Behind the Bastards

Robert is joined again by Margaret Killjoy to continue to discuss José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano.

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Robert is joined by Margaret Killjoy to discuss José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano.

Footnotes:

1. https://pepemujica.com/en/#Pepe_Mujica8217s_participation_in_the_8220gu errilla8221
2. https://upsidedownworld.org/archives/uruguay/an-interview-with-uruguaysjose-mujica-from-armed-struggle-to-the-presidency/
3. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jose-mujica-hitchiker_n_6573532
4. https://time.com/3608517/uruguay-president-homeless-man-100-dollars/
5. https://news.yahoo.com/uruguays-mujica-guantanamo-turned-inmates-halfway-vegetables224344221.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_refer rer_sig=AQAAAAZWgpvLwCbf6hmmQQWlA3xWu_MZyFTeGYxHHhcO3AJO2qBXMvj8Sdwkh eQErRgVyOKss5QVZflkaNF4Hb6rZCr-c4Ohyc_Ctyh58oGaoEstnukpGOzWDp_gmNDq1VrqvWn1TEzotD_TIOaQ9wQ5iTFYrUsxN7DcMlAGwByPq RX
6. https://newrepublic.com/article/120912/uruguays-jose-mujica-was-liberals-dreamtoo-good-be-true
7. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jose-mujica-necktie_n_5365142
8. https://latinamericanstudies.org/uruguay/tupamaros-uruguay.htm
9. https://www.thoughtco.com/the-tupamaros-2136128
10. https://warisboring.com/the-tupamaros-were-propaganda-savvy-urbanguerrillas/
11. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Uruguays-Tupamaro-Prison-Break-WasLargest-Coolest-in-History-20160906-0037.html
12. https://nationalinterest.org/commentary/jos%C3%A9-mujicauruguays-robin-hood-guerrillas-9066  

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Robert is joined again by Jake Hanrahan to continue to discuss Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos.

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Footnotes:

1. https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/1/10/18176048/jeff-bezos-ami-extortion-medium-photos-divorce
2. https://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/love-sex/inside-the-bezos-divorce-adultery-lies-and-mile-high-trysts-18776678
3. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/10-things-you-didnt-know-649386/
4. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/jeff-bezos-defends-amazon-workplace-in-response-to-article/
5. https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-has-a-sexist-and-toxic-culture-some-employees-say-2020-9
6. https://archive.md/tWoVG

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Robert is joined again by Sofiya Alexandra to continue to discuss cryptocurrency.

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FOOOTNOTES:

1. https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dyem/investors-spent-millions-on-evolved-apes-nfts-then-they-got-scammed
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20210910175831/https://www.evolvedapes.com/mint
3. https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/20/22334527/nft-scams-artists-opensea-rarible-marble-cards-fraud-art
4. https://amycastor.com/2021/03/14/metakovan-the-mystery-beeple-art-buyer-and-his-nft-defi-scheme/
5. https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/03/11/nfts-crypto-grifters-try-to-scam-artists-again/
6. https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/04/05/debunking-but-bitcoin-is-like-the-early-internet/
7. https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption
8. https://www.natlawreview.com/article/art-and-money-laundering
9. https://www.artandobject.com/news/how-money-laundering-works-art-world
10. https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/06/29/nfts-and-the-missing-layer-of-utility/
11. https://venturebeat.com/2019/11/19/arm-treasure-data-the-most-popular-games-arent-necessarily-using-lots-of-microtransactions/
12. https://www.inputmag.com/culture/wanna-buy-a-475-dollar-nft-ticket-to-see-that-beeple-nft-artwork-in-person
13. https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/31/22650594/banksy-nft-scam-pranksy-ethereum-returned-duplicates-art
14. https://www.wsj.com/articles/scammers-see-new-frontier-in-nft-art-11629896400
15. https://thenextweb.com/news/a-brief-history-of-mt-gox-the-3b-bitcoin-tragedy-that-just-wont-end
16. https://www.bloomberg.com/crypto
17. https://blockonomi.com/mt-gox-hack/

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

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FOOTNOTES:

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

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Garrison is joined by Robert Evans to discuss “feaguing” in horses and why eels keep being shoved up butts.

