Behind the Bastards

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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. read less
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Episodes

Part One: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer
09-04-2024
Part One: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer
Robert sits down with Joe Kassabian to tell the sordid tale of Lavrentiy Beria, the head of Stalin's secret police, prolific sex criminal and ethnic cleanser, and nuclear weapon entrepreneur. https://gofund.me/e815d59e  Sources https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=O-CKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=beria+planet&source=bl&ots=jMc6z53_-K&sig=ACfU3U0xFZvDPSae5clBjjfMT99GQhBThg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjNm9fq0cb5AhXLiVwKHaqYDaEQ6AF6BAg4EAM#v=onepage&q=beria%20planet&f=false https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541600061?psc=1&language=en_UShttps://www.amazon.com/Stalins-Team-Living-Dangerously-Politics/dp/0691175772/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&sr=1-1https://www.amazon.com/Beria-Stalins-Lieutenant-Amy-Knight/dp/0691032572/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&sr=1-1 https://web.archive.org/web/20240319033536/https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/profile/lavrentiy-p-beria/https://www.history.co.uk/article/historys-forgotten-people-lavrentiy-beriahttps://archive.is/GjzYIhttps://web.archive.org/web/20240319033536/https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/profile/lavrentiy-p-beria/https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-1331.1999.tb00004.xhttps://web.archive.org/web/20150315203304/http://nucleardiner.com/2015/03/13/a-soviet-coup-the-fall-of-lavrenty-beria/https://csc.asu.edu/2015/03/19/rofer-on-the-fall-of-beria-and-putins-vanishing-act/https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/letter-lavrentiy-beria-georgii-malenkov-reflecting-events-spring-1953-excerptSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part One: How Conservatism Won
02-04-2024
Part One: How Conservatism Won
Robert sits down with David Bell to discuss how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all) (2 Part Series)   Sources: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/05/09/launch-long-gamehttps://www.forbes.com/sites/richardvedder/2020/01/06/the-collegiate-conservative-counter-revolution/?sh=efd1a87111c0https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/politics/polibig/eastidea.htmhttps://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/gned/laphamtentacles04.pdfhttps://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/https://twitter.com/schwarz/status/1562521561118429187/photo/1https://newsarchive.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/06/08_reagan.shtmlhttps://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/threat-of-educated-proletariat-created-the-student-debt-crisis/https://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/a-rationalization-for-educational-downsizing/https://www.nytimes.com/1933/08/20/archives/germany-watches-zionist-congress-fears-it-may-stir-up-abroad-new.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1931/09/06/archives/germany-is-moving-toward-the-centre-pressure-of-left-and-right-is.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1933/02/26/archives/farming-put-first-in-german-plans-economic-policy-of-the-hitler.htmlhttps://louisville.edu/journal/workplace/issue6/franklin.htmlhttps://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/speeches/the-scheme-1-the-powell-memo/#:~:text=Powell%20recommended%20a%20propaganda%20effort,%2C%20political%20science%2C%20and%20sociologyhttps://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/january-17-1967-statement-governor-ronald-reagan-tuitionhttps://archive.org/details/rampartsmagazine00ramp/page/28/mode/2up?view=theaterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.