Behind the Bastards

Robert is joined by Miles Gray to discuss the history of priests and plagues.

Footnotes:

1. Popular televangelist: 'We don't have a flu season'
2. Evangelical Trump adviser tells people to skip flu shots in favor of prayer
3. Liturgical Processions in the Black Death
4. THE BLACK DEATH AND ITS IMPACT ON THE CHURCH AND POPULAR RELIGION
5. The Black Death of Cats
6. Priests and the Black Death
7. When a Third of the World Died
8. Negative Shocks and Mass Persecutions
9. How a South Korean church helped fuel the spread of the coronavirus
10. Shadowy Church Is at Center of Coronavirus Outbreak in South Korea
11. Without guidance from the top, Americans have been left to figure out their own coronavirus solutions
12. One pastor was so outraged by church ban during Spanish flu that he went to jail
13. Resolution, addressed to City Council, Los Angeles, written by First Chuch of Christ, Scientist
14. In Italy and beyond, churches grapple with coronavirus
15. 'Superspreader' in South Korea infects nearly 40 people with coronavirus
16. The 1918 “Spanish Flu” in Spain

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Robert is joined again by Sofiya Alexandra to continue discussing Narendra Modi.

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Robert is joined by Sofiya Alexandra to discuss Narendra Modi.

Footnotes:

1. The Delhi pogrom 2020 is Amit Shah’s answer to an election defeat
2. What Happened in Delhi Was a Pogrom
3. Hitler Film Reveals India's Nazi Fascination
4. World's Biggest Toilet-building Program in India Gets Mixed Results
5. Hitler’s Hindus: The Rise and Rise of India’s Nazi-loving Nationalists
6. Humble Beginnings: The Early Years
7. In pictures: Narendra Modi's early life
8. Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India
9. PM Modi turns 69: As a child Narendra Modi joined NCC, wanted to serve in the Army
10. Modi: From tea boy to India's leader
11. Personal Life Story
12. Narendra Modi: man of the masses
13. Modi to youth: If you don’t make sacrifice in battle today, history will curse you tomorrow
14. The Unbearable Loneliness of Narendra Modi

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Robert is joined by Katy Stoll and Cody Johnston for a reading of Kurt Saxon's Survivor Magazine.

Footnotes:

1. The Survivor PDF

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Robert is joined by Jamie Loftus to discuss pandemic grifters.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Gwyneth Paltrow blasted for hawking fancy outfit amid coronavirus pandemic
2. Makeup Mogul Michelle Phan’s Coronavirus Strategy Is Educate and HODL Bitcoin
3. Dr. Pimple Popper shut down beauty guru Michelle Phan's claim that burning 'antiviral' essential oils can kill off viruses before they enter your system
4. As Coronavirus Spreads, Hastily Produced Books Capitalize on Fear
5. Alex Jones’ Infowars is attempting to profit from the coronavirus outbreak
6. Televangelist ordered by New York attorney general to stop promoting ‘cure’ for coronavirus
7. “Eat More Onions!”
8. Spanish flu: The deadliest pandemic in history
9. Coronavirus Scam Alert: Beware Fake Fox News Articles Promising A CBD Oil Cure
10. Giant Silver Solution Bundle

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Robert is joined live for SF Sketchfest by David X. Cohen to discuss Soldier of Fortune Magazine.

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Robert is joined LIVE from Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles by Billy Wayne Davis to discuss Soldier of Fortune Magazine.

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Robert is joined by Caitlin Durante to discuss free birthers.

FOOTNOTES:

1. About Yolande
2. Rise of the 'free birthers': These women are choosing to give birth without medical help — and at least one baby has died
3. Home birth advocate’s baby dies during free birth, prompts questions
4. An Infant’s Death Has Sparked A Heated Debate Around The "Free Birth" Movement
5. She Wanted a ‘Freebirth’ at Home. When the Baby Died, the Attacks Began
6. Why American infant mortality rates are so high
7. Home births 'as safe as hospital'
8. Woman: Doctor Told Me to “Shut Up and Push”
9. What Is "Birth Rape"?
10. Birthrape. Birthrape. Birthrape. Birthrape. Birthrape.
11. The hallmark of women who choose freebirth: emotional immaturity
12. Home deliveries
13. Emilee Saldaya is as ethically responsible for baby Journey Moon’s death as if she had taken out a gun and shot her
14. Radical Birth Keeper Consultation
15. Rise in ‘freebirthing’ suggests women feel midwives and doctors are ignoring their needs
16. Why do some women choose to freebirth? A meta-thematic synthesis, part one
17. Free Birth Society Instagram

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Robert is joined by DJ Danl Goodman to discuss Jack Parsons and Black Magic Scientology.

FOOTNOTES:

1. The Mysterious Mr. Parsons — Life at the Crossroads of Crowley and Hubbard
2. Occultist father of rocketry 'written out' of Nasa's history
3. Black Magic and Betty
4. SCIENTOLOGY: Revealed for the first time. . .
5. ALEISTER CROWLEY
6. A Correction of the Falsehoods in Lawrence Wright's Book on Scientology
7. Hymn to Pan
8. Jack Parsons and the Occult Roots of JPL

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Robert is joined by Molly Lambert to discuss the Bastards Who Covered Up Climate Change.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Exxon accused of misleading investors on climate change
2. An investor enquiry: how much big oil spends on climate lobbying
3. Column: A new study shows how Exxon Mobil downplayed climate change when it knew the problem was real
4. Exxon’s Climate Concealment
5. Shell Knew Fossil Fuels Created Climate Change Risks Back in 1980s, Internal Documents Show
6. Shell and Exxon's secret 1980s climate change warnings
7. On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming
8. Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate
9. Did ExxonMobil Just Admit It’s Still Funding Climate Science Deniers?
10. Corporate funding and ideological polarization about climate change
11. Two-faced Exxon: the misinformation campaign against its own scientists
12. Rex Tillerson to oil industry: Not sure humans can do anything to battle climate change
13. Exxon May Have Erased 7 Years of Tillerson's 'Wayne Tracker' Emails, Witness Says
14. Rex Tillerson Testifies, Denying Exxon Misled Investors About Climate Risk
15. ‘All Rhetoric and No Action’: Oil Giants Spent $1 Billion on Climate Lobbying and Ads Since Paris Pact, Says Report
16. The new science fossil fuel companies fear
17. Report details how ExxonMobil and fossil fuel firms sowed seeds of doubt on climate change

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