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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 their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the…
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- Part Three: Christopher Columbus: Bringer of the Apocalypse
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- Part Two: Christopher Columbus: Bringer of the Apocalypse
- Part One: Christopher Columbus: Bringer of the Apocalypse
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- Part Four: Helena Blavatsky: the woman who inspired the Nazis, and Gwyneth Paltrow
- Part Three: Helena Blavatsky: the woman who inspired the Nazis, and Gwyneth Paltrow
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- Part Two: Helena Blavatsky: the woman who inspired the Nazis, and Gwyneth Paltrow
- Part One: Helena Blavatsky: the woman who inspired the Nazis, and Gwyneth Paltrow
- Introducing: Partition
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- Part Two: How the Roman Republic Became a Police State
- Part One: How the Roman Republic Became a Police State
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- Part Four: the Clarence Thomas Story
- Part Three: the Clarence Thomas Story
- Introducing: Facing Evil, a New True Crime Podcast
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- Part Two: the Clarence Thomas Story
- Part One: the Clarence Thomas Story
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- Part Two: The World Anti-Communist League: A Study in Nazi Death Squads
- Part One: The World Anti-Communist League: A Study in Nazi Death Squads
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- Part Two: the Father of Gynecology
- Part One: the Father of Gynecology
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- Part Two: the Man Who Ruined New York
- Part One: the Man Who Ruined New York
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- Part Two: How the Southern Baptist Convention Was Taken Over by Republicans and Child Molesters
- Part One: How the Southern Baptist Convention Was Taken Over by Republicans and Child Molesters
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- How to Insert Goat Balls Into Human Balls
- The NRA and their Blickies
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- Part Three: Harlon Carter: the Man Who Militarized the Cops and the NRA
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- Part Two: Harlon Carter: the Man Who Militarized the Cops and the NRA
- Part One: Harlon Carter: the Man Who Militarized the Cops and the NRA
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- Part Two: What's New with Alex Jones?
- Part One: What's New with Alex Jones?
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- Part Two: Ancient Genocide and the War on Carthage
- Part One: Let's Talk About Ancient Genocide
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- Part Two: General Butt-Naked and the Liberian Civil War
- Part One: General Butt-Naked and the Liberian Civil War
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- Part Two: the Twilight Zone Movie
- Part One: the Twilight Zone Movie
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- Part Two: a Terrible Story About the Internet
- Part One: a Terrible Story About the Internet
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- Reading: Unintended Consequences
- Part Three: John Wayne: a Dude Who Sucked
- Introducing: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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- Part Two: John Wayne: a Dude Who Sucked
- Part One: John Wayne: a Dude Who Sucked
- Introducing: Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus
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- The Audubon Guy Was a Monster
- Part Three: That Time Britain Did a Genocide in Ireland
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- Part Two: That Time Britain Did a Genocide in Ireland
- Part One: That Time Britain Did a Genocide in Ireland
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- Part Two: the Bastards of Reality Television
- Part One: the Bastards of Reality Television
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- Part Six: Kissinger
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- Part Four: Kissinger (Behind the Bastards x The Dollop)
- Part Three: Kissinger (Behind the Bastards x The Dollop)
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- Part Two: Kissinger (Behind the Bastards x The Dollop)
- Part One: Kissinger (Behind the Bastards x The Dollop)
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- Part Two: the Moonies Are So Much Worse Than You Could Possibly Imagine
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- Part Two: How the Rich Ate Christianity
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- Part Four: Tzar Nicholas II Was A Real Dick
- Part Three: Tzar Nicholas II Was A Real Dick
