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Tyrant In Training

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Comedy podcast where guests rule their own country exactly the way they like it tyrant-in-training.podcastpage.io Hosted by @kevryanperson.bsky.social

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Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · Feb 2

I appreciate that tyrannical maniac rulers has become fashionable for more and more countries but new episodes of this podcast features guests becoming hypothetical tyrants of their own countries

No peasants are actually harmed on this podcast

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Tyrant In Training Podcast

Welcome to The Tyrant In Training Podcast, your weekly dose of comedy and power fantasies! Join us as we ask our guests what they would do as the supreme ruler of their own country. From choosing thei...

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Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 4h

The North Korean newsreader known as Pink Dress Lady with text saying "This policy is ridiculous, Pete"

Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 4h

Prince Andrew leaves

(Royal expert wipes sweat from brow, disaster averted)

Prince Andrew announced as new lead singer of LostProphets

(Royal expert slaps their hand through their forehead)

Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think Americans realize how big Europe is cause I've been driving 20 years and I'm still stuck here in Ireland

Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

If only he was called "Jared Don't leto" huh?

(This podcast is actually currently nominated for a best comedy award at independent podcast awards. I don't know how that happened either)

Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

One of the last things the world needs is anything to happen to Dolly Parton

Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

Some mashup of

"We're looking into it very strongly"

"It" being all or some of:

Corrupt Nobel Peace Prize
Starting his own Peace Prize
Kicking Norway out of NATO
Tariffs!
Mixing up Norway and Denmark and suggesting USA takes Greenland from Norway

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Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

Please bear in mind I'm being a bit hyperbolic when I say that but at the same time it feels like "How can they?" Has been asked about a lot of things MAGA has done

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Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

The masked goons will soon be banning anything hiding your face

Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

"oops, looks like an agitator/ disturber of the peace/ terrorist is in the queue. Best arrest everyone"

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Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

Well, there are still elections in Russia

Absolutely useless and pointless but they're still there

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Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

He's not giving ICE this massive budget and only use it to hassle innocent people for a few months

When ye start voting, ICE is going to be all over those voting places rounding people up/ turning you away

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Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

Don't have Steam 😒

But here it is: Little Rocket Lab

Kudos to these people

store.steampowered.com/app/2451100/...

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Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

Hecklers must get really nervous when going to your standup

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Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

Tbf, conservatives will proudly tell you how concerned they are about the damage bank fraud and making false statements does to a country (think of the children)

They were very concerned about Epstein, sex trafficking and rape but that's all disappeared now for some funny teason

Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

Uh oh, the MAGA crowd are going to be super unhappy that Trump didn't win and also, a woman won! 😰

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Joz Norris @joznorris.bsky.social · 3d

Woops butterfingers, so embarrassing to have dropped this poster

Blue Bar Productions @bluebarprod.bsky.social · 3d

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Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

How on earth have his followers not created some loser ass prize to give him

The kid rock peace prize has a nice, tacky ring to it

Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

Americans need to learn from history

(More of it in alt text)

This quote from "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45", where a German survivor talks about what it was like living through the rise of the Nazis, ends on a similar note about realizing that the country you grew up in is gone, and you didn't realize because you were only looking at the surface level details.

Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk alone; you don’t want to “go out of your way to make trouble.” Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, “everyone” is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, “It’s not so bad” or “You’re seeing things” or “You’re an alarmist.”

And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.

But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality …

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Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 4d

Franco lasted over 3 decades btw

Trump is gonna live that long but ICE isn't going to disappear and Stephen Miller isn't gonna revert back into the shadows

Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 4d

I cannot understand how people are just OK with being treated that way

To be patronized and babied with Fox News and other grifters not even doing it in a subtle way

FFS Fox & Friends might as well jingle car keys at the camera and say "whose a good fascist enabler? coochie coochie coo"

Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 4d

Sure thing!

Tyrant in Training is an improv comedy podcast where I (Kevin, hello 👋) chat to creative people every Thursday about how they would rule a country as a tyrannical ruler

Nominated this year for Best Comedy at the independent podcast awards

Also, I'm digging the new logo I made tbh

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Podomedy - The Podcast Comedy Network @podomedy.bsky.social · 4d

Oh hey! 👋

Tell us about your pod?

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Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 4d

New podcast episode

Yay!

With Norwegian comedian Thor Stenhaug!

#podcast

Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 5d

I'm waiting for the sequel to Death of Stalin that's all about the Trump regime lackeys

Tyrant In Training @tyrantpodcast.bsky.social · 5d

These fucking oddballs are pure concentrated idiots