Synopsis
Theres 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 Blackwaters insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Husseins side career as a trashy romance novelist.
Episodes
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The Bastard Who Executed The Top Nazis
07/01/2020 Duration: 01h17minRobert is joined by Courtney Kocak to discuss John C. Woods, the American tasked with executing the Nazi High Command.FOOTNOTES: MEET THE LOUSY KANSAS HANGMAN WHO EXECUTED NAZIS Nazi executioner from Wichita found fame, but died his own mysterious death Sunday Express ARMED FORCES: Hangman's End JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES: Night without Dawn Left Hanging: John C. Woods and the botching of the Nuremberg Executions John C. Woods Purim Fest 1946: The tale of Julius Streicher The Hangmen The Murder of Allied Airmen The Nuremberg Ten Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The MDMA Cook Who Tried To Commit Genocide
02/01/2020 Duration: 01h29minRobert is joined by Billy Wayne Davis to discuss Woulter Basson, a chemical weapons engineer with a hard on for racial extermination. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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John Brown: Terrorist, Hero or Terrorist Hero?
24/12/2019 Duration: 01h24minHappy Bastards Holiday Episode! Robert is joined in studio by Anderson's mom and executive producer, Sophie Lichterman to discuss John Brown.FOOTNOTES: John Brown: America’s First Terrorist? John Brown Trial (1859) The Trial Of John Brown John Brown’s Day of Reckoning John Brown's Last Speech Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Part Two: The Idiot Who Made, And Destroyed, WeWork
19/12/2019 Duration: 01h26minRobert is joined by Dan and Jordan from Knowledge Fight to continue the bastard who created WeWork. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Part One: The Idiot Who Made, And Destroyed, WeWork
17/12/2019 Duration: 01h23minRobert is joined by Dan and Jordan from Knowledge Fight to discuss the story of how one man made a billion dollars for no discernible reason at all. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The School That Raped Everbody
12/12/2019 Duration: 01h25minIn episode 100, Robert is joined by Miles Gray to discuss a school made for child molesters.FOOTNOTES: Odenwald school principal reveals horror abuse reports More sexual abuse victims at schools in Hesse Odenwaldschule board resigns in wake of abuse claims The politics of progressive education: The odenwaldschule in Nazi Germany Decades of Molestation Haunt Odenwaldschule Male Intergenerational Intimacy German principal admits school abuse stories ignored Abuse scandal hits elite progressive school Pedo-Sexuality How the Left Took Things Too Far Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Part Three: Jerry Falwell: Founder of the Religious Right
10/12/2019 Duration: 49minRobert is joined again by Sofiya Alexandra for our conclusion on Jerry Falwell. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Part Two: Jerry Falwell: Founder of the Religious Right
05/12/2019 Duration: 50minRobert is joined again by Sofiya Alexandra to continue discussing Jerry Falwell. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Part One: Jerry Falwell: Founder of the Religious Right
03/12/2019 Duration: 01h13minIn Episode 99, Robert is joined by Sofiya Alexandra to discuss Jerry Falwell.FOOTNOTES: 200 Liberty students attend protest after new Falwell revelations Christian activist group demands criminal probe of Jerry Falwell Jr. Exclusive: Falwell blasted Liberty student as 'retarded,' police chief as 'half-wit' in emails Tax Return Falwell Refutes Allegations Michael Cohen Stopped “Racy” Photos From Leaking How Liberty University Built a Billion-Dollar Empire Online Inside Liberty University's 'culture of fear' President of Liberty University Falwell: blame abortionists, feminists and gays Larry Flynt: My friend, Jerry Falwell Larry Flynt: The trouble with Larry Jerry Falwell, the Rise of the Moral Majority, and the 1980 Election The Social Impact Of AIDS In The United States. The Real Origins of the Religious Right God's Right Hand: How Jerry Falwell Made God a Republican and Baptized the American Right Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for priva
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The Terrible Secret of Sea Monkeys (Live Show)
26/11/2019 Duration: 01h50minIn Episode 98, Robert is joined live in Portland by Billy Wayne Davis for an episode about sea monkeys.FOOTNOTES: The Shocking True Tale Of The Mad Genius Who Invented Sea-Monkeys A Petri Dish For Racism Supremacists’ Message Spreading Through Nation, Butler Says The Sea Monkeys and the White Supremacist CONTRASTS OF A PRIVATE PERSONA From brine to online: Sea-Monkeys for your PC HITLER AND THE SEA-MONKEYS Monkey Business To their adoring legions of fans, Sea-Monkeys are the ultimate in Kitsch. The Battle Over the Sea-Monkey Fortune The Bizarre Story of Anti-Jewish Jew Harold von Braunhut Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Part Two: Kaiser Wilhelm: The Saddest Warlord In History
