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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.

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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.

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 133

6/1/2024
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Duration:02:10:31

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Part Two: Kent Hovind: Fake Dinosaur Scholar and Accidental Child Killer

5/30/2024
Kent Hovind befriends a pedophile and, separately, kills a 7 year old through negligence. Also, more dinosaur disinfo. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:54:31

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Part One: Kent Hovind: Fake Dinosaur Scholar and Accidental Child Killer

5/28/2024
Robert sits down with Molly Conger to discuss Kent Hovind, self-declared doctor of dinosaur studies for the Creationist museum he founded and somehow killed a kid with. (2 Part Series) Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20030618200641/http://www.drdino.com/cse.asp?pg=articles&specific=43 https://www.thedailybeast.com/preacher-kent-hovind-accused-of-enabling-a-pedophile-at-his-christian-dinosaur-adventure-land-theme-park https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2021/08/alabama-evangelist-kent-hovind-arrested-on-domestic-violence-charge.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110725013851/http://kent-hovind.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110725013851/http://kent-hovind.com/ https://www.noanswersingenesis.org.au/bartelt_dissertation_on_hovind_thesis.htm https://www.facebook.com/groups/kenthovindsworstnightmare/posts/1960777454091374 https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2018/04/20/god-and-the-irs-and-kent-hovind/?sh=246a27c51f10 https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/03/31/creationist-kent-hovind-on-boy-who-drowned-at-his-park-kids-do-dumb-things/ https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Kent_Hovind#cite_note-10 https://www.al.com/news/2018/09/alabamas_dinosaur_adventure_la.html https://creationtales.com/blog/175-dinosaur-adventureland.html https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/01/arts/darwin-free-fun-for-creationists.html?pagewanted=2 https://web.archive.org/web/20120517150221/https://creationtoday.org/about/dr-kent-hovind/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:01:04:24

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boston slide cop

5/27/2024
In the summer of 2023, a Boston cop humiliated himself by tumbling down a public slide in the most embarrassing way possible. This week, Jamie tries to find his pig ass, and admits her background as a Terminally Boston Woman. Interviews with Molly Conger and Jeff Raymond. Follow Molly: https://x.com/socialistdogmom Follow Jeff: https://www.masstransparency.org/author/jraymond/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:01:08:06

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5/25/2024
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Duration:02:53:51

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CZM Rewind: Morton Downey Junior: The Ur-Media Grifter

5/23/2024
Robert is again joined by Tom Reimann to discuss Morton Downey Junior. https://www.gofundme.com/f/btb-fundraiser-pdx-diaper-bank See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:57:46

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CZM Rewind: The Ballad of Wally George

5/22/2024
Robert is joined by Tom Reimann to discuss Wally George. https://www.gofundme.com/f/btb-fundraiser-pdx-diaper-bank See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:46:53

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CZM Rewind: Joe Pyne: The Man Who Invented Right Wing Talk Radio

5/21/2024
Robert is joined by Tom Reimann to discuss Joe Pyne. https://gofund.me/75c79974 FOOTNOTES: https://timeline.com/hot-seat-wally-george-edccf13491cfhttps://www.ocweekly.com/remembering-the-time-ocs-wacky-conservative-talk-show-host-wally-george-stood-up-to-white-supremacists/https://joeleisenberg.medium.com/exposed-donald-trump-is-wally-george-bcb2f2040c0fhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200226051215/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-11-ca-1344-story.htmlhttps://variety.com/2003/scene/people-news/wally-george-1117893638/https://www.ocweekly.com/here-lies-wally-george-6428079/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/21/why-were-all-just-living-in-morton-downey-jr-s-talk-show-slime/?request-id=76a6a7b6-5e2f-4120-8982-74c4046cbff4&pml=1https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-morton-downey-jr-documentary-20150817-story.htmlhttps://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=108365&page=1https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/12/opinions/smerconish-morton-downey-era/index.htmlhttps://archive.is/mKfyB#selection-343.0-351.321https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/joe-pyne-first-shock-jock-180963237/https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.saturdayeveningpost.com/uploads/reprints/Hate_Hour/index.html?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAI3QGKNAHC7QBOIAA%2F20210921%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20210921T071203Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=871e048df2cb9da18c7eaae72514a8270428fd10ce5f4d0846d270d1ad1a7ffdhttps://www.thebdr.net/joe-pyne-talk-radio-pioneer/https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-media-controversy-ignites-over-the-case-of-tawana-brawleyhttps://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/08/05/209194252/15-years-later-tawana-brawley-has-paid-1-percent-of-penaltyhttps://www.kanw.com/post/racial-backdrop-tawana-brawley-case See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:01:04:00

