Part Three: The Pol Pot Episodes: How A Nice, Quiet Kid Murdered His Country

Behind the Bastards

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🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Pol Pot and his friends are now in charge of Cambodia and in a remarkably short period of time they manage to kill two million people. Including a leftist academic from the UK who thought the Khmer Rouge was rad. Here's how!

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0:00.0	Holy crap. Welcome back to Behind the Bastards on a rare three-part episode. You motherfuckers,
0:12.4	you lucky sons of bitches and rat bastards are getting three episodes this week. I am now legally your father.
0:23.0	You're welcome.
0:24.7	Hi, Sophie.
0:25.4	Hi, Andrew T.
0:26.0	How are you guys?
0:26.7	Did that intro?
0:27.7	You don't need to be responsible for people.
0:30.6	We don't.
0:31.9	I like that.
0:33.1	That's like leprechaun rules.
0:34.8	Like episodes three, I'm your father for me.
0:38.6	I don't think you're, I don't, I'm going to say something really, I don't think you're
0:41.8	their father.
0:42.4	I think you're their daddy.
0:44.2	No, no.
0:45.0	That feels a lot worse for me, actually.
0:47.3	Yeah, but I think that's what that legally means is you're not father. You're daddy. I'm like one of those dads that like should pay child support.
0:56.1	But instead I live on a boat in the harbor of fucking New Orleans.
1:01.9	Are you a libertarian in this scenario?
1:05.6	No, no, no.
1:06.4	But I definitely don't believe in the moon landing.
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