Part One: The Naturopathic Doctor Who Bombed a Plane
Behind the Bastards
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Robert tells Brandie Posey the thrilling tale of Dr. Robert Spears, a man who was not a doctor but was a trailblazing Naturopath. And when I say "trailblazing", I mean he committed terrorism on a plane.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast about the very worst people in all of history. |
| 0:12.3 | And we've got a fun one for you this week, folks. |
| 0:15.6 | I know it's been a rough year. |
| 0:17.6 | There's been a lot of pedophiles. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm not just talking about the U.S. government. I'm talking about on the podcast. We've been covering a lot of pedophiles. I'm not just talking about the U.S. government. I'm talking |
| 0:21.8 | about on the podcast. We've been covering a lot of pedophiles, in part because there's a lot of |
| 0:26.0 | pedophiles in the U.S. government, to be fair. But this week, thank God, we're handling just |
| 0:31.9 | an honest, simple grifter, you know, one of the good, decent con men who makes this podcast and this |
| 0:40.2 | nation possible. And to talk with me about just a, just a corn-fed, good old-fashioned down-home |
| 0:47.9 | con artist, Brandy Posey. Brandy, you're a comedian and you run your own comedy record label and you've got an |
| 0:56.3 | album Milk Job that's out right now. Right now? Right now. Right now. Right now. Baby, hell yeah. |
| 1:03.4 | Welcome to the show, Brandy. How you, how you doing? How you've been since last we talked? |
| 1:07.8 | I've been good also keeping up on the pedophile news and probably, you know. |
| 1:12.6 | Keeping up with the pedophiles. |
| 1:13.9 | Yeah, grinding my teeth as much as you, I imagine. |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.4 | Yeah, it's frustrating to be aware of the world these days. |
| 1:22.9 | I don't recommend it. |
| 1:24.3 | Instead, why don't you, why don't we all just sink into a story of days gone by |
| 1:28.8 | and talk about a con man from like a family of conmen. This, this will be a nice one, everybody. |
| 1:36.8 | I hope, I hope you all enjoy it. Is this about a beagle boy? It feels like you're about to tell me |
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