Part One: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science

Behind the Bastards

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🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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You know his daughter as Jeffrey Epstein's right hand woman. Robert tells guest Adam Conover about Ghislaine Maxwell's dad, Robert Maxwell. He started his life on a Nazi murder quest and ended it by killing science as a field of endeavor and raiding millions from his company pension plan.

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0:00.0	Callsor Media
0:02.8	Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast about the very worst people in all of history.
0:10.8	And ladies and gentleness, we've got a real motherfucker of a motherfucker for you this week.
0:16.8	And to talk about one of the most interesting sons of bitches we're going to talk about on this series.
0:23.1	I have one of the most interesting guests that we've had on this show, Adam Conover.
0:27.8	Adam, welcome to the program.
0:30.2	You hardly need introduction, but obviously you were the host of Adam Ruins Everything, and you've done, I mean, you've been in a ton of
0:37.8	stuff since you were in BoJack Horseman.
0:40.2	You serve on the board of the WGA.
0:43.1	And you have a podcast now, right?
0:45.4	Yeah, I do a show called Factually on YouTube and wherever you get your podcast.
0:50.1	And I also do video monologues, which don't really have a title, but it's sort of the current
0:54.9	evolution of what people know me for doing, doing topical comedy about the world around us.
1:00.1	Mostly about fascism.
1:02.1	I'm doing a lot of weekly video updates about creeping fascism and what we can do about it.
1:08.0	Yeah.
1:08.5	Yeah, trying to be a little green shoot in the ashes of the entertainment industry and,
1:13.3	you know, doing stuff online now.
1:15.5	Having a great time.
1:16.5	Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
1:17.9	It's interesting to me.
1:19.1	You and I both came out of, because you came out of college humor where you did a lot of
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