Here are a couple of our favorite episodes of Margaret Killjoy's Cool Poeple Who Did Cool Stuff podcast series.

All the People Who Tried to Kill Mussolini, Parts 1 & 2

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Here are a couple of our favorite episodes of Margaret Killjoy's Cool Poeple Who Did Cool Stuff podcast series.
All the People Who Tried to Kill Mussolini, Parts 1 &amp; 2
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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.

Everything you don't know about History's greatest monsters

Behind the Bastards

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.

Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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Robert tells Margaret about the giant meeting the military held to tell everyone how they planned to kill the world.

Robert tells Margaret about the giant meeting the military held to tell everyone how they planned to kill the world.

Part Five: The Men Who Might Have Killed Us All

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ICBMs made it possible to end the world in 15 minutes or less. Robert tells Margaret about the nightmarishly incompetent first draft of the Minuteman, a nuclear weapons system almost perfectly designed to end the world on accident.

ICBMs made it possible to end the world in 15 minutes or less. Robert tells Margaret about the nightmarishly incompetent first draft of the Minuteman, a nuclear weapons system almost perfectly designed to end the world on accident.

Part Four: The Men Who Might Have Killed Us All

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/f47f2f14-f99f-46ec-a1fc-b3ae018a92d3/transcript

Robert continues the harrowing story of the men who decided we should be ready to rain nuclear hellfire on everyone at a moments notice forever.

Robert continues the harrowing story of the men who decided we should be ready to rain nuclear hellfire on everyone at a moments notice forever.

Part Three: The Men Who Might Have Killed Us All

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Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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