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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

Happy New Year, Robert and Sophie sit down and answer listener questions.

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Part One: Behind the Bastards Q&A: 2026 Edition

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- 2025 Q&A
 
- 2026 Predictions
 
- Trump Kidnaps Venezuelan President Maduro
 
- Inside Our AI Future: Report from CES
 
- Executive Disorder: Minneapolis ICE Shooting, Maduro, Iran & Aleppo Update
 
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Sources/Links:
 
Executive Disorder: Minneapolis ICE Shooting, Maduro, Iran & Aleppo Update
 
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115850817778602689 
 
https://t.me/s/Operasyon1 
 
https://x.com/war_noir/status/2008927274326761631?s=20 
 
https://x.com/vvanwilgenburg 
 
https://hengaw.net/ 
 
Https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/our-response-israel-gaza-war
 
https://files.constantcontact.com/7fef1c1f901/78a97f42-d0ad-4077-94b0-1e3300697e20.pdf?rdr=true 
 
https://www.defendrojava.org/news/ecr-statement-on-the-situation-in-aleppo
 
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/what-bombing-means-for-freedom-in-286094596/ 
 
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/trump-kidnaps-venezuelan-president-maduro-315837818/
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/minneapolis-ice-shooting-franklin-park-marimar-martinez-operation-midway-blitz/
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/us/marimar-martinez-shooting-case-what-we-know
 
https://mprnews.org/story/2026/01/07/shooting-south-minneapolis-ice-agents-federal-operation
 
https://pbs.org/newshour/politics/2000-federal-agents-sent-to-minneapolis-area-to-carry-out-largest-immigration-operation-ever-ice-says
 
https://www.defendrojava.org/news/call-in-campaign-urge-congress-to-take-action-in-support-of-syrian-kurds

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 214

Robert is joined again by James Stout to continue to discuss the Tobacco Industry.

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CZM Rewind: Part Two: How Cigarettes Invented Everything

Robert is joined by James Stout to discuss the Tobacco Industry.
 
(2 part series)
 
 https://daily.jstor.org/a-brief-history-of-tobacco-in-america/ https://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/james-buchananduke-father-of-the-modern-cigarette-by-william-kremer/comment-page-1/ https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/eaa/tobacco.html https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/eaa/duke-doc.html https://sites.middlebury.edu/smokingkills/forms-of-tobacco-advertisement/ 1. 
https://csts.ua.edu/files/2016/09/A-History-of-Tobacco-Trading https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5402187/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490543/?report=classic#bib3 https://www.jstor.org/stable/40469740 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470496/?report=classic https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Cigarette/JX6mDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover http://www.cigarettecentury.com/ 
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CZM Rewind: Part One: How Cigarettes Invented Everything

Part Three: Robert tells David about Ziz's glorious plan to take to the sea and sever the right and left brains of her followers in order to make them psychopaths god that sentence was weird to write trust us the episode is weirder.
 
Part Four: Robert concludes the story of the Zizians with a spree of horrific violent crimes and deaths, culminating in a shoot out with the Border Patrol in Vermont of all places.
 
 
 
Sources: 
 
