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Behind the Bastards

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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.2025 iHeartMedia, Inc. © Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from iHeartMedia Ciencias Sociales Mundial Política y Gobierno
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  • It Could Happen Here Weekly 194

    It Could Happen Here Weekly 194
    Aug 9 2025
    All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - Anti-War Movements feat. Andrew - Aid as a Tool of War in Gaza feat. Dana El Kurd - Mapping Border Deaths - Dogwhistle Politics and Nazi Code Hunting - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #28 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone Sources/Links: Anti-War Movements feat. Andrew Anarchist Encyclopedia by Sebastien Faure et al https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-herod-the-weakness-of-a-politics-of-protest https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jeff-shantz-p-j-lilley-striking-against-the-work-war-machine Aid as a Tool of War in Gaza feat. Dana El Kurd Oxfam statement about Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - https://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/more-than-100-organizations-are-sounding-the-alarm-to-allow-lifesaving-aid-into-gaza/ Fogbow in Uganda and Sudan - https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations/2025/06/16/fogbow-operations-south-sudan-raise-red-flags-aid-private-sector Bezalel Smotrich’s “Decisive Plan” - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/09/israel-leaders-palestinian-territories-bezalel-smotrich-gaza-7-october Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini on dismantling UNRWA - https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/notes/unrwa-may-be-forced-stop-saving-lives-gaza-will-world-let-happen NPR report on famine in Gaza - https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/25/g-s1-78968/what-does-it-take-for-a-famine-to-be-declared-in-gaza US Green Beret on what he saw at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites - https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-26/ty-article/i-witnessed-war-crimes-in-gaza-u-s-veteran-and-former-ghf-worker-tells-bbc/00000198-47e0-d6be-a1bd-4ffd67f90000 Aljazeera op-ed by former UN official - https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/21/why-is-the-un-not-declaring-famine-in-gaza UN reporting on deaths at aid sites - https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165396 Dr. Nick Maynard on what he witnessed in Gaza - https://www.channel4.com/news/teenagers-being-shot-by-israeli-soldiers-british-surgeon-in-gaza Suppressing Dissent edited volume - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Suppressing-Dissent/Zaha-Hassan/9781836430971 Mapping Border Deaths https://nomoredeaths.org/migrant-death-mapping/ Dogwhistle Politics and Nazi Code Hunting https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/ https://files.libcom.org/files/[Mark_Fisher]_Capitalist_Realism_Is_There_no_Alte(BookZZ.org).pdf https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trumps-immigration-record-far-high-arrests-low-deportations-rcna217752 https://michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/ice-director-envisions-amazon-like-mass-deportation-system-prime-but-with-human-beings/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20p36e62gyo https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-refuses-us-military-flight-deporting-migrants-sources-say-2025-01-25/ https://bsky.app/profile/bishonentype.bsky.social/post/3luq3qktltc2n Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #28 https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/economy/tariff-more-expensive https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-hikes-india-tariffs-50-percent-buying-russian-oil-rcna223374 https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25 https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25#cme17o5l400003b6ns7mwdwnv https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-tariffs-latest-round-takes-effect-thursday-august-7-2025-rcna223461 https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25 https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/i-wont-humiliate-myself-brazils-president-sees-no-point-tariff-talks-with-trump-2025-08-06/ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/aug/05/yvette-cooper-small-boats-migrants-uk-france-home-office-uk-politics-live https://bsky.app/profile/yougov.co.uk/post/3lvnr5fixc22l https://www.facebook.com/EpiscopalNY/ https://apnews.com/article/florida-immigration-alligator-alcatraz-27fbae217427be730f589323df7cf656 https://sam.gov/opp/53dc2fa997954c1d8acf8888fd8f0b56/view https://bi2technologies.com/service/iris/ https://www.cbs42.com/business/press-releases/cision/20250519NE91508/bi2-technologies-and-support-our-sheriffs-foundation-partner-with-singlecare-to-create-sheriff-rx/ https://www.secureidnews.com/news-item/el-paso-sheriff-to-use-iris-scanners/?ref=404media.co https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CMSW25P00000040_7012_-NONE-_-NONE- https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CTD025FR0000036_7012_NNG15SC82B_8000 https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CMSD25P00000047_7012_-NONE-_-NONE- https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_...
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    3 h y 25 m
  • Part Two: Pete Hegseth's Fascist Book 'American Crusade'

    Part Two: Pete Hegseth's Fascist Book 'American Crusade'
    Aug 7 2025

    Robert and Jamie learn how Pete Hegseth thinks Islam works, and discuss his plan to purge the U.S. of undesirables.

    Sources:

    Pete Hegseth: Police report lays out details, timeline of sexual assault allegation : NPR

    Pete Hegseth paid $50,000 to a woman alleging 2017 sexual assault | CNN Politics

    Pete Hegseth’s Secret History | The New Yorker

    Scholars Say White Supremacists Chanting 'Deus Vult' Got History Wrong : NPR

    Historian: Crusader motto "Deus vult" is a myth - english.katholisch.de

    Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war crimes case - The Washington Post

    "Five Ways Christian Families Are Under Attack" Pastor Chris Durkin

    The Crusades, the first holy war | Submission.org - Your best source for Submission (Islam)

    These brave Afghans helped the U.S. after 9/11. Now the U.S. wants to deport them.

    Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war crimes case - The Washington Post

    An Appointment in Samarra | National Review

    Republican Hegseth is out of U.S. Senate race. For good.

