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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November 20, 2025 41 mins

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.

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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.

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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

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

- 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.

 

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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.

 

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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

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

- 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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Robert concludes the story of Daryl Gates with his founding of SWAT and insane reaction to the LA Riots.

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Robert sits down with Bridget Todd to discuss influential LA police chief Daryl Gates, the Godfather of militarized policing.

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October 18, 2025 233 mins

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

- CZM Rewind: Indigenous Peoples Day

- CZM Rewind: Title 42: How a Public Health Law Kills Refugees

- CZM Rewind: Title 42, Pt 2: Migrant Stories

- CZM Rewind: Title 42, Pt 3: The Mutual Aid Response

- CZM Rewind: Title 42, Pt 4: The Border Patrol

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We conclude the heinous tale of Volkswagen's slave plantation in Brazil.

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Robert sits down with Maggie Mae Fish to discuss how Volkswagen went from Hitler's favorite auto-company to the owner of a slave plantation in the Amazon during the Reagan Era.

 

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October 11, 2025 184 mins

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

- ICE’s Ethnic Cleansing in Chicago

- The Riyadh Comedy Festival

- The Weaponization of Mass Shootings

- Trump’s Hepatitis Vaccine Lies

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #37

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Robert and Cody Johnston sit down to read Ben Shapiro's latest non-fiction book, which seems to be based entirely on him not understanding how lions work.

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Robert discusses the mysterious 2001 anthrax attacks and how the FBI, without any real evidence, decided to destroy a man's life over it.

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