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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.

Behind the Bastards

Robert concludes the story of Bo Gritz with his unhinged attempts to rescue POWs from Vietnam, his political ambitions, and disgraceful downfall.

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Part Two: Behind the Bastards Live Show: The Ballad of Bo Gritz

Robert and Prop did a live show to raise money for the Portland Bail Fund. They discussed the life and times of Bo Gritz, a foundational right wing militia maniac.
 
Sources:
 
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/03/29/James-Bo-Gritz-the-Vietnam-War-veteran-who-slipped/7427417762000/
 
https://www.spike-team.com/home/origins/
 
https://time.com/archive/6857330/colonel-gritzs-dubious-mission/
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/03/24/bo-gritz-story-is-fascinating-but-does-he-really-believe-itmissing/9aef313b-233d-401c-b4d6-cfb9c4368e95/
 
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/patriot-leader-bo-gritz-shoots-himself-under-troubling-circumstances/
 
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/02/erase-and-forget-review-andrea-luka-zimmerman-bo-gritz
 
https://theoutline.com/post/7984/rambo-last-blood-vietnam-bo-gritz-sylvester-stallone
 
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/military/war-hero-bo-gritz-reflects-on-ruby-ridge-siege-28-years-later-2124428/
 
https://www.nizkor.org/gritz-grodin-and-garbage/
 
https://www.deseret.com/1994/10/19/19137185/gritz-says-he-s-leaving-lds-church/
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1983/03/03/bo-gritz-the-glory-38/e0a78612-dfa7-45f2-b5b7-c2f78f53a80f/
 
https://archive.is/OLBBk#selection-475.0-475.238
 
https://www.deseret.com/1992/10/25/19012368/gritz-raring-to-solve-the-ills-of-america-in-1-week/
 
https://archive.is/ANNoI#selection-1035.507-1039.688
 
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2024/11/04/parker-anderson-conspiracy-theory-reserach/
 
https://archive.org/stream/soldieroffortunemagazine/Soldier%20of%20Fortune%20%5B1992%2709%5D_djvu.txt

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Part One: Behind the Bastards Live Show: The Ballad of Bo Gritz

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- Mamdani’s Victory: Winners, Losers, and Crashouts
 
- A New Threat to Public Lands
 
- The Pro Palestine Movement Two Years After Genocide feat. Dana El Kurd
 
- The Mainstreaming of Nick Fuentes by the Coward Tucker Carlson
 
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #41
 
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Sources:
 
Mamdani’s Victory: Winners, Losers, and Crashouts
 
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5600718/wall-street-zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor
 
https://www.businessinsider.com/business-leaders-react-nyc-mayor-election-race-results-zohran-mamdani-2025-11#jamie-dimon-1
 
https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/11/elon-musk-is-having-a-post-election-meltdown-western-civilization-is-doomed.html
 
https://defector.com/lets-check-in-with-people-who-threatened-to-leave-zohran-mamdanis-nyc
 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/democrats-republicans-reaction-mamdani-win
 
https://lindseyboylan4ny.medium.com/my-story-of-working-with-governor-cuomo-e664d4814b4e
 
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/lindsey_boylan
 
https://indypendent.org/2025/07/we-will-beat-these-monsters-lindsey-boylan-reacts-to-cuomos-defeat/
 
https://archive.vn/3N3wu
 
A New Threat to Public Lands
 
https://www.energy.senate.gov/2025/10/lee-bill-fights-back-against-biden-s-border-chaos-destroying-america-s-parks-and-public-lands 
 
https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/11/sierra-club-statement-trump-s-nomination-steve-pearce-lead-blm
 
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/kathleen-sgamma-withdraws-jan-6-criticism-came-public--rcna200699 
 
https://recreationroundtable.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ORR-Burgum-Nomination-Letter-of-Support-Final.pdf 
 
https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee
 
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/mike-lee/summary?cid=N00031696 
 
https://www.energy.senate.gov/services/files/0DED04C4-18C7-4C1F-BCE4-DD5B79FB0264 
 
https://www.jstor.org/stable/14646 
 
The Pro Palestine Movement Two Years After Genocide
 
Ahmed Moor & Antony Loewenstein’s book - https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/after-zionism/
 
The Mainstreaming of Nick Fuentes by the Coward Tucker Carlson
 
https://x.com/jasonahart/status/1985338713791172827 
 
https://x.com/KevinRobertsTX/status/1984335805192532265 
 
https://x.com/markgoldfeder/status/1985000264743416256?s=46 
 
https://x.com/McCormickProf/status/1984646330849837488
 
https://www.jta.org/2025/10/31/united-states/ted-cruz-to-jewish-republicans-antisemitism-is-an-existential-crisis-in-our-party 
 
https://jewishinsider.com/2025/11/gop-senators-tucker-carlson-left-wing-antisemitism-josh-hawley-james-lankford/
 
