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Behind the Bastards

Part One: That Time Volkswagen Operated a Slave Plantation in Brazil

Behind the Bastards

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

News, Society & Culture, History

4.415.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Robert sits down with Maggie Mae Fish to discuss how Volkswagen went from Hitler's favorite auto-company to the owner of a slave plantation in the Amazon during the Reagan Era.

 

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0:00.0

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

0:12.1

A topic I am well suited to address because I am one of the worst people in all of history,

0:18.1

or at least I feel that way because I am calamitously hungover. I am the villain in my own life and very angry at myself. Here to express

0:27.4

rage at me, my guest and friend, Maggie Mayfis, fit. You see how I'm doing today, Maggie?

0:33.7

Oh my God. I'm doing. You see where my head is? I'm fucked up., my God. It's almost like I'm not hungover either. I need more fucking electrolytes. Sure. Thursday night's a normal party night. Absolutely. When you have a normal human schedule like us. I was going to say for our kinds. Yes, it is. Yeah, for our kind. Normal healthy people in the entertainment industry.

0:57.5

Maggie, you and I go way back. We were colleagues at the old place cracked.com.

1:05.3

And you have grown and spread your wings from there, like all of our wonderful colleagues.

1:11.8

And you have a YouTube channel now.

1:14.4

And you just came out with a new project that I'm very excited to check out.

1:19.0

Do you want to talk a little bit about what you're doing and plug your plugables before we get into this episode?

1:23.1

Absolutely.

1:23.9

Well, you know, I think it's apt.

1:25.0

We're going to be talking about supposedly someone terrible.

1:28.9

Something terrible. Good. Oh, I'm so prepared. Much like, yeah, the show is called Amy's Dead and Dreamhouse. It's on Nebula. It's also about terrible things. Terrible things that happen to you in adulthood, you and all of us.

1:44.4

So I'm very excited.

1:46.3

I'm so excited to learn today, Robert.

1:49.2

Well, we are going to be talking about something terrible that I did not know about.

1:53.8

Really?

1:54.5

This is one that kind of took me by surprise the topic of this episode,

1:58.7

because we are going to be chatting a little bit about a car company

2:03.4

you might know of called Volkswagen.

2:05.9

Do you know much about Volkswagen?

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