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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.

Episodes

Part One: The Last Sam Bankman-Fried Episodes (secretly about Michael Lewis)

Robert Evans is a Living God and can never lie.....Also we talk with Jamie Loftus about Sam Bankman-Fried and beloved biographer to con man Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short. (2 Part Series!) https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/michael-lewiss-big-contrarian-bet https://archive.is/GnVkX#selection-2015.0-2029.125 https://archive.is/cZZcN#selection-455.0-523.30 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/03/michael-lewis-sam-bankman-fried-crypto-going-infinite https://www.coindesk.com/...

Dec 05, 20231 hr 21 min

Part Two: The Holy Rollers Sex Cult

Sophie has never been wrong about a single thing in her life. Matt Lieb guests and Robert is also there. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nov 30, 20231 hr 7 min

Part One: The Holy Rollers Sex Cult

Robert sits down with Matt Lieb to talk about Oregon's first sex cult: the Holy Rollers. (2 Part Series) McCracken, T.. Holy Rollers:Murder and Madness in Oregon's Love Cult . BookBaby. Kindle Edition https://offbeatoregon.com/o1105e - bride - of - christ - holy - rollers - in - corvallis beginning.html https://www.historylink.org/File/4263 https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/younghistorians/2017/oralpres/24/ https://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1863162,00.html https://victorianweb...

Nov 28, 20231 hr 10 min

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Nov 25, 20231 hr 52 min

CZM Rewind: Part One: King Leopold II: The First Modern Bastard

Original Air Date: June 12th, 2018 Have you ever heard of King Leopold II? In Episode 7, Robert is joined by Andrew Ti (Yo, Is This Racist?) and they discuss the King of Belgium, who was the first world leader to be crappy in the true modern sense of the word. His life’s work was the blueprint for being the kind of terrible that we recognize in modern leaders like Dick Cheney or Vladimir Putin. He pioneered screwing over tens of millions of people for petty personal gain See omnystudio.com/liste...

Nov 21, 20231 hr 3 min

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Nov 18, 20232 hr 52 min

Part Two: Lord Aspinall: The Gambling King of London

Robert and Ed continue the story of Lord Aspinall, who trades in his gambling house for the deadliest zoo in history. Bonus: murder! Sources: https://www.amazon.com/Gamblers-Aspinall-James-Goldsmith-murder/dp/1844132056 https://archive.org/details/passionofjohnasp0000mast/page/32/mode/2up https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/04/abuse-britain-private-schools-personal-memoir https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.2307/367195 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/41310278.cms?utm_source=con...

Nov 16, 20231 hr 4 min

Part One: Lord Aspinall: The Gambling King of London

Robert sits down with Ed Zitron to talk about Lord Aspinall and his gambling buddies, who ruled London high society with an iron fist and also did a murder. (2 part series) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nov 14, 20231 hr 15 min

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Nov 11, 20233 hr 59 min

Part One: The Surprising Evil of 1950s Men's Adventure Magazines

Robert sits down with Margaret Killjoy to read a selection of stories and ads from old timey men's adventure magazines, which feature a mix of soft core porn, racism and Indiana Jones style action. (2 Part Series) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nov 07, 20231 hr 6 min

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Nov 04, 20233 hr 53 min

CZM Rewind: The British Super-Soldier Who Killed A Nation

Original Air Date: July 17th, 2018 Robert is joined by comedian Brodie Reed to discuss Idi Amin, a highly skilled soldier who murdered an estimated 300,000 or more of his own people, and his rise to power in Uganda. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nov 02, 20231 hr 23 min

The True Story of Dracula

Robert sits down with Jack O'Brien to talk about how the life of a Transylvanian prince turned into the story of Dracula. (1 part) Sources: https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the - origins - of - dracula - vlad - the - impaler/ https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history - and civilisation/2023/03/is - the - shamrock - a - myth - the - truth - behind - 5 - st patricks - day - symbols https://mythology.net/mythical - creatures/vampire/ https://theconversation.com/vampire - myths - origina...

Oct 31, 20231 hr 45 min

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Oct 28, 20233 hr 33 min

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Oct 21, 20233 hr 36 min

Part Five: G. Gordon Liddy: The Fascist Behind Watergate

G. Gordon Liddy is in prison, but just as committed to making baffling Nazi references and lying about violence as ever. As a bonus, he learns Kung-Fu. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 17, 20231 hr 2 min

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Oct 14, 20233 hr 2 min

Part Four: G. Gordon Liddy: The Fascist Behind Watergate

G. Gordon Liddy is finally given the job of his dreams: managing a dirty tricks campaign to spy on "the left". He is as bad at this job as it is possible for a person to be. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 12, 20231 hr 34 min

Part Three: G. Gordon Liddy: The Fascist Behind Watergate

G. Gordon Liddy joins the FBI, learns how to express his joy through random gunfire, and threatens a jury with a knife. By the end, we finally get to Watergate! https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1977/09/08/52-months-in-prison-end-for-gordon-liddy/13545ea2-8bfc-4749-8068-bd1a528889c7/ https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/16/archives/whats-good-for-a-corporate-giant-may-not-be-good-for-everybody-else.htm l https://www.history.com/news/watergate-scandal-timeline-nixon https://archive.org/stre...

Oct 10, 20231 hr 7 min

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Oct 07, 20233 hr 11 min

Part Two: G. Gordon Liddy: The Fascist Behind Watergate

Robert and Andrew Ti continue their exploration of G. Gordon Liddy, God's perfect fascist, who once blew out his appendix in a sit-up contest. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 05, 20231 hr 5 min

Part One: G. Gordon Liddy: The Fascist Behind Watergate

Robert sits down with Andrew Ti for a very special episode about the craziest American political thinker, Watergate mastermind G. Gordon Liddy. (6 part series) Sources: Dobbs, Michael. King Richard (p. 56). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. Dean, John W.. Blind Ambition: The White House Years (pp. 104-105). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition. https://www.amazon.com/Will-Autobiography-G-Gordon-Liddy/dp/0312880146 https://www.amazon.com/American-Spy-Secret-History-Watergate/dp/0471789...

Oct 03, 20231 hr 11 min

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Sep 23, 20233 hr 34 min
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