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5/18/2024
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Duration:03:33:11

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Part Two: The Darkest Episode We Will Ever Do

5/16/2024
Robert and Margaret conclude the story of Helmut Kentler's pedophile foster program, and discuss how the German left was infiltrated and co-opted by pedophile activists to disastrous ends. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:01:08:05

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Part One: The Darkest Episode We Will Ever Do

5/14/2024
Robert weaves a hideous story for Margaret, about how post-war Germans started out trying to make Nazism impossible and wound up harming generations of poor children. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:01:06:10

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5/11/2024
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Duration:02:30:53

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Part Two: The Parenting Gurus of Nazi Germany

5/9/2024
This week Robert introduces Margaret and the audience to Johanna Harer, the chief Momfluencer of Nazi Germany, whose pop science parenting book was endorsed by Hitler himself. During what historians refer to as his "Oprah period". Sources: https://archive.is/Bvxcshttps://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/germany-s-secret-paedophiliaexperiment-1.2897942https://www.dw.com/en/germany-allowed-pedophiles-to-foster-children/a-53839291https://walled-in-berlin.com/j-elke-ertle/moritz-schreber-versus-benjamin-spock/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1994/11/03/soul-murder/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40546694?read-now=1&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contentshttps://sci-hub.st/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40546694?read-now=1&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contentshttps://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/the-sexual-revolution-and-children-how-the-left-tookthings-too-far-a-702679.htmlhttps://newrepublic.com/article/120379/german-green-party-pedophilia-scandalhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/harsh-nazi-parenting-guidelines-may-still-affect-german-children-of-today1/https://archive.is/2S1hb#selection-3955.0-4041.48https://archive.is/6Fcev#selection-1981.0-1995.1https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/nazi-parenting-guidelines-persist-today-haarer/https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691130396?psc=1&language=en_USSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:01:16:09

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Part One: The Parenting Gurus of Nazi Germany

5/7/2024
Robert sits down with Margaret killjoy to talk about Moritz Schreber, the pseudo scientific parenting guru who strapped children into torture devices and helped prepare Germany for the Nazis. (4 Part Series) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:58:04

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5/4/2024
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Duration:02:37:00

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CZM Rewind: Part Two: Savitri Devi The Woman Who Turned Nazism into a Religion

5/2/2024
Robert is joined again by Jamie Loftus to continue discussing Savitri Devi. Jamie’s new Cool Zone Media show Sixteenth Minute launches on May 7th! Every week, she gets to know one of the internet’s most notorious main characters, and how the algorithm delivering them to you changes their brain and yours. Up first: Antoine Dodson, the dress, and Boston slide cop! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:00:57:50

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CZM Rewind: Part One: Savitri Devi The Woman Who Turned Nazism into a Religion

4/30/2024
Robert is joined by Jamie Loftus to discuss Hitler's Priestess, Savitri Devi. Jamie’s new Cool Zone Media show Sixteenth Minute launches on May 7th! Every week, she gets to know one of the internet’s most notorious main characters, and how the algorithm delivering them to you changes their brain and yours. Up first: Antoine Dodson, the dress, and Boston slide cop! Sources: Hitler's PriestessTwitter PhotoSavitri Devi: The strange story of how a Hindu Hitler worshipper became an alt-right iconWhy white supremacists and Hindu nationalists are so alikeThe Man Who Brought the Swastika to Germany, and How the Nazis Stole ItRitualistic Cat Torture Was Once a Form of Town FunThe Great Cat Massacre: French History Revealed by the AmericansSavitri Devi: The mystical fascist being resurrected by the alt-rightHitler is Homeless in ViennaTHE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CULT EXPERIENCEHINDUISM AND NATIONAL SOCIALISMPriestess of Hitlerism: Savitri DeviThe Death of Adolf HitlerSavitri Devi WikiSavitri DeviFrom Christchurch to India: How India’s RSS Inspires White Nationalist ViolenceFeuerkrieg Division (FKD)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:01:22:08

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4/27/2024
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Duration:02:29:19

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Part Two: The Bastards of Forensic Science

4/25/2024
Robert is joined again by Dr. Kaveh Hoda to continue to discuss why Forensic Science really doesn't work. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:01:23:07

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Part One: The Bastards of Forensic Science

4/23/2024
Forensic Science is supposed to provide perfect certainty in the most serious criminal cases. What if it's all a bunch of bullshit? Robert sits down with Dr. Kaveh Hoda to talk about all the myriad cons in forensic "science.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duration:01:13:38