Part One: H.L. Hunt: The First Elon Musk
Behind the Bastards
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week Robert begins the three-part story of the former wealthiest man on earth, H.L. Hunt, who also became the first right wing plutocrat to buy his own shitty media empire, creating a model for Elon Musk to follow today.
(3 Part Series)
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Hendershot, Heather. What's Fair on the Air?: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest (p. 63). The University of Chicago Press. Kindle Edition.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/hunt-haroldson-lafayette
https://archive.org/details/foia_Hunt_H.L.-HQ-2/page/n39/mode/1up
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https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tennessean-waddy-thorpe-hunt-request/54655604/
https://archive.org/details/kingdomstoryofhu0000tucc/page/49/mode/1up
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| 0:00.0 | Quarzo Media. |
| 0:05.0 | Oh, goodness, Jiminy, gracious Christmas. |
| 0:09.4 | Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast about the very worst people in all of history, |
| 0:16.2 | introduced by one of the very worst introducers in all of history. |
| 0:20.9 | Your host, me, Robert Evans. |
| 0:23.6 | This week, I have a guest who's better at introducing things. |
| 0:27.6 | Princess Weeks, Princess! |
| 0:29.3 | Why don't you introduce yourself? |
| 0:30.9 | Because we've seen how I do it. |
| 0:32.8 | You're fabulous. |
| 0:33.9 | I disagree with you. |
| 0:34.9 | That's a lie. |
| 0:35.2 | Just with that. |
| 0:40.5 | My name is Princess Weeks. I'm a writer, |
| 0:46.3 | YouTuber, shit talker, and I love history, and especially when I get to listen to Robert tell me about bad people. Yeah, and I love bad people, especially when I get to inflict their |
| 0:51.9 | badness on someone else. Wow. And this week, we've got a guy who kind of made inflicting his opinions on other people, |
| 0:59.2 | on everyone else, his like life mission and used the vast fortune he built to do it. |
| 1:05.3 | We're covering a fella here. |
| 1:07.7 | He's the former richest man in the world. |
| 1:10.1 | This guy was an oil. In his time, he was a |
| 1:12.6 | millionaire, but if you, you know, fix things to modern money, he was a billionaire from a |
| 1:18.6 | fairly early point in, like, terms of modern money. And he was kind of the first of the right |
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