Footnotes:

1. https://eels.historiacartarum.org/uncategorized/feaguing-before-there-was-ginger/
2. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/in-medieval-england-salesmen-shoved-eels-up-their-horses-anus-to-make-a-sale/
3. http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=C2157C728777E8144EADA1012862CC8A
4. https://factsanddetails.com/southeast-asia/Vietnam/sub5_9b/entry-3358.html
5. https://www.vice.com/en/article/mbxz5a/figging-putting-ginger-up-butt-kink
6. https://www.surgjournal.com/article/S0039-6060(03)00076-X/fulltext
7. http://shanghaiist.com/2010/05/01/man_in_sichuan_dies_after_friends_i/
8. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/eel-be-embarrassed-morning-hospital-removes-asparagus-sized-eel-man-s-rectum-8168078.html?amp
9. http://www.stuff.co.nz/editors-picks/8560745/Eel-X-ray-hospital-staff-disciplined
10. https://www.gawker.com/5994144/chinese-man-requires-emergency-surgery-after-the-swamp-eel-he-stuck-up-his-butt-gnaws-through-his-colon
11. https://metro.co.uk/2013/04/09/man-hospitalised-with-live-eel-stuck-up-his-bum-3589255/
12. https://metro.co.uk/2014/10/29/man-has-eel-like-fish-surgically-removed-from-bum-4927628/
13. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3361785/constipated-man-inserts-live-eel-up-his-bum/
14. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Unusual-cause-of-colonic-perforation-secondary-to-%3A-Yao-Huang/a1ca0702d6a4516ffd06527bc4a36ac69dc680aa 
15. http://www.ijcem.com/files/ijcem0085912.pdf 
16. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7894305/Man-swallows-two-live-eels-treat-constipation-following-folk-remedy.html
17. https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/slimy-15-inch-eel-removed-22233923 
18. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202107/1229761.shtml

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Robert is joined again by Jamie Loftus to continue to discuss the Facebook Papers.

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Robert and Jamie Loftus sit down to discuss the massive, damning 'Facebook leaks'.

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Robert is joined again by Caitlin Durante to continue to discuss Bernarr MacFadden.

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FOOTNOTES:

1. http://web.archive.org/web/20150915124002/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123750174381989343https://sites.edb.utexas.edu/stark/publications/building-american-supermen-bernarr-macfaddenbenito-mussolini-and-american-fascism-in-the-1930s/
2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346917559_Racialized_Surrogates_in_Bernarr_Macfadden's_Physical_Culture 
3. https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/circulating/2021/01/21/circulating-physical-culture-by-catherine-keyser/
4. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/may/08/muscular-christianity-and-american-sports-undying-love-of-violence 
5. Adams, Mark. Mr. America (p. 84). HarperCollins e-books. Kindle Edition.
6. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/12/wellness-influencers-vaccine-misinformation/
7. https://www.americanheritage.com/true-story-bernard-macfadden#6
8. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a23610/strange-tale-historic-fitness-guru-bernarrmacfadden/
9. https://www.historynet.com/putting-fad-macfadden.htm

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Robert is joined again by Matt Lieb to continue to discuss the Boy Scouts of America.

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Robert is joined by Matt Lieb to discuss Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts of America.

FOOTNOTES:

1. https://time.com/longform/boy-scouts-sex-abuse/
2. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-12-19/bankruptcy-on-the-table-as-boy-scouts-confront-sex-abuse-claims
3. https://archive.md/1livE#selection-2825.0-2829.173
4. https://archive.md/ePU2Q#selection-2483.0-2537.46
5. https://documents.latimes.com/arthur-w-humphries/
6. https://web.archive.org/web/20210304192148/https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-scouts-leaders-2-20121231-story.html
7. https://archive.md/ExPOA#selection-3545.0-3522.30
8. https://archive.md/w4Ij7#selection-2241.47-2265.90
9. https://abcnews.go.com/US/12000-boy-scout-members-victims-sexual-abuse-expert/story?id=62573567
10. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/boy-scouts-lobby-in-states-to-stem-the-flow-of-child-abuse-lawsuits/2018/05/08/0eee0a44-47d8-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.html
11. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54971579
12. https://www.sgtlaw.com/case/ex-boy-scout-awarded-more-than-12-million-in-sex-abuse-case-following-jury-trial/
13. http://exitinterview.biz/essays/bl_noped/index.htm
14. :https://www.jstor.org/stable/25475829
15. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/8403956.stmrober
16. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-53007902
17. https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/boy-scouts-have-been-one-of-the-worst-culprits-of-cultural-appropriation
18. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/16/historybooks.books
19. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/a-man-and-his-manual-1.1151580
20. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/06/young-men-in-shorts/302962/
21. http://scoutguidehistoricalsociety.com/setonfeud.htm
22. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/christopher-hitchens-on-the-mildly-fascist-founder-of-the-boy-scouts/272683/
23. https://www.policeprostitutionandpolitics.com/pdfs_all/CHILD%20MOLESTATION%20PORNOGRAPHY%20TEACHERS%20ETC/Catholic%20Church%20Other%20Clergy%20%20and%20Boy%20Scout%20Sex%20Scandals/Scout's%20Honor.pdf

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Robert is joined again by Paul F. Tompkins to continue to discuss Paul Schäfer.

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Robert is joined by Paul F. Tompkins to discuss Nazi Cult Leader, Paul Schäfer.

