Part One: The Inventor of Those 'Trouble...

Robert and Cody Johnston sit down to read Ben Shapiro's latest non-fiction book, which seems to be based entirely on him not understanding how lions work.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Hello, Behind the Bastards Listeners! We want to share a new show you might enjoy, SAD OLIGARCH Season 2! About the show: Since January 2022, dozens of Russia's wealthiest oligarchs and power brokers have died suddenly. One was poisoned with frog venom. Two killed their whole fam ... Show More

Robert discusses the mysterious 2001 anthrax attacks and how the FBI, without any real evidence, decided to destroy a man's life over it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

*Content warning: distressing topics, death, child abuse, child sex abuse, psychological and physical violence, cultic abuse, torture, addiction, humiliation, systemic abuse, religious abuse. Maia Szalavitz’s website: maiasz.com/ Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry C ... Show More

Andrea Canning catches up with Keith Morrison and Dateline producer Liz Brown about their episode, “Broken Circle.”  In 2020, a 21-second video filmed secretly at Circle of Hope Girls’ Ranch, a religious reform school in Missouri, went viral on TikTok. Soon after, the local sheri ... Show More

In 2017, David Leavitt drove to the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana to adopt a baby girl. A few years later, during an interview with a documentary filmmaker, Leavitt, a wealthy Utah politician, told a startling story about how he went about getting physical custody of t ... Show More

In the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, four students at the University of Idaho were murdered in their off-campus home. The shocking brutality of the murders garnered media attention while police searched for the killer. But for author and private investigator J. Reuben ... Show More

*Content warning: institutional child abuse, childhood abuse, death of a child, suicide, psychological, physical and sexual violence, abduction, kidnapping, disordered eating, stressful themes, disability abuse, ableism, PTSD, medical abuse and neglect. *Meg Appelgate’s Work: Meg ... Show More

Last year, a popular Utah influencer with six children went to prison for child abuse. Now the state has put a new law into place to protect the children in these videos. WSJ’s Zusha Elinson on the Ruby Franke scandal and her daughter’s efforts to keep it from happening again. Fu ... Show More

Arizona Territory, April 30, 1871. The canyon known as Aravaipa lies still in the predawn darkness, the only sounds to be heard in the early-morning calm the song of birds and the lilt of running water as it courses its way toward the nearby San Pedro River. But upon this paradis ... Show More

What if America’s greatest untold stories weren’t in Hollywood—but hidden in the swamps, deserts, and mountains all around us? In this powerful episode of The David Rutherford Show, Navy SEAL David Rutherford sits down with Alexander “Xander” Joseph, founder of Xplorist.org, to d ... Show More

*Content warning: distressing topics, bullying, addiction, Institutional child abuse, ‘troubled teen industry’ (TTI), disability abuse, body image abuse, sexual trauma, medical neglect, therapeutic trauma. *Free + Confidential Resources + Safety Tips: somethingwaswrong.com/resour ... Show More

Tim Carney, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and senior columnist at the Washington Examiner, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to diagnose the pitfalls modern parents tend to fall into and to discuss the key to building successful families.  You ... Show More