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.

Episodes

April 19, 2025 203 mins

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

  1. When Care Workers Organize

  2. Behind Myanmar's Devastating Earthquake

  3. Trump's Concentration Camps in El Salvador

  4. How Strikes Build Democratic Workplaces 
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Robert and Sophie are joined by Cool Zone Media supervising producer, Ian Johnson to continue to discuss Andrew Tate. 

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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! 🗳️🗳️🗳️

    https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/individual-episode...

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    April 12, 2025 167 mins

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

    1. Behind the Scenes of That Teen Vogue Article on Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk's Daughter

    2. Why Watching Actors Get Maimed By Big Cats Gives Me Hope For The Future

    3. How ICE Kidnapped A Farmworker Union Org...

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    World War 1 has begun, and Robert walks Amanda through how Alfred Hugenberg bought up the German media to make the case the the war should go on for ever, and then how he backed the Nazi party and ushered Hitler into power when that didn't go well for some reason.

    Sources:

    1. The Pan German League by Barry Jackisch
    2. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/
    3. The Fateful Alliance by He...
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    Robert sits down with Amanda Montell to talk about Alfred Hugenberg, a German industrialist who made Hitler's rise to power possible for some very familiar reasons.

    Sources:

    1. The Pan German League by Barry Jackisch
    2. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/
    3. The Fateful Alliance by Hermann Beck
    4. https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/weimar-germany/&n...
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    April 5, 2025 185 mins

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

    1. The Library Funding Cliff

    2. Anarchism In Uruguay feat. Andrew, Pt. 2

    3. RFK Jr. Breaks the Medical System

    4. How ICE Is Targeting Students for Deportation
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    Robert concludes the story of the Fake Autism Cure Industrial Complex and tells Mangesh about a doctor who tried to get rich selling spoiled blood to deranged parents.

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    Robert and Mangesh Hattikudur explore the birth of the "unorthodox biomedical movement", which is a fancy way of saying "fake doctors who poison children to cure Autism".

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    March 29, 2025 197 mins

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

    1. Rendition to El Salvador: How the Trump Administration Is Sending Asylum Seekers to Labor Camps

    2. Miniature Ethnic Cleansing: Encampment Sweeps in Oakland

    3. Should You Flee the United States?

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    Robert, who is looking better than ever these days wow what great hair, finishes telling Ben Bowlin the harrowing story of how the U.S. murdered thousands of our nation's closest friends and poisoned incarcerated people for a modest payout.

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    Robert and Ben Bowlin sit-down to talk about controversial blood plasma donation program in the Arkansas Prison system under Governor Clinton that killed more than 2 9/11s worth of Canadians.

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    March 22, 2025 176 mins

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

    1. Understanding Rojava’s Tishrin Dam Resistance

    2. Anarchism In Uruguay feat. Andrew, Pt. 1

    3. Chuck Schumer and the Collaborators

    4. Behind the Tesla Attacks
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    Robert concludes the story of the Zizians with a spree of horrific violent crimes and deaths, culminating in a shoot out with the Border Patrol in Vermont of all places.

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    Robert tells David about Ziz's glorious plan to take to the sea and sever the right and left brains of her followers in order to make them psychopaths god that sentence was weird to write trust us the episode is weirder.

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    March 15, 2025 180 mins

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

    1. How the State Created Elon Musk

    2. Candace Owens' Hollywood Tabloid Pivot feat. Bridget Todd

    3. Mahmoud Khalil's Arrest and What Comes Next

    4. Nate Silver: The Smoothest Brain...

    Robert tells David Gborie about the early life of Ziz LaSota, a bright young girl from Alaska who came to the Bay Area with dreams of saving the cosmos or destroying it, all based on her obsession with Rationalist blogs and fanfic.

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    Earlier this year a Border Patrol officer was killed in a shoot-out with people who have been described as members of a trans vegan AI death cult. But who are the Zizians, really? Robert sits down with David Gborie to trace their development, from part of the Bay Area Rationalist subculture to killers.

    (4 Part series)

    Sources: 

    1. https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-ziz-76c100180509
    2. https://web.archive....
    March 8, 2025 177 mins

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

    1. The Future of Peacekeeping In Africa

    2. The Last Trial of the Fight Against Mountain Valley Pipeline

    3. The USA's Impending Telemedicine Cliff

    4. King Trump Yells at Congress
    5. ...

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