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CZM Rewind: Part One: Kaiser Wilhelm: The Saddest Warlord In History
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Robert sits down with Jamie Loftus to talk about Kaiser Wilhelm, the devastatingly cringy Mama's boy who came to rule an empire despite lacking even a single relevant skill.
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CZM Rewind: Part Two: Kaiser Wilhelm: The Saddest Warlord In History
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In Part Two, Robert is joined again by Jamie Loftus to continue discussing Kaiser Wilhelm.
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Part One: How Orange County Incubated American Fascism
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Robert sits down with Francesca Fiorentini to talk about how Orange County, California gave birth to the modern Republican Party, thanks to some arms dealers and a howling fascist named John Schmitz. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: John Schmitz: The First Trump
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Part Two: John Schmitz: The First Trump January 11, 2024 • 69 mins Our tale of Orange County bastardry reaches it's apex in John Schmitz, the conspiracy maniac who ran against Nixon from the Right and blazed the trail that led us to Donald Trump
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Part One: The Finders: CIA Child Trafficking Cult or Just Normal Cult?
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Robert sits down with Jamie Loftus to tell the tale of Marion Petty, the man whose cult was accused of trafficking children and may have been part of a CIA op. Or not! It's very unclear! (4 Part Series)
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Part Two: The Finders: CIA Child Trafficking Cult or Just Normal Cult?
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After almost twenty years of quiet growth the Finders explode into public awareness when they are accused of sex trafficking children, possibly for the CIA. (Or the Devil.
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Part Three: The Finders: CIA Child Trafficking Cult or Just Normal Cult?
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Were The Finders a CIA operation? The short answer is "maybe"! The long answer is... this episode.
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Part Four: The Finders: CIA Child Trafficking Cult or Just Normal Cult?
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Now bereft of their children, the Finders slide into old age and irrelevance with one last attempt to freak out the normies.
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Part One: Tech Bros Have Built A Cult Around AI
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Robert sits down with Ify Nwadiwe to talk about the weird cult that's formed around AI, and some of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley. (Adapted from his article in Rolling .. show full overview
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Part Two: Tech Bros Have Built A Cult Around AI
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Robert tells Ify about the time tech weirdo's recreated Hell using AI and Robert pisses off a VP at Google. Plus: More cult shit! (Adapted from his article in Rolling Stone: .. show full overview
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Part One: We Can't Put This Guy's Name In The Title But Trust Us, He Sucks
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Robert sits down with Garrison Davis to discuss a mercenary hacking guru we dare not name in the title of this episode but, trust us, he sucks ass. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: We Can't Put This Guy's Name In The Title But Trust Us, He Sucks
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Robert and Garrison conclude the story of the mercenary hacking mogul who we, again, cannot name in the description of this episode.
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Part One: Robert E. Lee: A Lifetime of Failure
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Robert sits down with Jason Petty aka Prop to begin the epic story of Robert E. Lee, prominent furry, slave owner and Confederate General. (4 Part Series)
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Part Two: Robert E. Lee: A Lifetime of Failure
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Robert and Prop discuss Robert E. Lee's career in the army, and his horrific violence towards the enslaved workers on his father-in-laws plantation.
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Part Three: Why Did Robert E. Lee Turn Traitor?
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Robert and Prop continue the story of Bobby Lee to the climax of his life: his decision to turn traitor and fight for the Confederacy.
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Part Four: Was Robert. E. Lee a Good General?
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Robert and Prop answer the final two great questions about Robert E. Lee: did he fuck that horse, and was he any good as a general?
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Part One: TB Joshua: The Evangelical Pastor Who Built His Own Hell
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Robert sits down with Miles Gray to talk about TB Joshua, a Nigerian pastor whose cult trapped people from all over the world in a literal physical hell of his own design. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: TB Joshua: The Evangelical Pastor Who Built His Own Hell
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Robert and Miles get to the nightmare heart of the TB Joshua story: a sprawling empire of sexual violence and gaslighting on an epic scale.
