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
Robert sits down with Ed Zitron to discuss one of the deadliest fake tech products in history: the Gopher, a fake golf ball detector that became a fake bomb detector and got hundreds of people killed.
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- Bovino’s Visit to Europe
- Idealogical Totalism with Andrew
- The Globalization of Resistance with Andrew
- The Arab Gulf States in the Line of Fire
- Executive Disorder: Pogrom in Belfast, Trans Healthcare, Denaturalization Cases
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Robert concludes the story of the rise and fall of an activist investor we can now admit was just Bill Ackman all along.
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Robert explains the growth of "activist investors" through the career of one specific guy who also happens to be annoying as hell.
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- Bears! And the Guys Who Don’t Like Them
- How to Potluck Your Way to a Union
- What’s In the DNC’s 2024 Autopsy
- The War on Iran and Convergences of Fascism
- Executive Disorder: California Elections, SCOTUS Approves GOP Map, Greg Bovino Update
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Robert concludes the story and, thankfully, the life of Mark Fuhrman, after discussing his most famous moment: the OJ Simpson trial.
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This week Robert invites Joe Kassabian to the guest seat and regales him with the thrilling story of Mark Fuhrman, the most famous racist in LAPD history.
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- Nakba Stories
- Real You Electrolysis Workers United: A Unionization Speedrun
- Outlaw: ICE Protest Repression Trends
- Executive Disorder: Green Card Application Changes, the Pope’s AI Encyclical, Federal Court Blocks GOP Map in Alabama
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Robert finally concludes the tale of OneTaste by describing how it all fell apart and ended in prison for Nicole Daedone.
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Robert continues to tell Jamie about Nicole Daedone's OneTaste, orgasm cult.
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- How Trump is Using Election Fraud Claims to Restrict Voting
- Did Donald Trump Ban Buffalo?
- Monopsony, or How You Get Underpaid
- Pop Culture Commodity Warfare @ New York Comic Con
- Executive Disorder: San Diego Mosque Shooting, Trump Settles Lawsuit with Trump
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Robert sits down with Jamie Loftus to weave the half-century long history of orgasm cults in the U.S., culminating in the rise of Nicole Daedone's OneTaste.
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Robert and Joe Kassabian are soon launching a new podcast about Warhammer 40,000 and you. This episode acts as a legally binding teaser / preview.
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Robert concludes the story of H.L. Hunt with his involvement in the death of John F. Kennedy and downfall as a polical force.
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- Fighting Back Against the Surveillance State
- Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy and the Spectre of Left-Wing Violence
- Parasitism with Andrew
- The Return of Jim Crow
- Executive Disorder: Virginia Redistricting, Renaming the Iran War, TPUSA Event Cancelled by ANTIFA
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Robert explains how H.L. Hunt became the richest man alive through simple hard work and also gambling and pimping.
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This week Robert begins the three-part story of the former wealthiest man on earth, H.L. Hunt, who also became the first right wing plutocrat to buy his own shitty media empire, creating a model for Elon Musk to follow today.
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- The Afterlives of Quentin Deranque
- The Afterlives of Quentin Deranque, Pt. 2
- Journalism Under Attack in Lebanon
- Economic Echoes of the Strait of Hormuz
- Executive Disorder: A Billion for Trump’s Ballroom Security, RIP Spirit Airlines, Iran Stalemate
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Robert concludes his explanation of how AI chatbots replicate cult dynamics in the brains of some vulnerable users.
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Over the last year or so a series of news articles have sounded warnings about AI psychosis, and now an AI-generated cult, the Spiralists. Robert sits down with Blake Wexler to answer an important question: can a chatbot become a cult leader?
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