 https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-ziz-76c100180509 https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130318/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/ https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/infohazard https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130316/https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative/ Wayback Machine The Zizians Spectral Sight True Hero Contract Schelling Orders – Sinceriously Glossary – Sinceriously 1. 
https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130330/https://sinceriously.fyi/my-journey-to-the-dark-side/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130302/https://sinceriously.fyi/glossary/#zentraidon https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130259/https://sinceriously.fyi/vampires-and-more-undeath/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130316/https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130318/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/ https://x.com/orellanin?s=21&t=F-n6cTZFsKgvr1yQ7oHXRg https://zizians.info/ according to The Boston Globe Inside the ‘Zizians’: How a cultish crew of radical vegans became linked to killings across the United States | The Independent Silicon Valley ‘Rationalists’ Linked to 6 Deaths The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians | WIRED Good Group and Pasek’s Doom – Sinceriously Glossary – Sinceriously Mana – Sinceriously Effective Altruism’s Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - Bloomberg The Zizian Facts - Google Docs Several free CFAR summer programs on rationality and AI safety - LessWrong 2.0 viewer This guy thinks killing video game characters is immoral | Vox Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck Eliezer Yudkowsky comments on On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics - LessWrong 2.0 viewer Effective Altruism’s Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - Bloomberg SquirrelInHell: Happiness Is a Chore PLUM OF DISCORD — I Became a Full-time Internet Pest and May Not... Roko Harassment of PlumOfDiscord Composited – Sinceriously Intersex Brains And Conceptual Warfare – Sinceriously Infohazardous Glossary – Sinceriously SquirrelInHell-Decision-Theory-and-Suicide.pdf - Google Drive The Matrix is a System – Sinceriously A community alert about Ziz. Police investigations, violence, and… | by SefaShapiro | Medium Intersex Brains And Conceptual Warfare – Sinceriously A community alert about Ziz. Police investigations, violence, and… | by SefaShapiro | Medium PLUM OF DISCORD (Posts tagged cw-abuse) Timeline: Violence surrounding the Zizians leading to Border Patrol agent shooting 
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CZM Rewind: How The Zizians Went Full On Death Cult & The Zizian Murder Spree (or Exactly How Harry Potter Fanfic Killed A Border Patrol Agent)

Part One: Earlier this year a Border Patrol officer was killed in a shoot-out with people who have been described as members of a trans vegan AI death cult. But who are the Zizians, really? Robert sits down with David Gborie to trace their development, from part of the Bay Area Rationalist subculture to killers.
 
 
 
Part Two: Robert tells David Gborie about the early life of Ziz LaSota, a bright young girl from Alaska who came to the Bay Area with dreams of saving the cosmos or destroying it, all based on her obsession with Rationalist blogs and fanfic.
 
Sources: 
 
 https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-ziz-76c100180509 https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130318/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/ https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/infohazard https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130316/https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative/ Wayback Machine The Zizians Spectral Sight True Hero Contract Schelling Orders – Sinceriously Glossary – Sinceriously 1. 
https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130330/https://sinceriously.fyi/my-journey-to-the-dark-side/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130302/https://sinceriously.fyi/glossary/#zentraidon https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130259/https://sinceriously.fyi/vampires-and-more-undeath/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130316/https://sinceriously.fyi/net-negative/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230201130318/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/ https://x.com/orellanin?s=21&t=F-n6cTZFsKgvr1yQ7oHXRg https://zizians.info/ according to The Boston Globe Inside the ‘Zizians’: How a cultish crew of radical vegans became linked to killings across the United States | The Independent Silicon Valley ‘Rationalists’ Linked to 6 Deaths The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians | WIRED Good Group and Pasek’s Doom – Sinceriously Glossary – Sinceriously Mana – Sinceriously Effective Altruism’s Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - Bloomberg The Zizian Facts - Google Docs Several free CFAR summer programs on rationality and AI safety - LessWrong 2.0 viewer This guy thinks killing video game characters is immoral | Vox Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck Eliezer Yudkowsky comments on On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics - LessWrong 2.0 viewer Effective Altruism’s Problems Go Beyond Sam Bankman-Fried - Bloomberg SquirrelInHell: Happiness Is a Chore PLUM OF DISCORD — I Became a Full-time Internet Pest and May Not... Roko Harassment of PlumOfDiscord Composited – Sinceriously Intersex Brains And Conceptual Warfare – Sinceriously Infohazardous Glossary – Sinceriously SquirrelInHell-Decision-Theory-and-Suicide.pdf - Google Drive The Matrix is a System – Sinceriously A community alert about Ziz. Police investigations, violence, and… | by SefaShapiro | Medium Intersex Brains And Conceptual Warfare – Sinceriously A community alert about Ziz. Police investigations, violence, and… | by SefaShapiro | Medium PLUM OF DISCORD (Posts tagged cw-abuse) Timeline: Violence surrounding the Zizians leading to Border Patrol agent shooting 
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CZM Rewind: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult & The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

We conclude the story of how Britain ended its role in the Atlantic Slave Trade.
 
