Robert tells Noah how Peter Thiel went to war against Gawker and also completely whiffed on profiting from the 2008 financial crash. Bonus: how Palantir enabled a bunch of creepy corporate security types to stalk their girlfriends, each other.

Robert tells Noah how Peter Thiel went to war against Gawker and also completely whiffed on profiting from the 2008 financial crash. Bonus: how Palantir enabled a bunch of creepy corporate security types to stalk their girlfriends, each other.

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.

Part Three: How Peter Thiel Became the Gravedigger of Democracy

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/7beecf7f-91ae-4136-9b70-b21f00195f8f/transcript

We conclude the story of how Britain ended its role in the Atlantic Slave Trade.

Against the State by James Stout available for preorder here: https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html 

We conclude the story of how Britain ended its role in the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Against the State by&nbsp;James Stout available for preorder here: <a href="https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html">https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html</a>&nbsp;

Part Three: X-Mas Special: The Heroes Who Ended The Slave Trade

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/5cd98562-3548-45c8-b30c-b3be00439dab/transcript

In this episode we introduce two great heroes: freed slave and adventurer Olaudah Equiano, and crusading abolitionist lawyer Granville Sharp.

Against the State by James Stout available for preorder here: https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html 

In this episode we introduce two great heroes: freed slave and adventurer Olaudah Equiano, and crusading abolitionist lawyer Granville Sharp.
Against the State by&nbsp;James Stout available for preorder here: <a href="https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html">https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html</a>&nbsp;

Part Two: X-Mas Special: The Heroes Who Ended The Slave Trade

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/b304c8ce-a9c0-4744-99f9-b3bd00124613/transcript

In our annual holiday reverse episode, Robert introduces James Stout to the heroes who fought to end the Atlantic Slave trade.

(3 part series)

Against the State by James Stout available for preorder here: https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html 

In our annual holiday reverse episode, Robert introduces James Stout to the heroes who fought to end the Atlantic Slave trade.
(3 part series)
Against the State by&nbsp;James Stout available for preorder here: <a href="https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html">https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html</a>&nbsp;

Part One: X-Mas Special: The Heroes Who Ended The Slave Trade

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/990f74a9-fdb4-4779-855d-b3bc0046c89c/transcript

Part Three: How Peter Thiel Became the Gravedigger of Democracy

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