Behind the Bastards

Part One: Behind the Bastards Live Show: The Ballad of Bo Gritz

Robert and Prop did a live show to raise money for the Portland Bail Fund. They discussed the life and times of Bo Gritz, a foundational right wing militia maniac. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

It Could Happen Here Weekly 208

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.  - Mamdani’s Victory: Winners, Losers, and Crashouts - A New Threat to Public Lands - The Pro Palestine Movement Two Years After Genocide feat. Dana El Kurd - The Mainstreaming of Nick Fuentes by the Coward Tucker Carlson - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #41 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone [http://apple.co/coolerzone] Sources: Mamdani’s Victory: Winners, Losers, and Crashouts https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5600718/wall-street-zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor [https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5600718/wall-street-zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor] https://www.businessinsider.com/business-leaders-react-nyc-mayor-election-race-results-zohran-mamdani-2025-11#jamie-dimon-1 [https://www.businessinsider.com/business-leaders-react-nyc-mayor-election-race-results-zohran-mamdani-2025-11#jamie-dimon-1] https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/11/elon-musk-is-having-a-post-election-meltdown-western-civilization-is-doomed.html [https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/11/elon-musk-is-having-a-post-election-meltdown-western-civilization-is-doomed.html] https://defector.com/lets-check-in-with-people-who-threatened-to-leave-zohran-mamdanis-nyc [https://defector.com/lets-check-in-with-people-who-threatened-to-leave-zohran-mamdanis-nyc] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/democrats-republicans-reaction-mamdani-win [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/democrats-republicans-reaction-mamdani-win] https://lindseyboylan4ny.medium.com/my-story-of-working-with-governor-cuomo-e664d4814b4e [https://lindseyboylan4ny.medium.com/my-story-of-working-with-governor-cuomo-e664d4814b4e] https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/lindsey_boylan [https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/lindsey_boylan] https://indypendent.org/2025/07/we-will-beat-these-monsters-lindsey-boylan-reacts-to-cuomos-defeat/ [https://indypendent.org/2025/07/we-will-beat-these-monsters-lindsey-boylan-reacts-to-cuomos-defeat/] https://archive.vn/3N3wu [https://archive.vn/3N3wu] A New Threat to Public Lands https://www.energy.senate.gov/2025/10/lee-bill-fights-back-against-biden-s-border-chaos-destroying-america-s-parks-and-public-lands [https://www.energy.senate.gov/2025/10/lee-bill-fights-back-against-biden-s-border-chaos-destroying-america-s-parks-and-public-lands]  https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/11/sierra-club-statement-trump-s-nomination-steve-pearce-lead-blm [https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/11/sierra-club-statement-trump-s-nomination-steve-pearce-lead-blm] https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/kathleen-sgamma-withdraws-jan-6-criticism-came-public--rcna200699 [https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/kathleen-sgamma-withdraws-jan-6-criticism-came-public--rcna200699]  https://recreationroundtable.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ORR-Burgum-Nomination-Letter-of-Support-Final.pdf [https://recreationroundtable.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ORR-Burgum-Nomination-Letter-of-Support-Final.pdf]  https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee [https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee] https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/mike-lee/summary?cid=N00031696 [https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/mike-lee/summary?cid=N00031696]  https://www.energy.senate.gov/services/files/0DED04C4-18C7-4C1F-BCE4-DD5B79FB0264 [https://www.energy.senate.gov/services/files/0DED04C4-18C7-4C1F-BCE4-DD5B79FB0264]  https://www.jstor.org/stable/14646 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/14646]  The Pro Palestine Movement Two Years After Genocide Ahmed Moor & Antony Loewenstein’s book - https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/after-zionism/ [https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/after-zionism/] The Mainstreaming of Nick Fuentes by the Coward Tucker Carlson https://x.com/jasonahart/status/1985338713791172827 [https://x.com/jasonahart/status/1985338713791172827]  https://x.com/KevinRobertsTX/status/1984335805192532265 [https://x.com/KevinRobertsTX/status/1984335805192532265]   https://x.com/markgoldfeder/status/1985000264743416256?s=46 [https://x.com/markgoldfeder/status/1985000264743416256?s=46]  https://x.com/McCormickProf/status/1984646330849837488 [https://x.com/McCormickProf/status/1984646330849837488] https://www.jta.org/2025/10/31/united-states/ted-cruz-to-jewish-republicans-antisemitism-is-an-existential-crisis-in-our-party [https://www.jta.org/2025/10/31/united-states/ted-cruz-to-jewish-republicans-antisemitism-is-an-existential-crisis-in-our-party]   https://jewishinsider.com/2025/11/gop-senators-tucker-carlson-left-wing-antisemitism-josh-hawley-james-lankford/ [https://jewishinsider.com/2025/11/gop-senators-tucker-carlson-left-wing-antisemitism-josh-hawley-james-lankford/] https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5586731-heritage-foundation-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-controversy/ [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5586731-heritage-foundation-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-controversy/]  https://nypost.com/2025/11/03/us-news/heritage-foundation-in-revolt-over-tucker-carlson-defense-after-controversial-nick-fuentes-interview-footsie-with-literal-nazis/ [https://nypost.com/2025/11/03/us-news/heritage-foundation-in-revolt-over-tucker-carlson-defense-after-controversial-nick-fuentes-interview-footsie-with-literal-nazis/]  https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/chris-demuth-resigns-from-the-heritage-foundation/ [https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/chris-demuth-resigns-from-the-heritage-foundation/] https://x.com/AudreyFahlberg/status/1985781905976115550?s=20 [https://x.com/AudreyFahlberg/status/1985781905976115550?s=20]  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/heritage-foundation-antisemitism-task-force.html [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/heritage-foundation-antisemitism-task-force.html]  https://freebeacon.com/politics/i-made-a-mistake-heritage-foundation-president-apologizes-to-staff-for-video-refusal-to-cancel-tucker-carlson-and-throws-shade-at-former-chief-of-staff/ [https://freebeacon.com/politics/i-made-a-mistake-heritage-foundation-president-apologizes-to-staff-for-video-refusal-to-cancel-tucker-carlson-and-throws-shade-at-former-chief-of-staff/] https://www.nationalreview.com/news/heritage-president-apologizes-for-tucker-carlson-defense-video-in-heated-all-hands-meeting/ [https://www.nationalreview.com/news/heritage-president-apologizes-for-tucker-carlson-defense-video-in-heated-all-hands-meeting/]  https://www.mediaite.com/politics/david-french-schools-matt-walsh-over-his-call-for-no-enemies-on-the-right/ [https://www.mediaite.com/politics/david-french-schools-matt-walsh-over-his-call-for-no-enemies-on-the-right/]  https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1985032452432437704?s=20 [https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1985032452432437704?s=20]  https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1985417108407124110?s=20 [https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1985417108407124110?s=20]  https://x.com/JDVance/status/1986099131845136594 [https://x.com/JDVance/status/1986099131845136594]  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/opinion/nick-fuentes-kirk-successor.html [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/opinion/nick-fuentes-kirk-successor.html] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/nick-fuentes-trump.html [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/nick-fuentes-trump.html]  https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/nick-fuentes-tucker-carlson-interview/684792/ [https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/nick-fuentes-tucker-carlson-interview/684792/]  https://roddreher.substack.com/p/what-i-saw-and-heard-in-washington?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true [https://roddreher.substack.com/p/what-i-saw-and-heard-in-washington?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true] Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #41 https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/italian-pasta-tariffs-trump-rcna243264 [https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/italian-pasta-tariffs-trump-rcna243264] https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/nov/13/pasta-italian-imports-trump-tariffs [https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/nov/13/pasta-italian-imports-trump-tariffs] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-50-year-mortgage-loan-bill-pulte-cost/ [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-50-year-mortgage-loan-bill-pulte-cost/] https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2025/11/13/when-will-the-2000-tariff-dividend-be-paid-new-trump-stimulus-check-2025-payment-eligibility-update/87209405007/ [https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2025/11/13/when-will-the-2000-tariff-dividend-be-paid-new-trump-stimulus-check-2025-payment-eligibility-update/87209405007/] https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/business/fifty-year-mortgage [https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/business/fifty-year-mortgage] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93ddrp17zko\ [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93ddrp17zko] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/30/white-house-withdraws-ej-antoni-nomination-lead-bls-00589289 [https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/30/white-house-withdraws-ej-antoni-nomination-lead-bls-00589289] https://archive.vn/sHLdh [https://archive.vn/sHLdh] https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/11/13/white-house-will-release-octobers-jobs-report-after-saying-data-would-likely-never-publish/ [https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/11/13/white-house-will-release-octobers-jobs-report-after-saying-data-would-likely-never-publish/] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-hell-issue-2000-tariff-dividend-except-high/story?id=127356839\ [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-hell-issue-2000-tariff-dividend-except-high/story?id=127356839\] https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/us-bishops-issue-special-message-immigration-plenary-assembly-baltimore [https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/us-bishops-issue-special-message-immigration-plenary-assembly-baltimore]  https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-kept-chicago-police-records-for-months-in-violation-of-domestic-espionage-rules/ [https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-kept-chicago-police-records-for-months-in-violation-of-domestic-espionage-rules/]  https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832522/66/moreno-gonzalez-v-noem-secretary-us-department-of-homeland-security/ [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832522/66/moreno-gonzalez-v-noem-secretary-us-department-of-homeland-security/]  https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/11/11/harris-county-immigration-lawsuit/2501762887924/ [https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/11/11/harris-county-immigration-lawsuit/2501762887924/]  https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/study-ny-times-wash-post-coverage-caravan-plummets-after-midterms [https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/study-ny-times-wash-post-coverage-caravan-plummets-after-midterms] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Part Two: Thomas Thistlewood: Slave Plantation Owner and Diarist

