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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

David Berg starts the 1970s as a wildly popular cult leader and immediately goes insane. Robert walks Ed Helms through the invention of "flirty fishing" AKA prostitution for Jesus and a bunch of other nightmare fuel.
 
Sources;
 
Children of God
 
Children of God cult was 'hell on earth'
 
'Children of God': Life and Death of the Messiah
 
The Children of God: Joaquin Phoenix, Rose McGowan Among Former Members of This Notorious Cult
 
Murder and Suicide Reviving Claims of Child Abuse in Cult - The New York Times
 
Life With Grandpa (1985) - more perverse puppetry from The Family International
 
"Everybody can be happy" - The Luvvets 1980s - The Family International Puppet Show
 
Treasure Attic: Let's Have Fun
 
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(PDF) Lustful prophet: A psychosexual historical study of the children of God's leader, David Berg.
 
The Children of God \\ History \ Revolution for Jesus
 
https://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Main_Page
 
https://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Flirty_Fishing
 
https://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Love_bombing0

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Part Two: David Berg and the Children of God (ft. Ed Helms)

This special edition of ICHH Weekly compiles the complete Anti-Vax America series by guest host Steven Monacelli.
 
- Viral Texas
 
- Anti-Vax Genealogy
 
- God's Will
 
- Soft Eugenics
 
- Could It Happen Here?
 
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Sources/Links:
 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/05/20/measles-updates-texas-cases-pass-700-as-illness-reported-in-30-states/
 
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-measles-outbreak-in-west-texas-and-beyond
 
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2025/03/24/data-these-charts-show-how-measles-vaccination-rates-declined-in-texas-public-schools/ 
 
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2025/03/24/too-good-for-this-earth-parents-of-child-who-died-in-measles-outbreak-say-no-to-vaccine/
 
https://www.verywellhealth.com/measles-outbreak-texas-11682808 
 
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html
 
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https://www.latimes.com/newsletters/la-me-ln-essential-california-20190507-story.html 
 
https://slate.com/technology/2025/04/measles-cases-epidemic-worst-case-vaccine.html 
 
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rfk-jr-plandemic-funding-1235173801/
 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1200696/
 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8802588/
 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1123944/
 
https://time.com/7205900/anti-vaccination-movement-history/ 
 
https://historyofvaccines.org/getting-vaccinated/vaccine-faq/vaccination-exemptions
 
https://historyofvaccines.org/blog/timeline-of-vaccination-mandates
 
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-68106-1_2 
 
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rfk-jr-plandemic-funding-1235173801/ 
 
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-02/rand-paul-on-vaccines-most-of-them-ought-to-be-voluntary- 
 
https://time.com/5175704/andrew-wakefield-vaccine-autism/ 
 
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-evidence-on-vaccines-and-autism 
 
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bombastic-19th-century-anti-vaxxer-who-fueled-montreals-smallpox-epidemic/
 
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/plague-the-red-death-strikes-montreal-feature
 
https://www.cascadepbs.org/2020/05/seattle-always-had-anti-vaxxers-even-during-smallpox
 
https://www.cascadepbs.org/mossback/2025/02/history-vaccine-skepticism-1920s-seattle-rfk-jr
 
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/texas-measles-outbreak-death-family/681985/
 
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2025/03/24/too-good-for-this-earth-parents-of-child-who-died-in-measles-outbreak-say-no-to-vaccine/ 
 
https://www.christianitytoday.com/2013/09/measles-outbreak-megachurch-kenneth-copeland-vaccines/ 
 
https://www.npr.org/2013/09/01/217746942/texas-megachurch-at-center-of-measles-outbreak
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUGuJkVgXNA 
 
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kenneth-copeland-blow-coronavirus-pray-sermon-trump-televangelist-a9448561.html 
 
https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2025/03/04/west-texans-mennonites-at-center-of-measles-outbreak-choose-medical-freedom-over-vaccine-mandates/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/12/measles-vaccinations-texas-pastor-revels-in-schools-state-low-rates/81975293007/
 
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19602363/ 
 
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11700278/
 
https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/educational-resources/timelines/eugenics
 
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/29/politics/abbott-migrant-transport-order-covid
 
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/racist-covid-infection-theories-arent-just-wrong-they-are-deadly/
 
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/measles-maha-and-soft-eugenics/
 
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-and-soft-eugenics-revisited-the-autism-tsunami-dr-oz-and-your-patriotic-duty-to-stay-healthy/
 
https://www.nsdoku.de/en/groups/educational-program/the-nazi-society-of-exclusion
 
http://www.worldofinclusion.com/res/qca/Lest_We_Forget.pdf 
 
https://web.archive.org/web/20250213085155/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/19/anti-vaxxers-try-rewrite-history-truth-nazis-vaccination-not/ 
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/health/hhs-cdc-vaccines-autism 
 
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5383172/rfk-jr-placebo-vaccine-testing-studies
 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9577438/
 
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/04/10/1168141163/the-dream-of-wiping-out-polio-might-need-a-rethink
 
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250427/Measles-could-return-to-endemic-status-if-US-vaccination-rates-fall-further.aspx
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/health/polio-vaccine-outbreaks.html

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Anti-Vax America: The Complete Series

Robert tells Jack about the 'rescue' of Eliza Fraser and how her lies about what happened on K'gari Island helped to fuel decades of colonial war and genocide.