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Part One: The Terrible Secret of Steve Jobs
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Robert sits down with Ed Zitron to discuss the early life of Steve Jobs, who started out setting off bombs in school and wound up founding Apple. (4 Part Series)
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Part Two: The Terrible Secret of Steve Jobs
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Robert Evans explains the rise of Apple, and how Steve Jobs tried to cheat the California Welfare system.
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Part Three: The Terrible Secret of Steve Jobs
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Robert and Ed reach a crucial crux in the Steve Jobs story: his years of failed product launches and near destruction of Apple. Also, Bono appears.
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Part Four: The Terrible Secret of Steve Jobs
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Ed and Robert conclude the epic story of Steve Jobs with a look at how his peculiarities determined the shape and horrible abusive nature of much of the modern consumer electronics industry.
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Part One: The Dennis the Menace Creator was a Shockingly Bad
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Robert sits down with Randy Milholland to discuss Hank Ketcham, the creator of Dennis the Menace. Despite his cartoon's kid-safe nature, Hank mined his own wife and child for content .. show full overview
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Part Two: The Dennis the Menace Creator was a Shockingly Bad Man
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Robert and Randy discuss Hank's unorthodox parenting methods, how he tried to get laid at Disneyland, and some very uncomfortable racism.
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Part One: The Fake Doctors Who Gave Everyone Alzheimer's
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Robert sits down with Dr. Kaveh Hoda to tell several hilarious fake doctor stories that wind up exposing the dark heart of the health insurance industry. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: The Real Bastard Was Health Insurance Companies All Along
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Robert and Kaveh continue with another wacky fake doctor story that snowballs into a vast conspiracy by health insurance companies to make everyone else's life much worse.
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Part One: How Conservatism Won
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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)
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Part Two: How Conservatism Won
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Robert and Dave conclude our episode about think tanks.
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Part One: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer
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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.
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Part Two: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer
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In part two, Robert continues 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.
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Part Three: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer
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Robert and Joe get into the meat of the Beria story: the invasion of Poland and start of World War 2.
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Part Four: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer
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Beria? I hardly know'ya. Anyway, this is the last episode of the series. Goodbye.
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Part One: The Bastards of Forensic Science
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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.”
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Part Two: The Bastards of Forensic Science
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Robert is joined again by Dr. Kaveh Hoda to continue to discuss why Forensic Science really doesn't work.
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CZM Rewind: Part One: Savitri Devi The Woman Who Turned Nazism into a Religion
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Robert is joined by Jamie Loftus to discuss Hitler's Priestess, Savitri Devi.
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CZM Rewind: Part Two: Savitri Devi The Woman Who Turned Nazism into a Religion
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Robert is joined again by Jamie Loftus to continue discussing Savitri Devi.
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Part One: The Parenting Gurus of Nazi Germany
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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.
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Part Two: The Parenting Gurus of Nazi Germany
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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".
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Part One: The Darkest Episode We Will Ever Do
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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.
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Part Two: The Darkest Episode We Will Ever Do
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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.
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CZM Rewind: Joe Pyne: The Man Who Invented Right Wing Talk Radio
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Robert is joined by Tom Reimann to discuss Joe Pyne.
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CZM Rewind: The Ballad of Wally George
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Robert is joined by Tom Reimann to discuss Wally George.
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CZM Rewind: Morton Downey Junior: The Ur-Media Grifter
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Robert is again joined by Tom Reimann to discuss Morton Downey Junior.
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Part One: Kent Hovind: Fake Dinosaur Scholar and Accidental Child Killer
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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.
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Part Two: Kent Hovind: Fake Dinosaur Scholar and Accidental Child Killer
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Kent Hovind befriends a pedophile and, separately, kills a 7 year old through negligence. Also, more dinosaur disinfo.
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Part One: Thomas Jefferson: King of Hypocrites
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Part One: Thomas Jefferson: King of Hypocrites June 4, 2024 • 64 mins Robert sits down with Jason Petty, AKA Prop, to discuss how Thomas Jefferson became a global prophet of liberty .. show full overview
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Part Two: Thomas Jefferson: King of Hypocrites
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Robert and Prop talk about Jefferson's embarrassing history as a war leader and how he helped invent scientific racism.
