Part One: Tony Alamo: The Worst Preacher

Behind the Bastards

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Robert sits down with Samantha McVey to talk about Tony Alamo, the evangelical cult leader who enslaved children to make denim vests for the stars.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast that is mourning the temporary loss of its producer today.
0:14.3	Sophie got into a little bit of a kerpfuffle with the FTC.
0:21.6	Some shots were exchanged.
0:23.6	Anyway, she's on the run now, but we're expecting her to report back in from her
0:28.8	mountain hideaway any day.
0:30.7	But until she gets back, Samantha McVeigh is with me today this week.
0:36.6	Samantha, how are you doing? Good. You know, I was just saying,
0:40.0	I feel like Sophie is our adult that supervises, so I'm a little nervous that she's not here,
0:45.8	but it's okay because I also did another show with Margaret and Sophie wasn't there either,
0:51.1	so maybe she, is she mad at me? Oh, no. No, no, no, no.
0:54.8	She's just running.
0:55.7	It's just she's on the run from the law.
0:58.1	That's fair.
0:58.8	Yeah, yeah.
0:59.0	That's fair.
0:59.7	It's fine.
1:00.5	Once she gets to our hidden mountain fastness in an undisclosed location in the Rockies,
1:06.9	she'll be back on the calls.
1:08.8	Everything will be fine.
1:10.2	So get some Morse code.
1:11.3	I like it.
1:11.8	Yeah, we're going to be doing the podcast via Morse code.
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