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Part Two: How Eliza Fraser Survived a Shipwreck and Sparked a Genocide

Robert explores Dr. Church's weird history with eugenics adjacent projects, like the world's creepiest dating app, and how Colossal Biosciences was created and immediately used by the Trump administration as an excuse to attack the Endangered Species Act.

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Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

Robert walks Langston Kerman through the story of Dr. George Church, a very real scientist who co founded the company making bullshit claims of "de extincting" dire wolves.
 
(2 Part Series)
 

Sources:
 
 George Church, Colossal W*nker – For Better Science Can Gene Therapy Slow Ageing in Dogs? - Gowing Life Never-ageing Anti-aging to cure COVID-19 – For Better Science The original sins of Leonard Guarente – For Better Science Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA - The New York Times Biologist George Church apologizes for contacts with Jeffreyticl Epstein Genetics Company Wants To Bring Iconic Tasmanian Tiger Back From Extinction - Newsweek Gene editing company hopes to bring dodo ‘back to life’ | Extinct wildlife | The Guardian Jeffrey Epstein-Funded Geneticist Is Building a Dating App That Only a Eugenicist Could Love George Church Explains How DNA Will Be Construction Material of the Future - DER SPIEGEL Geneticist George Church gets funding for lab-grown woolly mammoths Wooly Mammoth De-extinction Scientist Reveals Plan To Create 'Arctic Elephant' - Newsweek Bringing back dinosaurs or making new ones? – DW – 06/10/2015 ‘If you’re not failing, you’re probably not trying as hard as you could be’ — Harvard Gazette CRISPR gene editing on human embryos may be dangerous Here are some actual facts about George Church’s DNA dating company | MIT Technology Review Scientist on the Loose: George Church Strays Into Eugenics—Again | Center for Genetics and Society So...What do we think of Colossal Biosciences? : r/pleistocene The "de-extinction" of the woolly mammoth, a "Colossal" hoax? - Genomic chronicles | Medicine/Science Hiltzik: New frontiers in pseudoscientific baloney - Los Angeles Times Colossal Liar Wolves – For Better Science Meet The Disruptors: How Ben Lamm & Hypergiant Are Shaking Up the Space and AI Industries | by Jason Hartman | Authority Magazine | Medium Millionaire Ben Lamm Warns Against Entrepreneurship - Great Entrepreneurs The Serial Entrepreneur Turned Billionaire: Ben Lamm’s Tech and Science Revolution | Where Business News Meets Thought Leadership How 39-year-old Ben Lamm has started five companies Meet Ben Lamm: The World's First De-extinction Billionaire - Forbes India Oral history interview with George M. Church - Science History Institute Digital Collections Dr. George Church, Founding Father of Genomics | News | W.I. The Church Of George Church The World Has a Data Storage Problem. Is DNA the Answer? - proto.life DNA: The Future of Data Storage?. DNA, with its amazing storage… | by Nithil Krishnaraj | TechTalkers | Medium 
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Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

Robert builds to the thrilling conclusion of the other Kevin Smith's story: the mass slaughter of his own flock.

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Part Two: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica

Robert tells the story of Kevin Ontoniel Smith, a Jamaican-Canadian minister who created an apocalyptic Christian sect and slit his follower's throats in a COVID related panic.
 
Sources;
 
“Is Your Blood Clean?”: The Paranoid Pastor Who Turned His Church into a Violent Cult | The Walrus
 
Ontario college mum on cult pastor's PhD - Jamaica Observer
 
The power of religion to abuse, distort and control the realities of susceptible persons | Toronto Caribbean Newspaper
 
Preacher Kevin O. Smith, parishioners arrested for alleged human sacrifices
 
‘It was like prison’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
 
Naive Christians slammed for missing Kevin Smith red flags | News | Jamaica Gleaner
 
Kevin Smith’s money trail | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
 
‘He left a trail of pain and debt’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
 
‘Kevin Smith will return’ | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
 
Kevin O. Smith’s social media footprint | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
 
Kevin Smith had great prophetic powers, says Henley Morgan | Lead Stories | Jamaica Gleaner
 
I’m a scholar of the “prosperity gospel.” It took cancer to show me I was in its grip. | Vox
 
Book Review: Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, by Kate Bowler - 9Marks

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Part One: The Throat-Slitting Evangelical Minister of Jamaica

Nature Boy is now in Central America, where he weaponizes the power of Instagram's algorithm to trick rubes into flying out to join him and handing over all their money.

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Part Two: The Sordid Story of Nature Boy: The Instagram Cult Leader Who Hates Toilets

Robert concludes the story of the Fake Autism Cure Industrial Complex and tells Mangesh about a doctor who tried to get rich selling spoiled blood to deranged parents.

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Part Two: The Grifters Behind The Fake Autism 'Cure' Industry

Robert and Mangesh Hattikudur explore the birth of the "unorthodox biomedical movement", which is a fancy way of saying "fake doctors who poison children to cure Autism".
 
https://tinyurl.com/Help-Myanmar
 
freeburmarangers.org 

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Part One: The Grifters Behind The Fake Autism 'Cure' Industry

In Part Two, Robert is joined again by Billy Wayne Davis to continue discussing Samuel Hahnemann and homeopathy. 

 
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Part Two: The Bastard Who Invented Homeopathy

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