Behind the Bastard‪s

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Part Two: Behind the Bastards Q&A: Year's End Edition
Episode overview
Robert and Sophie answer even more of your thrilling questions.
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CZM Rewind: Part One: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins
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Robert is joined by Paul F. Tompkins to discuss Rush Limbaugh.
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CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins
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Robert is joined again by Paul F. Tompkins to continue to discuss Rush Limbaugh.
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Part One: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?
Episode overview
Oprah Winfrey has been responsible for introducing several of the most toxic monsters of our era to society. But is she a bastard? Robert sits down with Bridgett Todd and Andrew Ti to investigate. (Six Part Series)
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Part Two: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?
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Oprah continues to have the most sympathetic backstory of any BTB subject, and Robert walks Bridget and Andrew through how she turned it all around.
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Part Three: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?
Episode overview
Oprah's career is on the move now, and Robert tells the gang about her coke filled early years in local TV, her rise to stardom and how she helped spark the Satanic Panic.
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Part Four: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?
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Robert chronicles Oprah's war with the beef industry and her pivot to new age anti-science nonsense. Also: rainbow parties!
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Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?
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Today we talk about Oprah's involvement in a self help guru who killed three people in a sweat lodge, and how it goes into a shift in American culture driven by The Oprah Winfrey show.
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Part Six: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?
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Oh god, we are finally done. Unfortunately Oprah's greatest harms, like her role in birthing the anti vaccine movement, live on.
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Part One: Space Magic from Venus: A Literary Odyssey
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Robert sits down with Molly Conger to explore a book at the foundation of American conspiracy culture that may have helped kill Steve Jobs.
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Part Two: Space Magic from Venus: A Literary Odyssey
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Robert and Molly continue their exploration of Venusian health science which apparently involves eating nothing but raw fruit.
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Part One: How The U.S. Government Used Aliens To Destroy a Man's Mind
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This week we tell the harrowing story of Paul Bennewitz, a simple nerdy engineer who spotted evidence of covert Air Force weapons programs and was gaslit into believing they were alien spacecraft.
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Part One: Tony Alamo: The Worst Preacher
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Robert sits down with Samantha McVey to talk about Tony Alamo, the evangelical cult leader who enslaved children to make denim vests for the stars.
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Part Two: Tony Alamo: The Worst Preacher
Episode overview
Robert explains how Tony Alamo became a jacket maker to the stars, providing Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton and others with fashion via child labor. Also, lots of sex crimes.
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Part One: Bruno Bettelheim: The Worst Psycho-therapist
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Robert tells Allison Raskin about Bruno Bettelheim, a concentration camp survivor who revolutionized child mental health care by trying to create a GOOD concentration camp for small children.
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Part Two: Bruno Bettelheim and The Quest To Make a "Good" Concentration Camp
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Bruno Bettelheim has now made it to the United States, where he executes his elaborate plan to fix "emotionally disturbed" children by making a nice concentration camp.
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Part Four: The Zizian Murder Spree (or Exactly How Harry Potter Fanfic Killed A Border Patrol Agent)
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Robert concludes the story of the Zizians with a spree of horrific violent crimes and deaths, culminating in a shoot out with the Border Patrol in Vermont of all places.
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Part One: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles
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In honor of the American oligarchs trying to form their own aristocracy, Robert and Ed Zitron look back at the court of Versailles, how it was formed as a sort of frat house pentagon .. show full overview
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Part Two: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles
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Robert tells Ed about the Sun King's very sad death from butt rot and how his great grandson grew up raised by the insane party house of death that now controlled all of French politics.
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Part One: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult
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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 cult. But who are the Zizians, really? Robert .. show full overview
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Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader
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Robert tells David Gborie about the early life of Ziz LaSota, a bright young girl from Alaska who came to the Bay Area with dreams of saving the cosmos or destroying it, all based on her obsession with Rationalist blogs and fanfic.
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Part Three: How The Zizians Went Full On Death Cult
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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 psychopaths god that sentence was weird to write trust us the episode is weirder.
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Part One: How Tainted Human Blood Became A Major U.S. Export
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Robert and Ben Bowlin sit-down to talk about controversial blood plasma donation program in the Arkansas Prison system under Governor Clinton that killed more than 2 9/11s worth of Canadians.
