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.
- 1 hour 4 minutesPart Three: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia
Robert and Dave continue with Prince Mohammed Bin Salman's early adult years and rise to power.
Full video episodes of Behind the Bastards are now streaming on Netflix dropping every Tuesday and Thursday! Hit “Remind Me” on Netflix so you don’t miss an episode - Netflix.com/behindthebastards
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27 January 2026, 10:00 am - 3 hours 3 minutesIt Could Happen Here Weekly 216
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- The Campaign to Free Albeiro From ICE
- The Alleged Far-Left Bombing Plot
- Why the Federal Reserve Crisis Matters
- Executive Disorder: ICE in Minneapolis, Greenland, DAVOS, Iran & Syria
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Sources/Links:
The Campaign to Free Albeiro From ICE
The Alleged Far-Left Bombing Plot
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/turtle-island-indictment.pdf
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26378204-tilf-complaint-signed-redacted/
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26379390-08918333876/
https://www.instagram.com/turtleislandliberationfrontla/
Why the Federal Reserve Crisis Matters
https://fortune.com/2025/08/09/trump-fed-pick-stephen-miran-existential-threat-central-bank-independence/
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/supreme-court-weighs-trumps-firing-feds-lisa-cook-by-social-media-2026-01-20/
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/powell-could-stay-at-fed-even-after-being-removed-as-chair.html
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RPONTSYD#
https://apnews.com/article/jerome-powell-federal-reserve-trump-af06d80b28be9c8a5de9c3b2fe33fa3d
https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/the-fed-explained.htm
https://www.cfr.org/articles/mar-lago-accord-not-recipe-success
https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr1047.html
https://fortune.com/2025/08/08/what-to-know-about-stephen-miran-the-tariff-proponent-trump-just-nominated-to-join-the-feds-board-of-governors/
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sg0782h
https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/goldvault.html
https://libcom.org/article/debt-first-5000-years-david-graeber
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/greenspanput.asp
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-fed-chair-search-becoming-163021470.html
https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/more-about-what-we-do
https://www.stlouisfed.org/in-plain-english/who-owns-the-federal-reserve-banks
https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20260111a.htm
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/19/politics/supreme-court-shield-federal-reserve-from-donald-trumpExecutive Disorder: ICE in Minneapolis, Greenland, DAVOS, Iran & Syria
Fundraiser: https://heyvasor.com/en/2026/01/19/urgent-call-for-humanitarian-aid-for-rojava/
https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/2011965846739173833
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/ice-shooting-minneapolis-charges.html
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/01/15/dhs-releases-more-details-about-three-violent-criminal-illegal-aliens-who-violently
https://x.com/MnDPS_DPS/status/2012614253090619619?s=20
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/active-duty-soldiers-standby-possible-deployment-minneapolis/
https://www.citieschurch.com/leadership
https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/2013093526867689835
https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/senate-bill/636
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AjH7MbFrd/
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2013283898935882195?s=20
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-grants-president-donald-j-trump-2025-present
https://x.com/PressSec/status/2014020416860573726?s=20
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115911344443637897
https://www.forsvaret.dk/en/news/2026/exercise-arctic-endurance-continues-to-develop/
https://x.com/vonderleyen/status/2012608782593827232
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7ynwzn8pqo
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115925848634299232
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115926107400617491
https://www.regjeringen.no/en/whats-new/statement-from-the-prime-minister/id3146486/
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2026/01/article-167
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r4957rq8ro
https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2675/oj/eng
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2026/01/20/eu-anti-coercion-instrument-trump-greenland-tariffs/
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/eu-trade-deal-trump-greenland-tariff-rcna255199
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-eu-magical-mystery-trade-weapon-other-options-donald-trump/
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/21/trump-tariffs-nato-greenland-davos.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g5345ylk0o
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24 January 2026, 5:00 am - 49 minutes 58 secondsPart Two: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia
Robert continues the early history of Mohammed Bin Salman and the House of Saud.
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22 January 2026, 10:00 am - 55 minutes 54 secondsPart One: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia
Robert sits down with David Bell to tell the life story of MBS, the crown prince and ruler behind the scenes of the Saudi Kingdom.
(4 Part Series)
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20 January 2026, 10:00 am - 3 hours 27 minutesIt Could Happen Here Weekly 215
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- AI Robot Slaves and other CES Miracles
- Best and Worst (non AI) Products at CES
- What’s Happening in Iran?