21/11/2019 Duration: 01h03minIn Part Two, Robert is joined again by Jamie Loftus to continue discussing Kaiser Wilhelm. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Part One: Kaiser Wilhelm: The Saddest Warlord In History
19/11/2019 Duration: 01h21minIn Episode 97, Robert is joined by Jamie Loftus to discuss Kaiser Wilhelm.FOOTNOTES: Kaiser Wilhelm HOW KAISER WILHELM II CHANGED EUROPE FOREVER The Kaiser and the First World War What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire? Kaiser Wilhelm Ii: A Concise Life Kaiser Wilhelm II: Germany's Last Emperor The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Man Trying to Resurrect 8chan (Starring 8chan's Founder)
14/11/2019 Duration: 01h35min8chan, the website at the center of an epidemic of mass shootings, is on the cusp of resurrection thanks to one man: Jim Watkins. Robert talks with with the site's reformed founder, Fredrick, about a modern bastard.FOOTNOTES: FAQ - 8chan Full transcript: Ars interviews 8chan founder Fredrick Brennan THE MANILA TIMES | FEBRUARY 18, 2019 Absolutely everything you need to know to understand 4chan, the Internet’s own bogeyman Statement from Jim Watkins, owner of 8chan, on the atrocity in New Zealand. The Weird, Dark History of 8chan Committee on Homeland Security 8chan Inquiry Meet the man keeping 8chan, the world's most vile website, alive Sorry for the inconvenience, common sense will prevail Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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An Update on our Old Pal Jeffrey Epstein
12/11/2019 Duration: 55minIn Episode 95, Robert is joined by Dan O'Brien for an update on the Jeffrey Epstein saga. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Part Two: The Bastard Who Invented The Lobotomy
07/11/2019 Duration: 49minIn part two, Robert is joined again by Daniel Van Kirk to continue discussing Walter Freeman. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Part One: The Bastard Who Invented The Lobotomy
05/11/2019 Duration: 58minIn Episode 94, Robert is joined by Daniel Van Kirk to discuss Walter Freeman, the father of lobotomies.FOOTNOTES: The Lobotomist Walter Freeman: The Father of the Lobotomy Rosemary Kennedy: the sad life of President Kennedy's younger sister Rosemary Kennedy: Telling the story of a forgotten daughter Inside Rosemary Kennedy's Disastrous Lobotomy – And How Her Father Chose Her Doctor Walter Freeman: The Father of the Lobotomy He was bad, so they put an ice pick in his brain... Joe Kennedy, Sr sought secret deal with De Valera on Irish ports during the War Mental Illness Is On the Rise in the U.S. for a Frustrating Reason The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness My Lobotomy Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Ma' Barker: A Doting Mother And Gangster Overlord
31/10/2019 Duration: 01h08minIn Episode 93, Robert is joined by Emily Yoshida (Night Call Podcast) to discuss Ma Barker, the notorious leader of the Barker Gang.FOOTNOTES: Barker/Karpis Gang The day 'Ma' Barker was slain in Florida TOWN WHERE MA BARKER DIED SURE THAT ALLIGATOR DID HER IN O'Connor Layover Agreement Crooks’ haven: The gangster era in St. Paul ‘Pretty Boy’ Falls Pretty Boy Floyd's Life, Crimes Retold Ma Barker: America's Most Wanted Mother The Terrible Rise (and Subsequent Spectacular Fall) of the Barker/Karpis Gang Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Voices of Revolution
30/10/2019 Duration: 01h07minSpecial Bonus Minisode: The collected unedited audio of the interviews from 'The World is Burning.' Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The World is Burning: Your Guide to the Current Uprisings
29/10/2019 Duration: 55minIn Episode 92, Robert gives listeners a guide to the uprisings all over the world right now.FOOTNOTES: Catalonia's bid for independence from Spain explained Hong Kong is exporting its protest techniques around the world Wildfires blaze through Lebanon while emergency aircraft remain grounded Why are Lebanon's firefighting helicopters grounded? Lebanon protests: Huge crowds on streets as government acts Lebanon’s government proposes reforms as huge protests hit their fifth day A world on fire: Here are all the major protests happening around the globe right now Egyptian authorities threaten to 'decisively confront' protesters Curfew Tweet ‘This Is Ethnic Cleansing’: A Dispatch from Kurdish Syria China offers support to Spanish government amid Catalonia crisis Pro-independence protest in front of Chinese consulate in solidarity with Hong Kong Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam takes to Facebook to reach out to public, while strongly defending police force and questioning ‘puzzling’ calls for its disbandment What’s hap
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Part Two: The Bastard Who Invented Homeopathy
24/10/2019 Duration: 01h07minIn Part Two, Robert is joined again by Billy Wayne Davis to continue discussing Samuel Hahnemann and homeopathy. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.