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Part Three: Thomas Jefferson: King of Hypocrites
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Robert and Prop talk about Jefferson's wild years as a slavery debate bro in Paris, and also the fact that he was for sure a pedophile.
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Part Four: Thomas Jefferson: King of Hypocrites
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Robert and Prop conclude the story of Thomas Jefferson by talking about the time he built a smarthome powered by child slavery.Robert and Prop conclude the story of Thomas Jefferson by .. show full overview
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Part One: How the British Empire and U.S. Department of Defense Murdered an Island Paradise
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Robert welcomes Andrew Ti back to the show to tell the story of the Chagos Islands, a paradise founded by former slaves that was wiped out by the British empire so they could lease it to the U.S. as an air base. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: How the British Empire and U.S. Department of Defense Murdered an Island Paradise
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Robert killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die. Also he concludes the story of the murder of the Chagos Islands by the U.S. and the ailing British Empire. With bonus Dog Genocide!
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Part One: How Avery Brundage Gave Hitler an Olympics
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Robert sits down with Matt Lieb to discuss Avery Brundage, the millionaire athlete and professional Olympics nerd who stopped the U.S. from Boycotting the 1936 Berlin Olympics. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: How Avery Brundage Gave Hitler an Olympics
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Robert and Matt discuss how Avery Brundage and the Olympic Committee killed the attempt at an Olympics boycott and handed Hitler a major win.
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The July 4th Terrible Right Wing Novel Spectacular
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Robert found a copy of the weird Navy SEAL fetishist novel written by his old boss back in the 1990s.
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Part One: The Dr. Laura Episodes
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Robert sits down with Jamie Loftus to discuss the life and times of Dr. Laura Schlesinger, the angriest woman on the radio and harbinger of Jordan Peterson. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: The Dr. Laura Episodes
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Robert and Jamie conclude the story of Dr. Laura and offer up a theory on the possible murder of her mother.
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Part One: Beau Brummell: The First Celebrity and Inventor of the Suit and Tie
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Robert sits down with Princess Weekes to talk about Beau Brummell, the first fashion influencer and modern celebrity, and discuss whether or not he was really a bastard.
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Part Two: Beau Brummell: The First Celebrity and Inventor of the Suit and Tie
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Robert sits down with Princess Weekes to finish talking about Beau Brummell, the first fashion influencer and modern celebrity, and discuss whether or not he was really a bastard.
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Part One: The RFK Jr. Episodes
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Robert sits down with Cody Johnston to discuss the origins of the Kennedy Family Curse, and how it trapped RFK Jr on the path to ruin. (4 Part Series)
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Part Two: The RFK Jr. Episodes
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Robert and Cody continue the epic tale of Bobby Kennedy Jr, falconer and rotting animal carcass connoisseur.
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Part Three: The RFK Jr. Episodes
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Robert and Cody discuss RFK Jr's days as a professional rat-eater and explorer, and then things get weird.
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Part Four: The RFK Jr. Episodes
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Robert and Cody conclude the story of RFK Jr by talking about how he was directly complicit in the deaths of dozens of children and probably tens of thousands of people across the county.
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Part One: Blue Dawn: A Right Wing Fantasy of Leftist Revolution
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Robert sits down with Garrison to read through a brand new novel that fantasizes about the aftermath of an Antifa revolution in ... 2021.
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Part Two: Blue Dawn: A Right Wing Fantasy of Leftist Revolution
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Robert and Garrison continue exploring the world of Blue Dawn, where the justice system is angry twitter mobs empowered to throw people in prison and President Trump is an underground Castro-like militant commander.
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Part One: Louis van Schoor: The Deadliest Security Guard in History
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Robert sits down with Molly Conger to discuss a weird little guy of South African Apartheid, serial murdering security guard Louis van Schoor. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: Louis van Schoor: The Deadliest Security Guard in History
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Robert concludes the story of Louis van Schoor and the surprise tale of his daughter, Sabrina.