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5586731-heritage-foundation-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-controversy/ 
 
https://nypost.com/2025/11/03/us-news/heritage-foundation-in-revolt-over-tucker-carlson-defense-after-controversial-nick-fuentes-interview-footsie-with-literal-nazis/ 
 
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/chris-demuth-resigns-from-the-heritage-foundation/
 
https://x.com/AudreyFahlberg/status/1985781905976115550?s=20 
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/heritage-foundation-antisemitism-task-force.html 
 
https://freebeacon.com/politics/i-made-a-mistake-heritage-foundation-president-apologizes-to-staff-for-video-refusal-to-cancel-tucker-carlson-and-throws-shade-at-former-chief-of-staff/
 
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/heritage-president-apologizes-for-tucker-carlson-defense-video-in-heated-all-hands-meeting/ 
 
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/david-french-schools-matt-walsh-over-his-call-for-no-enemies-on-the-right/ 
 
https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1985032452432437704?s=20 
 
https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1985417108407124110?s=20 
 
https://x.com/JDVance/status/1986099131845136594 
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/opinion/nick-fuentes-kirk-successor.html
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/nick-fuentes-trump.html 
 
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/nick-fuentes-tucker-carlson-interview/684792/ 
 
https://roddreher.substack.com/p/what-i-saw-and-heard-in-washington?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
 
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #41
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/italian-pasta-tariffs-trump-rcna243264
 
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/nov/13/pasta-italian-imports-trump-tariffs
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-50-year-mortgage-loan-bill-pulte-cost/
 
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2025/11/13/when-will-the-2000-tariff-dividend-be-paid-new-trump-stimulus-check-2025-payment-eligibility-update/87209405007/
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/business/fifty-year-mortgage
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93ddrp17zko\
 
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/30/white-house-withdraws-ej-antoni-nomination-lead-bls-00589289
 
https://archive.vn/sHLdh
 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/11/13/white-house-will-release-octobers-jobs-report-after-saying-data-would-likely-never-publish/
 
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-hell-issue-2000-tariff-dividend-except-high/story?id=127356839\
 
https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/us-bishops-issue-special-message-immigration-plenary-assembly-baltimore 
 
https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-kept-chicago-police-records-for-months-in-violation-of-domestic-espionage-rules/ 
 
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832522/66/moreno-gonzalez-v-noem-secretary-us-department-of-homeland-security/ 
 
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/11/11/harris-county-immigration-lawsuit/2501762887924/ 
 
https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/study-ny-times-wash-post-coverage-caravan-plummets-after-midterms

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 208

Robert talks about legitimately some of the worst stuff we'll ever discuss on this show. Oh my god, you guys

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Part Two: Thomas Thistlewood: Slave Plantation Owner and Diarist

Robert walks his former colleague Titi Lee through the life and times of Thomas Thistlewood, a slave owner and monster of the first order who kept a detailed diary of all his crimes against humanity.
 
(2 Part Series)
 
Sources:
 
https://web.archive.org/web/20170328175826/https://www.thesocialhistorian.com/journals-of-thomas-thistlewood/
 
https://www.amazon.com/Miserable-Slavery-Thistlewood-Jamaica-1750-1786/dp/9766400660
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/content/articles/2007/03/29/thomas_thistlewood_feature.shtml
 
https://talkafricana.com/thomas-thistlewood-the-serial-rapist/
 
https://talkafricana.com/derbys-dose-the-cruel-punishment-used-to-punish-slaves-in-jamaica/
 
https://talkafricana.com/stockmen-trade-the-19th-century-practice-of-renting-enslaved-men-to-plantation-owners-for-breeding-in-america/
 
https://read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/article/22/1%20(55)/18/133815/Thomas-Thistlewood-s-Libidinal-Linnaean?fromStore=true
 
https://samepassage.org/thomas-thistlewood-2/
 
https://www.pismin.com/10.2307/40654549
 
https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:m044g0752/fulltext.pdf

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Part One: Thomas Thistlewood: Slave Plantation Owner and Diarist

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- Occulture, Technomancy vs Tradition, and the Role of Magick in 2025
 
- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly
 
- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
 
- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy
 
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40
 
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Sources:
 
The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly
 
Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)
 
Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf, The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025.) 
 
Austin Sarat, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014.)
 
The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
 
Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)
 
Dick Reavis, “Charlie Brooks’ Last Words,” Texas Monthly (February 1983.)
 
The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy
 
Breanna Ehrlich, “The Last Face Death Row Inmates See,” Rolling Stone, March 29, 2025 (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/death-row-reverend-jeff-hood-1235305460/)
 
Anand Giridharadas, The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2014.) 
 
Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)
 
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40
 
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-287g-ice-trump-abbott/
 
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832522/moreno-gonzalez-v-noem-secretary-us-department-of-homeland-security/ 
 
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71875910/1/tangipa-v-newsom/ 
 
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/11/proposition-50-overnight-results/ 
 
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115492361756063244
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/11/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-strikes-deal-on-economic-and-trade-relations-with-china/
 
https://archive.vn/rR8Ix
 
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/522166327/202133199349305758/full
 
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-says-china-cant-have-nvidias-top-ai-chips-supreme-court-case-looms-162418765.html
 
https://archive.vn/BFLOe
 
https://archive.vn/uxkws#selection-799.0-808.0
 
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5588695-abbott-tariffs-new-yorkers-texas-election/
 
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html 
 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript
 
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-says-china-cant-have-nvidias-top-ai-chips-supreme-court-case-looms-162418765.html
 
https://archive.vn/BFLOe
 
https://archive.vn/uxkws#selection-799.0-808.0
 
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5588695-abbott-tariffs-new-yorkers-texas-election/
 
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html 
 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 207

Robert answers the big question: who does Peter Thiel think the antichrist might be? And we learn about the time he considered cryonically freezing his own head after death.
 
 
 
Check out Sarah’s new show here: https://link.mgln.ai/6Pab8j

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Part Two: Peter Thiel and the Anti-Christ

Robert sits down with Sarah Marshall to discuss just what Peter Thiel believes about the antichrist and who he thinks is destroying the world.
 
(2 Part Series)
 
Check out Sarah’s new show here: https://link.mgln.ai/6Pab8j

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Part One: Peter Thiel and the Anti-Christ

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- Caribbean Roundtable
 
- The Campaign to Bust Chicago’s Only Bookstore Union
 
- What’s Real in the Politics of Population with Andrew
 
- Occulture, William S. Burroughs, and Generative AI
 
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #39
 
You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today!
 
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Sources/Links:
 
Caribbean Roundtable
 
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/the-caribbeans-zone-of-peace-under-threat-a-conversation-with-david-abdulah/
 
https://newsday.co.tt/2025/10/20/trinidad-and-tobago-stands-firm-with-us-on-regional-security/
 
The Campaign to Bust Chicago’s Only Bookstore Union
 
https://www.instagram.com/semcoopbooksellersunion/
 
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #39
 
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-monitor-polls-24-states-compliance-federal-voting-rights-laws
 
https://x.com/gavinnewsom/status/1981893887460544737?s=46&t=wjiWDhD7WaSqfSfZGiwlSw 
 
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-asia-trip-japan-10-27-25?post-id=cmh8yni6000053b6nah0oh7ol 
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-was-fatally-hit-vehicle-fleeing-ice-virginia-highway-officials-say 
 
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/22/california-to-deploy-national-guard-to-support-food-banks-fast-track-funding-as-trumps-shutdown-strips-families-of-food-benefits/ 
 
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/bay-area-food-banks-california-national-guard/3969875
 
https://www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-agents-are-scanning-peoples-faces-on-the-street-to-verify-citizenship/ / 
 
https://www.energy.senate.gov/2025/10/lee-bill-fights-back-against-biden-s-border-chaos-destroying-america-s-parks-and-public-lands 
 
https://www.energy.senate.gov/services/files/0DED04C4-18C7-4C1F-BCE4-DD5B79FB0264 
 
https://www.energy.senate.gov/services/files/0DED04C4-18C7-4C1F-BCE4-DD5B79FB0264 
 
https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1983273176907043070 
 
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.487571/gov.uscourts.ilnd.487571.94.0.pdf
 
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.487571/gov.uscourts.ilnd.487571.42.0_4.pdf 
 
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/28/judge-blasts-border-patrol-boss-greg-bovino-for-violating-excessive-force-order/

 
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-illinois-bovino-ice-immigration-506c9c661ee75f3e955f346daeed5555 
 
https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1982959806173581456 
 
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3864929/trump-administration-quietly-purges-ice-leaders-in-five-cities-sources/
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-plans-install-border-patrol-officials-lead-aggressive-migrant-cr-rcna240102 
 
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffairs/others/20251029/korea-welcomes-trump-with-top-level-protocol
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/business/fentanyl-tariffs
 
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5579438-live-updates-trump-xi-meeting-government-shutdown/
 
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/30/nx-s1-5590754/trump-china-xi-meeting-lowers-tariffs
 
https://centralnews.co.za/trump-becomes-first-us-president-to-receive-south-koreas-highest-honour-golden-crown-and-grand-order-of-mugunghwa-presented-in-historic-ceremony/
 
https://write.ellipsus.com/edit/aef875a8-f460-429d-af2a-66e197b3000f
 
https://archive.vn/0s7cS
 
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/29/kat-abughazaleh-conspiracy-indictment-broadview-protests-donald-trump-deportation-campaign

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 206

David E. Taylor's cult truly had it all: enslaved workers using plagiarism machines to generate AI ads to rob cancer patients, welfare fraud, and heinous sex crimes! In Part 2, we conclude his horrific story.

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Part Two: Bishop David E. Taylor: Jesus Christ's Best Friend

Robert is joined by Katy Stoll and Cody Johnston for a reading of Chapter Four of Robert's. 'The War on Everyone.'

 
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Part Four: How To Build An Army

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