Behind the Bastards

Robert is joined again by Vic Berger to continue discussing Televangelist, Jim Bakker.

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Robert is joined by Vic Berger to discuss Televangelist, Jim Bakker.

FOOTNOTES:

1. PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire
2. Touching Empathy
3. The “Real” Reason Televangelist Jim Bakker Went to Jail
4. What happened to Tammy Faye Bakker after the PTL scandal?
5. Jim Bakker is Still Here
6. The Second Coming Of Televangelist Jim Bakker
7. Where Are They Now?: Jim Bakker
8. Jim Bakker's Christian amusement park is now a post-apocalyptic ghost town
9. Jim Bakker Freed From Jail To Stay in a Halfway House
10. 1987: Jim Bakker resigns from PTL; Jerry Falwell assumes leadership
11. Interview with Jessica Hahn
12. About Pastor Jim
13. The scandals that brought down the Bakkers, once among US's most famous televangelists
14. Televangelist Jim Bakker’s Road to Redemption
15. Apocalypse Chow: We Tried Televangelist Jim Bakker's 'Survival Food'

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Robert is joined by Billy Wayne Davis to discuss how the bleach church continues to spread.

FOOTNOTES:

1. “Church” claims bleach is coronavirus-curing “sacrament,” faces wrath of FDA
2. How many letters does the president receive daily? 
3. Coronavirus: Leader of group that believes bleach is miracle cure for Covid-19 wrote to Trump
4. A fringe movement that claims bleach is a miracle cure is jubilant after Trump floated injecting disinfectant as a treatment for COVID-19
5. The Genesis II Church of Health & Healing
6. Alan Keyes Is Helping Sell a Toxic Bleach ‘Cure’ to the Vulnerable and Desperate
7. Fake Coronavirus Cures, Part 1: MMS is Industrial Bleach
8. Advocates of a toxic bleach fake 'miracle cure' are telling desperate people it can cure the coronavirus in thriving groups on Telegram
9. Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week
10. Bleach Salesman Who Wrote Trump About "Miracle Cure" Investigated by Feds in Miami
11. 20/20 Investigation into a Church accused of selling snake oil has Tampa Bay area ties

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Robert is joined by Billy Wayne Davis to discuss Black Salve.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Science or Snake Oil: what is black salve?
2. Black salve in a nutshell
3. Victorian Pharmacology V: Jesse Weldon Fell, M.D., Zinc Chloride & Furtive Medicine
4. Warning Letter to Two Feathers
5. Using Two Feathers Healing Formula
6. Black Salve Is A Dangerous Fake Cancer Cure, But It Continues To Flourish In Facebook Groups
7. Cancer 'healer' turned fake lawyer banned from Victorian courts
8. She was a nurse. So why did Helen shun conventional cancer treatment?
9. 'Spiritual healer' told dying cancer patient to stop medical treatment, authorities say
10. 'Black salve' cancer conman banned from treating patients

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Robert is joined by Spencer Crittenden to continue to discuss The Battle of Blair Mountain.

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Robert is joined by Spencer Crittenden to discuss The Battle of Blair Mountain.

FOOTNOTES:

1. The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising
2. ‘Rape Rooms’: How West Virginia Women Paid Off Coal Company Debts
3. New Evidence for the Gutman-Hill Debate
4. What was the Esau scrip?
5. “Store Pay Is Our Ruin”: The Tyranny of the Company Store
6. Mountaineer Mine Wars
7. The Coal Mining Massacre America Forgot
8. The Devil Is Here in These Hills
9. Underground Coal Mine Disasters 1900 - 2010

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Robert is joined again by Soren Bowie to continue discussing explorer, Henry Morton Stanley.

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Robert is joined by Soren Bowie to discuss Henry Morton Stanley.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Stanley: Africa's Greatest Explorer
2. The Imperial History Wars: Debating the British Empire
3. Henry Morton Stanley’s Unbreakable Will
4. Stanley: the impossible life of Africa's greatest explorer
5. Henry Morton Stanley: Reborn in New Orleans
6. Henry Morton Stanley and His Critics: Geography, Exploration and Empire
7.  Example of Stanley's Congo Treaties 
8. King Leopold's Ghost
9. Henry Stanley, The Man Who Stole The Congo
10. An Apology for a Pathological Brute
11. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

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Robert is joined by Billy Wayne Davis for a bonus episode inspired by the Netflix series, Tiger King.

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Robert is joined by Katy Stoll and Cody Johnston for a reading of Ben Shapiro's book.

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