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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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Part One: Adolf Eichmann: Mr. Holocaust Himself Jul 01, 2025

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Robert sits down with Joe Kassabian to discuss one of the worst Nazis: Adolf Eichmann, a major architect of the Holocaust.

(4 Part Series)

Sources:

Adolf Eichmann (1906 -1962) | American Experience | Official Site | PBS

The Complete Story of the Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann

Eichmann in Jerusalem—I | The New Yorker

BBC - History - World Wars: Adolf Eichmann: The Mind of a War Criminal

The CIA and Adolf Eichmann | National Archives

Organizing Genocide: Theodor Dannecker, Eichmann's Deportation Specialist | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

Organizing Genocide: Theodor Dannecker, Eichmann's Deportation Specialist | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

Eichmann : his life and crimes : Cesarani, David : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

THE PAN-GERMANS’ PROGRAM FOR THE FUTURE
Hungary's Wartime Leader Struck a Faustian Deal With Hitler

Budapest and Heroism – Wallenberg Legacy, University of Michigan

Depth of French police collaboration with Nazis revealed - France 24

RemovePaywalls.com - https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/08/excavating-one-of-the-nazis-first-concentration-camps/278877/

KZ Columbiahaus

We Will Never Speak of It: Evidence of Hitler's Direct Responsibility for the Premeditation and Implementation of the Nazi Final Solution

10-02-01_Student-Handout_Adolf-Eichmann.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/Eichmann-Before-Jerusalem-Unexamined-Murderer/dp/0307950166

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 188 Jun 28, 2025

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

- A Medical Perspective On Protest Safety

- Dividing the World, Pt. 1 feat. Andrew

- Dividing the World, Pt. 2: Externalization feat. Andrew

- Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Dem. Primary

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #22

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Sources/Links:

A Medical Perspective On Protest Safety

https://lapdonlinestrgeacc.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/lapdonlinemedia/2021/12/Directive_17.1_40mm_Less_Lethal_Launcher_Oct-.pdf

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1310-live-like-the-world-is-dy-85677729/

Dividing the World, Pt. 1 feat. Andrew

Rome: https://europe.factsanddetails.com/article/entry-1087.html

China: Rome, China, and the Barbarians Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires by Randolph B. Ford

European Colonialism: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1mf71b8.7?seq=1

Edward Said - Orientalism

Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities

John Lewis Gaddis - The Cold War: A New History Samuel Huntington - Clash of Civilisations

Immanuel Wallerstein - The Modern World System

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/elia-j-ayoub-the-periphery-has-no-time-for-binaries

Dividing the World, Pt. 2: Externalization feat. Andrew

David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years

Karl Polanyi - The Great Transformation

Immanuel Wallerstein - The Modern World System

Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Dem. Primary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxyXXVoi514 

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/nyregion/nyc-democratic-primary-election-mayor

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/24/us/elections/nyc-mayor-primary-results-precinct-map.html

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKvdChiOFLv/

https://gothamist.com/news/nearly-a-quarter-of-nycs-early-voters-hadnt-voted-in-a-democratic-primary-since-2012

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #22

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Part Two: David Berg and the Children of God (ft. Ed Helms) Jun 26, 2025

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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.

Sources;

Children of God

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

Murder and Suicide Reviving Claims of Child Abuse in Cult - The New York Times

Life With Grandpa (1985) - more perverse puppetry from The Family International

"Everybody can be happy" - The Luvvets 1980s - The Family International Puppet Show

Treasure Attic: Let's Have Fun

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(PDF) Lustful prophet: A psychosexual historical study of the children of God's leader, David Berg.

The Children of God \\ History \ Revolution for Jesus

https://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Main_Page

https://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Flirty_Fishing

https://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Love_bombing0

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Part One: David Berg and the Children of God (ft. Ed Helms) Jun 24, 2025

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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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Anti-Vax America: The Complete Series Jun 21, 2025

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This special edition of ICHH Weekly compiles the complete Anti-Vax America series by guest host Steven Monacelli.

- Viral Texas

- Anti-Vax Genealogy

- God's Will

- Soft Eugenics

- Could It Happen Here?

