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

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.

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  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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Robert tells Ed about the Sun King's very sad death from butt rot and how his great grandson grew up raised by the insane party house of death that now controlled all of French politics.

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In honor of the American oligarchs trying to form their own aristocracy, Robert and Ed Zitron look back at the court of Versailles, how it was formed as a sort of frat house pentagon that broke the brains of every subsequent generation of French nobles.

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March 1, 2025 201 mins

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

  1. The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal

  2. How Trump is Changing Trans Healthcare

  3. Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips

  4. Democr...
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Bruno Bettelheim has now made it to the United States, where he executes his elaborate plan to fix "emotionally disturbed" children by making a nice concentration camp.

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Robert tells Allison Raskin about Bruno Bettelheim, a concentration camp survivor who revolutionized child mental health care by trying to create a GOOD concentration camp for small children.

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February 22, 2025 145 mins

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

  1. Coffee Unions Spread to Peet's

  2. Defining Anarchism feat. Andrew

  3. Mutuality feat. Andrew

  4. Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #4

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February 20, 2025 57 mins

Robert explains how Tony Alamo became a jacket maker to the stars, providing Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton and others with fashion via child labor. Also, lots of sex crimes.

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February 18, 2025 59 mins

Robert sits down with Samantha McVey to talk about Tony Alamo, the evangelical cult leader who enslaved children to make denim vests for the stars.

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February 15, 2025 178 mins

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

  1. Why Trump Wants to Conquer Canada

  2. How the Federal Government Fell

  3. Constitutional Law Professor Reacts

  4. What's Happening To Gaza Under Trump: An Update wi...

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Robert tells Brandie how Richard Doty crafted an elaborate alien ruse to destroy Paul Bennewitz's mind, all with the goal of hiding the U.S. government's drone and stealth bomber programs.

Spying, disinformation accusations follow UFO figure Rick Doty — an exclusive interview – Mystery Wire

INTERVIEW: Defiant Rick Doty defends against 'liar' claims — punk rock and UFOs

Mirage Men: UFO researcher Mark Pilkington on...

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This week we tell the harrowing story of Paul Bennewitz, a simple nerdy engineer who spotted evidence of covert Air Force weapons programs and was gaslit into believing they were alien spacecraft.

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February 8, 2025 222 mins

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

  1. The Internationalists Fighting Fascism in Burma

  2. (Maybe Don't) Read Siege

  3. How Trump is Killing Science (And You)

  4. Greenwashing Genocide In Artsakh

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Robert and Molly continue their exploration of Venusian health science which apparently involves eating nothing but raw fruit.

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