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- Part Two: Tzar Nicholas II Was A Real Dick
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- George Shea: Hot Dog Villain
- The Man Who Pioneered Libraries and Sexual Harassment
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- Part Two: the Food and Drug Administration
- Part One: the Food and Drug Administration
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- Part Two: the Child Prisons of Texas
- Part One: the Cash for Kids Scandal
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- The Man Who Built a Gun to Shoot Space
- Hiram Maxim, Inventor of the Machine-Gun and Curling Iron
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- Part Two: the Judge Rotenberg Center
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- Introducing: Assault on America
- Let's Talk About The Pullman Strike, Knob-Gobblers
- Ben Shapiro Knows Less About Sex Than an Amoeba
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- Part Two: Christmas non-Bastard: The Tupamaros of Uruguay
- Part One: Christmas non-Bastard: The Tupamaros of Brazil
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- Part Two: Jeff Bezos and the Birth of Amazon
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- Part Two: Let's Talk About Cryptocurrency
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- Introducing: Megacorp
- Part Two: The Not-At-All-Sad History of Libertarian Sea Nations
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- The Ballad of Eel Horse
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- Part Two: Let's Look at the Facebook Papers
- Let's Look at the Facebook Papers
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- Part Two: How the First Fitness Influencer Doomed Us All
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- Part Two: The Boy Scouts are a Bastard
- Part One: Robert Baden-Powell: Founder Of The Boy Scouts
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- Part Two: The Nazi Pedophile Cult Leader who Murdered Santa (With Paul F. Tompkins)
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- ICHH: That Time the CIA dosed a French Town with Acid: Spooky Week #1
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- Ben Shapiro Wrote a Book About Sex
- Part Three: Morton Downey Junior: The Ur-Media Grifter
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- Part Two: the Ballad of Wally George
- Part One Joe Pyne: the Man Who Invented Right Wing Talk Radio
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- Part Two: Amway: the Gravedigger of Democracy
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- Reading About Nesera
- The Nesera Cult and Qanon's Origins
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- Part Three: The Slavery Loving Fascist who Built Modern Japan
- Part Two: The Slavery Loving Fascist who Built Modern Japan
- Part One: The Slavery Loving Fascist who Built Modern Japan
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- Part Two: the Italian Invasions of Ethiopia
- Part One: the Italian Invasions of Ethiopia
- Part Two: the Ivermectin Episode
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- The Libertarian Theme Park of your Dreams/Nightmares
- Let's Talk About Thalidomide
- It Could Happen Here: Season 2: Episode 1: Welcome to the Crumbles
- Part Two: Hitler's Drug Problem
- Part One: Hitler's Drug Problem
- Introducing: It Could Happen Here Season 2
- Part One: Joe Arpaio: America's Favorite Concentration Camp Operator
- Part One: Joe Arpaio: America's Favorite Concentration Camp Operator
- Covid Vaccine Grifting "Doctors"
- How Nestle Starved a Bunch of Babies
- Part Two: the Cult Behind Josh Duggar
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- Part Two: Elan School: The Worst 'Troubled Teen' Facility
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- After the Revolution: Chapters Twenty One, Twenty Two, and Twenty Three
- Steven Seagal Wrote a Book (We Read It)
- The Company that Poisoned 300,000 Babies
- After the Revolution: Chapters Eighteen, Nineteen, and Twenty
- Part Two: Pappa Doc and Baby Doc: Dictators of Haiti
- Part One: Pappa Doc and Baby Doc: Dictators of Haiti
- After the Revolution: Chapters Fifteen, Sixteen, and Seventeen
- Part Two: the Young, Evil God of Death: Reinhard Heydrich
- Part One: the Young, Evil God of Death: Reinhard Heydrich
- After the Revolution: Chapters Twelve, Thirteen & Fourteen
- Part Two: How the Catholic Church Murdered Ireland's Babies
- Introducing Aack Cast by Jamie Loftus
- Part One: How the Catholic Church Murdered Ireland's Babies
- After the Revolution: Chapters Nine, Ten, & Eleven
- Part Two: Synanon: the Drug Rehab Program That Built Its Own Army
- Part One: Synanon: the Drug Rehab Program That Built Its Own Army
- After the Revolution: Chapters Six, Seven, & Eight
- Part Two: the Ballad of Bill Gates
- Introducing: Q Clearance Season 2
- Part One: the Ballad of Bill Gates
