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Behind the Bastards

Part One: Daryl Gates: The Man Who Invented SWAT Teams and DARE

Behind the Bastards

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News, Society & Culture, History

4.415.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Robert sits down with Bridget Todd to discuss influential LA police chief Daryl Gates, the Godfather of militarized policing.

(2 Part Series)

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0:00.0

Oh, welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast formed or filmed, recorded, all of those things, in the burning hellscape that is Portland, Oregon, the most vicious and collapsed war zone on planet Earth, here from the rubble, Robert Evans,

0:24.3

to talk to you about a really bad piece of shit with someone who isn't really bad.

0:30.4

My wonderful guest today, Bridget Todd.

0:33.1

Bridget!

0:33.9

Welcome to the program.

0:35.2

Thank you.

0:35.7

I am also calling in from a bombed out Hellscape City that is Washington, D.C., yeah.

0:41.2

Hellscape to Hellscape.

0:42.7

It was so funny when we both got on, J-Dams detonated simultaneously right above both of our houses on opposite coasts.

0:50.3

It was quite funny.

0:51.6

It's very good.

0:52.5

Very good stuff.

0:54.5

Bridget, what's your least favorite U.S. aerial munition?

0:58.5

Ooh.

0:59.4

Do most people have a least favorite?

1:02.0

Most people who have been targeted by them do.

1:04.4

I'll say that much.

1:08.8

What's your least favorite?

1:10.6

I will say the scariest thing I've ever seen to hit anywhere is a J-dam, although like hellfires are pretty fucking scary too.

1:17.4

And then, you know, just watching an Apache empty its, empty its, its, its, its whole cartload into a building is pretty fucked up.

1:24.8

None of them are really that fun when you're anywhere close to seeing them.

1:27.7

It's more just like, oh, fuck.

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