Behind the Bastards

Robert and Ed reach a crucial crux in the Steve Jobs story: his years of failed product launches and near destruction of Apple. Also, Bono appears.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Robert Evans explains the rise of Apple, and how Steve Jobs tried to cheat the California Welfare system.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert sits down with Ed Zitron to discuss the early life of Steve Jobs, who started out setting off bombs in school and wound up foundingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Though the Winklevoss brothers are best known for their role in the early days of Facebook, you'll be surprised to learn that they recently lost customers at their cryptocurrency exchange over a billion dollars through a shady loan scheme. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how the two identical riverboat giants went from being conned by Mark Zuckerberg to conning over a hundred thousand people into putting their cryptocurrency in the hands of the world's worst investor. Better Offline Theme Song Spotify Pre-Save Link - https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/mattosowski/better-offline-theme-song-2?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=Email+&utm_source=SendGrid See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert and Miles get to the nightmare heart of the TB Joshua story: a sprawling empire of sexual violence and gaslighting on an epic scale.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert sits down with Miles Gray to talk about TB Joshua, a Nigerian pastor whose cult trapped people from all over the world in a literal physical hell of his own design. (2 Part Series) Sources: https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/africa/even-in-death-televangelist-tb-joshua-remains-controversial-3431478 https://www.ru.ac.za/perspective/2014archive/tbjoshuaafalseprophetmustcomeclean.html https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56771246 https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/youtube-closes-african-channel-promoting-televangelists-violent-conversion-therapy/ https://www.africanews.com/2024/01/08/tb-joshua-exposed-20-years-of-scandal-and-fake-miracles-in-lagos-sparks-mixed-reactions/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59295624 https://punchng.com/trump-you-need-spiritual-understanding-to-interpret-my-prophesy-tb-joshua/ https://www.modernghana.com/news/685268/police-urges-calm-over-terror-prophecy-.html https://www.timeslive.co.za/tshisa-live/tshisa-live/2016-09-19-cassper-slams-report-claiming-tb-joshua-predicted-the-death-of-12-000-people-at-concert/ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-clip-nigerian-preacher-predicting-disappearance-goes-viral-1440107 https://archive.is/iYg1s#selection-1643.0-1649.1 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2608411/Nigeria-preacher-Healer-controversial-leader.html https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67891394 https://apnews.com/general-news-ed3b0ce9145f47d78bc84f36cf4db097 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67861976 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67749215 https://saharareporters.com/2021/06/13/bring-prophet-t-b-joshuas-body-home-burial-ondo-youths-tell-family-late-cleric https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29234245 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/constance-marten-tb-joshua-mark-gordon-b2279954.html https://www.cfr.org/blog/tb-joshua-preacher-who-held-outsized-influence-nigeria-and-africa https://dailynigerian.com/joshua-life-times-legacy/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57388592 https://guardian.ng/news/end-of-road-for-woman-used-by-pastors-to-perform-fake-miracles/ https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2006/10/05/historical-overview-of-pentecostalism-in-nigeria/ https://www.religionnewsblog.com/6772/mixed-reactions-over-nigerias-televised-miracles-ban https://www.nairaland.com/40/nbc-ban-unverified-tv-miracles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZZVQxjXWCgSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Robert and Prop answer the final two great questions about Robert E. Lee: did he fuck that horse, and was he any good as a general?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert and Prop continue the story of Bobby Lee to the climax of his life: his decision to turn traitor and fight for the Confederacy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Robert and Prop discuss Robert E. Lee's career in the army, and his horrific violence towards the enslaved workers on his father-in-laws plantation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert sits down with Jason Petty aka Prop to begin the epic story of Robert E. Lee, prominent furry, slave owner and Confederate General. (4 Part Series) Sources: https://archive.org/stream/memoirsrobertel01wriggoog/memoirsrobertel01wriggoog_djvu.txt https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-arlington-national-cemetery-came-to-be-145147007/ https://www.history.com/news/how-the-cult-of-robert-e-lee-was-born https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/18/robert-e-lee-is-the-uniter-america-has-been-looking-for/ https://www.amazon.com/Lee-Considered-General-History-America-ebook/dp/B00ZVEM3T6 https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Lee-Me-Southerners-Reckoning-ebook/dp/B08BKJJJG8/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=lee+and+me&s=digital-text&sr=1-2 https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Lee-Allen-C-Guelzo-ebook/dp/B08RJ4S4DN/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=lee+guelzo&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 https://www.amazon.com/General-Lee-Biography-Robert-ebook/dp/B074N2GGTV/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=lee+a+biography+fitzhugh+lee&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 https://www.amazon.com/Who-Was-Robert-Lee-ebook/dp/B00GYA5AUU/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=who+was+robert+e+lee&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 https://archive.org/stream/memoirsrobertel01wriggoog/memoirsrobertel01wriggoog_djvu.txthttps://gettysburgcompiler.org/2018/05/23/the-sins-of-the-father-light-horse-harry-lee-and-robert-e-lee/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/lee-timeline/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/making-sense-of-robert-e-lee-85017563/ https://www.americanheritage.com/robert-e-lees-severest-struggle https://spartacus-educational.com/USASwhipping.htm https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-robert-e-lee-met-john-brown-and-saved-the-union https://www.ducksters.com/biography/world_leaders/robert_e_lee.php https://www.historyforkids.net/robert-e-lee.