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Behind the Bastards

Part Two: Sylvia Browne: Fake Psychic Detective

Behind the Bastards

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

History, News, Society & Culture

4.417K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Robert concludes the story of fake psychic investigator Sylvia Browne with a surprise story about the World Trade Center bombing.

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0:00.0

Oh my gosh, look at the time. It's behind the bastards.

0:09.2

45. It's actually 2.11 p.m. otherwise known as 8 a.m. in the morning for me, because I let my sleep

0:16.7

schedule get disastrously disordered. And it is slowly destroying me and my life. But you know

0:23.0

who it's not destroying is our wonderful guest for these episodes, Cal Penn. Cal, how are you doing?

0:29.3

I'm doing well. I was going to make a joke about just perpetually being awake, but I had no,

0:36.0

I had no good punchline. I'm good. I am awake. More of a morning person,

0:40.8

but very excited to be here. I was just telling you before we came on, what a fan I am.

0:45.6

And so especially remember, can we talk about Sylvia's voice? Sorry, I'm just jumping the gun a little bit.

0:52.5

And we'll be hearing more of it. Don't you worry. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. But no, I'm excited to be here. So thank you for, thank you for having me. Yeah, let's put a pick. Because I do want, I do want to hear what you have to say about our voice, but let's give the listeners like a minute or two of it, which they're going to get in a minute. And then we can really, we'll have something to sink our, our collective teeth into.

1:12.0

We'll dive in.

1:13.1

Yeah.

1:15.7

This is an I-Heart podcast.

1:18.6

Guaranteed human.

1:24.1

So, in case you're coming into part two of this episode like a maniac, we're talking about

1:29.2

Sylvia Brown, who is not named Sylvia Brown yet because she hasn't married the guy that

1:33.4

she takes the last name from, but we're going to call her Sylvia Brown anyway for the sake

1:37.0

of making this simpler. She has a psychic who has found out that if you are sick or die in a war,

1:44.4

that's because you chose to do that in a past life.

1:47.2

She's gotten out of her first marriage to an abusive cop.

1:51.2

She's moved to California.

1:53.0

She has started a psychic foundation where she is working to create her own new religion.

1:58.9

So by 1975, things are really starting to come together for Sylvia.

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