Behind the Bastards

Robert sits down with Prop to discuss the early life of Heinrich Himmler, the man who built the SS into Hitler's engine of genocide. (6 part series) See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.  - Newsom’s Posting Through It - Palestine and the American University feat. Dana El Kurd - How Democrats Passed North Carolina's New Anti-trans Laws, Part One - How Democrats Passed North Carolina's New Anti-trans Laws, Part Two - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #31 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. 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Dana El Kurd Clifford Ando – The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump - https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-crisis-of-the-university-started-long-before-trump/ [https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-crisis-of-the-university-started-long-before-trump/] Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism - https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/ [https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/] Ken Stern on IHRA definition - https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5326047/kenneth-stern-antimsietim-executive-order-free-speech [https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5326047/kenneth-stern-antimsietim-executive-order-free-speech] 2023 Pew Research Center Poll on Black Lives Matter - https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/06/14/views-on-the-black-lives-matter-movement/ [https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/06/14/views-on-the-black-lives-matter-movement/] Marc Bousquet – How the University Works - https://nyupress.org/9780814799758/how-the-university-works/ [https://nyupress.org/9780814799758/how-the-university-works/] PBS Reporting on Harvard University negotiations with Trump administration - 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Robert concludes the story of Lee Atwater by discussing his greatest success and then his sickness and fall from power and influence. We also talk about the Grammy nominated album he made with Isaac Hayes. Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io9KMSSEZ0Y [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io9KMSSEZ0Y] https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/lee-atwater [https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/lee-atwater] https://archive.is/STJGq [https://archive.is/STJGq] https://www.newberryobserver.com/news/10323/notable-newberry-alumnus [https://www.newberryobserver.com/news/10323/notable-newberry-alumnus] https://andrewjazprosehill.substack.com/p/the-death-bed-confession-of-a-boogie [https://andrewjazprosehill.substack.com/p/the-death-bed-confession-of-a-boogie] https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-papers-of-lee-atwater-who-invented-the-scurrilous-tactics-that-trump-normalized?_sp=a8ee96fb-f790-4047-ae41-50c5940d1092.1729971751539 [https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-papers-of-lee-atwater-who-invented-the-scurrilous-tactics-that-trump-normalized?_sp=a8ee96fb-f790-4047-ae41-50c5940d1092.1729971751539] https://www.csmonitor.com/1989/0626/elee.html [https://www.csmonitor.com/1989/0626/elee.html] https://archive.is/yZ0Hf#selection-553.0-553.173 [https://archive.is/yZ0Hf#selection-553.0-553.173] https://time.com/archive/6702136/saying-no-to-lee-atwater/ [https://time.com/archive/6702136/saying-no-to-lee-atwater/] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/brady-bad.html [https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/brady-bad.html] https://nul.org/news/ghost-lee-atwater-haunts-2022-midterm-elections [https://nul.org/news/ghost-lee-atwater-haunts-2022-midterm-elections] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/94931206 [https://www.npr.org/transcripts/94931206] https://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2021/08/13/the-spirit-of-lee-atwater-lingers-among-us-how-critical-race-theory-became-the-gops-new-southern-strategy/ [https://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2021/08/13/the-spirit-of-lee-atwater-lingers-among-us-how-critical-race-theory-became-the-gops-new-southern-strategy/] https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/05/13/willie-horton-revisited [https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/05/13/willie-horton-revisited] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/ [https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/]  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/atwater/etc/synopsis.html [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/atwater/etc/synopsis.html] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/04/19/weighing-lee-atwaters-regrets/c78da503-8dc9-4c58-a8d6-d5524ffdfa8e/ [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/04/19/weighing-lee-atwaters-regrets/c78da503-8dc9-4c58-a8d6-d5524ffdfa8e/] https://archive.is/7CjqQ [https://archive.is/7CjqQ] https://brooklynrail.org/2012/02/express/letter-from-the-trail-atwaters-ghost/ [https://brooklynrail.org/2012/02/express/letter-from-the-trail-atwaters-ghost/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Lee Atwater graduates high school after a brief stint in an insane fraternity then becomes a college Republican leader and starts his career as a dirty tricks expert for political campaigns. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Robert sits down with Garrison Davis to discuss the life and times of Lee Atwater, the arch inventor of Republican dirty tricks politics. (3 Part Series, releasing all this week) Sources: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/lee-atwater [https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/lee-atwater] https://archive.is/STJGq [https://archive.is/STJGq] https://www.newberryobserver.com/news/10323/notable-newberry-alumnus [https://www.newberryobserver.com/news/10323/notable-newberry-alumnus] https://andrewjazprosehill.substack.com/p/the-death-bed-confession-of-a-boogie [https://andrewjazprosehill.substack.com/p/the-death-bed-confession-of-a-boogie] https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-papers-of-lee-atwater-who-invented-the-scurrilous-tactics-that-trump-normalized?_sp=a8ee96fb-f790-4047-ae41-50c5940d1092.1729971751539 [https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-papers-of-lee-atwater-who-invented-the-scurrilous-tactics-that-trump-normalized?_sp=a8ee96fb-f790-4047-ae41-50c5940d1092.1729971751539] https://www.csmonitor.com/1989/0626/elee.html [https://www.csmonitor.com/1989/0626/elee.html] https://archive.is/yZ0Hf#selection-553.0-553.173 [https://archive.is/yZ0Hf#selection-553.0-553.173] https://time.com/archive/6702136/saying-no-to-lee-atwater/ [https://time.com/archive/6702136/saying-no-to-lee-atwater/] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/brady-bad.html [https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/brady-bad.html] https://nul.org/news/ghost-lee-atwater-haunts-2022-midterm-elections [https://nul.org/news/ghost-lee-atwater-haunts-2022-midterm-elections] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/94931206 [https://www.npr.org/transcripts/94931206] https://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2021/08/13/the-spirit-of-lee-atwater-lingers-among-us-how-critical-race-theory-became-the-gops-new-southern-strategy/ [https://milwaukeecourieronline.com/index.php/2021/08/13/the-spirit-of-lee-atwater-lingers-among-us-how-critical-race-theory-became-the-gops-new-southern-strategy/] https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/05/13/willie-horton-revisited [https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/05/13/willie-horton-revisited] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/ [https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/]  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/atwater/etc/synopsis.html [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/atwater/etc/synopsis.html] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/04/19/weighing-lee-atwaters-regrets/c78da503-8dc9-4c58-a8d6-d5524ffdfa8e/ [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/04/19/weighing-lee-atwaters-regrets/c78da503-8dc9-4c58-a8d6-d5524ffdfa8e/] https://archive.is/7CjqQ [https://archive.is/7CjqQ] https://brooklynrail.org/2012/02/express/letter-from-the-trail-atwaters-ghost/ [https://brooklynrail.org/2012/02/express/letter-from-the-trail-atwaters-ghost/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.