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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

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
 
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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 sits down with Jake Hanrahan to discuss the recently busted cult / call center of Bishop David Taylor's, Jesus Christ's Best Friend.
 
 
 
(2 Part Series)
 
Check out Sad Oligarch - 
 
https://open.spotify.com/show/5n4CUGYYZ4fc4L5yWYX7gK 
 
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sad-oligarch/id1691403387 
 
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-sad-oligarch-116754842/episode/a-family-annihilation-in-moscow-117331449/ 

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

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- Squatting with Andrew
 
- Domination Is Peace: Trump’s 20 Point Peace Plan for Palestine feat. Dana El Kurd
 
- The Economics of the Tariff Regime
 
- New Wall Construction and Borderlands Resistance
 
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #38
 
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Sources:
 
Squatting with Andrew
 
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-hidden-histories-of-resistance
 
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anders-corr-anarchist-squatting-and-land-use-in-the-west
 
Domination Is Peace: Trump’s 20 Point Peace Plan for Palestine feat. Dana El Kurd
 
Testimonies of Palestinian prisoners - https://www.newarab.com/news/palestinian-prisoners-tell-horrific-rape-israeli-detention 
 
Return of Palestinian bodies - https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-bodies-hostages-gaza-ceasefire-aid-trump-rcna238128 
 
Greta Thunberg on her experience in Israeli prison - https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25LgKq/greta-thunberg-they-kicked-me-every-time-the-flag-touched-my-face 
 
20 point peace plan - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70155nked7o
 
Board of Peace - https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/10/1/trumps-gaza-board-of-peace-promises-tony-blair-yet-another-payday 
 
Jared Kushner Peace to Prosperity Plan - https://www.un.org/unispal/document/peace-to-prosperity-a-vision-to-improve-the-lives-of-the-palestinian-and-israeli-people-us-government-peace-plan/ 
 
Hamas on disarmament - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-aims-keep-grip-gaza-security-cant-commit-disarm-senior-official-says-2025-10-17/ 
 
Palestinian public opinion on Palestinian Authority - https://www.pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Poll%2095%20press%20release%206May2025%20ENGLISH.pdf 
 
International Tribunal on Yugoslavia - https://www.icty.org/en/content/slobodan-milo%C5%A1evi%C4%87-trial-prosecutions-case 
 
On Bosnia - https://theconversation.com/bosnia-and-herzegovina-world-leaders-risk-renewed-violence-if-the-country-breaks-apart-171068
 
UN commission of inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory report - https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session60/advance-version/a-hrc-60-crp-3.pdf 
 
Marika Sosnowski on ceasefires - https://theconversation.com/the-gaza-ceasefire-deal-could-be-a-strangle-contract-with-israel-holding-all-the-cards-267208 
 
Palestinians in Gaza killed after ceasefire - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/10/14/live-trump-signs-gaza-ceasefire-deal-with-leaders-of-qatar-egypt-turkiye
 
Palestinian child in West Bank killed - http://bbc.com/news/articles/ce8g9p0ppe0o
 
Palestinian family homes raided - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-bank-israel-raids-homes-prisoners-be-released-Gaza-ceasefire-deal
 
Netanyahu on Rafah - https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/middle-east/israel-gaza-rafah-crossing-reopening-b2847869.html
 
The Economics of the Tariff Regime
 
https://archive.ph/YUg11
 
https://foleyhoag.com/news-and-insights/publications/alerts-and-updates/2025/october/eu-proposes-new-safeguard-measures-to-protect-its-steel-industry/
 
https://www.piie.com/blogs/china-economic-watch/chinas-excess-capacity-steel-fresh-look
 
https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/discovery/fulldisplay/alma992976480893401631/44MAN_INST:MU_NUI
 
https://endnotes.org.uk/articles/misery-and-debt
 
New Wall Construction and Borderlands Resistance
 
https://www.sierraclub.org/arizona/blog/2025/10/no-more-walls-san-diego-county
 
https://givebutter.com/borderlandsresistance 
 
https://www.sierraclub.org/borderlands
 
https://borderwallresistance.com/
 
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #38
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-china-visit-2026/
 
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/10/21/us-china-now-in-a-very-different-kind-of-trade-war-experts-warn
 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/20/trump-china-trade-tariffs-rare-earths/86803021007/
 
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-tightens-rare-earth-export-controls-2025-10-09/
 
https://www.livemint.com/economy/india-us-trade-deal-likely-soon-huge-tariff-cuts-on-the-horizon-11761046733288.html
 
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-sets-date-for-meeting-with-chinas-xi-as-trade-tensions-rise-162418137.html
 
https://archive.vn/Xq4oy
 
https://archive.vn/njCSi
 
https://archive.vn/pQQzf
 
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/19/trump-colombia-petro-caribbean-strikes
 
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/whats-at-stake-during-trumps-visit-to-asia/
 
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-us-eyes-china-export-curbs-as-trump-wobbles-on-meeting-with-chinas-xi-162418423.html
 
https://archive.vn/wJn9z
 
https://archive.vn/i9IJQ
 
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/trump-ranchers-beef-tariffs-argentina.html
 
https://archive.vn/Osx1d#selection-1966.0-1970.0

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 205

Robert concludes the story of Daryl Gates with his founding of SWAT and insane reaction to the LA Riots.

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Part Two: Daryl Gates: The Man Who Invented SWAT Teams and DARE

Robert sits down with Bridget Todd to discuss influential LA police chief Daryl Gates, the Godfather of militarized policing.
 
(2 Part Series)

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Part One: Daryl Gates: The Man Who Invented SWAT Teams and DARE

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- CZM Rewind: Indigenous Peoples Day
 
- CZM Rewind: Title 42: How a Public Health Law Kills Refugees
 
- CZM Rewind: Title 42, Pt 2: Migrant Stories
 
- CZM Rewind: Title 42, Pt 3: The Mutual Aid Response
 
- CZM Rewind: Title 42, Pt 4: The Border Patrol
 
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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It Could Happen Here Weekly 204

Robert sits down with Jason Pargin to lay out the insane story of how eBay corporate security, with the tacit endorsement of their executives, waged a relentless shadow war against two elderly bloggers for no reason really.
 
(2 Part Series)
 
Behind the Bastards is now available on YouTube!
 
New videos every Wednesday and Friday.
 
(Backlog episodes on Saturdays until we catch up)
 
Subscribe to our channel: Youtube.com/@behindthebastards 
 
 

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Part One: That Time eBay's Private Spies Went To War With Some Bloggers

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