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/05/20/measles-updates-texas-cases-pass-700-as-illness-reported-in-30-states/

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-measles-outbreak-in-west-texas-and-beyond

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2025/03/24/data-these-charts-show-how-measles-vaccination-rates-declined-in-texas-public-schools/

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2025/03/24/too-good-for-this-earth-parents-of-child-who-died-in-measles-outbreak-say-no-to-vaccine/

https://www.verywellhealth.com/measles-outbreak-texas-11682808

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8828106/

https://www.latimes.com/newsletters/la-me-ln-essential-california-20190507-story.html

https://slate.com/technology/2025/04/measles-cases-epidemic-worst-case-vaccine.html

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rfk-jr-plandemic-funding-1235173801/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1200696/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8802588/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1123944/

https://time.com/7205900/anti-vaccination-movement-history/

https://historyofvaccines.org/getting-vaccinated/vaccine-faq/vaccination-exemptions

https://historyofvaccines.org/blog/timeline-of-vaccination-mandates

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-68106-1_2

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rfk-jr-plandemic-funding-1235173801/

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-02/rand-paul-on-vaccines-most-of-them-ought-to-be-voluntary-

https://time.com/5175704/andrew-wakefield-vaccine-autism/

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-evidence-on-vaccines-and-autism

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bombastic-19th-century-anti-vaxxer-who-fueled-montreals-smallpox-epidemic/

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/plague-the-red-death-strikes-montreal-feature

https://www.cascadepbs.org/2020/05/seattle-always-had-anti-vaxxers-even-during-smallpox

https://www.cascadepbs.org/mossback/2025/02/history-vaccine-skepticism-1920s-seattle-rfk-jr

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/texas-measles-outbreak-death-family/681985/

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2025/03/24/too-good-for-this-earth-parents-of-child-who-died-in-measles-outbreak-say-no-to-vaccine/

https://www.christianitytoday.com/2013/09/measles-outbreak-megachurch-kenneth-copeland-vaccines/

https://www.npr.org/2013/09/01/217746942/texas-megachurch-at-center-of-measles-outbreak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUGuJkVgXNA

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kenneth-copeland-blow-coronavirus-pray-sermon-trump-televangelist-a9448561.html

https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2025/03/04/west-texans-mennonites-at-center-of-measles-outbreak-choose-medical-freedom-over-vaccine-mandates/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/12/measles-vaccinations-texas-pastor-revels-in-schools-state-low-rates/81975293007/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19602363/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11700278/

https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/educational-resources/timelines/eugenics

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/29/politics/abbott-migrant-transport-order-covid

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/racist-covid-infection-theories-arent-just-wrong-they-are-deadly/

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/measles-maha-and-soft-eugenics/

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-and-soft-eugenics-revisited-the-autism-tsunami-dr-oz-and-your-patriotic-duty-to-stay-healthy/

https://www.nsdoku.de/en/groups/educational-program/the-nazi-society-of-exclusion

http://www.worldofinclusion.com/res/qca/Lest_We_Forget.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20250213085155/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/19/anti-vaxxers-try-rewrite-history-truth-nazis-vaccination-not/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/health/hhs-cdc-vaccines-autism

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5383172/rfk-jr-placebo-vaccine-testing-studies

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9577438/

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/04/10/1168141163/the-dream-of-wiping-out-polio-might-need-a-rethink

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250427/Measles-could-return-to-endemic-status-if-US-vaccination-rates-fall-further.aspx

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/health/polio-vaccine-outbreaks.html

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CZM Rewind: Harlon Carter: the Man Who Militarized the Cops and the NRA Jun 19, 2025

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Originally aired June 2022

Robert is joined by Matt Lieb to discuss Harlon Carter and NRA.

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CZM Rewind: The U.S. Border Patrol Is A Nightmare That Never Ends Jun 17, 2025

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Originally aired August 2020

Robert is joined by Caitlin Durante to discuss the U.S. Border Patrol.

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 186 Jun 14, 2025

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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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Sources/Links:

The LA Anti-ICE Protests

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/democrats-california-new-york-detention-facilities

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigrants-at-ice-check-ins-detained-and-held-in-basement-of-federal-building-in-los-angeles/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=828415694

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-los-angeles-immigration-protests-trump/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/paramount-california-home-depot-protest-rcna211650

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kv1lgdpkjo

Migrant Detention in Libya

https://missingmigrants.iom.int/region/mediterranean  https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/61570/libyas-coast-guard-has-intercepted-and-returned-nearly-21000-migrants-in-2024

https://apnews.com/article/italy-libya-ossama-almasri-icc-arrest-hague-305b5eed193ef7774e6591d4f0a256fc   

European Commission Financial Transparency System Andrea Beck, 2024

Italian and EU Funding of the Libyan Coast Guard: How Italian External Border Immigration Policies Have Created Crimes Against Humanity, Public Ignorance, and Legal Accountability Issues

Ronald Bruce. Libya: From Colony to Revolution

Ship of Humanity: Witness to Rescue in the Mediterranean by Judith Sunderland

Capitivity, Migration and Power in Libya. Nadia Al-Dayel, Aaron Anfinson & Graeme Anfinson 2021.

Tilley: War Making and State Making as organized crime

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #20

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Part Two: How Eliza Fraser Survived a Shipwreck and Sparked a Genocide Jun 12, 2025

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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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Part One: How Eliza Fraser Survived a Shipwreck and Sparked a Genocide Jun 10, 2025

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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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