Part Two: Carl Schmitt: The Mind Behind Modern Fascism
Behind the Bastards
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🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 93 minutes
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In this episode we follow Carl Schmitt through the disillusionment of WW1, and breaking up with his con artist wife, to his creation of the Death Star of liberal democracy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Behind the Bastards podcast hosted by who I assume is the new Pope based on reading the first two-thirds of an article title that showed up in my phone the other day. |
| 0:18.0 | How long is this bit going to go on for is my question. |
| 0:21.1 | Exactly one more episode, Sophie. |
| 0:22.8 | I have slightly more bit to do here. |
| 0:25.7 | I think it's for life, right? |
| 0:27.4 | Well, yeah, that is how it tends. |
| 0:29.1 | Well, no, that one guy got to quit. |
| 0:31.1 | The Nazi. |
| 0:33.9 | Nazis famous quitters. |
| 0:39.3 | So we are joined once again by Sophie Ray Lichten and Blake Wessler, our guest for today. |
| 0:47.1 | Blake, how you doing? |
| 0:49.5 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:50.4 | I can't wait to hear more about this guy. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.5 | Well, I can't wait to figure out my |
| 0:55.5 | Pope name. You know, I've been, I've been thinking about it, right? What am I going to do? |
| 0:59.0 | You know, what am I going to, what is, who am I going to be as Pope? Because every Pope gets to pick a |
| 1:04.4 | name. You're going to be, you're going to be Pope Sophie. No, no, no. I figured it out, Sophie. I think I'm going to have a lot more fun if my Pope name is just the whole script to be movie. |
| 1:14.9 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:15.5 | Just going to really take that bit to its ultimate extent. |
| 1:18.9 | Just destroy the computing systems at the Vatican. |
| 1:22.7 | The entire Catholic Church is like online infrastructure falls apart. |
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