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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February 13, 2025 64 mins

Robert tells Brandie how Richard Doty crafted an elaborate alien ruse to destroy Paul Bennewitz's mind, all with the goal of hiding the U.S. government's drone and stealth bomber programs.

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This week we tell the harrowing story of Paul Bennewitz, a simple nerdy engineer who spotted evidence of covert Air Force weapons programs and was gaslit into believing they were alien spacecraft.

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February 8, 2025 222 mins

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

  1. The Internationalists Fighting Fascism in Burma

  2. (Maybe Don't) Read Siege

  3. How Trump is Killing Science (And You)

  4. Greenwashing Genocide In Artsakh

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Robert and Molly continue their exploration of Venusian health science which apparently involves eating nothing but raw fruit.

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Robert sits down with Molly Conger to explore a book at the foundation of American conspiracy culture that may have helped kill Steve Jobs.

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February 1, 2025 209 mins

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

  1. The Decline and Fall of the American Post Office

  2. Nut Country Revisited feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips

  3. They're Trying to Put Women Into Men's Prisons

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January 30, 2025 374 mins

This is a bonus episode of our Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, and John of God episodes aka the bastards of Oprah episodes stitched together with limited ad breaks

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January 30, 2025 92 mins

Oh god, we are finally done. Unfortunately Oprah's greatest harms, like her role in birthing the anti vaccine movement, live on.

Series Sources:

  1. https://archive.org/details/oprahwinfrey0000unse_a9o7/page/40/mode/2up
  2. https://www.today.com/popculture/oprah-opens-hoda-kotb-about-how-her-childhood-trauma-informed-t219209
  3. https://www.amazon.com/Oprah-Media-Power-Janice-Peck/dp/1594514690 
  4. Winfrey, Oprah; Perry, Bruce D.. What ...
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January 28, 2025 84 mins

Today we talk about Oprah's involvement in a self help guru who killed three people in a sweat lodge, and how it goes into a shift in American culture driven by The Oprah Winfrey show.

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January 25, 2025 170 mins

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

  1. The Lost Post Office Union Episode

  2. The Age of Cowards and What Happens Next

  3. How to Evacuate Your Home

  4. A Firsthand Account of the Inauguration & Trum...

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January 23, 2025 72 mins

Robert chronicles Oprah's war with the beef industry and her pivot to new age anti-science nonsense. Also: rainbow parties!

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January 21, 2025 73 mins

Oprah's career is on the move now, and Robert tells the gang about her coke filled early years in local TV, her rise to stardom and how she helped spark the Satanic Panic.

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January 18, 2025 172 mins

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

  1. Mutual Aid & the LA Fires

  2. CES 2025: AI Toys Are Coming For Your Kids

  3. From Anti-Satanic Crusaders to Congresswoman: Tracing an Anti-Trans Harassment Campaign 

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January 16, 2025 64 mins

Oprah continues to have the most sympathetic backstory of any BTB subject, and Robert walks Bridget and Andrew through how she turned it all around.

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January 14, 2025 70 mins

Oprah Winfrey has been responsible for introducing several of the most toxic monsters of our era to society. But is she a bastard? Robert sits down with Bridgett Todd and Andrew Ti to investigate.

(Six Part Series)

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January 11, 2025 187 mins

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

  1. Q&A 2025

  2. 2025 Predictions

  3. CES 2025: Listen to AI Executives Laughing At People Losing Their Jobs

  4. The AI 'Ick': What Big Tech Is Bringing for 2025

  5. <...

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Robert is joined again by Paul F. Tompkins to continue to discuss Rush Limbaugh.

 

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Here are a couple of our favorite episodes of Hood Politics with Prop podcast series.

  1. The DOJ Curbed Google So Hard
  2. No, the Other Zionism

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January 4, 2025 187 mins

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

  1. Government Small Enough to Fit in Your Bedroom feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips

  2. CZM Rewind: Police Drones and You

  3. CZM Rewind: You Already Know How to Organize

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