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Behind the Bastards

828 episodes · 13 with AI analysis

AI Intelligence · across all analyzed episodes

People · top 20

Companies · top 20

Topics · top 10

NFL Players Association corruption and labor exploitationUnion bureaucratic capture and information control mechanismsRookie wage scale impact on NFL player economicsRoger Goodell disciplinary authority and player rightsCollective bargaining agreement revenue sharing disputesJewish Bund history and anti-Zionist organizingDoikayt philosophy and diaspora Jewish identityZionism as erasure of alternative Jewish political traditionsNigeria's multi-factored violence and religious framingBoko Haram, banditry, and Fulani-farmer conflicts

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Feb 19, 2026

Part Two: How Jeffrey Epstein Helped Build the Modern World

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

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