stuff
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u/ParryHooter 14h ago
You might like the Cool People who did Cool stuff pod if you still wanna listen to Cool Zone content. Jamie Loftus does the 16th minute one too which is entertaining
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u/stayonthecloud 16h ago
I feel you, I can only listen on rare occasions and I’ll binge a bit. I love BTB dearly but my soul can’t take hearing about the worst of humanity in-depth on a regular basis. It is awful enough being exposed to the worst of humanity on a surface level daily
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u/Librarian_Contrarian 19h ago
I think I've spent too much of my life depressed to burst out sobbing anymore. I just feel down for extended periods of time and wonder what the point of it all is.
Why are all my podcast choices depressing?
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u/AnAngeryGoose Feminist Icon 19h ago
I’ve gotten close but try and hold it back since I listen at work, lol.
The one that almost got me was the episode on Elite Panic talking about the mall that burnt down with people locked inside to prevent theft.
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u/fieldcut FDA Approved 17h ago
Listening to BTB doesn't make me cry. I usually listen at work and then if it's something particularly relevant to current events I might go home and rant about it to my boyfriend.
In college I remember during a history class we were covering the Belgian Congo, and the professor had a picture of some people, including children, whose hands had been cut off. I just burst into fucking tears immediately and had to step outside. Same thing happened learning about the rape of Nanjing. Even when professors would warn us ahead of time. Pictures and videos always get me. I can read and listen about terrible things, and I'll get mad. But when I see the faces of people who've been brutalized or wronged, it just drives everything home and I feel such immense pain for them.
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u/Cobaltfennec 17h ago
No. But i watched a TT of presidents from both parties acting civilly last night and I cried. So, we are all weird I guess.
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u/mfukar 16h ago
Haven't but the darkest episode week made me the angriest I've ever been at a disembodied voice. Living in Germany, I then decided I'd look more closely into its modern (post-ww) history. Having some real doubts about whether I want to "integrate" in this society, if I'm totally honest.
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u/throwawaynowtillmay 16h ago
No, this is all terrible stuff but we arent experiencing it first hand and the format is, for what it is, fairly light hearted
Some episodes have left me a little stunned but weeping seems like a big reaction
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u/doctordoctorpuss 13h ago
There were a couple I had to stop in the middle of. The one Mia did about an officer in the (I believe) Japanese army, that had first hand accounts of horrific torture and sexual violence really hurt, as did the one about the school for autistic children that was just a hotbed of abuse. Other ones would gut punch me and then be quickly relieved by Robert saying something super out of pocket and funny, but those two stick out to me as being rough emotionally
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u/Equivalent-Coat-7354 18h ago
Crying uncontrollably is my default, BtB is, for me, an oasis from this.
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u/Thinkimkindagay 14h ago
I don’t remember if it was BtB or another CZM show but I react that way to their episodes abt the uprising in Portland in 2020, I’m not from there but it brings up a lot from that time 😭
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u/Solipsisticurge 13h ago
No, life has rendered me basically dead inside. My affect is flat as hell.
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u/UncivilizedEngie 12h ago
Last time I cried at a btb episode was when Robert covered how normal Germans perpetuated a genocide. That shit scares and depresses me way more than the existence of terrible individuals.
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u/rpmcmurf 8h ago
Not BTB, but a somewhat related podcast (the hosts have been on BTB a few times) is Knowledge Fight. Any time Dan and Jordan get really detailed about the Sandy Hook kids or parents, I have to skip it. I will not openly advocate the kind of retribution I think Alex Jones deserves, but it ain’t nice.
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u/lovebyletters 20h ago
Yeah, but uh, that's not because of BTB. That's the CPTSD/depression.