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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.
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Episodes

It Could Happen Here Weekly 215

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - AI Robot Slaves and other CES Miracles - Best and Worst (non AI) Products at CES - What’s Happening in Iran? - What Happened in 2025 with Andrew - Executive Disorder: Portland Shooting, the FED, Visa Pause & Turtle Island Liberation Front 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 Podc...

Jan 17, 20263 hr 27 min

It Could Happen Here Weekly 214

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - 2025 Q&A - 2026 Predictions - Trump Kidnaps Venezuelan President Maduro - Inside Our AI Future: Report from CES - Executive Disorder: Minneapolis ICE Shooting, Maduro, Iran & Aleppo Update 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 s...

Jan 10, 20263 hr 28 min

CZM Rewind: Part One: How Cigarettes Invented Everything

Robert is joined by James Stout to discuss the Tobacco Industry. (2 part series) https://daily.jstor.org/a - brief - history - of - tobacco - in - america/ https://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris - the - great - the - egyptian - hercules/james - buchanan duke - father - of - the - modern - cigarette - by - william - kremer/comment - page - 1/ https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/eaa/tobacco.html https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/eaa/duke - doc.html https://sites.m...

Jan 06, 20261 hr 12 min

CZM Rewind: How The Zizians Went Full On Death Cult & The Zizian Murder Spree (or Exactly How Harry Potter Fanfic Killed A Border Patrol Agent)

Part Three: 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. Part Four: 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. Sources: https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-ziz-76c100180509 ht...

Jan 01, 20262 hr 26 min

CZM Rewind: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult & The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Part One: 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. Part Two: 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 ba...

Dec 30, 20252 hr 30 min

Part Three: X-Mas Special: The Heroes Who Ended The Slave Trade

We conclude the story of how Britain ended its role in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Against the State by James Stout available for preorder here: https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 25, 20251 hr 1 min

Part Two: X-Mas Special: The Heroes Who Ended The Slave Trade

In this episode we introduce two great heroes: freed slave and adventurer Olaudah Equiano, and crusading abolitionist lawyer Granville Sharp. Against the State by James Stout available for preorder here: https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 24, 202552 min

Part One: X-Mas Special: The Heroes Who Ended The Slave Trade

In our annual holiday reverse episode, Robert introduces James Stout to the heroes who fought to end the Atlantic Slave trade. (3 part series) Against the State by James Stout available for preorder here: https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 23, 20251 hr 19 min

It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - The Tech Fascist Takeover of the Media - Strikes, Walkouts, and Union Busting At Nestlé's Blue Bottle - Grenada with Andrew, Pt. 1 - Grenada with Andrew, Pt. 2 - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #46 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 Medi...

Dec 20, 20253 hr 17 min

It Could Happen Here Weekly 212

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - Arab Israeli Peace and New Visions for Gaza feat. Dana El Kurd - Oops All Gambling, Political Betting Joins the News - Natalism feat. Andrew - The Insurrectionist Running to Replace Nancy Mace - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #45 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 ...

Dec 13, 20253 hr 8 min

Part Five: The Men Who Might Have Killed Us All

Robert tells Margaret about the giant meeting the military held to tell everyone how they planned to kill the world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 11, 20251 hr 7 min

Part Four: The Men Who Might Have Killed Us All

ICBMs made it possible to end the world in 15 minutes or less. Robert tells Margaret about the nightmarishly incompetent first draft of the Minuteman, a nuclear weapons system almost perfectly designed to end the world on accident. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 10, 202548 min

Part Three: The Men Who Might Have Killed Us All

Robert continues the harrowing story of the men who decided we should be ready to rain nuclear hellfire on everyone at a moments notice forever. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 09, 20251 hr 8 min

It Could Happen Here Weekly 211

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - Darién Gap: One Year Later | Part One: After The Jungle - Darién Gap: One Year Later | Part Two: To Be Called By No Name - Darién Gap: One Year Later | Part Three: The American Nightmare - Darién Gap: One Year Later | Part Four: When Someone Needs Help - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #44 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available ...

Dec 06, 20253 hr 38 min

Part Two: The Men Who Might Have Killed Us All

Robert Evans: Robert and Margaret discuss the birth of the first atom bomb and how delusions about the use of air power made it a savior for a certain kind of U.S Army Air Corps officer. Sophie Lichterman: She's sick more often than anyone I know See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 04, 20251 hr 19 min

Part One: The Men Who Might Have Killed Us All

Robert sits down with Margaret Killjoy to talk about how mankind went from building one atomic bomb to building tens of thousands of them, permanently 15 minutes or less away from ending all life on earth. (5 Part Series) Sources: https://warontherocks.com/2018/09/a-horrifying-and-believable-path-to-nuclear-war-with-north-korea/ https://mwi.westpoint.edu/inside-frighteningly-plausible-nuclear-attack-scenario/ https://sci-hub.ru/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10736700.2018.1513920 h...

Dec 02, 20251 hr 15 min

It Could Happen Here Weekly 210

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - Requiem for Stop Cop City - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #43 - CZM Rewind: My RNC Grindr Adventure - CZM Rewind: Elon Musk Has Lost the Gamers 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 S...

Nov 29, 20253 hr 12 min

CZM Rewind: 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. Original Air Dates: 12.5.23 & 12.7.23 Sources: 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-...

Nov 27, 20252 hr 45 min

CZM Rewind: How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World & The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

Part One: Robert sits down with Jamie Loftus to talk about the collapse of one of the great financial criminals of our time. Original Air Date: 11.22.22 Part Two: Everyone's favorite crypto conman is back behind bars! Robert sits down with Jamie Loftus to talk about his plans to buy an island and make he and his friends living gods. Original Air Date: 8.15.23 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nov 25, 20253 hr

It Could Happen Here Weekly 209

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - The Challenges Facing the Mamdani Administration - Nick Fuentes Explains Pornography to Tucker Carlson - The Conde Nast Union Busting Purge - Producing Knowledge on Palestine feat. Dana El Kurd - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #42 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...

Nov 22, 20253 hr 23 min

Part One: Behind the Bastards Live Show: The Ballad of Bo Gritz

Robert and Prop did a live show to raise money for the Portland Bail Fund. They discussed the life and times of Bo Gritz, a foundational right wing militia maniac. Sources: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/03/29/James-Bo-Gritz-the-Vietnam-War-veteran-who-slipped/7427417762000/ https://www.spike-team.com/home/origins/ https://time.com/archive/6857330/colonel-gritzs-dubious-mission/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/03/24/bo-gritz-story-is-fascinating-but-does-he-really-believe...

Nov 18, 202558 min

It Could Happen Here Weekly 208

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - Mamdani’s Victory: Winners, Losers, and Crashouts - A New Threat to Public Lands - The Pro Palestine Movement Two Years After Genocide feat. Dana El Kurd - The Mainstreaming of Nick Fuentes by the Coward Tucker Carlson - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #41 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,...

Nov 15, 20253 hr 49 min
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