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Hey everyone, it's still behind the bastards.

Part two of our episodes on how the FBI and the media created a monster by repeatedly accusing the wrong people of terrorism.

And we're talking, we talked the last episode with our guest

Courtney Kosak about Richard Jewell and the Olympic Park bombing. And in these next two episodes,

we're going to be talking about the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States. It killed like five

people and freaked the whole country the fuck out.

You know, these happened right in the wake of 9-11. If you're on the younger side of things,

I don't think this is as famous, but basically right after 9-11, a bunch of people, including

guys like Tom Dashel, some like people in government, started receiving letters that had white

powder in them.

Several people got sick and died, mostly folks who were just happened to be in and around,

like the mail rooms and stuff where the letters were being opened.

And they never found who did it.

But they had a suspect for several years.

And that suspect is a guy who is a bastard, I think,

by my standards, but is also, again, not the bad guy of this story. And we're going to spend

this episode talking about his life and times, because again, he's a fascinating person. And I think

there's a lot, like, on his own, we probably could do a bastard's episode.

But the thing he's best known for is being wrongly accused of being the anthrax male guy.

And it just felt like, I don't know, it seems weird to do an episode about how much this guy sucks.

But also, he's fine here.

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