Part Two: Percy Fawcett: Real-Life Indiana Jones, or Deluded Psychic Racist?

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Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast for the very worst people in all of history, where I just thought I was about to sneeze, but I didn't.

And so we're-

Congratulations

... able to start now as opposed to, like, three seconds later.

Mazel tov, Robert.

Unless I sneeze in, like, a second.

There's no way to know.

There's no way to know.

It's really dusty out there right now, what with all the fire.

It-

Everything's on fire.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know who's not on fire? In, like, a bad way.

But in a good way they are.

Being on fire can mean a confusingly wide variety of things.

Hello, Miriam.

How are you?

[laughs] I'm doing good.

I'm not on fire, um, in any way that I'm aware of.

Okay.

Okay.

Nei- neither in a good nor a bad way.

Yeah, I don't think so.

Okay.

Um, again, yeah.

It's okay.

Like you said, it can mean a lot of things, so you know.

I don't wanna foreclose on, on-

Yeah

... every possibility, but...

Yeah, that makes, that makes sense, you know? So whether or not you're on fire, I hope you're ready to listen to the next part of our series on the life of Percy Fawcett.

The guy who was probably the most direct inspiration for Indiana Jones slash, like, just, like, the archetype of, like, the gentleman adventurer, you know? Um, and who also, as we're about to discuss, is going to go increasingly crazy, uh, over the course of this episode.