Behind the Bastards

Behind the Bastards

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Behind the Bastards episodes

  • Part One: The Founding Father of Fake Cancer Cures

    Robert is joined by Billy Wayne Davis to discuss Harry Hoxsey, the fake Cancer-Curing Alex Jones of the 1950s!

    FOOTNOTES:

    1. Cancer War: The FDA Vs. Harry Hoxsey
    2. HOXSEY, HARRY M.
    3. The Medical Messiahs: Chapter 17
    4. The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery 
    5. Nature Doctors
    6. The History of The Hoxsey Formula in Cancer Support
    7. Hoxsey Herbal Therapy
    8. Carrying their last hopes, ill Americans cross border

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    1 hr 14 min
  • Part One: The Dumbest Colonizer in History

    Robert is joined by Miles Gray to discuss William Walker, the American who tried to conquer Central America.

    FOOTNOTES:

    1. Mercenary Hero William Walker
    2. Filibusters and Financiers: The Story of William Walker and His Associates [1916] 
    3. William Walker's Wars: How One Man's Private American Army Tried to Conquer Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras
    4. The Texas Press William Walker in Nicaragua 
    5. William Walker’s Dark Destiny
    6. Costa Rica in 1856: Defeating William Walker While Creating a National Identity.
    7. Agents of Empire
    8. The Grey Eyed Man of Destiny

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    1 hr 12 min
  • Part One: Basil Zaharoff: The Man Who Sold World War One

    Robert is joined by Teresa Lee to discuss Basil Zaharoff, The First Great Arms Dealer.


    FOOTNOTES:

    1. Man of Arms: The Life and Legend of Sir Basil Zaharoff
    2. Men Of Wealth: The Story Of Twelve Significant Fortunes From The Renaissance To The Present Day 
    3. Arms Race prior to 1914, Armament Policy
    4. A scandal of international proportions comes out of the vaults
    5. The Mysterious Mr. Zedzed: The Wickedest Man in the World
    6. The Soviets and Tsarist Debt
    7. ZACHARIA BASILIUS ZACHAROFF

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Part One: Savitri Devi: The Woman Who Turned Nazism into a Religion

    Robert is joined by Jamie Loftus to discuss Hitler's Priestess, Savitri Devi.

    FOOTNOTES:

    1. Hitler's Priestess
    2. Twitter Photo
    3. Savitri Devi: The strange story of how a Hindu Hitler worshipper became an alt-right icon
    4. Why white supremacists and Hindu nationalists are so alike
    5. The Man Who Brought the Swastika to Germany, and How the Nazis Stole It
    6. Ritualistic Cat Torture Was Once a Form of Town Fun
    7. The Great Cat Massacre: French History Revealed by the Americans
    8. Savitri Devi: The mystical fascist being resurrected by the alt-right
    9. Hitler is Homeless in Vienna
    10. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CULT EXPERIENCE
    11.  HINDUISM AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM
    12. Priestess of Hitlerism: Savitri Devi
    13. The Death of Adolf Hitler
    14. Savitri Devi Wiki
    15. Savitri Devi
    16. From Christchurch to India: How India’s RSS Inspires White Nationalist Violence
    17. Feuerkrieg Division (FKD)

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    1 hr 23 min
  • The Childhood of Joseph Stalin

    Robert is joined by Cody Johnston to discuss the childhood of Stalin.


    FOOTNOTES:

    1. Stalin as a Theological Student
    2. The Finnish City Where Lenin Met Stalin Still Lives in Russia's Shadow
    3. On the Origin and Significance of the Name "Stalin"
    4. Stalin, from Child to Bolshevik Leader
    5. HOW STALIN BECAME STALINIST
    6. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 
    7. Young Stalin

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    1 hr 2 min
  • How Hobby Lobby Funded Terrorism And Tried To Destroy Democracy

    Robert is joined by Cody Johnston to discuss Hobby Lobby.


    FOOTNOTES:

    1. Meet David Green: Hobby Lobby's Biblical Billionaire
    2. Some thoughts on the Hobby Lobby antiquities case
    3. Hobby Lobby’s Legal Expert Speaks: “I can’t rule out…they used my advice to evade the law.”
    4. The Green collection and the Museum of the Bible: 443,000 square meters of mess
    5. Dispelling the Myths Around the Hobby Lobby Antiquities Case
    6. DID HOBBY LOBBY’S C.E.O. UNKNOWINGLY SPONSOR TERRORISM?
    7. How much money has ISIS made selling antiquities? More than enough to fund its attacks.
    8. Mission From God: The Upstart Christian Sect Driving Invisible Children and Changing Africa
    9. America’s Biggest Christian Charity Funnels Tens of Millions to Hate Groups
    10. Hobby Lobby: Who is David Green? 9 facts telling you everything you need to know about the evangelical entrepreneur
    11. 5 things to know about Hobby Lobby’s owners
    12. Hobby Lobby Allegedly Fired Employee Due to Pregnancy
    13. Bad Boss: Yes, Hobby Lobby’s Steve Green Does Want You To Live By His Religion’s Rules
    14. How the Hobby Lobby ruling helped and hurt religious freedom
    15. Column: The Supreme Court’s awful Hobby Lobby decision just spawned a very ugly stepchild
    16. Aftermath of the Hobby Lobby Decision


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    58 min

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