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Behind the Bastards

Podcasts · Society & Culture

Behind the Bastards

848 episodes · 20 with AI analysis

There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.

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Cult Dynamics in Human-AI Interaction×2Female Sexuality History in Western MedicineOrgasm Cults and Sexual ExploitationBay Area Counterculture CommunitiesSex-Positive Feminism MisappropriationCult Recruitment and Manipulation TacticsSilicon Valley Wellness GriftsTrauma-Informed Understanding of Cult LeadersPsychedelic Drug Use in CommunesMedical Legitimization of Abuse

Analyzed Episodes

May 21, 2026

Part One: The Orgasm Cult

Female Sexuality History in Western MedicineOrgasm Cults and Sexual ExploitationBay Area Counterculture Communities

May 5, 2026

Part One: How AI Chatbots Became Cult Leaders

AI Chatbot Safety and RegulationAI-Induced Psychosis and Mental HealthCult Dynamics in Human-AI Interaction

May 7, 2026

Part Two: How AI Chatbots Became Cult Leaders

AI-Induced Psychosis and Mental Health CrisesChatbot Engagement Optimization vs. User SafetyCult Dynamics in Human-AI Interaction

May 9, 2026

It Could Happen Here Weekly 231

French Neo-Nazi Extremism and Street ViolenceFar-Right Martyr Manufacturing and PropagandaFemino-Nationalism and Gender-Based Extremism

May 12, 2026

Part One: H.L. Hunt: The First Elon Musk

H.L. Hunt biography and early lifeOil industry wealth accumulation in early 20th centuryRight-wing media ownership and control

May 14, 2026

Part Two: H.L. Hunt: The First Elon Musk

H.L. Hunt biography and rise to wealthOil industry speculation and wildcatting economicsRight-wing media propaganda and the Facts Forum

May 16, 2026

It Could Happen Here Weekly 232

Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPR) and Flock camera surveillance networksFacial recognition technology and ICE's Mobile Fortify toolCell-site simulators (Stingrays) and their use in law enforcement

Apr 11, 2026

It Could Happen Here Weekly 227

NFL Players Association corruption and labor exploitationUnion bureaucratic capture and information control mechanismsRookie wage scale impact on NFL player economics

Apr 2, 2026

Part Two: The Phil Spector Episodes

Phil Spector's Wall of Sound production technique1960s music industry power dynamics and artist exploitationIntimate partner abuse patterns and love-bombing cycles

Mar 7, 2026

It Could Happen Here Weekly 222

Mutual Aid and Community Organizing in Occupied TerritoriesMedia Consolidation and IP Monopolies in EntertainmentTax Policy and Progressive Taxation Campaigns

Mar 12, 2026

Part Two: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Incel ideology evolution and radicalization pathwaysOnline community moderation and the toothpaste tube effectLinguistic influence of extremist subcultures on mainstream internet slang

Mar 17, 2026

Part One: Sylvia Browne: Fake Psychic Detective

Sylvia Browne biography and fraudulent careerMissing persons cases and psychic fraudAmanda Berry kidnapping case (Ariel Castro)

Mar 19, 2026

Part Two: Sylvia Browne: Fake Psychic Detective

Psychic fraud and cold reading techniquesFinancial fraud and loan falsification schemesMissing persons cases and psychic consultation failures

Mar 10, 2026

Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Incel community history and evolution from 1997 to presentPickup artist culture and its ideological influence on modern misogynySexual market value (SMV) theory and PSL rating system

Mar 5, 2026

Part Two: Dr. Sleep: The Australian Psychiatrist Who Made People Sleep Themselves To Death

Deep Sleep Therapy (DST) and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) abuseMedical ethics violations and informed consent failuresPsychiatric institutional abuse and patient safety

Mar 3, 2026

Part One: Dr. Sleep: The Australian Psychiatrist Who Made People Sleep Themselves To Death

Deep Sleep Therapy (DST) - medical history and dangersPsychiatric treatment ethics and informed consent in mid-20th centuryFinancial incentive structures in healthcare and overtreatment

Feb 26, 2026

Part Four: How Jeffrey Epstein Helped Build the Modern World

Scientific Racism and Eugenics FundingEdge Foundation and Billionaire Salon NetworksAnti-Trans Pseudoscience and Biology

Feb 24, 2026

Part Three: How Jeffrey Epstein Helped Build the Modern World

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency regulation and developmentMIT Media Lab funding and institutional ethics4chan /pol/ board creation and radicalization

Feb 21, 2026

It Could Happen Here Weekly 220

Misinformation and disinformation spread during mass casualty eventsOnline radicalization versus social disintegration as drivers of mass violenceTrue Crime Community (TCC) and school shooter fandom dynamics

Feb 19, 2026

Part Two: How Jeffrey Epstein Helped Build the Modern World

Microtransactions in Video GamesCryptocurrency Development and Bitcoin InfluenceStablecoin Technology (Tether)