Behind the Bastards

In Episode 95, Robert is joined by Dan O'Brien for an update on the Jeffrey Epstein saga.

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In part two, Robert is joined again by Daniel Van Kirk to continue discussing Walter Freeman.

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In Episode 94, Robert is joined by Daniel Van Kirk to discuss Walter Freeman, the father of lobotomies.

FOOTNOTES:

1. The Lobotomist
2. Walter Freeman: The Father of the Lobotomy
3. Rosemary Kennedy: the sad life of President Kennedy's younger sister
4. Rosemary Kennedy: Telling the story of a forgotten daughter
5. Inside Rosemary Kennedy's Disastrous Lobotomy – And How Her Father Chose Her Doctor
6. Walter Freeman: The Father of the Lobotomy
7. He was bad, so they put an ice pick in his brain...
8. Joe Kennedy, Sr sought secret deal with De Valera on Irish ports during the War
9. Mental Illness Is On the Rise in the U.S. for a Frustrating Reason
10. The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness 
11. My Lobotomy

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In Episode 93, Robert is joined by Emily Yoshida (Night Call Podcast) to discuss Ma Barker, the notorious leader of the Barker Gang.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Barker/Karpis Gang
2. The day 'Ma' Barker was slain in Florida
3. TOWN WHERE MA BARKER DIED SURE THAT ALLIGATOR DID HER IN
4. O'Connor Layover Agreement
5. Crooks’ haven: The gangster era in St. Paul
6. ‘Pretty Boy’ Falls
7. Pretty Boy Floyd's Life, Crimes Retold
8. Ma Barker: America's Most Wanted Mother
9. The Terrible Rise (and Subsequent Spectacular Fall) of the Barker/Karpis Gang

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Special Bonus Minisode: The collected unedited audio of the interviews from 'The World is Burning.'

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In Episode 92, Robert gives listeners a guide to the uprisings all over the world right now.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Catalonia's bid for independence from Spain explained
2. Hong Kong is exporting its protest techniques around the world
3. Wildfires blaze through Lebanon while emergency aircraft remain grounded
4. Why are Lebanon's firefighting helicopters grounded?
5. Lebanon protests: Huge crowds on streets as government acts
6. Lebanon’s government proposes reforms as huge protests hit their fifth day
7. A world on fire: Here are all the major protests happening around the globe right now
8. Egyptian authorities threaten to 'decisively confront' protesters
9. Curfew Tweet
10. ‘This Is Ethnic Cleansing’: A Dispatch from Kurdish Syria
11. China offers support to Spanish government amid Catalonia crisis
12. Pro-independence protest in front of Chinese consulate in solidarity with Hong Kong
13. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam takes to Facebook to reach out to public, while strongly defending police force and questioning ‘puzzling’ calls for its disbandment
14. What’s happening in Hong Kong? Some key questions, answered.

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In Part Two, Robert is joined again by Billy Wayne Davis to continue discussing Samuel Hahnemann and homeopathy.

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In Episode 91, Robert is joined by Billy Wayne Davis, to discuss the baby-killing horror of homeopathy.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Hundreds of Babies Harmed by Homeopathic Remedies, Families Say
2. Penelope Dingle's letters to Francine Scrayen
3. Cancer victim Penelope Dingle 'in awe of homeopath' - husband
4. Belief in Homeopathy Results in the Death of a 7-Year-Old Italian Child
5. Antibiotic overprescribing: Still a major concern.
6. Anticholinergic Toxicity Secondary to Overuse of Topricin Cream, a Homeopathic Medication
7. Homeopathic Pain Medicine Contains Poison
8. FDA confirms elevated levels of belladonna in certain homeopathic teething products
9. Hyland's
10. FDA warns against the use of homeopathic teething tablets and gels
11. On the ethics of clinical trials of homeopathy in Third World countries
12. Evaluation of healing wound and genotoxicity potentials from extracts hydroalcoholic of Plantago major and Siparuna guianensis.
13. Homeopathy
14. THE BASIS OF HOMEOPATHY
15. Inventing the randomized double-blind trial: the Nuremberg salt test of 1835
16. Homeopathy And Its Founder: Views Of A British Researcher
17. Samuel Hahnemann : his life and work

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In Episode 90, Robert is joined by Katy Stoll and Cody Johnston to discuss the war on clowns. 

FOOTNOTES:

1. Apu Apustaja
2. Clown faces fine for protesting neo-Nazi march
3. Virginia Man Using Accordion-Playing Clowns To Get Revenge On White Supremacist
4. Swedish neo-Nazis met by clown activists
5. Clowns Attack KKK Rally in Charlotte, NC with Humor
6. Clowns Kicked KKK Asses
7. Producers, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Springtime For Hitler
8. The best way to fight neo-Nazis is to … laugh?
9. Why Nazis Are So Afraid of These Clowns
10. Patriot Prayer’s Joey Gibson has a sad day in Albany

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In Episode 89, Robert is joined by Eric Lampaert to discuss Bjorn Lomborg.

FOOTNOTES:

1. Bjorn Lomborg’s lukewarmer misinformation about climate change and poverty

2. BJORN LOMBORG: PERFORMANCE ARTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE

3, Bjorn Lomborg Bibliography

4. Hot, It’s Not

5. On Bjorn Lomborg and extinction

6. The Skeptical Environmentalist: A Case Study In The Manufacture Of News

7. Bjørn Lomborg: the dissenting climate change voice who changed his tune

8. Bjørn Lomborg WSJ Op Ed Is Stunningly Wrong

9. Who’s Behind Trump’s Claim the Green New Deal Will Cost $100 Trillion?

10. Exclusive: Bjorn Lomborg Think Tank Funder Revealed As Billionaire Republican 'Vulture Capitalist' Paul Singer

11. Common Core’s Global Warming Agenda

12. James Harff

13. Copenhagen Consensus III

14. Bjørn Lomborg centre got $640,000 for report saying limiting warming rise to 2C not worth it

15. Atmospheric engineering may help reverse global warming

16. SCIENTIST AT WORK/Bjorn Lomborg; From an Unlikely Quarter, Eco-Optimism

17. About Bjorn Lomborg

18. UCS Examines 'The Skeptical Environmentalist'

19. THE EXTINCTION CRISIS

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