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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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Latest Episodes:

Part Two: The Sordid Story of Nature Boy: The Instagram Cult Leader Who Hates Toilets May 15, 2025

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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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Part One: The Sordid Story of Nature Boy: The Instagram Cult Leader Who Hates Toilets May 13, 2025

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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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It Could Happen Here Weekly 181 May 10, 2025

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

Who We Talk About When We Talk About Borders
Trans Journalism In the Era of Trump
Trump vs. DC: Inside the Takeover You’re Not Hearing About feat. Bridget Todd
The Gang Reviews Andor Season 2, Ep. 4-6
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #15

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Sources/Links:

Who We Talk About When We Talk About Borders

https://www.patreon.com/posts/127235976?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

Trans Journalism In the Era of Trump

https://ashevilleblade.com/

https://thefreeradical.org/

https://www.madycast.com/subscribe

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #15

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/one-killed-seven-injured-militant-attack-indias-kashmir-india-today-tv-says-2025-04-22/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/05/trump-defends-toy-tariffs/83455040007/

https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/news-and-opinion/us-visa-applications-from-japan-require-disclosing-social-media-history/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/us/politics/trump-libya-migrants.html

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2021/07/libya-horrific-violations-in-detention-highlight-europes-shameful-role-in-forced-returns/

https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/63406/sudanese-war-refugees-recount-libya-horrors

https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/62731/scores-of-bodies-uncovered-in-libyan-mass-graves-linked-to-human-trafficking

https://www.context.news/money-power-people/sudans-refugees-face-deadly-game-of-snakes-and-ladders-in-libya

https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/61979/david-yambio-life-in-libya--living-a-nightmare-part-2

https://www.aclum.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/2025-05-07-105954.pdf

https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/05/06/eeuu/inteligencia-ee-uu-venezuela-tren-de-aragua-ley-trump-trax

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/judge-blocks-trump-administration-requiring-proof-citizenship-register/story?id=121134512

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-home-suspect-accused-doxing-ice-agents-raided-searched
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/05/israel-gaza-destroy-trump-deal

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-is-heading-for-a-full-occupation-of-gazaand-all-the-risks-it-entails-58516d60

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/04/un-rejects-israel-gaza-aid-plan

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/ship-carrying-activists-aid-gaza-attacked-by-drones-ngo-says-2025-05-02/

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Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science May 08, 2025

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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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Part One: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science May 06, 2025

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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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It Could Happen Here Weekly 180 May 03, 2025

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

The Old Economy Is Dead
Cosmopolitanism feat. Andrew
The Canadian Election: NOTHING EVER HAPPENS
May Day Special: The Gang Reviews Andor Season 2, Ep. 1-3
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #14

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Sources/Links:

The Old Economy Is Dead

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2222-carbon-democracy?srsltid=AfmBOop1btGiR59VH99WTMZMzuAgua2p9xgWyT8zbZzAhET-DEwjImqw

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-11/china-raises-tariffs-on-us-goods-to-125-in-retaliation

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/us/national/business/2025/04/11/tariffs-shipping-china-port-of-la-declines

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/trans-pacific-blank-sailings-soar-as-ocean-shipments-plunge

https://gcaptain.com/massive-surge-in-transpacific-blank-sailings-amid-u-s-china-trade-tensions/

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/air-cargo-faces-22b-revenue-hit-when-china-tariff-exemption-ends

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/modifying-reciprocal-tariff-rates-to-reflect-trading-partner-retaliation-and-alignment/

The Canadian Election: NOTHING EVER HAPPENS

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2025/results/#/all-parties

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4jd39g8y1o

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/the-ndp-is-set-to-lose-official-party-status-after-canadas-election-heres-what-that/article_ac2e10a8-98f0-412d-81dd-a3408b07c6b4.html

https://abacusdata.ca/2025-federal-election-final-poll-of-campaign/

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #14

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-equality-of-opportunity-and-meritocracy/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-department-reassigns-about-dozen-civil-rights-attorneys-amid-shakeup-2025-04-22/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/strengthening-and-unleashing-americas-law-enforcement-to-pursue-criminals-and-protect-innocent-citizens/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/protecting-american-communities-from-criminal-aliens/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/enforcing-commonsense-rules-of-the-road-for-americas-truck-drivers/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/advancing-artificial-intelligence-education-for-american-youth/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/investigation-into-unlawful-straw-donor-and-foreign-contributions-in-american-elections/

