Part One: Mark Fuhrman: The Most Racist Cop, or Merely Normal Racist Cop?
Behind the Bastards
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 17K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week Robert invites Joe Kassabian to the guest seat and regales him with the thrilling story of Mark Fuhrman, the most famous racist in LAPD history.
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| 0:00.0 | Quarzone Media |
| 0:02.8 | This is Behind the Bastards, a podcast in which Sophie misses the mysterious robot woman who I believe was murdered, and Sophie believes was never a person but was instead just a program that Zoom used to have, and they replaced it with a thing that tries to get you to use AI whenever you record. Yeah, well, we don't use Zoom anymore, but I do miss the little. I forget what we use. I don't, I do miss the lady being like, recording in progress. So I'm just, but I could just say it. You thought that maybe she misses you? Probably. Everybody misses me. I never think that, James. Not James. You're Joe. Joe Kasabian, |
| 0:40.1 | our guest for today. Host of the Lions led by Donkeys podcast, author of numerous works of fiction |
| 0:48.3 | and at least one work of nonfiction, the hooligans of Kandahar. Joe, what else do you got a plug for |
| 0:53.2 | us here? |
| 1:00.8 | Uh, my newest gunpowder fantasy novel, The Highlands Burn, comes out May 29th. It will probably be out by the time this episode comes out. So yeah, pick that up. I'll be available e-book, |
| 1:05.8 | audiobook, paperback, uh, wherever you get your books. Awesome. Well, check that out. |
| 1:12.3 | And check out, you know, Joe, you can't have gunpowder fantasy without both gunpowder |
| 1:20.6 | and people who are willing to lie. |
| 1:22.7 | And you know who always has a gun and also lies a lot? |
| 1:29.0 | Cops? |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah, cops. |
| 1:31.0 | Exactly. |
| 1:31.5 | Joe, it worked. |
| 1:32.2 | Okay, okay. |
| 1:32.9 | Okay. |
| 1:33.1 | This is a better intro that I thought. |
| 1:34.6 | Great. |
| 1:35.1 | Great. |
| 1:35.7 | And just in the last, you know, literally the week that we're recording this, it'll |
| 1:40.0 | have been a couple of weeks ago when you good people on the internet or at Netflix, |
| 1:44.1 | which I guess is also on the internet or at Netflix, which I guess is |
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