Behind the Bastards
By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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.
Episodes (5)
Behind the Bastards
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The U.S. government is weaponizing federal laws to criminalize nonviolent protest, turning churches into battlegrounds and activists into suspects—yet the most dangerous threat isn’t just legal overreach, it’s the systematic erasure of truth itself. In a stunn
Behind the Bastards
Part One: The Rise of the "Activist" Investor
The episode dissects the rise of the 'activist investor' — a term that has replaced the more vilified 'corporate raider' — through the lens of Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge fund manager whose career embodies both the promise and peril of this financial arch
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Rise of the "Activist" Investor
Bill Ackman, once hailed as the patron saint of activist investing, has become a cautionary tale of hubris, ideological blind spots, and the limits of financial power. The episode dissects his catastrophic 2011-2013 tenure at JCPenney, where he forced the radi
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The United States has weaponized its immigration enforcement apparatus not just to control borders, but to manufacture Nazis—systematically breeding extremism through institutional dehumanization, militarized trauma, and ideological conditioning. This isn't hy
Behind the Bastards
Part One: The Fake Bomb Detector Grift That Killed Hundreds
A fake bomb detector that killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians was born not from advanced technology, but from a centuries-old psychological trick: the ideomotor effect. In this gripping first part of a two-part series, host Ted and guest Ed Zitron trace the lin
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