Behind the Bastards

Behind the Bastards

There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.

Episodes

January 17, 2026 207 mins

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

- AI Robot Slaves and other CES Miracles 

- Best and Worst (non AI) Products at CES

- What’s Happening in Iran?

- What Happened in 2025 with Andrew

- Executive Disorder: Portland Shooting, the FED, Visa Pause & Turtle Island Liberation Front

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Happy New Year, Robert and Sophie sit down and answer listener questions.

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January 10, 2026 207 mins

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

- 2025 Q&A

- 2026 Predictions

- Trump Kidnaps Venezuelan President Maduro

- Inside Our AI Future: Report from CES

- Executive Disorder: Minneapolis ICE Shooting, Maduro, Iran & Aleppo Update

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Robert is joined again by James Stout to continue to discuss the Tobacco Industry.

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Part Three: Robert tells David about Ziz's glorious plan to take to the sea and sever the right and left brains of her followers in order to make them psychopaths god that sentence was weird to write trust us the episode is weirder.

Part Four: Robert concludes the story of the Zizians with a spree of horrific violent crimes and deaths, culminating in a shoot out with the Border Patrol in Vermont of all places.

 

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    Part One: Earlier this year a Border Patrol officer was killed in a shoot-out with people who have been described as members of a trans vegan AI death cult. But who are the Zizians, really? Robert sits down with David Gborie to trace their development, from part of the Bay Area Rationalist subculture to killers.

     

    Part Two: Robert tells David Gborie about the early life of Ziz LaSota, a bright young girl from Alaska who came t...

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    We conclude the story of how Britain ended its role in the Atlantic Slave Trade.

    Against the State by James Stout available for preorder here: https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html 

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    In this episode we introduce two great heroes: freed slave and adventurer Olaudah Equiano, and crusading abolitionist lawyer Granville Sharp.

    Against the State by James Stout available for preorder here: https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html 

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    In our annual holiday reverse episode, Robert introduces James Stout to the heroes who fought to end the Atlantic Slave trade.

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    Against the State by James Stout available for preorder here: https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html 

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    December 20, 2025 196 mins

    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

    - The Tech Fascist Takeover of the Media

    - Strikes, Walkouts, and Union Busting At Nestlé's Blue Bottle

    - Grenada with Andrew, Pt. 1

    - Grenada with Andrew, Pt. 2

    - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #46

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    Padraig explains how Lord Haw-Haw became an agent of the Third Reich...and how it all came crashing down for him at the end of the war.

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    Robert sits down with Pádraig O Ruairc to learn about a bastard from across the pond who threw his lot in with Hitler during WW2.

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    December 13, 2025 188 mins

    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

    - Arab Israeli Peace and New Visions for Gaza feat. Dana El Kurd

    - Oops All Gambling, Political Betting Joins the News

    - Natalism feat. Andrew

    - The Insurrectionist Running to Replace Nancy Mace

    - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #45

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    Robert tells Margaret about the giant meeting the military held to tell everyone how they planned to kill the world.

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    ICBMs made it possible to end the world in 15 minutes or less. Robert tells Margaret about the nightmarishly incompetent first draft of the Minuteman, a nuclear weapons system almost perfectly designed to end the world on accident.

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    Robert continues the harrowing story of the men who decided we should be ready to rain nuclear hellfire on everyone at a moments notice forever.

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    December 6, 2025 217 mins

    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

    - Darién Gap: One Year Later | Part One: After The Jungle 

    - Darién Gap: One Year Later | Part Two: To Be Called By No Name

    - Darién Gap: One Year Later | Part Three: The American Nightmare

    - Darién Gap: One Year Later | Part Four: When Someone Needs Help 

    - Executive Disorder: White House Wee...

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    Robert Evans: Robert and Margaret discuss the birth of the first atom bomb and how delusions about the use of air power made it a savior for a certain kind of U.S Army Air Corps officer.
    Sophie Lichterman: She's sick more often than anyone I know

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