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Behind the Bastards

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcastswww.iheart.com
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

Part One: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 27, 202541 min

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May 24, 20253 hr 44 min

Part Two: Carl Schmitt: The Mind Behind Modern Fascism

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 22, 20251 hr 19 min

Introducing: Away Days Podcast

Hi, Behind the Bastards Fans! We want to share a new show, Away Days: Reporting from the Underbelly.  About the show: Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of society.  We’re compassionately documenting the underground without watering it down or editorially obscuring it. This is independent journalism with no filter. Real, raw, and ugly. Journalist Jake Hanrahan, the host and creator of Away Days has spent th...

May 21, 20253 min

Part One: Carl Schmitt: The Mind Behind Modern Fascism

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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 20, 202556 min

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.  The Irish Far Right/Neo-Nazi Movement Trans Fiction, Trans Sports The Refugees Fleeing South Africa's "White Genocide" The Gang Reviews Andor Season 2, Ep. 7-9 Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #16 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 Z...

May 17, 20254 hr 3 min

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May 10, 20253 hr 38 min

Part One: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

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.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 06, 202559 min

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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 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 M...

May 03, 20253 hr 22 min

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

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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 29, 20251 hr 3 min

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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 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, searc...

Apr 26, 20253 hr 43 min

Part Two: What's New With Andrew Tate?

Robert explains the weird cult Andrew Tate created with a wizard and former pick up artist to rob young men and abuse women at scale. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 24, 20251 hr 3 min

Part One: What's New With Andrew Tate?

Why Was Andrew Tate allowed back in the U.S.? What's happening with all his court cases? Robert sits back down with Ian Johnson and Sophie Lichterman and explains what's happening with Tate's numerous charges, his latest criminal allegations, and his God awful taste in machetes. (2 Part Series....for now.) Sources: Gadget on X: "This one is VERY dramatic. https://t.co/4wByW3yQVx" / X Andrew Tate Is Trying to Use His Dying Grandma to Escape Romania Andrew Tate now under federal investigation in t...

Apr 22, 20251 hr

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.  When Care Workers Organize Behind Myanmar's Devastating Earthquake Trump's Concentration Camps in El Salvador How Strikes Build Democratic Workplaces  Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #12 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 ...

Apr 19, 20253 hr 24 min

CZM Rewind: The Andrew Tate Story (Part 3 & 4)

Robert and Sophie are joined by Cool Zone Media supervising producer, Ian Johnson to continue to discuss Andrew Tate.  Update series dropping next week! Includes Part 3 & 4 with less ad breaks. Better Offline & Weird Little Guys are nominated for this year’s Webby Awards! Get your votes in by April 17th! 🗳️🗳️🗳️ https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/individual-episode/business https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/individual-episode/crim...

Apr 17, 20252 hr 10 min

CZM Rewind: The Andrew Tate Story (Part 1 & 2)

Robert and Sophie are joined by Cool Zone Media supervising producer, Ian Johnson to discuss Andrew Tate, and the Mythopoetic Men's Movement. Includes Part 1 & 2 with less ad breaks. Update series dropping next week! Better Offline & Weird Little Guys are nominated for this year’s Webby Awards! Get your votes in by April 17th! 🗳️🗳️🗳️ https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/individual-episode/business https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/indiv...

Apr 15, 20251 hr 56 min

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Apr 12, 20252 hr 47 min

Part Two: Alfred Hugenberg: The Elon Musk of Weimar Germany

World War 1 has begun, and Robert walks Amanda through how Alfred Hugenberg bought up the German media to make the case the the war should go on for ever, and then how he backed the Nazi party and ushered Hitler into power when that didn't go well for some reason. Sources: The Pan German League by Barry Jackisch https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/ The Fateful Alliance by Hermann Beck https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-...

Apr 10, 20251 hr 20 min

Part One: Alfred Hugenberg: The Elon Musk of Weimar Germany

Robert sits down with Amanda Montell to talk about Alfred Hugenberg, a German industrialist who made Hitler's rise to power possible for some very familiar reasons. Sources: The Pan German League by Barry Jackisch https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/ The Fateful Alliance by Hermann Beck https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/weimar-germany/   https://corporatecitizen.in/issue3/corporate-history-mercedes-wa...

Apr 08, 20251 hr 14 min

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Apr 05, 20253 hr 6 min

How ICE Is Targeting Students for Deportation

Garrison and James discuss how a doxing campaign is targeting student visa and green card holders for alleged ties to pro-Palestine protests. Sources:  https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8   https://archive.ph/20250316111414/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university.html   https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/nyregion/columbia-student-kristi-noem-video.html   https://www.nytimes.c...

Apr 04, 202542 min

Part One: The Grifters Behind The Fake Autism 'Cure' Industry

Robert and Mangesh Hattikudur explore the birth of the "unorthodox biomedical movement", which is a fancy way of saying "fake doctors who poison children to cure Autism". https://tinyurl.com/Help-Myanmar freeburmarangers.org  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 01, 20251 hr 10 min

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Mar 29, 20253 hr 17 min

Part Two: How Tainted Human Blood Became A Major U.S. Export

Robert, who is looking better than ever these days wow what great hair, finishes telling Ben Bowlin the harrowing story of how the U.S. murdered thousands of our nation's closest friends and poisoned incarcerated people for a modest payout. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mar 27, 202549 min
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