FOOTNOTES:

1. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/paul-schafer-nazi-colonel-who-established-anti-semitic-colony-chile-after-war-1981014.html
2. https://www.dw.com/en/ex-nazi-tyrannical-cult-leader-dies-in-chile/a-5503076
3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/07/14/chilean-victims-of-ex-nazis-cult-of-horrors-may-finally-get-some-answers/
4. https://www.dw.com/en/chile-germany-establish-colonia-dignidad-commission/a-39682775
5. https://theamericanscholar.org/the-torture-colony/#
6. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/02/11/colonia-dignidad-nobody-comes-nobody-goes-mystery-veils-colony-in-chile/6fbfe01c-9cc2-424e-a225-daf41296cb92/?utm_term=.f630845c431d&itid=lk_inline_manual_30
7. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48318295
8. https://www.ecchr.eu/en/case/colonia-dignidad-remains-a-dark-chapter-of-german-legal-history/
9. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/17/world/americas/at-cults-enclave-in-chile-guns-and-intelligence-files.html
10. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/19/chile-former-spy-germans-sentenced-kidnappings-colonia-dignidad
11. https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-a-nazi-pedophiles-horrifying-chilean-child-rape-cult
12. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/world/hints-of-cruel-fate-for-american-lost-in-chile.html
13. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-chile-sect/insight-german-sect-victims-seek-escape-from-chilean-nightmare-past-idUSBRE8480MN20120509
14. https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=67352
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A look at the poisoning of the town Pont Saint Esprit, and how some mysterious bread turned hundreds of residents temporarily mad.

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Robert is joined by Sofiya Alexandra to read Ben Shapiro's book about sex.

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Robert is again joined by Tom Reimann to discuss Morton Downey Junior.

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Robert is joined by Tom Reimann to discuss Wally George.

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Robert is joined by Tom Reimann to discuss Joe Pyne.

FOOTNOTES:

1. https://timeline.com/hot-seat-wally-george-edccf13491cf
2. https://www.ocweekly.com/remembering-the-time-ocs-wacky-conservative-talk-show-host-wally-george-stood-up-to-white-supremacists/
3. https://joeleisenberg.medium.com/exposed-donald-trump-is-wally-george-bcb2f2040c0f
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20200226051215/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-11-ca-1344-story.html
5. https://variety.com/2003/scene/people-news/wally-george-1117893638/
6. https://www.ocweekly.com/here-lies-wally-george-6428079/
7. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/21/why-were-all-just-living-in-morton-downey-jr-s-talk-show-slime/?request-id=76a6a7b6-5e2f-4120-8982-74c4046cbff4&pml=1
8. https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-morton-downey-jr-documentary-20150817-story.html
9. https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=108365&page=1
10. https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/12/opinions/smerconish-morton-downey-era/index.html
11. https://archive.is/mKfyB#selection-343.0-351.321
12. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/joe-pyne-first-shock-jock-180963237/
13. https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.saturdayeveningpost.com/uploads/reprints/Hate_Hour/index.html?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAI3QGKNAHC7QBOIAA%2F20210921%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20210921T071203Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=871e048df2cb9da18c7eaae72514a8270428fd10ce5f4d0846d270d1ad1a7ffd
14. https://www.thebdr.net/joe-pyne-talk-radio-pioneer/
15. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-media-controversy-ignites-over-the-case-of-tawana-brawley
16. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/08/05/209194252/15-years-later-tawana-brawley-has-paid-1-percent-of-penalty
17. https://www.kanw.com/post/racial-backdrop-tawana-brawley-case

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Robert is joined again by Jack O'Brien to continue to discuss Amway.

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FOOTNOTES:

1. https://jacobinmag.com/2018/09/richard-devos-amway-multi-level-marketing-conservatism
2. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1996/09/she-did-it-amway/
3. https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/17/archives/amways-direct-sales-foster-zeal-success-and-criticism-amways-direct.html?_r=0
4. https://archive.org/stream/MerchantsOfDeception/MerchantsOfDeception_djvu.txt
5. https://www.michigandaily.com/uncategorized/dems-devos-owned-troubled-nursing-home/
6. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Amway/AUS/directly.htm
7. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/01/22/rearranging-amway-event-for-reagan/b3e74482-5ce0-4d20-9f98-ebdc9b4d4918/
8. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/opinion/joe-nocera-the-pyramid-scheme-problem.html
9. https://time.com/5877434/first-ponzi-scheme/
10. https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/ponzi.htm
11. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/dreams-incorporated#anchor1
12. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/default/news/2017/01/23/296947/the-devos-dynasty-a-family-of-extremists/
13. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/12/30/rich-richard-devos-obituary-amway-politics-2018-223306/
14. https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/you-dont-know-dick/Content?oid=2185621

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Robert is joined again by Sofiya Alexandra to continue to discuss Nesera.

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