Behind the Bastards

Robert walks Langston Kerman through the story of Dr. George Church, a very real scientist who co founded the company making bullshit claims of "de extincting" dire wolves.

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Sources:

1. George Church, Colossal W*nker – For Better Science
2. Can Gene Therapy Slow Ageing in Dogs? - Gowing Life
3. Never-ageing Anti-aging to cure COVID-19 – For Better Science
4. The original sins of Leonard Guarente – For Better Science
5. Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA - The New York Times
6. Biologist George Church apologizes for contacts with Jeffreyticl Epstein
7. Genetics Company Wants To Bring Iconic Tasmanian Tiger Back From Extinction - Newsweek
8. Gene editing company hopes to bring dodo ‘back to life’ | Extinct wildlife | The Guardian
9. Jeffrey Epstein-Funded Geneticist Is Building a Dating App That Only a Eugenicist Could Love
10. George Church Explains How DNA Will Be Construction Material of the Future - DER SPIEGEL
11. Geneticist George Church gets funding for lab-grown woolly mammoths
12. Wooly Mammoth De-extinction Scientist Reveals Plan To Create 'Arctic Elephant' - Newsweek
13. Bringing back dinosaurs or making new ones? – DW – 06/10/2015
14. ‘If you’re not failing, you’re probably not trying as hard as you could be’ — Harvard Gazette
15. CRISPR gene editing on human embryos may be dangerous
16. Here are some actual facts about George Church’s DNA dating company | MIT Technology Review
17. Scientist on the Loose: George Church Strays Into Eugenics—Again | Center for Genetics and Society
18. So...What do we think of Colossal Biosciences? : r/pleistocene
19. The "de-extinction" of the woolly mammoth, a "Colossal" hoax? - Genomic chronicles | Medicine/Science
20. Hiltzik: New frontiers in pseudoscientific baloney - Los Angeles Times
21. Colossal Liar Wolves – For Better Science
22. Meet The Disruptors: How Ben Lamm & Hypergiant Are Shaking Up the Space and AI Industries | by Jason Hartman | Authority Magazine | Medium
23. Millionaire Ben Lamm Warns Against Entrepreneurship - Great Entrepreneurs
24. The Serial Entrepreneur Turned Billionaire: Ben Lamm’s Tech and Science Revolution | Where Business News Meets Thought Leadership
25. How 39-year-old Ben Lamm has started five companies
26. Meet Ben Lamm: The World's First De-extinction Billionaire - Forbes India
27. Oral history interview with George M. Church - Science History Institute Digital Collections
28. Dr. George Church, Founding Father of Genomics | News | W.I.
29. The Church Of George Church
30. The World Has a Data Storage Problem. Is DNA the Answer? - proto.life
31. DNA: The Future of Data Storage?. DNA, with its amazing storage… | by Nithil Krishnaraj | TechTalkers | Medium

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

1. 16 Dead & a Cover-up: An NHS Trans Horror Story

2. Rendition By Private Jet

3. What's Happening in Immigration Court

4. Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #18

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Sources/Links:

16 Dead & a Cover-up: An NHS Trans Horror Story

https://thefreeradical.org/

Rendition By Private Jet

https://hardghistory.ghost.io/a-private-jet-to-hell/

What's Happening in Immigration Court

Donate to Primrose's legal fees: venmo.com/u/kirsten-zittla

https://www.gofundme.com/f/immigration-lawyer-for-primrose

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #18

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/22/live-israel-kills-87-in-gaza-shots-fired-near-diplomats-in-west-bank 

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-israel-embassy-shooter-manifesto 

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-elias-rodriguezs-leaked-chats?r=1aiy5i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ajc-access-young-diplomats-reception-tickets-1312062246499

https://www.ajc.org/events/washington 

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/22/us/israel-embassy-shooting-dc

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjyxay1zxg

https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/1925468225665446272

https://x.com/netanyahu/status/1925650699414646909

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/c/Spectrum-Security-Services/Job/Detention-Officer/-in-Los-Angeles,CA?jid=2a4b6034cef9977e

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25954386-24a1153/

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmar-nationals-deported-by-us-being-held-in-notorious-junta-detention-centre/?tztc=1

https://www.patreon.com/posts/129696965

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Robert builds to the thrilling conclusion of the other Kevin Smith's story: the mass slaughter of his own flock.

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Robert tells the story of Kevin Ontoniel Smith, a Jamaican-Canadian minister who created an apocalyptic Christian sect and slit his follower's throats in a COVID related panic.

Sources;

“Is Your Blood Clean?”: The Paranoid Pastor Who Turned His Church into a Violent Cult | The Walrus

Ontario college mum on cult pastor's PhD - Jamaica Observer

The power of religion to abuse, distort and control the realities of susceptible persons | Toronto Caribbean Newspaper

Preacher Kevin O. Smith, parishioners arrested for alleged human sacrifices

‘It was like prison’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

Naive Christians slammed for missing Kevin Smith red flags | News | Jamaica Gleaner

Kevin Smith’s money trail | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

‘He left a trail of pain and debt’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

‘Kevin Smith will return’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

Kevin O. Smith’s social media footprint | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

Kevin Smith had great prophetic powers, says Henley Morgan | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner

I’m a scholar of the “prosperity gospel.” It took cancer to show me I was in its grip. | Vox

Book Review: Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, by Kate Bowler - 9Marks

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

1. Anarchism In Mexico feat. Andrew, Pt. 1

2. Anarchism In Mexico feat. Andrew, Pt. 2

3. War Update

4. The Gang Reviews Andor Season 2, Ep. 10-12

5. Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #17

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Sources/Links:

Anarchism In Mexico feat. Andrew

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chuck-morse-anarchism-in-mexico

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angel-cappelletti-anarchism-in-latin-america

Kirk Shaffer’s “Tropical Libertarians: Anarchist movements and networks in the Caribbean, Southern United States, and Mexico, 1890s–1920s” (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/steven-j-hirsch-lucien-van-der-walt-anarchism-and-syndicalism-in-the-colonial-and-postcolonial#toc97)

War Update

https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/pkk-final-declaration-activities-under-the-pkk-name-have-ended-79294

https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/cemil-bayik-we-are-now-developing-a-new-paradigm-a-second-manifesto-79403

https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/new-message-from-abdullah-Ocalan-79417 

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/mazloum-abdi-we-hope-all-relevant-parties-take-the-necessary-steps-79319

https://jacobin.com/2025/05/kashmir-india-pakistan-cease-fire-democracy

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/14/did-pakistan-shoot-down-five-indian-fighter-jets-what-we-know

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgvr4r5d2qo

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyn617xv4no

https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/conflict-between-india-and-pakistan

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/lessons-for-the-next-india-pakistan-war/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/world/asia/india-pakistan-conflict.html

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #17

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69775896/dvd-v-us-department-of-homeland-security/

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.111.0.pdf

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.111.0.pdf

https://www.refworld.org/policy/countrypos/unhcr/2024/en/147589

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/04/09/south-sudan-incendiary-bombs-kill-burn-civilians

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/19/nx-s1-5403712/supreme-court-tps-venezuelans

https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/qjurecic.bsky.social/post/3lppd7wq7jc2h

https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/potential-ice-raid-thwarted-central-california-20335765.php

https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052025_ice_court_arrests/mayhem-as-ice-officials-arrest-multiple-people-immigration-court-phoenix/

https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2025-05-21/a-childs-obsession-with-fire-and-a-mysterious-cache-of-explosives-inside-the-palm-springs-bombing-probe

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-18/suicide-bomber-targeted-fertility-clinic

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/reddit-bans-anti-natalists-palm-springs-explosion-rcna207677

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/20/dhs-no-plans-immigrant-reality-show/83743897007/ 

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/dhs-is-considering-reality-show-where-immigrants-compete-for-citizenship-47de277c 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspected-serial-killers-execution-trump-rcna207171 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/middleeast/diplomats-israeli-fire-west-bank-intl 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/19/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-take-control-gaza-uk-france-canada-threaten-action

https://www.patreon.com/posts/129696965?pr=true

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/a-myanmar-artist-finds-freedom-behind-bars-by-portraying-prisoners-oppression/

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In this episode we follow Carl Schmitt through the disillusionment of WW1, and breaking up with his con artist wife, to his creation of the Death Star of liberal democracy.

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Robert walks Blake Wexler through the life and times of Carl Schmitt, a legal scholar born in Imperial Germany who would come to create the blueprint for how fascist movements could destroy liberal democracy from within.

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

1. The Irish Far Right/Neo-Nazi Movement

2. Trans Fiction, Trans Sports

3. The Refugees Fleeing South Africa's "White Genocide"

4. The Gang Reviews Andor Season 2, Ep. 7-9

5. Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #16

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Sources/Links:

Trans Fiction, Trans Sports

https://victoria.monster/ 

https://thepointmag.com/criticism/entering-history/ 

The Refugees Fleeing South Africa's "White Genocide"

https://support.iraplegalinfo.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057039031-What-is-the-U-S-refugee-resettlement-process 

https://welcome.us/explainers/us-refugee-admissions-program-suspended-until-further-notice-welcome-corps-terminated 

https://www.rescue.org/press-release/irc-responds-termination-state-department-grants-refugee-resettlement-program 

https://2021-2025.state.gov/refugee-admissions/ 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/ 

https://www.nytimes.com/article/afrikaner-refugees-trump-south-africa.html 

https://za.usembassy.gov/refugee-admissions-program-for-south-africans/ 

https://www.episcopalchurch.org/publicaffairs/letter-from-presiding-bishop-sean-rowe-on-episcopal-migration-ministries/

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #16

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/waltham-mass-ice-arrest-boy-left-alone/

https://www.flgov.com/eog/news/press/2025/governor-ron-desantis-highlights-floridas-leadership-immigration-enforcement 

https://support.iraplegalinfo.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057039031-What-is-the-U-S-refugee-resettlement-process

https://welcome.us/explainers/us-refugee-admissions-program-suspended-until-further-notice-welcome-corps-terminated

https://www.rescue.org/press-release/irc-responds-termination-state-department-grants-refugee-resettlement-program

https://2021-2025.state.gov/refugee-admissions/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/

https://www.nytimes.com/article/afrikaner-refugees-trump-south-africa.html

https://za.usembassy.gov/refugee-admissions-program-for-south-africans/

https://www.episcopalchurch.org/publicaffairs/letter-from-presiding-bishop-sean-rowe-on-episcopal-migration-ministries/

https://www.aclufl.org/en/press-releases/new-report-reveals-alarming-conditions-florida-ice-detention-centers

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-01/inhumane-conditions-and-death-at-miamis-krome-migrant-detention-center.html

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Nature Boy is now in Central America, where he weaponizes the power of Instagram's algorithm to trick rubes into flying out to join him and handing over all their money.

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Robert gets back to basics with guest star Katy Stoll by talking about one of America's newest cult leaders, Natureboy, who used instagram to convince a small army of followers to join his crusade against toilets.

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