- After the Revolution: Chapters Three, Four, & Five
- Part Two: the Well Hung Warlord Who Tried to Conquer China
- Part One: the Well Hung Warlord Who Tried to Conquer China
- After the Revolution: Chapters One & Two
- Introducing: After the Revolution
- Ben Shapiro's Godawful Book: the Final Episode
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
- Part Two: What the Netanyahu Family Did to Palestine
- Introducing: Ridiculous Romance
- Part One: What the Netanyahu Family Did to Palestine
- Part Three: How The Dulles Brothers Created The CIA And Destroyed Everything Else
- Part Two: How The Dulles Brothers Created The CIA And Destroyed Everything Else
- Part One: How The Dulles Brothers Created The CIA And Destroyed Everything Else
- Part Two: Dr. Phil Is Even Worse Than You Think and You Probably Think He Sucks
- Introducing Hood Politics with Prop
- Part One: Dr. Phil Is Even Worse Than You Think and You Probably Think He Sucks
- Part Two: Excited Delirium: How Cops Invented a Disease
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- Part Two: The (Male) Doctor Who Redesigned Vaginas
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- Part Two: Dr. Oz: Why 'America's Doctor' Is A Bastard
- Part One: Dr. Oz: Why 'America's Doctor' Is A Bastard
- Part Two: the Conspiracy to Begin All Conspiracies
- Part One: the Conspiracy to Begin All Conspiracies
- Part Two: Kellogg: the Great American Cum Doctor
- Part One: Kellogg: the Great American Cum Doctor
- Introducing: Operation Midnight Climax
- Part Two: India's Most Famous Con-Man
- Part One: the King of Con Artists, Victor Lustig
- Part Two: the Family That Stole Malaysia
- Part One: the Family That Stole Malaysia
- Part Two: RAM- Lifestyle Fascism
- Part One: RAM: Nazi Fight Club
- Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins
- Part One: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins
- Part Two: How The U.S.A. Murdered Panama with Chelsea Manning
- Part One: How The U.S.A. Murdered Panama
- Introducing: Black Cowboys
- Part Two: a Live Investigation Into the Sigma Male Subculture
- Part One: the Birth of the Manosphere
- Part Two: The Man Who Invented The Military-Industrial Complex
- The Man Who Invented The Military-Industrial Complex
- Episode 10: Uprising: a Guide From Portland: the End of Uprising
- The Class that made 200 Child Nazis
- Ben Shapiro's Book: Part Whatever, the Journey Refuses to End
- Behind the Insurrections - the Business Plot: When Rich Fascists Almost Took Over America
- Behind the Insurrections - The (French) Capitol Insurrection
- Episode 9: Uprising: a Guide From Portland: Tactics and Teargas
- Behind the Insurrections - How Fascism Won the Spanish Civil War, Part 2
- Behind the Insurrections - the Birth of Spanish Fascism, Part 1
- Episode 8: Uprising: a Guide From Portland: the Return of the Right
- Behind the Insurrections - Hitler's Munich Beer Hall Putsch, Part 2
- Behind the Insurrections - Hitler's Munich Beer Hall Putsch, Part 1
- Episode 7: Uprising: a Guide From Portland: Resistance Through Mutual Aid
- Bonus: Robert Evans Wrote a Novel: Here's Chapter 1
- Behind the Insurrections - Mussolini's March on Rome: the First Fascist Insurrection
- Behind the Insurrections Trailer
- Let's Take a Break With Ben Shapiro's Terrible Book
- Part Two: the Population Control Movement
- Part One: the Worst Birth Control Device Ever Invented
- Episode 6: Uprising: a Guide From Portland: the Fed War: Part 2
- One Of Our Favorite Podcasts of 2020 - Introducing 'My Year In Mensa'
- Part Two: Nestor Makhno: Anarchist Warlord and Book Club Aficionado
- Part One: Nestor Makhno: Anarchist Warlord and Book Club Afficionado
- Episode 5: Uprising: a Guide From Portland: the Fed War: Part 1
- Part Two: How the John Birch Society Invented the Modern Far Right
- Part One: How the John Birch Society Invented the Modern Far Right
- Episode 4: Uprising: a Guide From Portland: the Battle of July 4th
- Episode 4: Uprising: a Guide From Portland: the Battle of July 4th
- Part Two: Roy Cohn: the Man Who Made Donald Trump
- Part One: Roy Cohn: the Man Who Made Donald Trump
- Episode 2: Uprising: a Guide From Portland: the Birth of an Uprising
- Part Two: the Worst Police Union in History
- Part One: the Worst Police Union in History
- Episode 2: Uprising: a Guide From Portland: We Do This Every Night
- Introducing: 'Uprising: A Guide From Portland'
- Why Portland?
- Introducing: 'Lolita Podcast'
- Let's Talk About Dave Rubin
- Elite Panic: Why the Rich and Powerful Can't Be Trusted
- The War of the Eggs
- Part Two: the Con Artist Who Invented a Country
- Part One: the Con Artist Who Invented a Country
- A Very Special Election Reading of Ben Shapiro's Unreadable Book
- Part Two: The Satanic Panic: America's First QAnon
- Part One: The Satanic Panic: America's First QAnon
- Part Two: the Jordan Peterson Episode
- Introducing: 'Q Clearance: The Hunt for QAnon'
- Part One: the Jordan Peterson Episode
- Introducing: VICE News Reports
