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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 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

We conclude the heinous tale of Volkswagen's slave plantation in Brazil.

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Part Two: That Time Volkswagen Operated a Slave Plantation in Brazil

Robert sits down with Maggie Mae Fish to discuss how Volkswagen went from Hitler's favorite auto-company to the owner of a slave plantation in the Amazon during the Reagan Era.
 
 
 
(2 Part Series)

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Part One: That Time Volkswagen Operated a Slave Plantation in Brazil

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- ICE’s Ethnic Cleansing in Chicago
 
- The Riyadh Comedy Festival
 
- The Weaponization of Mass Shootings
 
- Trump’s Hepatitis Vaccine Lies
 
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #37
 
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:
 
ICE’s Ethnic Cleansing in Chicago
 
https://thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds-detain-dozens-of-immigrants-in-massive-south-shore-apartment-building-raid-in-chicago/
 
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated
 
The Riyadh Comedy Festival
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413
 
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/09/02/yemen-coalition-bus-bombing-apparent-war-crime
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413
 
The Weaponization of Mass Shootings
 
https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2025/09/michigan-church-shooter-told-burton-council-candidate-that-mormons-are-the-anti-christ.html
 
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/09/29/thomas-jacob-sanford-michigan-shooting-suspect-anti-lds-tirade/86415139007/

 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/michigan-church-attack.html

 
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/29/eric-swalwell-post-photoshopped-pic-x-michigan-church-attack-suspect-maga/
 
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1972323666705973589?s=61 
 
https://bsky.app/profile/aric.bsky.social/post/3lxmr4jq3qs2d 
 
https://x.com/jamesstout/status/1972669516384539066
 
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-shooters-motive

 
https://www.keranews.org/news/2025-10-06/dallas-ice-shooting-politics-and-ideology-or-notoriety-and-fame-joshua-jahns-immigration 
 
https://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1975581768876237115 
 
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/north-carolina-bar-shooting/ 
 
https://time.com/7323442/south-carolina-judge-diane-goodstein-house-fire-trump-political-violence/
 
Trump’s Hepatitis Vaccine Lies
 
https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-health-autism-white-house-september-22-2025/
 
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #37
 
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.189270/gov.uscourts.ord.189270.56.0_1.pdf 
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1974086514796896515 

 
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1974200050206322960 
 
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1974112113326239852 
 
https://katu.com/news/local/court-docs-woman-charged-in-ice-protest-chased-nick-sortor-while-wearing-bird-outfit 

 
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/03/trump-portland-oregon-ice-immigration-police-protest/ 

 
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1974861544812105853
 
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/05/california-secures-court-victory-trump-cannot-deploy-california-national-guard-into-oregon/ 
 
https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-briefing-stephen-miller-the-white-house-october-6-2025/ 
 
https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1975643776161841649

 
https://gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker-statement-on-the-texas-national-guard-being-deployed-to-illinois 
 
https://illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/news/story/attorney-general-raoul-files-lawsuit-against-trump-administration-to-stop-unlawful-deployment-of-national-guard 
 
 

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 203

Robert and Cody Johnston sit down to read Ben Shapiro's latest non-fiction book, which seems to be based entirely on him not understanding how lions work.

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Robert and Cody Read Ben Shapiro's New Book

Hello, Behind the Bastards Listeners! We want to share a new show you might enjoy, SAD OLIGARCH Season 2!
 
About the show: Since January 2022, dozens of Russia's wealthiest oligarchs and power brokers have died suddenly. One was poisoned with frog venom. Two killed their whole families. Several fell out of high windows. Most of the deaths are suspicious. Russia says they're coincidental suicides—that the deceased were simply depressed. We don't think so...
 
Sad Oligarch is an investigative podcast series that looks into the strange deaths of the Russian elite, unravelling a dark tale of Kremlin corruption and Putin's political dictatorship across the world. This is season two—Russian oligarchs are still dying and things have gotten even weirder...
 
Listen here and subscribe to SAD OLIGARCH Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts!

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Introducing: SAD OLIGARCH Season 2

Robert discusses the mysterious 2001 anthrax attacks and how the FBI, without any real evidence, decided to destroy a man's life over it.

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How The FBI Botched the 2001 Anthrax Scare (Part 2)

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- SEIU 1000 Union Rep of the IE Reports Live from the Frontline
 
- Everyone Hates Them: Trump, the Media and Jimmy Kimmel
 
- Does Tylenol Give Your Baby Autism?
 
- What Does the Antifa Executive Order Mean for Free Speech?
 
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #36
 
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Sources:
 
Everyone Hates Them: Trump, the Media and Jimmy Kimmel
 
https://www.cawshinythings.com/about-caw/
 
https://am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpm-am-aem/global/en/insights/eye-on-the-market/fair-shakes-amv.pdf
 
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/article/jimmy-kimmel-returns-after-suspension-for-charlie-kirk-comments-our-government-cannot-be-allowed-to-control-what-we-do-and-do-not-say-on-television-195436293.html
 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/24/trump-approval-rating/86306451007/
 
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-approval-dips-americans-worry-about-economy-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-09-23/
 
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kimmel-reinstatement-disney-price-increase-scoop
 
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/29/democrats-pounce-in-reliably-red-iowa-fueled-by-special-election-hopium-00538075
 
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democratic-win-in-iowa-special-election-breaks-gop-supermajority
 
https://www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democrats-win-massive-upset
 
Does Tylenol Give Your Baby Autism?
 
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406
 
What Does the Antifa Executive Order Mean for Free Speech?
 
https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/28/the-implications-of-trumps-war-on-antifa-with-moira-meltzer-cohen/ 
 
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #36
 
democrats-are-shutting-down-government

 
https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4309929/at-war-department-shaving-waivers-out-clean-shaven-faces-in/ 
 
​​https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/other-documents/treasury-tax-correspondence/remove-irs-workers-anti-conservative-bias-group-says/7sx42 
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-charge-man-who-burned-u-s-flag-outside-white-house-in-protest-of-trumps-executive-order/ 

 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/ 
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restoring-the-united-states-department-of-war/
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-deploys-federal-resources-to-crush-violent-radical-left-terrorism-in-portland/
 
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/23/2025-18372/determination-pursuant-to-section-102-of-the-illegal-immigration-reform-and-immigrant-responsibility 
 
https://x.com/SecWar/status/1971342502650429458 
 
https://www.cbp.gov/document/environmental-assessments/border-barrier-system-construction-san-diego-county-california 
 
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/federal-drug-prosecutions-fall-lowest-level-decades-trump-shifts-focus-2025-09-29/ 
 
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568 
 
https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/msnbc-exclusive-former-ice-officer-led-the-fbi-to-tom-homan-248671301528 
 
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/judiciary-democrats-demand-doj-fbi-release-recordings-of-tom-homan-receiving-50000-cash-bribe 
 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/stephen-miller-venezuela-drug-boat-strike 
https://thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds-detain-dozens-of-immigrants-in-massive-south-shore-apartment-building-raid-in-chicago/ 
 
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/ 
 
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/armed-agents-in-unmarked-vans-target-south-shore-apartment-building/ 
 
https://thetriibe.com/2025/10/video-shows-feds-choking-a-black-man-in-east-garfield-park/ 

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How The FBI Botched the 2001 Anthrax Scare (Part 2)

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