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Robert tells Ify about the time tech weirdo's recreated Hell using AI and Robert pisses off a VP at Google. Plus: More cult shit! (Adapted from his article in Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-companies-advocates-cult-1234954528/)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert sits down with Ify Nwadiwe to talk about the weird cult that's formed around AI, and some of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley. (Adapted from his article in Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-companies-advocates-cult-1234954528/) (2 Part Series) Sources: What Makes a Cult a Cult? | The New Yorker The Wide Angle: Understanding TESCREAL — Silicon Valley’s Rightward Turn | Washington Spectator We need to examine the beliefs of today’s tech luminaries This A.I. Subculture’s Motto: Go, Go, Go - The New York Times (archive.is) Effective Accelerationism — e/acc - e/acc newsletter (archive.is) The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitz (archive.is) https://abtinmus.medium.com/nick-land-for-dumbies-technological-singularity-and-capital-as-a-runaway-system-4fac0c9a163e https://web.archive.org/web/20141007023855/http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2014/10/hyper-racism.html https://www.journals.vu.lt/problemos/article/view/25345 https://regressstudies.substack.com/p/technocapital-is-eating-my-brains See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Now bereft of their children, the Finders slide into old age and irrelevance with one last attempt to freak out the normies.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Were The Finders a CIA operation? The short answer is "maybe"! The long answer is... this episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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After almost twenty years of quiet growth the Finders explode into public awareness when they are accused of sex trafficking children, possibly for the CIA. (Or the Devil.)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert sits down with Jamie Loftus to tell the tale of Marion Petty, the man whose cult was accused of trafficking children and may have been part of a CIA op. Or not! It's very unclear! (4 Part Series) Sources: https://apnews.com/article/4c5cd8141e930159ea3e4f0492a41ade https://www.vice.com/en/article/7x53vg/the-finders-cult-from-the-80s-was-patient-zero-for-epsteinand-pizzagate-conspiracies https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/287890/finders-keeper/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/02/07/officialsdescribe-cult-rituals-in-child-abuse-case/11f05df1-48e0-41f7-b46d249c0bd2bc39/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/02/07/finders-group-has-its-roots-in-popular60s-hippie-refuge/2d6b5d9d-904f-4acd-a371-f560fca68b39/ https://vault.fbi.gov/the-finders/the-finders-part-01-of-04/viewr https://www.gnosticwarrior.com/finders.htmlhttps://joncohen.org/wp-content/uploads/1988/11/In-Search-of-the-Finders-New-Times-version-.pdf https://www.amazon.com/Gamecaller-Mr-Tobe-Terrell/dp/1974059308 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Our tale of Orange County bastardry reaches it's apex in John Schmitz, the conspiracy maniac who ran against Nixon from the Right and blazed the trail that led us to Donald TrumpSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert sits down with Francesca Fiorentini to talk about how Orange County, California gave birth to the modern Republican Party, thanks to some arms dealers and a howling fascist named John Schmitz. (2 Part Series) Sources: https://cafe.com/article/were-revolutionaries-john-schmitzs-controversial-1972-third-partypresidential-campaign/ https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/05/archives/john-schmitz-is-no-george-wallace-.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-16-me-1902-story.html https://www.reddit.com/r/thecampaigntrail/comments/115krux/fun_facts_about_john_g_schmitz_not _really_theyre/ https://people.com/crime/mary-kay-letourneau-devastated-when-politician-father-was-caughtfathering-children-with-student/ https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-joseph-e-schmitz-foreign-policypentagon-dod-germany-wrong-doing-439239 https://archive.is/qkm9c https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2001/01/12/conservative-gopcongressman-john-g-schmitz-70-dies/d1dc7a2d-458c-4ef4-8f0d-398dfb8d54b4/ https://www.npr.org/2023/05/17/1176662608/a-historian-details-how-a-secretiveextremist-group-radicalized-the-american-rig https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/29/republicans-orange-county-california-228110/ https://www.pressreader.com/usa/los-angeles-times/20181105/281483572392685 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In Part Two, Robert is joined again by Jamie Loftus to continue discussing Kaiser Wilhelm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert sits down with Jamie Loftus to talk about Kaiser Wilhelm, the devastatingly cringy Mama's boy who came to rule an empire despite lacking even a single relevant skill.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Henry Kissinger is dead! If you're wondering why people are so happy about this, listen to our six hour series on the life and crimes of one of the 20th century's greatest war criminals. (Ft. Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds from The Dollop)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Henry Kissinger is dead! If you're wondering why people are so happy about this, listen to our six hour series on the life and crimes of one of the 20th century's greatest war criminals. (Ft. Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds from The Dollop)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Margaret and Robert conclude our Christmas episode and yet another year of this fucking podcast. CBP is detaining thousands of migrants, including children and the elderly, in the desert without food, water or shelter when overnight temperatures drop below freezing. Support the mutual aid groups helping them: tinyurl.com/borderaidgfm and/or https://www.gofundme.com/jacumba-migrant-camps See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert sits down with Margaret Killjoy to talk about Aaron Swartz, a tragic hero who helped build the open internet. (2 Part Series) CBP is detaining thousands of migrants, including children and the elderly, in the desert without food, water or shelter when overnight temperatures drop below freezing. Support the mutual aid groups helping them: tinyurl.com/borderaidgfm and/or https://www.gofundme.com/jacumba-migrant-camps Sources: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/03/11/requiem-for-a-dream https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/the-brilliant-life-and-tragic-death-of-aaronswartz-177191/ https://newrepublic.com/article/112485/aaron-swartz-profile-internet-will-never-save-you https://newrepublic.com/article/112418/aaron-swartz-suicide-why-he-broke-jstor-andmit https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/aaron-swartz-prosecutor-withheldevidence/317410/ https://archive.is/bGVpb https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/prosecutor-in-aaron-swartzhacking-case-comes-under-fire/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/31/aaron-swartz-mit-report-family-critical https://archive.is/9IIBX https://archive.is/vmHXz See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Robert and Sofiya finish the story of William Bailey, after a brief interlude to talk about the radium girls.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert sits down with Sofiya Alexandra to talk about Will Bailey, the fake doctor who made himself into the king of radioactive fake medicine and killed an unknown number of people in the doing. (2 Part Series)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Robert and Jamie conclude the thrilling tale of Sam Bankman-Fried and his biographer, Michael Lewis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert Evans is a Living God and can never lie.....Also we talk with Jamie Loftus about Sam Bankman-Fried and beloved biographer to con man Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short. (2 Part Series!) https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/michael-lewiss-big-contrarian-bet https://archive.is/GnVkX#selection-2015.0-2029.125 https://archive.is/cZZcN#selection-455.0-523.30 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/03/michael-lewis-sam-bankman-fried-crypto-going-infinite https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/10/02/is-michael-lewis-throwing-out-his-reputation-to-defend-sam-bankman-fried/ https://archive.is/yrvL9#selection-1231.0-1271.105 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/02/sam-bankman-fried-trial-key-takeaways https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-fraud-was-in-the-code https://www.investopedia.com/why-ftx-plan-to-refund-90-percent-of-recovered-assets-doesnt-add-up-to-90-percent-of-what-customers-lost-8362556 https://jacobin.com/2023/11/sam-bankman-fried-convicted-crypto-fraud-michael-lewis https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-08-15/the-blind-side-michael-lewis-michael-oher-sean-leigh-anne-tuohy-original-review-archiveSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sophie has never been wrong about a single thing in her life. Matt Lieb guests and Robert is also there.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert sits down with Matt Lieb to talk about Oregon's first sex cult: the Holy Rollers. (2 Part Series) McCracken, T.. Holy Rollers:Murder and Madness in Oregon's Love Cult . BookBaby. Kindle Edition https://offbeatoregon.com/o1105e-bride-of-christ-holy-rollers-in-corvallisbeginning.html https://www.historylink.org/File/4263 https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/younghistorians/2017/oralpres/24/ https://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1863162,00.html https://victorianweb.org/religion/sa1.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Original Air Date: June 14th, 2018 Robert is joined again by Andrew Ti (Yo, Is This Racist?) and they continue discuss the evil actions of King Leopold II of Belgium. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original Air Date: June 12th, 2018 Have you ever heard of King Leopold II? In Episode 7, Robert is joined by Andrew Ti (Yo, Is This Racist?) and they discuss the King of Belgium, who was the first world leader to be crappy in the true modern sense of the word. His life’s work was the blueprint for being the kind of terrible that we recognize in modern leaders like Dick Cheney or Vladimir Putin. He pioneered screwing over tens of millions of people for petty personal gainSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Robert and Ed continue the story of Lord Aspinall, who trades in his gambling house for the deadliest zoo in history. Bonus: murder! Sources: https://www.amazon.com/Gamblers-Aspinall-James-Goldsmith-murder/dp/1844132056 https://archive.org/details/passionofjohnasp0000mast/page/32/mode/2up https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/04/abuse-britain-private-schools-personal-memoir https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.2307/367195 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/41310278.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/02/lynnbarber.theobserver https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jan/09/politics.past http://www.gambling-stories.com/2015/02/john-aspinall-bio.html?m=1 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/news/2000/jun/30/guardianobituaries?bshm=rimc/2 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/30/keithperry?bshm=rimc/2 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert sits down with Ed Zitron to talk about Lord Aspinall and his gambling buddies, who ruled London high society with an iron fist and also did a murder. (2 part series)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.