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Part One: How The Liberal Media Helped Fascism Win
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Robert sits down with best pal Michael Swaim to discuss the great liberal media organizations of Italy, Germany and the U.S. in the 1920s and 30s, and how they failed utterly to stop Mussolini and Hitler.
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Part Two: How The Liberal Media Helped Fascism Win
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Robert and Michael talk about how the US press responded to the rise of European fascism and where that leaves us today.
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Part One: Thomas Kinkade: the Evil-est Painter
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Robert sits back down with Randy Milholland to discuss Thomas Kinkade, the most financially successful American artist and con-man.
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Part Two: Thomas Kinkade: the Evil-est Painter
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Robert and Randy conclude the story of Thomas Kincade by talking about the massive fraud he committed and also some sex crimes.
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Part One: That Time eBay's Private Spies Went To War With Some Bloggers
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Robert sits down with Jason Pargin to lay out the insane story of how eBay corporate security, with the tacit endorsement of their executives, waged a relentless shadow war against two elderly bloggers for no reason really. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: That Time eBay's Private Spies Went To War With Some Bloggers
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Robert and Jason continue the thrilling story of this Jim Baugh and Ebay's war against some elderly bloggers.
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CZM Rewind: Part One: The Last Days of L. Ron Hubbard
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Robert is joined by Michael Swaim and Abe Epperson to discuss the end of L. Ron Hubbard's life.
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CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Last Days of L. Ron Hubbard
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Robert is joined again by Michael Swaim and Abe Epperson to continue to discuss the end of L. Ron Hubbard's life.
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Part One: Curtis Yarvin: The Philosopher Behind J.D. Vance
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Robert sits down with the great Ed Helms to discuss Curtis Yarvin, the American philosopher of dictatorship whose ideas inspired J.D. Vance. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: Curtis Yarvin: The Philosopher Behind J.D. Vance
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Robert concludes the story of Curtis Yarvin, and explains to Ed Helms how he went from pseudonymous weirdo with a blog to part of the right-wing power structure.
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Part One: The Inventor of Those 'Troubled Teen' Wilderness Camps Where They Kill Kids
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Robert sits down with Mara Wilson to discuss the man behind those camps that kidnap teenagers and torture them in the desert. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: The Inventor of Those 'Troubled Teen' Wilderness Camps Where They Kill Kids
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Robert and Mara conclude the story of Steve Cartisano with a truly shocking number of illegal open air child torture camps.
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Part One: Apollo Quiboloy: The Jeffrey Epstein of the Philippines
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Robert sits down with Prop to discuss Apollo Quiboloy, the Pentacostal cult leader known as 'the Jeffery Epstein of the Philippines'. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: Apollo Quiboloy: The Jeffrey Epstein of the Philippines
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Robert and Prop conclude the story of the Filipino Jeffrey Epstein with his exciting near-Waco arrest.
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Part One: America's First Fascist Governor
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Garrison Davis is joined by Robert Evans to discuss Eugene Talmadge, the racist southern country lawyer who became a dictator. (4 Part Series)
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Part Two: America's First Fascist Governor
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Garrison and Robert continue the tale of Gene Talmadge with his first military style coup of Georgia and his battle against FDR.
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Part Three: America's First Fascist Governor
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Garrison and Robert return to discuss Eugene Talmadge’s takeover of state finances and his fight against the new deal.
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Part Four: America's First Fascist Governor
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Garrison is joined by Robert to conclude the story of Eugene Talmadge and how his campaign for a White Supremacist Georgia lead to his death.
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Part One: The History of American Masculinity Grifters
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Robert sits down with Miles Gray to give a history of American Masculinity Grifters, and the media-created fears of a 'crisis' in masculinity. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: The History of American Masculinity Grifters
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Robert and Miles talk about the mid-century crisis in American masculinity and then catch up to the modern era, and Gamergate.