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Part Two: How Tainted Human Blood Became A Major U.S. Export
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Robert, who is looking better than ever these days wow what great hair, finishes telling Ben Bowlin the harrowing story of how the U.S. murdered thousands of our nation's closest friends and poisoned incarcerated people for a modest payout.
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Part One: The Grifters Behind The Fake Autism 'Cure' Industry
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Robert and Mangesh Hattikudur explore the birth of the "unorthodox biomedical movement", which is a fancy way of saying "fake doctors who poison children to cure Autism".
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Part Two: The Grifters Behind The Fake Autism 'Cure' Industry
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Robert concludes the story of the Fake Autism Cure Industrial Complex and tells Mangesh about a doctor who tried to get rich selling spoiled blood to deranged parents.
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Part One: Alfred Hugenberg: The Elon Musk of Weimar Germany
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Robert sits down with Amanda Montell to talk about Alfred Hugenberg, a German industrialist who made Hitler's rise to power possible for some very familiar reasons.
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Part Two: Alfred Hugenberg: The Elon Musk of Weimar Germany
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World War 1 has begun, and Robert walks Amanda through how Alfred Hugenberg bought up the German media to make the case the the war should go on for ever, and then how he backed the Nazi .. show full overview
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CZM Rewind: The Andrew Tate Story (Part 1 & 2)
Episode overview
Robert and Sophie are joined by Cool Zone Media supervising producer, Ian Johnson to discuss Andrew Tate, and the Mythopoetic Men's Movement. Includes Part 1 & 2 with less ad breaks.
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CZM Rewind: The Andrew Tate Story (Part 3 & 4)
Episode overview
Robert and Sophie are joined by Cool Zone Media supervising producer, Ian Johnson to continue to discuss Andrew Tate. Includes Part 3 & 4 with less ad breaks.
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Part One: What's New With Andrew Tate?
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Why Was Andrew Tate allowed back in the U.S.? What's happening with all his court cases? Robert sits back down with Ian Johnson and Sophie Lichterman and explains what's happening with .. show full overview
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Part Two: What's New With Andrew Tate?
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Robert explains the weird cult Andrew Tate created with a wizard and former pick up artist to rob young men and abuse women at scale.
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Part One: The Pol Pot Episodes: How A Nice, Quiet Kid Murdered His Country
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Robert sits down with Andrew Ti for three episodes in one week about the bizarre life of Pol Pot, a man who spent too much time reading books and bullshitting with his friends and for .. show full overview
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Part Two: The Pol Pot Episodes: How A Nice, Quiet Kid Murdered His Country
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Robert continues the story with young Pol Pot's years in France where he and his friends radicalize themselves in what has to have been the deadliest book club of all time.
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Part Three: The Pol Pot Episodes: How A Nice, Quiet Kid Murdered His Country
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Pol Pot and his friends are now in charge of Cambodia and in a remarkably short period of time they manage to kill two million people. Including a leftist academic from the UK who thought the Khmer Rouge was rad. Here's how!
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Part One: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science
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You know his daughter as Jeffrey Epstein's right hand woman. Robert tells guest Adam Conover about Ghislaine Maxwell's dad, Robert Maxwell. He started his life on a Nazi murder quest and .. show full overview
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Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science
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Robert Maxwell makes a full heel turn in this episode, going from badass killer of the SS to not so badass corporate ghoul who murdered science and also spied for Israel and the UK.
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Part One: The Sordid Story of Nature Boy: The Instagram Cult Leader Who Hates Toilets
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Robert gets back to basics with guest star Katy Stoll by talking about one of America's newest cult leaders, Natureboy, who used instagram to convince a small army of followers to join his crusade against toilets. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: The Sordid Story of Nature Boy: The Instagram Cult Leader Who Hates Toilets
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Nature Boy is now in Central America, where he weaponizes the power of Instagram's algorithm to trick rubes into flying out to join him and handing over all their money.
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Part One: Carl Schmitt: The Mind Behind Modern Fascism
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Robert walks Blake Wexler through the life and times of Carl Schmitt, a legal scholar born in Imperial Germany who would come to create the blueprint for how fascist movements could destroy liberal democracy from within. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: Carl Schmitt: The Mind Behind Modern Fascism
Episode overview
In this episode we follow Carl Schmitt through the disillusionment of WW1, and breaking up with his con artist wife, to his creation of the Death Star of liberal democracy.