Against the State by James Stout available for preorder here: https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html 

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Part Three: X-Mas Special: The Heroes Who Ended The Slave Trade

In this episode we introduce two great heroes: freed slave and adventurer Olaudah Equiano, and crusading abolitionist lawyer Granville Sharp.
 
Against the State by James Stout available for preorder here: https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html 

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Part Two: X-Mas Special: The Heroes Who Ended The Slave Trade

In our annual holiday reverse episode, Robert introduces James Stout to the heroes who fought to end the Atlantic Slave trade.
 
(3 part series)
 
Against the State by James Stout available for preorder here: https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html 

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Part One: X-Mas Special: The Heroes Who Ended The Slave Trade

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 
 
- The Tech Fascist Takeover of the Media
 
- Strikes, Walkouts, and Union Busting At Nestlé's Blue Bottle
 
- Grenada with Andrew, Pt. 1
 
- Grenada with Andrew, Pt. 2
 
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #46
 
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Sources/Links:
 
The Tech Fascist Takeover of the Media
 
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nbc-and-cbs-cuts-hit-race-and-culture-verticals/
 
https://archive.ph/gg6UO#selection-471.223-471.275
 
https://tech.yahoo.com/social-media/articles/elon-musk-reportedly-helped-larry-112145682.html
 
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/ceos-everything-david-larry-ellison-oracle-skydance-paramount-kimmel-carr.php
 
https://archive.ph/xBjST
 
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nbc-and-cbs-cuts-hit-race-and-culture-verticals/
 
https://www.theroot.com/massive-black-firings-at-cbs-but-what-about-gayle-king-2000070868
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/media/ellison-wbd-trump-warner-bros-discovery-bid
 
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gayle-king-leaving-cbs-mornings-b2855747.html
 
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-layoffs-cuts-morale
 
https://x.com/JeffBezos/status/1894757287052362088
 
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/07/nyt-opinion-bennet-resigns-cotton-op-ed-306317
 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/10/media/trump-cnn-sold-paramount-warner-bros-netflix
 
https://fortune.com/2025/09/28/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-oracle-tiktok-deal-social-media/
 
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/14/new-york-times-bari-weiss-resigns-360730
 
https://newrepublic.com/article/203758/bari-weiss-cbs-news-strategy
 
https://nwasianweekly.com/2025/10/nbc-news-dissolves-asian-america-blk-latino-and-out-teams-in-sweeping-cuts/
 
Strikes, Walkouts, and Union Busting At Nestlé's Blue Bottle
 
Website: bluebottleunion.org
Strike fund: tinyurl.com/bbiu-strike
 
Want to organize your store? Email us at bluebottleunion@gmail.com with the Subject Line: [Your city] Barista Interest
 
Grenada with Andrew
 
Grenada: Revolution and Invasion by Patsy Lewis et al
 
None Shall Escape by Fundi
 
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #46
 
https://gothamist.com/news/ice-enters-nyc-shelters-armed-and-without-judicial-warrants-reports-show
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/designating-fentanyl-as-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction/ 
 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/restricting-and-limiting-the-entry-of-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-security-of-the-united-states/ 
 
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70255703/united-states-v-dugan/ 
 
https://bsky.app/profile/klasfeldreports.com/post/3ma4gf7vm772z 
 
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71930356/pablo-pablo-v-lyons/ 
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g562vz34ro

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

Robert is joined by David Bell to discuss the history of Libertarian Boat Cities.

FOOTNOTES:

 https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-billionaires-fantasia https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/24/seasteading-a-vanity-project-for-the-rich-or-the-future-of-humanity https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/06/duncancampbell https://www.wired.com/1997/10/a-boat-a-city-and-a-high-tech-waterworld/ https://inthesetimes.com/article/floating-utopias https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/prince-lazarus-rules-the-waves-1157051.html https://theweek.com/articles/482427/libertarian-island-billionaires-utopia https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-quest-for-a-floating-utopia/ https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voyage-satoshi-cryptocurrency-cruise-ship-seassteading https://www.seasteading.org/convert-cruise-ships-to-seasteads/ 
 
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