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
In this episode we follow Carl Schmitt through the disillusionment of WW1, and breaking up with his con artist wife, to his creation of the Death Star of liberal democracy.
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Robert walks Blake Wexler through the life and times of Carl Schmitt, a legal scholar born in Imperial Germany who would come to create the blueprint for how fascist movements could destroy liberal democracy from within.
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Nature Boy is now in Central America, where he weaponizes the power of Instagram's algorithm to trick rubes into flying out to join him and handing over all their money.
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Robert gets back to basics with guest star Katy Stoll by talking about one of America's newest cult leaders, Natureboy, who used instagram to convince a small army of followers to join his crusade against toilets.
(2 Part Series)
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
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Who We Talk About When We Talk About Borders
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Trans Journalism In the Era of Trump
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Trump vs. DC: Inside the Takeover You’re Not Hearing About feat. Bridget Todd
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Robert Maxwell makes a full heel turn in this episode, going from badass killer of the SS to not so badass corporate ghoul who murdered science and also spied for Israel and the UK.
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You know his daughter as Jeffrey Epstein's right hand woman. Robert tells guest Adam Conover about Ghislaine Maxwell's dad, Robert Maxwell. He started his life on a Nazi murder quest and ended it by killing science as a field of endeavor and raiding millions from his company pension plan.
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
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The Old Economy Is Dead
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Cosmopolitanism feat. Andrew
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The Canadian Election: NOTHING EVER HAPPENS
- May Day Special: The Gang Reviews Andor Season 2, Ep. 1-3
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Pol Pot and his friends are now in charge of Cambodia and in a remarkably short period of time they manage to kill two million people. Including a leftist academic from the UK who thought the Khmer Rouge was rad. Here's how!
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Robert continues the story with young Pol Pot's years in France where he and his friends radicalize themselves in what has to have been the deadliest book club of all time.
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Robert sits down with Andrew Ti for three episodes in one week about the bizarre life of Pol Pot, a man who spent too much time reading books and bullshitting with his friends and for convinced he could save his country by destroying it.
(3 Part Series)
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
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Elon Musk and The Martian Revolution feat. Mike Duncan
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The City Sold Your Water feat. Prop
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Nihilist Violent Extremism
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Robert explains the weird cult Andrew Tate created with a wizard and former pick up artist to rob young men and abuse women at scale.
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Why Was Andrew Tate allowed back in the U.S.? What's happening with all his court cases? Robert sits back down with Ian Johnson and Sophie Lichterman and explains what's happening with Tate's numerous charges, his latest criminal allegations, and his God awful taste in machetes.
(2 Part Series....for now.)
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Gadget on X: "This one is VERY dramatic. https://t.co/4wByW3yQVx" / X
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
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When Care Workers Organize
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Behind Myanmar's Devastating Earthquake
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Trump's Concentration Camps in El Salvador
- How Strikes Build Democratic Workplaces
Robert and Sophie are joined by Cool Zone Media supervising producer, Ian Johnson to continue to discuss Andrew Tate.
Update series dropping next week!
Includes Part 3 & 4 with less ad breaks.
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Robert and Sophie are joined by Cool Zone Media supervising producer, Ian Johnson to discuss Andrew Tate, and the Mythopoetic Men's Movement.
Includes Part 1 & 2 with less ad breaks.
Update series dropping next week!
Better Offline & Weird Little Guys are nominated for this year’s Webby Awards! Get your votes in by April 17th! 🗳️🗳️🗳️
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