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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 Lee Atwater by discussing his greatest success and then his sickness and fall from power and influence. We also talk about the Grammy nominated album he made with Isaac Hayes.
 
Sources:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io9KMSSEZ0Y
 
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/lee-atwater
 
https://archive.is/STJGq
 
https://www.newberryobserver.com/news/10323/notable-newberry-alumnus
 
https://andrewjazprosehill.substack.com/p/the-death-bed-confession-of-a-boogie
 
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-papers-of-lee-atwater-who-invented-the-scurrilous-tactics-that-trump-normalized?_sp=a8ee96fb-f790-4047-ae41-50c5940d1092.1729971751539
 
https://www.csmonitor.com/1989/0626/elee.html
 
https://archive.is/yZ0Hf#selection-553.0-553.173
 
https://time.com/archive/6702136/saying-no-to-lee-atwater/
 
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/brady-bad.html
 
https://nul.org/news/ghost-lee-atwater-haunts-2022-midterm-elections
 
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/94931206
 
https://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2021/08/13/the-spirit-of-lee-atwater-lingers-among-us-how-critical-race-theory-became-the-gops-new-southern-strategy/
 
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/05/13/willie-horton-revisited
 
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/
 
 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/atwater/etc/synopsis.html
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/04/19/weighing-lee-atwaters-regrets/c78da503-8dc9-4c58-a8d6-d5524ffdfa8e/
 
https://archive.is/7CjqQ
 
https://brooklynrail.org/2012/02/express/letter-from-the-trail-atwaters-ghost/

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Part Three: Lee Atwater: The Political Dirty Tricks Artist Who Gave us President(s) George Bush

Lee Atwater graduates high school after a brief stint in an insane fraternity then becomes a college Republican leader and starts his career as a dirty tricks expert for political campaigns.

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Part Two: Lee Atwater: The Political Dirty Tricks Artist Who Gave us President(s) George Bush

Robert sits down with Garrison Davis to discuss the life and times of Lee Atwater, the arch inventor of Republican dirty tricks politics.
 
(3 Part Series, releasing all this week)
 
Sources:
 
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/lee-atwater
 
https://archive.is/STJGq
 
https://www.newberryobserver.com/news/10323/notable-newberry-alumnus
 
https://andrewjazprosehill.substack.com/p/the-death-bed-confession-of-a-boogie
 
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-papers-of-lee-atwater-who-invented-the-scurrilous-tactics-that-trump-normalized?_sp=a8ee96fb-f790-4047-ae41-50c5940d1092.1729971751539
 
https://www.csmonitor.com/1989/0626/elee.html
 
https://archive.is/yZ0Hf#selection-553.0-553.173
 
https://time.com/archive/6702136/saying-no-to-lee-atwater/
 
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/brady-bad.html
 
https://nul.org/news/ghost-lee-atwater-haunts-2022-midterm-elections
 
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/94931206
 
https://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2021/08/13/the-spirit-of-lee-atwater-lingers-among-us-how-critical-race-theory-became-the-gops-new-southern-strategy/
 
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/05/13/willie-horton-revisited
 
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/
 
 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/atwater/etc/synopsis.html
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/04/19/weighing-lee-atwaters-regrets/c78da503-8dc9-4c58-a8d6-d5524ffdfa8e/
 
https://archive.is/7CjqQ
 
https://brooklynrail.org/2012/02/express/letter-from-the-trail-atwaters-ghost/

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Part One: Lee Atwater: The Political Dirty Tricks Artist Who Gave us President(s) George Bush

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- The Federalization of DC Police feat. Bridget Todd
 
- Elon Musk and the Rebirth of Company Towns feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips
 
- Alienation and AI feat. Andrew
 
- Objectivity in Journalism
 
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #30
 
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Sources/Links:
 
Elon Musk and the Rebirth of Company Towns feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips
 
Margaret Crawford, Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns
 
Alan Dawley, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State
 
Hardy Green, The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy
 
Chad Pearson, Capitalism’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century
 
Objectivity in Journalism
 
https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2021/a-widely-shared-video-shows-a-deputy-overdosing-on-fentanyl-experts-say-its-impossible/
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/objectivity-black-journalists-coronavirus.html
 
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #30
 
https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-journalists-hamas-hasbara/
 
https://x.com/IDF/status/1954652255199887516 
 
https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/idf-press-releases-israel-at-war/august-24-pr/eliminated-ismail-al-ghoul-a-hamas-military-wing-operative-and-nukhba-terrorist/ 
 
https://cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-calls-for-anas-al-sharifs-protection-in-face-of-israeli-smears/ 
 
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16tQckcrui/ 
 
https://www.icrc.org/en/article/international-humanitarian-law-protect-journalists-armed-conflict 
 
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-manual-updates/20250819-DiscretionaryFactors.pdf
 
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1424&num=0&edition=prelim
 
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-alerts/08.15.2025-Restoring_a_Good_Moral_Character_Evaluation_Standard_for_Aliens_Applying_for_Naturalization-Policy_Memorandum_FINAL.pdf
 
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26054451-20-1/#document/p17/a2667744
 
https://www.wmtw.com/article/old-orchard-beach-maine-officer-voluntary-departure/65807962?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot
 
https://edsource.org/updates/immigration-agents-alleged-to-have-boasted-of-1500-for-l-a-student-arrest 
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/politics/ice-bonuses-immigrants-deportations.html

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 196

Robert explains how Alexandre Villaplane ruined his football career committing crimes, badly, and then started a new career as a mass murderer for the SS.

