Part One: Antonio Salazar: The Smartest Fascist Dictator

Behind the Bastards

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Robert sits down with with Jeff May to talk about Antonio Salazar, the economics professor who became a brutal fascist dictator and was, sadly, really damn good at it.

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0:00.0	Callsor Media
0:02.8	Oh
0:05.2	It's behind the bastards
0:08.1	A podcast that gets behind the bastards
0:10.9	You know what this is
0:12.2	You know what it means
0:13.1	We talk about bad people
0:14.3	The worst in all of history
0:16.3	And today
0:17.1	You did start this with a very
0:18.2	Tony Soprano
0:19.3	Oh
0:19.8	Oh is that a Tony Soprano? I never watched the Sopranos.
0:23.1	Here to be angry at me about that is both Sophie Lickerman, Lickerman, my producer, and Jeff May.
0:28.9	Haven't you had Matt Lieb on this show and yet you still have not seen the Sopranos?
0:33.8	What's wrong with you? That's an act of aggression.
0:36.7	Can you spend this weekend at least watching the pilot?
0:40.3	No, I'm sorry.
0:41.3	I'm an Italian American.
0:42.3	I was raised in the Sopranos, you know?
0:45.3	Like, my got mobbed up family.
0:47.3	You need...
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