    Pete Hegseth and His ‘Battle Cry’ for a New Christian Crusade - The New York Times

    Trump Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth’s books foreground anti-Muslim rhetoric | Trump administration | The Guardian

    Pete Hegseth: Faith, Family, Freedom, and the American Mind | Nashville Christian Family Magazine

    What the firestorm over Rep. Omar’s remarks says about anti-Semitism in America | PBS News

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    1 h y 25 m
  • Part One: Pete Hegseth's Fascist Book 'American Crusade'

    Part One: Pete Hegseth's Fascist Book 'American Crusade'
    Aug 5 2025

    Robert sits down with Jamie Loftus to talk about Pete Hegseth's life, times and horrible 2020 book.

    Sources:

    Pete Hegseth: Police report lays out details, timeline of sexual assault allegation : NPR

    Pete Hegseth paid $50,000 to a woman alleging 2017 sexual assault | CNN Politics

    Pete Hegseth’s Secret History | The New Yorker

    Scholars Say White Supremacists Chanting 'Deus Vult' Got History Wrong : NPR

    Historian: Crusader motto "Deus vult" is a myth - english.katholisch.de

    Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war crimes case - The Washington Post

    "Five Ways Christian Families Are Under Attack" Pastor Chris Durkin

    The Crusades, the first holy war | Submission.org - Your best source for Submission (Islam)

    These brave Afghans helped the U.S. after 9/11. Now the U.S. wants to deport them.

    Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war crimes case - The Washington Post

    An Appointment in Samarra | National Review

    Republican Hegseth is out of U.S. Senate race. For good.

    Pete Hegseth and His ‘Battle Cry’ for a New Christian Crusade - The New York Times

    Trump Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth’s books foreground anti-Muslim rhetoric | Trump administration | The Guardian

    Pete Hegseth: Faith, Family, Freedom, and the American Mind | Nashville Christian Family Magazine

    What the firestorm over Rep. Omar’s remarks says about anti-Semitism in America | PBS News

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    1 h y 6 m

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Very informative. He goes into lots of details about each topic. It's so good although it's also hard to listen to at times when you realize how horrible people can be. Robert does a very good job.

Love this podcast

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Love this podcast, but the co-host reiterating all of these horrific behaviors of poisoned people harming themselves and laughing so hard you can barely understand him is disgusting. These citizens were poisoned with lsd as an experiment. Jumping out a window and breaking your legs..... Then sprinting isn't funny, and laughing at instances over and over about it is pretty abhorrent.

Co-host is an absolute waste

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flawless intro. masterful. further research into Oprah's ghoulish troupe. I also suggest the Dr Oz and Dr Phil episodes.

Always delivers horribly wonderful tales...

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love these guys, always funny & informative. all the bad reviews need a super soaker full of piss

Amazing!

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History is fascinating thing, and often it's the worst aspects of it that makes it so. Robert Evans is both captivating and delighting in contrast with his subject matter. His enthusiasm is often joined by the various guests he has on his show. I think the thing that is most appreciable about it is how even though it is difficult, he often finds a sliver lining or a grave lesson that we can take from each point in person or group he discusses, and that alone and often gives me the inspiration I need to make it through my days, and hope to emulate in my also gaping knowledge of some of the worst aspects of humans and their histories.

Behind the Bastards is the Harbinger we all need

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Want to know how we got here? Find out how evil has evolved and rehashed itself to be the thinly veiled cryptofascists in power today!

Added bonus, current human turds.

A deep reveal about the worst people

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An incredibly informative podcast that is nonetheless relentlessly disheartening because the monsters are real people who mostly never got shot in the face by the heroes of the story because God doesn't care about justice.

Best Monster of the Week podcast out there.

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I adore Robert Evans for one reason, and a logical step. Reason being: His incredibly deep research that leaves no stone unturned*. The logical step is if I have questions after being bombarded with brilliantly acquired, and dressed, information, it's either specific enough to Google-sink on it, or broad enough that Robert offers his sources with mini reviews.

Learning is God and Doctor Sheriff Reverend Barbert Evans is a Prophet.

*or he tells you the jist and offers resources

The Reason I Adore Robert Evans

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Friends introduced me to this podcast because of my related line of work. I appreciate the sheer amount of research that goes into each subject and the variety of guests brought on to discuss them (although it would be cool to hear more from folks in the field rather than comedians w/ their own podcasts). I also like that each episode has its own list of sources so fans are given a headstart with their personal reading/research.

It sucks that such evil exists in the world, enough so to the point a show like this could run the rest of Evans's life if he so chose. But it's good that people like him are doing the work to expose current & historical public figures... it's a bonus that the information is presented in an entertaining manner without sacrificing journalistic integrity. Evans is also respectful and routinely reminds listeners of the gravity/horrors of each subject. This show isn't exploitative like so many others in this genre (true crime/history/current affairs) and although he often provides statistics or details, Evans reminds listeners that victims are real people. The narratives never feel like trauma porn and some episodes even end with a call-to-action for listeners to get involved, do further research, spread information, etc. Overall, a solid casual listen that I believe is worth a subscribe.

In-depth Profiles of Evil People without

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A genuinely funny and well-put-together podcast that goes into detail about some of the worst human beings in history. Robert Evans is an excellent host with impressive bonafides when it comes to being able to talk about the horrors humans can inflict on each other, and some of his guests (like the illimitable Prop G) are also excellent human beings in their own right.

Also, Robert's coverage of the 2020 summer protests got me involved doing community work of my own. The perfect anodyne to the sense of powerlessness and dread the world can inflict on you is loving your fellow human beings, and that's the best lesson I got from this show.

And if it need be said, it would not happen without Sophie Lichterman, who deserves a ton of credit for masterfully herding cats.

Prepare to be depressed!

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