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Part Two: The Evilest Football Player of All Time

Robert sits down with Dana Schwartz to tell the dark tale of Alexandre Villaplane, the French Football star and gangster who became a member of the SS.

 
(2 part series)

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Part One: The Evilest Football Player of All Time

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- Infrastructure as Control feat. Andrew
 
- Why Trump is Obsessed with the Autopen
 
- How Tucson Beat Amazon’s Data Center
 
- Tariffs and the Corruption State
 
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #29
 
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!
 
http://apple.co/coolerzone 
 
Sources/Links:
 
Why Trump is Obsessed with the Autopen
 
https://www.shapell.org/behind-the-scenes/the-robot-pen/
 
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1908354
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lead-investigator-james-comer-biden-autopen-digital-signature-rcna216719
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/politics/autopen-trump-biden-analysis
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-pardon-autopen-trump.html
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-clemency-interview.html
 
How Tucson Beat Amazon’s Data Center
 
http://nodesertdatacenter.com
 
https://apnews.com/article/electricity-prices-data-centers-artificial-intelligence-fbf213a915fb574a4f3e5baaa7041c3a
 
https://vermaland.com
 
Tariffs and the Corruption State
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/economy/tariff-more-expensive
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-hikes-india-tariffs-50-percent-buying-russian-oil-rcna223374
 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nvidia-amd-chip-sales-china-15-percent-h20-mi308/
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/business/tariffs-switzerland-trump.html
 
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/trumps-reciprocal-tariffs-come-into-effect-hitting-dozens-of-us-trading-partners.html
 
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/8/12/trump-extends-china-tariff-deadline-for-the-second-time-what-does-it-mean
 
https://www.tradecomplianceresourcehub.com/2025/08/12/trump-2-0-tariff-tracker/
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/business/trade-exemptions-tariffs-trump
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7jjkvzmkxo
 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25#cme17o5l400003b6ns7mwdwnv
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-tariffs-latest-round-takes-effect-thursday-august-7-2025-rcna223461
 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25
 
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-administration-tells-foreign-military-junta-wants-hear-raising-e-rcna221569
 
https://restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-iphone-factory-china/
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump
 
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/i-wont-humiliate-myself-brazils-president-sees-no-point-tariff-talks-with-trump-2025-08-06/
 
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #29
 
https://www.cvesd.org/parents/family-and-community-resources
lausd.org
 
https://www.lausd.org/cms/lib/CA01000043/Centricity/Domain/577/Parent%20Resources/ComResourceGuideEng.pdf

 
https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2024/11/21/with-trump-back-in-power-advocates-criticize-gloria-for-shuttering-immigrant-affairs-office
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/business/trump-bls-ej-antoni.html
 
https://x.com/AngulusTerrarum/status/1955320816855294169
 
https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1955041060197114136
 
https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/stephen-miran-federal-reserve-board-e7855877
 
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-bls-appointment-ej-antoni-alarms-economists-2112440
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/business/bls-nominee-trump
 
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/ej-antoni-trumps-pick-lead-bls/story?id=124579471
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/restoring-law-and-order-in-the-district-of-columbia/
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8600x7dnn4o
 
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/texas-democrats-return-after-governor-ends-special-session/story?id=124592449
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5loldo4Vmno

 
https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspected-gunman-cdc-shooting-fired-500-rounds-officials/story?id=124577732

 
https://www.scrippsnews.com/health/rfk-jr-in-interview-with-scripps-news-trusting-the-experts-is-not-science 
 
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-formally-asked-overturn-landmark-same-sex/story?id=124465302

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 195

In Part 2 Frank Fay finds love and creates the most toxic Hollywood romance of all time. Then he breaks Nazi and holds a fascist rally in New York City less than a year after the end of WW2.

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Part Two: Frank Fay, The Fascist Who invented Stand Up Comedy

Robert sits down with Andrew Ti to discuss the ground breaking performer who created modern stand up comedy and also palled around with the KKK.
 
