Part Two: How Tainted Human Blood Became A Major U.S. Export

Behind the Bastards

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Robert, who is looking better than ever these days wow what great hair, finishes telling Ben Bowlin the harrowing story of how the U.S. murdered thousands of our nation's closest friends and poisoned incarcerated people for a modest payout.

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0:00.0	Callsor Media
0:02.8	Welcome back to the podcast that this is, which is behind the bastards, a podcast about
0:12.5	how to mine prison labor for their sweet, sweet blood.
0:18.1	Uh-oh, hepatitis.
0:20.3	That's the story we're telling the day.
0:22.9	Whoops, all heaps.
0:24.4	B, C, all of the heaps.
0:26.8	Collect them all, folks.
0:28.3	If you're doing blood donations with needles that have been used on dozens of other people in the prison.
0:34.6	Anyway, Ben Bolin, my guest today.
0:36.7	Ben, ridiculous history, stuff they don't want you to know,
0:41.2	podcast, Maven, impresario. Oh my gosh. Yeah. How are you doing? How are you feeling?
0:48.7	I'm doing well. I got to tell you, Robert, I got a little bit of epaulette envy right now, because your jacket's pretty sick. Uh, I got, I got, I got, I got to tell you, Robert, I got a little bit of epaulette envy right now because your jacket's pretty sick.
0:57.2	I got a jacket like that, but it's, you know, it's stored away for specific purposes.
1:04.2	I apologize.
1:05.4	I'm like some guy rocking up to the White House without a suit on, you know?
1:09.4	I mean, I live at a place where you get to wear clothing like this regularly because it's cold.
1:14.9	So it's part of why I left Texas.
1:17.8	I really like jackets.
1:19.1	And boy, very few places are worse for needing a jacket than Texas.
1:24.2	You heard it here first, folks.
1:25.8	Yeah, yeah.
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