CZM Rewind: Part One: King Leopold II: The First Modern Bastard
Behind the Bastards
English - November 21, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MB - ★★★★ - 13.6K ratingsSociety & Culture History comedy fitness culture interview business news entrepreneurship health politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 107
Original Air Date: June 12th, 2018
Have you ever heard of King Leopold II? In Episode 7, Robert is joined by Andrew Ti (Yo, Is This Racist?) and they discuss the King of Belgium, who was the first world leader to be crappy in the true modern sense of the word. His life’s work was the blueprint for being the kind of terrible that we recognize in modern leaders like Dick Cheney or Vladimir Putin. He pioneered screwing over tens of millions of people for petty personal gain
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