- What Happened in 2025 with Andrew
- Executive Disorder: Portland Shooting, the FED, Visa Pause & Turtle Island Liberation Front
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Sources/Links:
What’s Happening in Iran?
https://www.instagram.com/hengaw_english?igsh=MTZ3Z29qd3h6YzVlMA==
https://www.instagram.com/ali.javanmardi?igsh=ODV2cGZzaXk2Z3dt
https://www.instagram.com/soran.mansournia?igsh=OWFhNDdtMTRtNzl0
https://www.instagram.com/kurdistanipeople?igsh=MTI3Y3kwZ3V0N3Zvag==
What Happened in 2025 with Andrew
https://wmo.int/media/news/fao-and-wmo-report-highlights-extreme-heat-risks-agriculture
https://chimpreports.com/un-warns-as-somalia-drought-crisis-deepens-hunger/
https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cams-tracks-extreme-july-wildfire-activity-both-sides-atlantic
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5w5nyd5xzo
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/25/peru-youth-protesters-state-of-emergency-gen-z
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2025/country-chapters/israel-and-palestine
https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/power-struggle-sudan
https://cdn.sida.se/app/uploads/2020/08/15103021/Yemen-HCA-2025.pdf
https://www.stimson.org/2025/too-little-too-late-china-steps-up-military-aid-to-myanmars-junta/
Executive Disorder: Portland Shooting, the FED, Visa Pause & Turtle Island Liberation Front
https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-synagogue-arson-jewish-south-0e489adc986bfaddd55662075bdb6443
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26378204-tilf-complaint-signed-redacted/
https://www.syriahr.com/en/376284/
https://www.syriahr.com/en/376282/
https://www.syriahr.com/en/376266/
https://x.com/deborahlipstadt/status/2010387174651490769?s=20
https://www.landtag.nrw.de/portal/WWW/dokumentenarchiv/Dokument/MMD17-5076.pdf
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.229.1.pdf
https://georgetown.app.box.com/v/AO-CaseAssignments-061825
https://georgetown.app.box.com/v/AO-NDOs-120125
https://x.com/StateDept/status/2011478657680757214?s=20
https://x.com/StateDept/status/2010740549469557010?s=20
https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2009427948541993323
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/12/congress/mark-kelly-pete-hegseth-lawsuit-00722382
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20260111a.htm
https://apnews.com/article/trump-powell-federal-reserve-d87eedf1e35195957f903f9963aeaf99
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.pr260113~ec4630b9fa.en.html
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17 January 2026, 5:00 am - 33 minutes 31 secondsPart Two: Behind the Bastards Q&A: 2026 Edition
Robert and Sophie continue to answer listener questions.
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15 January 2026, 10:00 am - 28 minutes 20 secondsPart One: Behind the Bastards Q&A: 2026 Edition
Happy New Year, Robert and Sophie sit down and answer listener questions.
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13 January 2026, 10:00 am - 3 hours 27 minutesIt Could Happen Here Weekly 214
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- 2025 Q&A
- 2026 Predictions
- Trump Kidnaps Venezuelan President Maduro
- Inside Our AI Future: Report from CES
- Executive Disorder: Minneapolis ICE Shooting, Maduro, Iran & Aleppo Update
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Sources/Links:
Executive Disorder: Minneapolis ICE Shooting, Maduro, Iran & Aleppo Update
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115850817778602689
https://x.com/war_noir/status/2008927274326761631?s=20
Https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/our-response-israel-gaza-war
https://files.constantcontact.com/7fef1c1f901/78a97f42-d0ad-4077-94b0-1e3300697e20.pdf?rdr=true
https://www.defendrojava.org/news/ecr-statement-on-the-situation-in-aleppo
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/us/marimar-martinez-shooting-case-what-we-know
https://mprnews.org/story/2026/01/07/shooting-south-minneapolis-ice-agents-federal-operation
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10 January 2026, 5:00 am - 1 hour 4 minutesCZM Rewind: Part Two: How Cigarettes Invented Everything
Robert is joined again by James Stout to continue to discuss the Tobacco Industry.
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8 January 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 11 minutesCZM Rewind: Part One: How Cigarettes Invented Everything
Robert is joined by James Stout to discuss the Tobacco Industry.
(2 part series)
- https://daily.jstor.org/a-brief-history-of-tobacco-in-america/
- https://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/james-buchananduke-father-of-the-modern-cigarette-by-william-kremer/comment-page-1/
- https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/eaa/tobacco.html
- https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/eaa/duke-doc.html
- https://sites.middlebury.edu/smokingkills/forms-of-tobacco-advertisement/ https://csts.ua.edu/files/2016/09/A-History-of-Tobacco-Trading
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5402187/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490543/?report=classic#bib3 https://www.jstor.org/stable/40469740
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470496/?report=classic
- https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Cigarette/JX6mDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
- http://www.cigarettecentury.com/
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6 January 2026, 10:00 am - 2 hours 26 minutesCZM Rewind: How The Zizians Went Full On Death Cult & The Zizian Murder Spree (or Exactly How Harry Potter Fanfic Killed A Border Patrol Agent)
Part Three: 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.
Part Four: 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.
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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