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Behind the Bastards

Part Two: Pete Hegseth's Fascist Book 'American Crusade'

Behind the Bastards

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News, History, Society & Culture

4.415.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Robert and Jamie learn how Pete Hegseth thinks Islam works, and discuss his plan to purge the U.S. of undesirables.

Sources:

Pete Hegseth: Police report lays out details, timeline of sexual assault allegation : NPR

Pete Hegseth paid $50,000 to a woman alleging 2017 sexual assault | CNN Politics

Pete Hegseth’s Secret History | The New Yorker

Scholars Say White Supremacists Chanting 'Deus Vult' Got History Wrong : NPR

Historian: Crusader motto "Deus vult" is a myth - english.katholisch.de

Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war crimes case - The Washington Post

"Five Ways Christian Families Are Under Attack" Pastor Chris Durkin

The Crusades, the first holy war | Submission.org - Your best source for Submission (Islam)

These brave Afghans helped the U.S. after 9/11. Now the U.S. wants to deport them.

Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war crimes case - The Washington Post

An Appointment in Samarra | National Review

Republican Hegseth is out of U.S. Senate race. For good.

Pete Hegseth and His ‘Battle Cry’ for a New Christian Crusade - The New York Times                                                                                                                                                       

Trump Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth’s books foreground anti-Muslim rhetoric | Trump administration | The Guardian

Pete Hegseth: Faith, Family, Freedom, and the American Mind | Nashville Christian Family Magazine

What the firestorm over Rep. Omar’s remarks says about anti-Semitism in America | PBS News

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Callsor Media

0:03.0

All right, listeners update.

0:07.2

I went over to Elizabeth the not so dying squirrel

0:10.1

and she scurried away.

0:12.9

Welcome to Behind the Bastards, by the way.

0:14.5

Into the cypire.

0:15.4

Yeah, what, fuck off.

0:16.9

You're gonna do a good, you're gonna do a normal intro.

0:19.5

Some of us have to be professionals here, Sophie. Someone has to be a professional. So just to say, maybe I was right not to smash her with a rock and to feel sadness on the inside. And maybe she's okay. I didn't get to evaluate her with myself. So I just said if she's suffering, you should smash her with a rock. That's the humane thing to do. You know? Well, in that case, I mean, smash, we're all suffering in a way. And are we not all praying for an asteroid to hit? I am begging to be smashed for the rock at the end of the day. I'm realizing. I'm just saying, I hope Elizabeth the not so dying squirrel scurried away and now is like, you know.

0:57.3

Yeah, I hope she's fine now.

0:58.7

Enjoying an acorn.

0:59.9

If you're not, if something's not fine, you always have rocks.

1:03.9

A big enough rock can stop anyone's pain.

1:06.6

No.

1:06.9

You know, that's the truth about rocks.

1:08.4

I always have my phone that can call you who has rocks. I've got lots. I got so many rocks. I'm not throwing a rock at Elizabeth. You don't throw the rock. That's not nearly like that's the odds of you missing and just injuring the animal. You know, that's just inhumane. Oh, Robert. I've been carrying around the same rock for for 20 years.

1:28.5

And I'm shocked.

1:33.1

I'm shocked how easy it is to get a rock onto, I mean, I guess, is a plane. You're very experienced killing.

1:35.1

Like, we've established that on the show.

1:36.7

Don't start this shit again.

1:38.3

Okay.

1:39.2

Listen.

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