Robert talks about legitimately some of the worst stuff we'll ever discuss on this show. Oh my god, you guys See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Part One: Thomas Thistlewood: Slave Plantation Owner and Diarist

Robert walks his former colleague Titi Lee through the life and times of Thomas Thistlewood, a slave owner and monster of the first order who kept a detailed diary of all his crimes against humanity. (2 Part Series) See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

It Could Happen Here Weekly 207

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.  - Occulture, Technomancy vs Tradition, and the Role of Magick in 2025 - The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly - The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind - The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone [http://apple.co/coolerzone] Sources: The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.) Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf, The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025.)  Austin Sarat, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014.) The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.) Dick Reavis, “Charlie Brooks’ Last Words,” Texas Monthly (February 1983.) The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy Breanna Ehrlich, “The Last Face Death Row Inmates See,” Rolling Stone, March 29, 2025 (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/death-row-reverend-jeff-hood-1235305460/ [https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/death-row-reverend-jeff-hood-1235305460/]) Anand Giridharadas, The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2014.)  Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.) Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40 https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-287g-ice-trump-abbott/ [https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-287g-ice-trump-abbott/] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832522/moreno-gonzalez-v-noem-secretary-us-department-of-homeland-security/ [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832522/moreno-gonzalez-v-noem-secretary-us-department-of-homeland-security/]  https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71875910/1/tangipa-v-newsom/ [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71875910/1/tangipa-v-newsom/]  https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/11/proposition-50-overnight-results/ [https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/11/proposition-50-overnight-results/]  https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115492361756063244 [https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115492361756063244] https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/11/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-strikes-deal-on-economic-and-trade-relations-with-china/ [https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/11/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-strikes-deal-on-economic-and-trade-relations-with-china/] https://archive.vn/rR8Ix [https://archive.vn/rR8Ix] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/522166327/202133199349305758/full [https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/522166327/202133199349305758/full] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-says-china-cant-have-nvidias-top-ai-chips-supreme-court-case-looms-162418765.html [https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-says-china-cant-have-nvidias-top-ai-chips-supreme-court-case-looms-162418765.html] https://archive.vn/BFLOe [https://archive.vn/BFLOe] https://archive.vn/uxkws#selection-799.0-808.0 [https://archive.vn/uxkws#selection-799.0-808.0] https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5588695-abbott-tariffs-new-yorkers-texas-election/ [https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5588695-abbott-tariffs-new-yorkers-texas-election/] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html]  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-says-china-cant-have-nvidias-top-ai-chips-supreme-court-case-looms-162418765.html [https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-says-china-cant-have-nvidias-top-ai-chips-supreme-court-case-looms-162418765.html] https://archive.vn/BFLOe [https://archive.vn/BFLOe] https://archive.vn/uxkws#selection-799.0-808.0 [https://archive.vn/uxkws#selection-799.0-808.0] https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5588695-abbott-tariffs-new-yorkers-texas-election/ [https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5588695-abbott-tariffs-new-yorkers-texas-election/] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html]  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.