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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 th...
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Part One: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia
Robert sits down with David Bell to tell the life story of MBS, the crown prince and ruler behind the scenes of the Saudi Kingdom.
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- AI Robot Slaves and other CES Miracles
- Best and...
Part Two: Behind the Bastards Q&A: 2026 Edition
Robert and Sophie continue to answer listener questions.
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Part One: Behind the Bastards Q&A: 2026 Edition
Happy New Year, Robert and Sophie sit down and answer listener questions.
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CZM Rewind: Part Two: How Cigarettes Invented Everything
Robert is joined again by James Stout to continue to discuss the Tobacco Industry.
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CZM Rewind: Part One: How Cigarettes Invented Everything
Robert is joined by James Stout to discuss the Tobacco Industry.
(2 part series)
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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...
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...
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.
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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.
Ag...
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)
Part Two: Lord Haw-Haw: Hitler's Favorite Anglo Propagandist
Padraig explains how Lord Haw-Haw became an agent of the Third Reich...and how it all came crashing down for him at the end of the war.
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Part One: Lord Haw-Haw: Hitler's Favorite Anglo Propagandist
Robert sits down with Pádraig O Ruairc to learn about a bastard from across the pond who threw his lot in with Hitler during WW2.
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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.
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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,...
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.
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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...
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...
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 Le...
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.
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Part Two: Behind the Bastards Live Show: The Ballad of Bo Gritz
Robert concludes the story of Bo Gritz with his unhinged attempts to rescue POWs from Vietnam, his political ambitions, and disgraceful downfall.
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 mi...
Part Two: Thomas Thistlewood: Slave Plantation Owner and Diarist
Robert talks about legitimately some of the worst stuff we'll ever discuss on this show. Oh my god, you guys
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Part One: Thomas Thistlewood: Slave Plantation Owner and Diarist
Robert walks his former colleague Titi Lee through the life and times of Thomas Thistlewood, a slave owner and monster of the first order who kept a d...
Part Two: Peter Thiel and the Anti-Christ
Robert answers the big question: who does Peter Thiel think the antichrist might be? And we learn about the time he considered cryonically freezing hi...
Part One: Peter Thiel and the Anti-Christ
Robert sits down with Sarah Marshall to discuss just what Peter Thiel believes about the antichrist and who he thinks is destroying the world.
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Part Two: Bishop David E. Taylor: Jesus Christ's Best Friend
David E. Taylor's cult truly had it all: enslaved workers using plagiarism machines to generate AI ads to rob cancer patients, welfare fraud, and hein...
Part One: Bishop David E. Taylor: Jesus Christ's Best Friend
Robert sits down with Jake Hanrahan to discuss the recently busted cult / call center of Bishop David Taylor's, Jesus Christ's Best Friend.
Part Two: Daryl Gates: The Man Who Invented SWAT Teams and DARE
Robert concludes the story of Daryl Gates with his founding of SWAT and insane reaction to the LA Riots.
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Part One: Daryl Gates: The Man Who Invented SWAT Teams and DARE
Robert sits down with Bridget Todd to discuss influential LA police chief Daryl Gates, the Godfather of militarized policing.
(2 Part Series)
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- CZM Rewind: Indigenous Peoples Day
- CZM Rewind: Ti...
Part Two: That Time Volkswagen Operated a Slave Plantation in Brazil
We conclude the heinous tale of Volkswagen's slave plantation in Brazil.
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Part One: That Time Volkswagen Operated a Slave Plantation in Brazil
Robert sits down with Maggie Mae Fish to discuss how Volkswagen went from Hitler's favorite auto-company to the owner of a slave plantation in the Ama...
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- ICE’s Ethnic Cleansing in Chicago
- The Riyadh Come...
Robert and Cody Read Ben Shapiro's New Book
Robert and Cody Johnston sit down to read Ben Shapiro's latest non-fiction book, which seems to be based entirely on him not understanding how lions w...
Introducing: SAD OLIGARCH Season 2
Hello, Behind the Bastards Listeners! We want to share a new show you might enjoy, SAD OLIGARCH Season 2!
About the show: Since January 2022, do...
How The FBI Botched the 2001 Anthrax Scare (Part 2)
Robert discusses the mysterious 2001 anthrax attacks and how the FBI, without any real evidence, decided to destroy a man's life over it.
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- SEIU 1000 Union Rep of the IE Reports Live from the Front...
How The FBI Botched the 2001 Anthrax Scare (Part 1)
Robert goes through the colorful life and backstory of future Trump administration official Steven Hatfill, who went from Rhodesian military volunteer...
Part One: How The FBI Botched The Olympic Park Bombing
Robert begins our series of episodes about two of the most infamous fuck ups in US law enforcement history, starting with the Atlanta Olympic Park Bom...