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Part One: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica
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Robert tells the story of Kevin Ontoniel Smith, a Jamaican-Canadian minister who created an apocalyptic Christian sect and slit his follower's throats in a COVID related panic.
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Part Two: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica
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Robert builds to the thrilling conclusion of the other Kevin Smith's story: the mass slaughter of his own flock.
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Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction
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Robert walks Langston Kerman through the story of Dr. George Church, a very real scientist who co founded the company making bullshit claims of "de extincting" dire wolves. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
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Robert explores Dr. Church's weird history with eugenics adjacent projects, like the world's creepiest dating app, and how Colossal Biosciences was created and immediately used by the .. show full overview
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Part One: How Eliza Fraser Survived a Shipwreck and Sparked a Genocide
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Robert sits down with Jack O'Brien to tell the story about Eliza Fraser, who survived being shipwrecked thanks to the indigenous people of an island her lies helped destroy.
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Part Two: How Eliza Fraser Survived a Shipwreck and Sparked a Genocide
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Robert tells Jack about the 'rescue' of Eliza Fraser and how her lies about what happened on K'gari Island helped to fuel decades of colonial war and genocide.
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CZM Rewind: The U.S. Border Patrol Is A Nightmare That Never Ends
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Originally aired August 2020 Robert is joined by Caitlin Durante to discuss the U.S. Border Patrol.
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CZM Rewind: Harlon Carter: the Man Who Militarized the Cops and the NRA
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Originally aired June 2022 Robert is joined by Matt Lieb to discuss Harlon Carter and NRA.
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Part One: David Berg and the Children of God (ft. Ed Helms)
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Robert sits down with Ed Helms to discuss one of our worst monsters: David Berg, founder of the Children of God cult.
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Part One: Adolf Eichmann: Mr. Holocaust Himself
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Robert sits down with Joe Kassabian to discuss one of the worst Nazis: Adolf Eichmann, a major architect of the Holocaust. (4 Part Series)
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Part Two: Adolf Eichmann: Mr. Holocaust Himself
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Robert tells Joe about Eichmann's entrance to the Nazi Party and his time as a concentration camp intern during the start of the Third Reich.
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Part Three: Adolf Eichmann: Mr. Holocaust Himself
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In Part 3, the Reich has invaded Russia and Eichmann is on a fact finding mission that will determine the course of the Holocaust.
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Part Four: Adolf Eichmann: Mr. Holocaust Himself
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World War 2 is coming to an end, and Eichmann cooks up an escape scheme that allows him to flee justice- for a while. Robert and Joe talk about what comes next and conclude the Eichmann story.
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Part One: Antonio Salazar: The Smartest Fascist Dictator
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Robert sits down with with Jeff May to talk about Antonio Salazar, the economics professor who became a brutal fascist dictator and was, sadly, really damn good at it. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: Antonio Salazar: The Smartest Fascist Dictator
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Antonio Salazar spends his post-war years helping the CIA learn how to torture people and starting a disastrous war with a large portion of Africa. Then he dies! Hooray!
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Part One: Laetrile: The Fake Cancer Cure That Birthed The Right-Wing Medical Grifting Industry
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Robert sits down with Miles Gray to talk about Laetrile, a fraudulent cancer "cure" embraced by the John Birch society as a way to tie right wing politics to alternative medicine. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: Laetrile: The Fake Cancer Cure That Birthed The Right-Wing Medical Grifting Industry
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Robert and Miles discuss the second phase of Laetrile's history, where it becomes a culture war issue for the right wing John Birch Society.
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Part Two: How The U.S. Government Used Aliens To Destroy a Man's Mind
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Robert tells Brandie how Richard Doty crafted an elaborate alien ruse to destroy Paul Bennewitz's mind, all with the goal of hiding the U.S. government's drone and stealth bomber programs.
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Part Two: David Berg and the Children of God (ft. Ed Helms)
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David Berg starts the 1970s as a wildly popular cult leader and immediately goes insane. Robert walks Ed Helms through the invention of "flirty fishing" AKA prostitution for Jesus and a bunch of other nightmare fuel.