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.
- 54 minutes 49 secondsPart Two: The Grifters Behind The Fake Autism 'Cure' Industry
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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3 April 2025, 9:00 am - 1 hour 10 minutesPart One: The Grifters Behind The Fake Autism 'Cure' Industry
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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1 April 2025, 9:00 am - 3 hours 17 minutesIt Could Happen Here Weekly 175
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
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Rendition to El Salvador: How the Trump Administration Is Sending Asylum Seekers to Labor Camps
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Miniature Ethnic Cleansing: Encampment Sweeps in Oakland
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Should You Flee the United States?
- Elon Musk Has Lost the Gamers
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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #9
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Sources/Links:
Elon Musk Has Lost the Gamers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ykCc588Zw
https://thecourier.com/news/549130/browns-need-to-start-asking-questions-about-depodesta/
https://g-mnews.com/en/global-games-market-will-generate-usd-187-7-billion-in-2024/
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #9
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12581
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9930/
https://x.com/presssec/status/1904875629612331123?s=46
https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1904884072763044089
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-deportation-flights-el-salvador-doubles-down/
https://x.com/David_J_Bier/status/1904526812434084143
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29 March 2025, 4:00 am -
- 49 minutes 21 secondsPart Two: How Tainted Human Blood Became A Major U.S. Export
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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27 March 2025, 9:00 am - 1 hour 8 minutesPart One: How Tainted Human Blood Became A Major U.S. Export
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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25 March 2025, 9:00 am - 2 hours 56 minutesIt Could Happen Here Weekly 174
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
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Understanding Rojava’s Tishrin Dam Resistance
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Anarchism In Uruguay feat. Andrew, Pt. 1
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Chuck Schumer and the Collaborators
- Behind the Tesla Attacks
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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #8
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Sources/Links:
Chuck Schumer and the Collaborators
https://apnews.com/article/dc-budget-trump-congress-gop-29738c7281955d77075c8b98009f860e
https://apnews.com/article/house-gop-budget-trump-tax-cuts-agenda-7d29a6840fa474b841228d20e5e96b55
https://time.com/7268499/senate-democrats-budget-vote/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/republican-spending-bill
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/schumer-trump-budget-senate-dems-aoc/
https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/250308_johnsons_yearlong_crpdf.pdf
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/politics/democrats-gop-government-funding-bill/index.html
Behind the Tesla Attacks
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-buy-new-tesla-show-support-musk-2025-03-11/
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/trump-musk-tesla-white-house-showroom-buys-car-rcna195905
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114141854575248527
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/01/business/tesla-takedown-musk-doge/index.html
https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown
https://abcnews.go.com/US/tesla-vehicles-destroyed-vandalized-musk-began-role-white/story?id=119677836
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/03/14/tesla-boycotts-turn-violent-reports-of-vandalism-and-worse-timeline/
https://www.jalopnik.com/1804358/thieves-steel-44-wheels-tesla-storage-lot/
https://southtahoenow.com/03/13/2025/tesla-superchargers-vandalized-again-in-meyers#:~:text=Damaged%20Tesla%20supercharger%20in%20Meyers,6600https://www.salemreporter.com/2025/03/05/salem-man-accused-of-shooting-window-throwing-molotov-cocktail-at-tesla-dealership/
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/crime/2025/03/05/tesla-dealership-shooting-molotov-cocktails-salem-oregon/81666562007/
https://www.justice.gov/usao-co/pr/lyons-resident-charged-connection-series-incidents-loveland-tesla-dealership
https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2025/03/14/vandalism-at-loveland-colorado-tesla-dealership-leads-to-another-arrest/82415599007/
https://komonews.com/news/local/four-tesla-cybertrucks-destroyed-in-fire-in-seattles-sodo-neighborhood-elon-musk-doge-federal-jobs-cut-protests-seattle-fire-department-investigation
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/several-vehicle-set-on-fire-at-tesla-in-las-vegas-police-say-3322726/https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250303-dozen-teslas-torched-outside-french-dealership-authorities
https://apnews.com/article/germany-tesla-factory-berlin-arson-9d66c3efa104d03244bd2c4d920c35a0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/08/elon-musk-tesla-protest-violence-vandalism/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2025/03/18/tesla-stock-slides-another-6-as-more-firms-warn-of-musk-led-companys-sales-woes/
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-stock-decline-jp-morgan-analyst-guidance-2025-3
https://insideevs.com/news/746064/byd-beats-tesla-ev-production/https://www.npr.org/2025/02/27/nx-s1-5311609/tesla-sales-europe
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5325321/elon-musk-tesla-politics-republican-buyers-sales
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5328626/elon-musk-protests-tesla-takedown
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899106551270375660https://x.com/MrPitbull07/status/1899107163232190950
https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1899129877972013112
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1898369343399899218
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #8
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/17/politics/deportation-flights-judge-timeline/index.html
