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Part One: King Leopold II: The First Modern Bastard

Part One: King Leopold II: The First Modern Bastard

FromBehind the Bastards


Part One: King Leopold II: The First Modern Bastard

FromBehind the Bastards

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Length:
62 minutes
Released:
Jun 12, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Have you ever heard of King Leopold II? In Episode 7, Robert is joined by Andrew Ti (Yo, Is This Racist?) and they discuss the King of Belgium, who was the first world leader to be crappy in the true modern sense of the word. His life’s work was the blueprint for being the kind of terrible that we recognize in modern leaders like Dick Cheney or Vladimir Putin. He pioneered screwing over tens of millions of people for petty personal gain.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Released:
Jun 12, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

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.