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.

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December 9, 2025 68 mins

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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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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Robert sits down with Margaret Killjoy to talk about how mankind went from building one atomic bomb to building tens of thousands of them, permanently 15 minutes or less away from ending all life on earth.

(5 Part Series)

Sources:

https://warontherocks.com/2018/09/a-horrifying-and-believable-path-to-nuclear-war-with-north-korea/

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/inside-frighteningly-plausible-nuclear-attack-scenario/

https://sci-hub.ru/htt...

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November 29, 2025 191 mins

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

- Requiem for Stop Cop City

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #43

- CZM Rewind: My RNC Grindr Adventure

- CZM Rewind: Elon Musk Has Lost the Gamers

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Robert Evans is a Living God and can never lie.....Also we talk with Jamie Loftus about Sam Bankman-Fried and beloved biographer to con man Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short.

Original Air Dates: 12.5.23 & 12.7.23

Sources:

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/michael-lewiss-big-contrarian-bet

https://archive.is/GnVkX#selection-2015.0-2029.125

https://archive.is/cZZcN#selection-455.0-523.30

https://www.theguardian.co...

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Part One: Robert sits down with Jamie Loftus to talk about the collapse of one of the great financial criminals of our time.

Original Air Date: 11.22.22

Part Two: Everyone's favorite crypto conman is back behind bars! Robert sits down with Jamie Loftus to talk about his plans to buy an island and make he and his friends living gods.

Original Air Date: 8.15.23

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November 22, 2025 203 mins

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- The Challenges Facing the Mamdani Administration

- Nick Fuentes Explains Pornography to Tucker Carlson

- The Conde Nast Union Busting Purge

- Producing Knowledge on Palestine feat. Dana El Kurd

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #42

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Robert concludes the story of Bo Gritz with his unhinged attempts to rescue POWs from Vietnam, his political ambitions, and disgraceful downfall.

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Robert and Prop did a live show to raise money for the Portland Bail Fund. They discussed the life and times of Bo Gritz, a foundational right wing militia maniac.

Sources:

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/03/29/James-Bo-Gritz-the-Vietnam-War-veteran-who-slipped/7427417762000/

https://www.spike-team.com/home/origins/

https://time.com/archive/6857330/colonel-gritzs-dubious-mission/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/19...

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November 15, 2025 228 mins

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

- Mamdani’s Victory: Winners, Losers, and Crashouts

- A New Threat to Public Lands

- The Pro Palestine Movement Two Years After Genocide feat. Dana El Kurd

- The Mainstreaming of Nick Fuentes by the Coward Tucker Carlson

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #41

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Robert talks about legitimately some of the worst stuff we'll ever discuss on this show. Oh my god, you guys

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Robert walks his former colleague Titi Lee through the life and times of Thomas Thistlewood, a slave owner and monster of the first order who kept a detailed diary of all his crimes against humanity.

(2 Part Series)

Sources:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170328175826/https://www.thesocialhistorian.com/journals-of-thomas-thistlewood/

https://www.amazon.com/Miserable-Slavery-Thistlewood-Jamaica-1750-1786/dp/9766400660

https://www.bbc...

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November 8, 2025 252 mins

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- Occulture, Technomancy vs Tradition, and the Role of Magick in 2025

- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly

- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40

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November 6, 2025 78 mins

Robert answers the big question: who does Peter Thiel think the antichrist might be? And we learn about the time he considered cryonically freezing his own head after death.

 

Check out Sarah’s new show here: https://link.mgln.ai/6Pab8j

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November 4, 2025 87 mins

Robert sits down with Sarah Marshall to discuss just what Peter Thiel believes about the antichrist and who he thinks is destroying the world.

(2 Part Series)

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November 1, 2025 251 mins

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

- Caribbean Roundtable

- The Campaign to Bust Chicago’s Only Bookstore Union

- What’s Real in the Politics of Population with Andrew

- Occulture, William S. Burroughs, and Generative AI

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #39

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David E. Taylor's cult truly had it all: enslaved workers using plagiarism machines to generate AI ads to rob cancer patients, welfare fraud, and heinous sex crimes! In Part 2, we conclude his horrific story.

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Robert sits down with Jake Hanrahan to discuss the recently busted cult / call center of Bishop David Taylor's, Jesus Christ's Best Friend.

 

(2 Part Series)

Check out Sad Oligarch - 

https://open.spotify.com/show/5n4CUGYYZ4fc4L5yWYX7gK 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sad-oligarch/id1691403387 

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-sad-oligarch-116754842/episode/a-family-annihilation-in-moscow-117331449/&nb...

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October 25, 2025 176 mins

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- Squatting with Andrew

- Domination Is Peace: Trump’s 20 Point Peace Plan for Palestine feat. Dana El Kurd

- The Economics of the Tariff Regime

- New Wall Construction and Borderlands Resistance

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #38

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