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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David Berg starts the 1970s as a wildly popular cult leader and immediately goes insane. Robert walks Ed Helms through the invention of "flirty fishing" AKA prostitution for Jesus and a bunch of other nightmare fuel.
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Children of God cult was 'hell on earth'
'Children of God': Life and Death of the Messiah
The Children of God: Joaquin Phoenix, Rose McGowan Among Former Members of This Notorious Cult
Robert sits down with Ed Helms to discuss one of our worst monsters: David Berg, founder of the Children of God cult.
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- Viral Texas
- Anti-Vax Genealogy
- God's Will
- Soft Eugenics
- Could It Happen Here?
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Originally aired June 2022
Robert is joined by Matt Lieb to discuss Harlon Carter and NRA.
SOURCES:
- https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dallasnews.com/news/2018/04/27/meet-the-2-texans-who-took-over-the-nra-and-made-the-gun-rights-group-a-feared-and-powerful-force/%3foutputType=amp
- https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/22/us/harlon-b-carter-longtime-head-of-rifle-association-dies-at-78.html
- https://www.linktv.org/the-...
Originally aired August 2020
Robert is joined by Caitlin Durante to discuss the U.S. Border Patrol.
SOURCES:
- https://timeline.com/harlon-carter-nra-murder-2f8227f2434f
- https://theintercept.com/2019/01/12/border-patrol-history/
- https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-civil-rights-project-harrington-retire/
- https://www.amazon.com/Migra-History-Border-American-Crossroads/dp/0520266412
- https://www.salon.com/2012/07/2...
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- Reportback from the West Bank
- The LA Anti-ICE Protests
- Migrant Detention in Libya
- On The Ground In LA
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #20
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Robert tells Jack about the 'rescue' of Eliza Fraser and how her lies about what happened on K'gari Island helped to fuel decades of colonial war and genocide.
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Robert sits down with Jack O'Brien to tell the story about Eliza Fraser, who survived being shipwrecked thanks to the indigenous people of an island her lies helped destroy.
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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 FDA Wants to Take Away Your Covid Vaccine, ft. Dr. Kaveh Hoda
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Tiananmen Remastered, Part 1
- Tiananmen Remastered, Part 2
- Governing Fertility: How Pronatalist Policies Kill
Robert explores Dr. Church's weird history with eugenics adjacent projects, like the world's creepiest dating app, and how Colossal Biosciences was created and immediately used by the Trump administration as an excuse to attack the Endangered Species Act.
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Robert walks Langston Kerman through the story of Dr. George Church, a very real scientist who co founded the company making bullshit claims of "de extincting" dire wolves.
(2 Part Series)
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Robert builds to the thrilling conclusion of the other Kevin Smith's story: the mass slaughter of his own flock.
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Robert tells the story of Kevin Ontoniel Smith, a Jamaican-Canadian minister who created an apocalyptic Christian sect and slit his follower's throats in a COVID related panic.
Sources;
“Is Your Blood Clean?”: The Paranoid Pastor Who Turned His Church into a Violent Cult | The Walrus
Ontario college mum on cult pastor's PhD - Jamaica Observer
The power of religion to abuse, distort and control the realities of susceptib...
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
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Anarchism In Mexico feat. Andrew, Pt. 1
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Anarchism In Mexico feat. Andrew, Pt. 2
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War Update
- The Gang Reviews Andor Season 2, Ep. 10-12
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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.
(2 Part Series)
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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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