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Behind the Bastards

Part One: Dr. Sleep: The Australian Psychiatrist Who Made People Sleep Themselves To Death

Behind the Bastards

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

History, News, Society & Culture

4.417K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Robert sits down with Gabe Dunne to discuss Australia's "Dr. sleep" a man who spent twenty years prescribing two and three weeks comas to his patients for no real reason at all.

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0:00.0

QuarZone Media.

0:05.5

Ah, welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast about the very worst people in all of history.

0:12.9

I'm Robert Evans, and those of you watching this will notice, those of you listening, shouldn't notice shit, that I'm recording in a different location today.

0:21.2

Instead of being in my dank basement in Portland, Oregon, I am in a house in the French

0:26.5

quarter of New Orleans, the city that never sleeps, the big apple.

0:33.0

No, that's actually, here to not be in New Orleans with me, but here to podcast with me, the great Gabe Dunn. Welcome to the show, Gabe.

0:41.8

Thank you. As I said, before, I'm so excited, probably too excited. I am a big fan of you guys. I would listen to you overnight at my warehouse job for hours and hours. And then I would get home and realize that I had only heard your voices for eight hours.

0:59.5

Well, that actually happens to Sophie and I sometimes, too.

1:02.7

Yeah, I was like, sometimes when I made this, I said this a joke to somebody the other day,

1:08.1

and then I realized it wasn't a joke.

1:09.7

Sometimes I'll think things. But instead of it being in my voice, it's in Roberts. Wow, you've melted. Yeah. Yeah. And when I'm in a party and someone's like, hey, Robert, do you want to shoot this mystery powder into, you know, your veins? And I'll be like, I'll hear Sophie's voice saying, yes, Robert, I think you should, don't, don't test it. Don't test it at all. Don't take any precautions. Just inject anything you find into your body. That does that sound very well in New Orleans. That's going to be, thank you to you in New Orleans. It is. It is. I mean, you know, Sophie's motto is live moss. Taco Bell actually stole it from her. The lawsuit is ongoing.

1:47.5

Wow.

1:44.8

Yeah. It is. It is. I mean, you know, Sophie's motto is Liv Moss. Taco Bell actually stole it from her.

1:46.2

The lawsuit is ongoing.

1:47.5

Wow.

1:48.0

Yeah.

1:49.6

I believe it.

1:51.9

Lo-key would love to sue.

1:53.9

I was going to say,

1:56.2

I would love to sue Taco Bell.

1:58.8

If somebody can give me everything, it just sounds fun.

2:03.3

But I think what Robert was saying is, Gabe, do you have any plugables?

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