- Part Two: How Nice, Normal People Made the Holocaust Possible
- Part One: How Nice, Normal People Made the Holocaust Possible
- Part Two: Cecil Rhodes: the First Proud Boy
- Part One: Cecil Rhodes: the First Proud Boy
- Part Two: Focus on the Family: Love Won Out
- Part One: Focus on the Family: James Dobson
- Part Two: Mark Zuckerberg Should Be on Trial for Crimes Against Humanity
- Part One: Mark Zuckerberg Should Be on Trial for Crimes Against Humanity
- Part Two: the Deadliest School in History
- Part One: the Deadliest School in History
- Part Two: Carlos the Jackal, the Most Wanted Man on Earth
- Part One: the Golden Age of Terrorism
- Ben Shapiro's Unreadable Book is Still the Best Thing About 2020
- Why Steve Bannon Got Arrested
- Part Two: Phyllis Schlafly: The Mother of all Culture Wars
- Part One: Phyllis Schlafly: The Mother of all Culture Wars
- Introducing: 'My Momma Told Me with Langston Kerman'
- Part Two: Alexander Lukashenko: the Dictator of Belarus
- Part One: Alexander Lukashenko: the Dictator of Belarus
- Canada's Darkest Secret: Residential Schools
- Part Two: The U.S. Border Patrol Is A Nightmare That Never Ends
- Part One: The U.S. Border Patrol Is A Nightmare That Never Ends
- We Read an Unbearably Thirsty Joe Biden / Barrack Obama Mystery Novel
- America's War on Children
- The Bastards Who Killed Pat Tillman
- Introducing 'Scientology: Fair Game'
- Ben Shapiro's Terrible Book: the Saga Continues
- Part Two: Bill Cooper: the Man Who Killed Truth
- Part One: Bill Cooper: the Man Who Killed Truth
- Part Two: John of God: Oprah's Favorite Ghost-Channeling Rapist Surgeon
- Part One: John of God: Oprah's Favorite Ghost-Channeling Rapist Surgeon
- Behind the Police: How the Police Declared War on All of Us
- Behind the Police: How Police Unions Made Cops Even Deadlier
- Behind the Police: How the Police Defeated Lynching via Torture
- Behind the Police: the History of American Police and the Ku Klux Klan
- How the First Police Went From Gangsters, to an Army for the Rich
- Slavery, Mass Murder and the Birth of American Policing
- Behind the Police Trailer
- Introducing Forgotten: Women of Juárez Trailer
- Part Two: the Dumbest Coup in World History
- Part One: the Dumbest Coup in World History
- Part Two: I Do Not Like Elon Musk Very Much
- Part One: I Do Not Like Elon Musk Very Much
- The Man Who Teaches Our Cops to Kill
- Part Two: Jim Bowie: the Worst Texan
- Part One: Jim Bowie: the Worst Texan
- Part Two: Jack Idema: the War on Terror's Dumbest Grifter
- Part One: Jack Idema: the War on Terror's Dumbest Grifter
- The Ballad of Doctor Orgasm
- We Continued Reading Ben Shapiro's Terrible Racist Novel
- Part Two: The Rise And Fall (And Rise) of Arch-Grifter Jim Bakker
- Part One: The Rise And Fall (And Rise) of Arch-Grifter Jim Bakker
- The Bleach Church is Spreading
- The People Who Turned Burning Your Face Off Into a Healthcare Fad
- Part Two: the Second American Civil War You Never Learned About
- Part One: the Second American Civil War You Never Learned About
- Part Two: Henry Morton Stanley: the Explorer Who Shot His Way Through Africa
- Part One: Henry Morton Stanley: the Explorer Who Shot His Way Through Africa
- Bonus: a Conversation About Tiger King and Rural America
- What We Learned From Ben Shapiro's Racist Novel
- The Priests of Plague
- Part Two: Narendra Modi, and India's Weird Nazi Obsession
- Part One: Narendra Modi, and India's Weird Nazi Obsession
- The Survivor: a Magazine for Nerdy Terrorists
- Introducing The Women's War, a Brand New iHeartRadio Original Podcast
- The Worst Grifters of the Coronavirus Pandemic
- Soldier of Fortune: the Deadliest Magazine Ever (with David X. Cohen)
- Soldier of Fortune: the Deadliest Magazine Ever (with Billy Wayne Davis)
- How The Internet Spawned A Baby-Killing Cult
- How L. Ron Hubbard Made an Antichrist Using Sex Magic
- How Exxon, Chevron and their buddies killed the world
- Part Two: the Founding Father of Fake Cancer Cures
- Part One: the Founding Father of Fake Cancer Cures
- Part Two: the Dumbest Colonizer in History
- Part One: the Dumbest Colonizer in History
- Part Two: Basil Zaharoff: the Man Who Sold World War One
- Part One: Basil Zaharoff: the Man Who Sold World War One
- Part Two: Savitri Devi: The Woman Who Turned Nazism into a Religion
- Part One: Savitri Devi: The Woman Who Turned Nazism into a Religion
- The Childhood of Joseph Stalin
- How Hobby Lobby Funded Terrorism and Tried to Destroy Democracy
- Part Two: the Bastards Who Killed the Black Panthers
- Part One: the Bastards Who Killed the Black Panthers
- Part Two: the Man Who Invented Fascism
- Part One: the Man Who Invented Fascism
- Part Two: John Ronald Brown: the Worst Surgeon Ever
- Part One: John Ronald Brown: the Worst Surgeon Ever
- Qassem Soleimani and the Bastardful History of U.S. / Iran Relations
- Introducing Monster: DC Sniper - Official Trailer
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