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/doj-alien-enemies-act-deportation-flights-rcna196907
https://x.com/PressSec/status/1901584664906682833
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114183576937425149
https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1902394620748657019
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.38.0_1.pdf
https://insideevs.com/news/753730/tesla-insurance-vandalism-elon-musk/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/us/politics/trump-tariffs.html
https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/diplomatic-row-french-trumpr-researcher-expelled-from-terrorism-us/
https://thehoya.com/news/developing-gu-researcher-detained-by-immigration-agents/
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/trump-deportation-georgetown-graduate-student-00239754
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22 March 2025, 4:00 am -
- 1 hour 20 minutesPart Four: The Zizian Murder Spree (or Exactly How Harry Potter Fanfic Killed A Border Patrol Agent)
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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20 March 2025, 9:00 am - 1 hour 5 minutesPart Three: How The Zizians Went Full On Death Cult
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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18 March 2025, 9:00 am - 3 hours 41 secondsIt Could Happen Here Weekly 173
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
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How the State Created Elon Musk
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Candace Owens' Hollywood Tabloid Pivot feat. Bridget Todd
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Mahmoud Khalil's Arrest and What Comes Next
- Nate Silver: The Smoothest Brain On The Internet
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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #7
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Sources/Links:
How the State Created Elon Musk
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sg0782h
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/09/tesla-clean-credits-trump
https://www.aol.com/report-says-elon-musks-businesses-170042735.html?
Mahmoud Khalil's Arrest and What Comes Next
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/additional-measures-to-combat-anti-semitism/
https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1388516/dl?inline
https://theintercept.com/2025/02/15/columbia-alumni-israel-whatsapp-deport-gaza-protesters/
https://x.com/dhsgov/status/1898908955675357314?s=46&t=F-n6cTZFsKgvr1yQ7oHXRg
https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1897776709778211044
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114139222625284782
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #7
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/business/china-tariffs-us.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trade-tensions-china-canada-retaliate-us-tariffs-rcna194645
https://apnews.com/article/trump-eu-tariffs-countermeasures-806a3b9bcc9cd4e45817e672d95f0070
https://fortune.com/asia/2025/03/11/citi-downgrades-us-upgrades-china-trump-recession/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/trump-tariffs-house-gop-vote.html
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15 March 2025, 4:00 am -
- 1 hour 17 minutesPart Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader
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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13 March 2025, 9:00 am - 1 hour 12 minutesPart One: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult
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 sits down with David Gborie to trace their development, from part of the Bay Area Rationalist subculture to killers.
(4 Part series)
Sources:
- https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-ziz-76c100180509
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130318/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/
- https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/infohazard
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130316/https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative/
- Wayback Machine
- The Zizians
- Spectral Sight
- True Hero Contract
- Schelling Orders – Sinceriously
- Glossary – Sinceriously
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130330/https://sinceriously.fyi/my-journey-to-the-dark-side/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130302/https://sinceriously.fyi/glossary/#zentraidon
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130259/https://sinceriously.fyi/vampires-and-more-undeath/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130316/https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130318/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/
- https://x.com/orellanin?s=21&t=F-n6cTZFsKgvr1yQ7oHXRg
- https://zizians.info/
- according to The Boston Globe
- Inside the ‘Zizians’: How a cultish crew of radical vegans became linked to killings across the United States | The Independent
- Silicon Valley ‘Rationalists’ Linked to 6 Deaths
- The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians | WIRED
- Good Group and Pasek’s Doom – Sinceriously
- Glossary – Sinceriously
- Mana – Sinceriously
- Effective Altruism’s Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - Bloomberg
- The Zizian Facts - Google Docs
- Several free CFAR summer programs on rationality and AI safety - LessWrong 2.0 viewer
- This guy thinks killing video game characters is immoral | Vox
- Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
- Eliezer Yudkowsky comments on On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics - LessWrong 2.0 viewer
- Effective Altruism’s Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - Bloomberg
- SquirrelInHell: Happiness Is a Chore
- PLUM OF DISCORD — I Became a Full-time Internet Pest and May Not...
- Roko Harassment of PlumOfDiscord Composited – Sinceriously
- Intersex Brains And Conceptual Warfare – Sinceriously
- Infohazardous Glossary – Sinceriously
- SquirrelInHell-Decision-Theory-and-Suicide.pdf - Google Drive
- The Matrix is a System – Sinceriously
- A community alert about Ziz. Police investigations, violence, and… | by SefaShapiro | Medium
- Intersex Brains And Conceptual Warfare – Sinceriously
- A community alert about Ziz. Police investigations, violence, and… | by SefaShapiro | Medium
- PLUM OF DISCORD (Posts tagged cw-abuse)
- Timeline: Violence surrounding the Zizians leading to Border Patrol agent shooting
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