Behind the Bastards of History
By Dr. Nathan Pali
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Episodes: 49
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Mar 21, 2026
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Description
We're drawn to villains in a way we'll never quite be drawn to heroes. Behind the Bastards of History goes beyond the familiar horror show and gets weird — because the truth about history's worst people is always stranger than you'd expect. These are the stories nobody put in the textbook.
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Hannibal's Strategic Failure: Lessons in Leadership
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Gregor Mendel's Ignored Genius
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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The Gleiwitz Incident's Role in World War II
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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The Ford Edsel: A $2.5 Billion Blunder
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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The Fall of Singapore: A Leadership Failure
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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The English Peasant's Revolt of 1381
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Dr. John Dee: The Queen's Advisor Who Fell for a Conman
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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The Fall of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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The Roman Bacchanalia Panic of 186 B.C.
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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James Buchanan: The President Who Stood By
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Bernard Kornfeld's Mutual Fund Empire Collapse
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Barbara McClintock: The Cornfield Genius
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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German Navy's WWII Collapse Due to Leadership Failure
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Hannibal's Epic Alpine Ambition and Ultimate Downfall
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Fall of Singapore: A Masterclass in Failure
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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Gregor Mendel's Ignored Genius
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Edward III and the Hundred Years' War
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Edward III and the Hundred Years' War
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Operation Eagle Claw: A Rescue Mission Failure
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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The East India Company's Epic Fail
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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James K. Polk: The Dark Horse President
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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New Coke: A Lesson in Metrics vs. Emotion
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Frobisher's Fool's Gold Fiasco
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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The Ford Edsel: A $2.5 Billion Failure
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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The Vasa: A Tale of Ambitious Failure
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Barbara McClintock and the Dogma of Genetics
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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America's Red Scares: Palmer & McCarthy
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Leadership Failure: Saddam's Paper Tiger Military
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Imperial Japanese Navy's Fatal Flaws
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Queen Elizabeth I's Magician & the Con Man
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Nikolai Vavilov: Science vs. Ideology and Starvation
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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The Irish Brigade at Fredericksburg's Mary's Heights
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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Napoleon's Ulm Maneuver of 1805
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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Operation Market Garden: A Bridge Too Far
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Maximilian I of Mexico: A Crown He Didn't Need
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Mark Dreyer: The Ponzi Scheme Under Our Noses
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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The Maginot Line's Failure to Halt WWII
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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The Charge of the Light Brigade: A Leadership Fiasco
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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The Jacquerie Revolt of 1358
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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Hiro Onoda: The Soldier Who Never Surrendered
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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The Gleiwitz Incident: A Story of Deception
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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The English Peasants' Revolt of 1381
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Roman Bacchanalia Panic of 186 B.C.
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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The Challenger Tragedy: What Went Wrong
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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The Fall of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Stanislav Petrov: The Man Who Saved the World
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Bernard Kornfeld's Mutual Fund Empire
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Oleg Penkovsky: The Soviet Colonel Who Saw Through the Bluff
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Leadership by Delay: How James Buchanan Let the Civil War Happen
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Jan 16, 2026 |