 
 
(2 Part Series)

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Part One: Frank Fay, The Fascist Who invented Stand Up Comedy

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- Anti-War Movements feat. Andrew
 
- Aid as a Tool of War in Gaza feat. Dana El Kurd
 
- Mapping Border Deaths
 
- Dogwhistle Politics and Nazi Code Hunting
 
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #28
 
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Sources/Links:
 
Anti-War Movements feat. Andrew
 
Anarchist Encyclopedia by Sebastien Faure et al
 
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-herod-the-weakness-of-a-politics-of-protest
 
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jeff-shantz-p-j-lilley-striking-against-the-work-war-machine
 
Aid as a Tool of War in Gaza feat. Dana El Kurd
 
Oxfam statement about Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - https://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/more-than-100-organizations-are-sounding-the-alarm-to-allow-lifesaving-aid-into-gaza/
 
Fogbow in Uganda and Sudan - https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations/2025/06/16/fogbow-operations-south-sudan-raise-red-flags-aid-private-sector
 
Bezalel Smotrich’s “Decisive Plan” - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/09/israel-leaders-palestinian-territories-bezalel-smotrich-gaza-7-october
 
Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini on dismantling UNRWA - https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/notes/unrwa-may-be-forced-stop-saving-lives-gaza-will-world-let-happen
 
NPR report on famine in Gaza - https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/25/g-s1-78968/what-does-it-take-for-a-famine-to-be-declared-in-gaza
 
US Green Beret on what he saw at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites - https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-26/ty-article/i-witnessed-war-crimes-in-gaza-u-s-veteran-and-former-ghf-worker-tells-bbc/00000198-47e0-d6be-a1bd-4ffd67f90000
 
Aljazeera op-ed by former UN official - https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/21/why-is-the-un-not-declaring-famine-in-gaza
 
UN reporting on deaths at aid sites - https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165396
 
Dr. Nick Maynard on what he witnessed in Gaza - https://www.channel4.com/news/teenagers-being-shot-by-israeli-soldiers-british-surgeon-in-gaza
 
Suppressing Dissent edited volume - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Suppressing-Dissent/Zaha-Hassan/9781836430971
 
Mapping Border Deaths
 
https://nomoredeaths.org/migrant-death-mapping/
 
Dogwhistle Politics and Nazi Code Hunting
 
https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
 
https://files.libcom.org/files/[Mark_Fisher]_Capitalist_Realism_Is_There_no_Alte(BookZZ.org).pdf
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trumps-immigration-record-far-high-arrests-low-deportations-rcna217752
 
https://michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/ice-director-envisions-amazon-like-mass-deportation-system-prime-but-with-human-beings/ 
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20p36e62gyo
 
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-refuses-us-military-flight-deporting-migrants-sources-say-2025-01-25/
 
https://bsky.app/profile/bishonentype.bsky.social/post/3luq3qktltc2n
 
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #28
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/economy/tariff-more-expensive
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-hikes-india-tariffs-50-percent-buying-russian-oil-rcna223374
 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25
 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25#cme17o5l400003b6ns7mwdwnv
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump
 
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-tariffs-latest-round-takes-effect-thursday-august-7-2025-rcna223461
 
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/us-tariffs-take-effect-08-07-25
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/tech/apple-investment-us-trump
 
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/i-wont-humiliate-myself-brazils-president-sees-no-point-tariff-talks-with-trump-2025-08-06/
 
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/aug/05/yvette-cooper-small-boats-migrants-uk-france-home-office-uk-politics-live
 
https://bsky.app/profile/yougov.co.uk/post/3lvnr5fixc22l
 
https://www.facebook.com/EpiscopalNY/
 
https://apnews.com/article/florida-immigration-alligator-alcatraz-27fbae217427be730f589323df7cf656
 
https://sam.gov/opp/53dc2fa997954c1d8acf8888fd8f0b56/view
 
https://bi2technologies.com/service/iris/
 
https://www.cbs42.com/business/press-releases/cision/20250519NE91508/bi2-technologies-and-support-our-sheriffs-foundation-partner-with-singlecare-to-create-sheriff-rx/ 
 
https://www.secureidnews.com/news-item/el-paso-sheriff-to-use-iris-scanners/?ref=404media.co
 
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CMSW25P00000040_7012_-NONE-_-NONE-
 
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CTD025FR0000036_7012_NNG15SC82B_8000
 
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CMSD25P00000047_7012_-NONE-_-NONE-
 
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CMSW25P00000042_7012_-NONE-_-NONE-
 
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2015/02/capsule-review-ford-svt-raptor-united-states-border-patrol-edition/
 
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/senator-cornyn-says-fbi-will-help-track-down-texas-democrats-who-fled-over-2025-08-07/
 
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/03/texas-quorum-breaks-history/
 
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/texas-democrats-house-warrants-arrest-quorum-break/
 
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/08/06/nx-s1-5493544/rfk-defunding-mrna-vaccine-research
 
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/nasa-china-space-station-duffy-directives-00492172

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 194

We discuss Peter Thiel's rise to PayPal CEO, his betrayal of Elon Musk, and the birth of the technology that became Palantir.

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Part Two: How Peter Thiel Became the Gravedigger of Democracy

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