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Part One: How Peter Thiel Became the Gravedigger of Democracy
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Robert sits down with Noah Shachtman to discuss the life and times of Peter Thiel, the demon investor of Silicon Valley and would-be assassin of democracy. (4 Part Series)
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Part Two: How Peter Thiel Became the Gravedigger of Democracy
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We discuss Peter Thiel's rise to PayPal CEO, his betrayal of Elon Musk, and the birth of the technology that became Palantir.
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Part Three: How Peter Thiel Became the Gravedigger of Democracy
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Robert tells Noah how Peter Thiel went to war against Gawker and also completely whiffed on profiting from the 2008 financial crash. Bonus: how Palantir enabled a bunch of creepy corporate security types to stalk their girlfriends, each other.
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Part Four: How Peter Thiel Became the Gravedigger of Democracy
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Robert and Noah conclude the story of Peter Thiel, who just might get the corporate god king he's dreamed about.
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Part One: How Lawrence of Arabia Invented Modern War
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Robert tells Margaret Killjoy the whole story of Lawrence of Arabia, a British imperialist, hopeless romantic and asexual icon who invented the concept of modern insurgent war. Through it all we ask: was he a bastard? (4 Part Series)
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Part Two: How Lawrence of Arabia Invented Modern War
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Robert is joined again by Margaret Killjoy to continue our series on Lawrence of Arabia.
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Part Three: How Lawrence of Arabia Invented Modern War
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Robert tells Margaret how to scientifically shatter a bridge the T.E. Lawrence way, and how Lawrence crippled the transportation infrastructure of a mighty empire using some guys with camels and sacks of flour.
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Part Four: How Lawrence of Arabia Invented Modern War
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Robert concludes the story of T.E. Lawrence by getting into the real bastardry of his life, including a pretty heinous war crime!
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CZM Rewind: Part One: Dr. Oz: Why 'America's Doctor' Is A Bastard
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It's a CZM Rewind week! Enjoy this old, but prescient, episode where Robert is joined by Matt Lieb to discuss Dr. Oz.
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CZM Rewind: Part Two: Dr. Oz: Why 'America's Doctor' Is A Bastard
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It's still a CZM Rewind week! Enjoy the second part of this unfortunately prescient episode where Robert is joined by Matt Lieb to discuss Dr. Oz.
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We Read Marjorie Taylor Green's Book
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Sophie reads Marjorie Taylor Green's book to Jamie and Robert.
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We Read Newt Gingrich's World War 2 Alternate History
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Robert sits down and explains former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's alt-history novel to Molly Conger. If you've ever wondered what would happen if the Nazis invaded Tennessee well, here it is.
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Part One: The Vioxx Scandal: How Big Pharma Killed More Americans Than Vietnam
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Robert sits down with Dr. Kaveh Hoda to talk about Vioxx, a pain medication released by pharmaceutical giant Merck even though they knew it caused fatal heart attacks. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: The Vioxx Scandal: How Big Pharma Killed More Americans Than Vietnam
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Robert and Kaveh conclude the thrilling sort of how Merck killed 55,000 Americans with Vioxx and then convinced the media they were the good guys somehow.
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Part One: P. Diddy: A Life in Crimes
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Robert sits down with his friend, Grammy-award winning audio engineer Greazy Wil, to talk about Sean "P Diddy" Combs, a sex criminal who killed way more people than you'd expect. (3 Part Series)
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Part Two: P. Diddy: A Life in Crimes
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Robert and Wil discuss the east coast / west coast rap war that Diddy helped orchestrate, as well as just, an awful lot of sex crimes.
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Part Three: P. Diddy: A Life in Crimes
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Robert is joined again by Wil Anspach to conclude our 3 part series on Diddy.
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Part One: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon
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Robert and Margaret sit down for their annual anti-bastard episode about one of America's greatest heroes, folk musician Woody Guthrie. (2 Part Series)
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Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon
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Robert is joined again by Margaret Killjoy for part two of our holiday non bastard episode about Woody Guthrie.
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Part One: Behind the Bastards Q&A: Year's End Edition
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Robert and Sophie sit down to answer your most burning questions and also maybe light some of you on fire depending on the questions you asked. (2 parts)