Part One: King Leopold II: The First Modern Bastard | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
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Part One: King Leopold II: The First Modern Bastard | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
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.
Original Air Date: June 12, 2018
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There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.
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“Belgium’s a wee little country-you can drive across it in a couple of hours.”
Germany liked that.
"He thought he had the most beautiful hands in all of Europe."
Oh... oh, no...
I am SO watching a movie about Willie Wonka that's basically a retelling of Leopold II's terror in Congo for rubber, except presented as Willie Wonka exploiting the natives in the Congo for chocolate.
"He had the shapely hands of the Orleans family"
Which is, I'm sure, the last time that we will be discussing hands and King Leopold II at the same time. In fact, I'm so sure of that that I'm just going to go google 'King Leopold' and 'Hands' and th-ohdeargod.
FYI: Belgium was part of the Netherlands until 1830 when they had a mini-war of independence. And Luxembourg stayed with the Netherlands for 6 more years until the country got a queen in stead of a king and they broke off at that point.
Leopold had a craving that only hands could satisfy.
Livingston was an anti slavery and evangelical preacher. A man of his time, but I believe history shows him as a nice human being. As for Stanley, I had no idea he was such an evil bastard.
When they started joking about Leopold 2 hands... I had to cringe because unlike Andrew Ti, I know where Leopold's story with hands is headed...
I always think it is interesting that Leopold I was originally married to Princess Charlotte, who was directly in line for the British Crown. She died in childbirth (as did the infant), but, if she had survived, Charlotte and Leopold would have become Queen and King instead of Victoria and Albert, and Leopold II of Belgium wouldn't have existed. It is interesting to think about how many things would have changed as a result.
Hey for next Columbus Day you guys should do Hernan Cortez
Good idea. Francisco Pizarro would also be good
I suggest reading anything by Mathew Restall on Cortes.
24:39 i think ab how my hands look constantly
3 wierd hand episodes! today I need to binge something else...
WTF did Will Wheaton do,
It’s a joke; like how they pretend to be sponsored by Raytheon and their “knife missiles” all the time…
I love the title ❤❤❤❤
25:18 the opposite of Kaiser wilheim
Fun fact: I'm pretty sure the main reason the UN sent Belgian peacekeepers into Rwanda was mostly because of Leopold II's horror show in that country. Before a bunch of them were butchered by the Hutus and the UN ordered them out rather than giving them weapons--one burst of heavy gun fire over their heads a few dozen times probably could have saves hundreds of thousands of Tutsi lives.
Maybe we can have a "Behind The Bastards - The UN Security Council Secures No One"...
Using fun fact, and following it by; "I am pretty sure". 😂
@@edjevanginneke4944 fair. I only say "I am pretty sure" because Philip Gourevitch's book on the genocide (aptly named "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with our Families") discusses that they were Belgian peacekeepers and adds a sentence discussing how the UN tended to send European peacekeepers back into the same areas they had colonized. They did it throughout the end of the 20th century when peacekeepers were needed in Africa and parts of Asia.
Genghis Kahn was a somewhat legit ruler... as far as rulers go
Genghis Kahn did kill a lot of people, not saying he didn’t………
But he was actually kinda based sometimes about it. He would go conquer a place, then he’d kill all the royalty and ruling class because he saw that they added nothing to the community/country, and would basically guarantee safety and peace to the artisans, farmers, and trade people, because he knew they were the ones doing the actual work keeping nations afloat.
He also raped and killed just like, A TON of other innocent people though, so definitely isn’t completely based. A mixed bag of a human being.
i mean the thing about the Mongols was that they really didn't care what you believed in as long as you gave them your shit in a lot of ways they where just the Mob but scaled up over most of Eurasia
Still a bastard, and a rapey one at that.
One of GK’s sons was insulted by the ruler of bagdad, so he told him something like “god already knows what I’m about to do to you.” Then the Khan personally beat him to death after he surrendered then brutally sacked the city.