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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 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.

 
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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
 
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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.
 
 
 
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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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Robert and Jamie learn how Pete Hegseth thinks Islam works, and discuss his plan to purge the U.S. of undesirables.
 
Sources:
 
Pete Hegseth: Police report lays out details, timeline of sexual assault allegation : NPR
 
Pete Hegseth paid $50,000 to a woman alleging 2017 sexual assault | CNN Politics
 
Pete Hegseth’s Secret History | The New Yorker
 
Scholars Say White Supremacists Chanting 'Deus Vult' Got History Wrong : NPR
 
Historian: Crusader motto "Deus vult" is a myth - english.katholisch.de
 
Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war crimes case - The Washington Post
 
"Five Ways Christian Families Are Under Attack" Pastor Chris Durkin
 
The Crusades, the first holy war | Submission.org - Your best source for Submission (Islam)
 
These brave Afghans helped the U.S. after 9/11. Now the U.S. wants to deport them.
 
Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war crimes case - The Washington Post
 
An Appointment in Samarra | National Review
 
Republican Hegseth is out of U.S. Senate race. For good.
 
Pete Hegseth and His ‘Battle Cry’ for a New Christian Crusade - The New York Times 
 
Trump Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth’s books foreground anti-Muslim rhetoric | Trump administration | The Guardian
 
Pete Hegseth: Faith, Family, Freedom, and the American Mind | Nashville Christian Family Magazine
 
What the firestorm over Rep. Omar’s remarks says about anti-Semitism in America | PBS News

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Part Two: Pete Hegseth's Fascist Book 'American Crusade'

Robert sits down with Jamie Loftus to talk about Pete Hegseth's life, times and horrible 2020 book.
 
Sources:
 
Pete Hegseth: Police report lays out details, timeline of sexual assault allegation : NPR
 
Pete Hegseth paid $50,000 to a woman alleging 2017 sexual assault | CNN Politics
 
Pete Hegseth’s Secret History | The New Yorker
 
Scholars Say White Supremacists Chanting 'Deus Vult' Got History Wrong : NPR
 
Historian: Crusader motto "Deus vult" is a myth - english.katholisch.de
 
Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war crimes case - The Washington Post
 
"Five Ways Christian Families Are Under Attack" Pastor Chris Durkin
 
The Crusades, the first holy war | Submission.org - Your best source for Submission (Islam)
 
These brave Afghans helped the U.S. after 9/11. Now the U.S. wants to deport them.
 
Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war crimes case - The Washington Post
 
An Appointment in Samarra | National Review
 
Republican Hegseth is out of U.S. Senate race. For good.
 
Pete Hegseth and His ‘Battle Cry’ for a New Christian Crusade - The New York Times 
 
Trump Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth’s books foreground anti-Muslim rhetoric | Trump administration | The Guardian
 
Pete Hegseth: Faith, Family, Freedom, and the American Mind | Nashville Christian Family Magazine
 
What the firestorm over Rep. Omar’s remarks says about anti-Semitism in America | PBS News

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Part One: Pete Hegseth's Fascist Book 'American Crusade'

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- The Fight for Trans Youth Healthcare at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
 
- Post Woke Cinema
 
- AI Minstrel Shows feat. Bridget Todd
 
- Community Preparedness Basics with Live Like the World is Dying
 
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #27
 
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Sources/Links:
 
The Fight for Trans Youth Healthcare at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
 
https://givebutter.com/Uj0NLs
 
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-upmc-to-reinstate-healthcare-for-trans-youth-and-young-adults?source=direct_link&
 
@providers4transjustice on IG
 
Community Preparedness Basics with Live Like the World is Dying
 
https://www.tangledwilderness.org/live-like-the-world-is-dying
 
http://www.tangledwilderness.org
 
http://www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness
 
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff
 
Douglas Rushkoff
 
https://www.tangledwilderness.org/features/ready-for-anything
 
https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/its-time-to-build-resilient-communities
 
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apocalypse
 
https://www.liveliketheworldisdying.com/s1e1-kitty-stryker-on-anarchist-prepping/
 
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #27
 
https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/one-person-killed-every-12-minutes-july-now-gazas-deadliest-month-early-2024
 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/27/live-israel-intercepts-gaza-bound-handala-5-palestinians-starve-to-death
 
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/23/nx-s1-5477365/israel-gaza-aid-casualties
 
https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/countries-in-focus-archive/issue-133/en/ 
 
https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=7-30 
 
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.238.0.pdf 
 
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.97.0.pdf 
 
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622.98.0.pdf 
 
https://abcnews.go.com/US/deputy-ag-blanche-set-meet-2nd-day-ghislaine/story?id=124064062
 
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330709/autopen-biden-pardon-void 
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/preventing-woke-ai-in-the-federal-government/ 
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/white-house-unveils-americas-ai-action-plan/ 

 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 193

We conclude the story and life of "Dr. Death", which culminates in, predictably, a lot of dead people.

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Part Two: Dr. Death: The Texas Death Row Psychiatrist Who Killed So Many People

Robert sits down with Steven Monacelli to tell the grisly tale of a Texas psychiatrist who invented an industry based on convincing juries to kill people.
 
(2 Part series)
 
sources:
 
TRAVELS WITH Dr. DEATH | Vanity Fair | May 1990
 
Death’s Conviction
 
James Grigson Testimony Linked to Miscarriages of Justice
 
Effect of "Dr. Death" and his testimony lingers
 
Flawed Trials Lead to Death Chamber | Death Penalty Information Center
 
Texas halts execution of accomplice tainted by 'Dr Death' testimony - BBC News
 
James Grigson Obituary (2004) - Dallas, TX - Dallas Morning News
 
The Law; Expert Witness Is Unfazed by 'Dr. Death' Label - The New York Times
 
Law: They Call Him Dr. Death | TIME
 
Texas 'Dr. Death' retires after 167 capital case trials - Washington Times
 
82-6080.PDF
 
Implicit bias | ASU News
 
On Texas' Death Row, Ramiro Gonzales Gets Help From Doctor Who Condemned Him | The Marshall Project
 
Dr. Death, This Side of the Twilight Zone: Estelle v. Smith (1981) — MAX WACHTEL, PHD
 
Texas Study Challenges 'Violent Behavior' Predictions - Los Angeles Times
 
The origins of forensic psychiatry in the United States and the great nineteenth-century crisis over the adjudication of wills - PubMed

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Part One: Dr. Death: The Texas Death Row Psychiatrist Who Killed So Many People

Robert is joined by Paul F. Tompkins to discuss Synanon.

FOOTNOTES:

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/08/cult-spawned-tough-love-teen-industry/ https://www.thefix.com/content/evan-ebel-murder-colorado-police-chief-paradise-cove8162?page=all https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/synanon-cult/ http://www.paulmorantz.com/cult/the-history-of-synanon-and-charles-dederich/ https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/48/pendle.php https://www.thefix.com/content/aa-cults-synanon-legacy0009?page=all https://pointshistory.com/2019/11/26/stories-of-synanon-part-one/d https://vinepair.com/spirits-101/history-of-distilling/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YLJZVYD/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o03?ie=UTF8&psc=1 
 
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