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/10/politics/political-fundraising-elderly-election-invs-dg/

https://bsky.app/profile/jameeljaffer.bsky.social/post/3lnxyq7teck2e

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/federal-court-says-first-amendment-bars-government-from-deporting-students-and-faculty-on-basis-of-political-viewpoint-says-challenge-to-trump-policy-can-go-forward

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/29/trump-border-militar-zone-migrants-charges/

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lnxqhgvlzs2a

https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/04/border-patrol-injunction/

https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/UFW%20v%20Noem%20PI%20CLASS%20CERT%20RULING_04.29.pdf

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=35bc713ede854401a475cb9957dd2765

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-china-eases-tariffs-on-select-us-goods-as-trump-says-beijing-will-eat-the-costs-191201015.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-china-tariffs-are-shutting-the-big-loophole-that-make-shein-and-temu-so-cheap-234229735.html

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Part Three: The Pol Pot Episodes: How A Nice, Quiet Kid Murdered His Country May 01, 2025

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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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Part Two: The Pol Pot Episodes: How A Nice, Quiet Kid Murdered His Country Apr 30, 2025

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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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Part One: The Pol Pot Episodes: How A Nice, Quiet Kid Murdered His Country Apr 29, 2025

Show notes

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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It Could Happen Here Weekly 179 Apr 26, 2025

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

Elon Musk and The Martian Revolution feat. Mike Duncan
The City Sold Your Water feat. Prop
Nihilist Violent Extremism
Robert's Guide to The Next Six Months of Danger and Resistance
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #13

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Sources/Links:

Nihilist Violent Extremism

https://www.courtlistener.com/?q=%22nihilistic%20violent%20extremists%22&type=r&order_by=dateFiled%20asc

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/fbi-dhs-domestic-terrorism-definitions-terminology-methodology.pdf

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fbi-kash-patel-antifa-blm-terror-groups

https://globalextremism.org/post/trump-abandoning-efforts-to-combat-white-supremacist/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/fbi-kash-patel-investigations-far-right

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-scales-back-staffing-tracking-domestic-terrorism-probes-sources-say-2025-03-21/

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/fbi-dhs-domestic-terrorism-strategic-report.pdf/view

https://www.dni.gov/files/NCTC/documents/news_documents/2022_10_FBI-DHS_Strategic_Intelligence_Assessment_and_Data_on_Domestic_Terrorism.pdf

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-07/23_0724_opa_strategic-intelligence-assessment-data-domestic-terrorism.pdf

https://bxwrites.substack.com/p/exclusive-the-satanic-plot-to-assassinate

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/what-are-nihilist-violent-extremists?r=1aiy5i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #13

https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/justices-temporarily-bar-government-from-removing-venezuelan-men-under-alien-enemies-act/

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.98.1_1.pdf

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.100.0_2.pdf

https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/maryland/prince-georges-county/hyattsville-police-department-details-2019-encounter-with-kilmar-abrego-garcia/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/venezuela-immigrant-disappear-deport-ice.html

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/us-rwanda-relocates-iraqi-refugee-omar-ameen

https://news.azpm.org/s/100806-us-citizen-detained-for-10-days-by-immigration-officials-may-not-have-known-what-he-was-signing/

https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1914393644766843386

https://bsky.app/profile/juddlegum.bsky.social/post/3lni7mlxow22c

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/musk-bessent-trump-white-house-irs

https://news.azpm.org/p/news-articles/2025/4/18/224512-us-citizen-in-arizona-detained-by-immigration-officials-for-10-days/

https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/21/feds-blame-u-s-citizen-for-his-arrest-under-suspended-immigration-law/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/21/doge-musk-trump-federal-employees-emails/

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-doge-b2736753.html
https://insideevs.com/news/753730/tesla-insurance-vandalism-elon-musk/

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tesla-earnings-show-anti-musk-backlash-damaged-bottom/story?id=121008566&cid=social_twitter_abcn

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/busiest-us-ports-see-big-drop-in-chinese-freight-vessel-traffic.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/peter-navarro-the-economist-who-has-outsmarted-elon-musk-and-has-the-ear-of-donald-trump

https://archive.ph/v8Vp1

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/trump-economy-tariffs-china-powell

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