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Behind the Bastards
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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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Mixed60% confidence8 sourcesOct 3, 2026Peter Magyar stole a man's phone and threw it into the Danube in May 2024.Multiple sources report that Magyar took a man's phone at a Budapest nightclub and threw it into the Danube, but they date the incident to June 21, 2024, not May, and the theft is only a prosecutorial allegation that Magyar denies. The core act is supported while the claimed month is contradicted and the 'stole' framing overstates an unadjudicated accusation.Mixed60% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026Flavio Bolsonaro asked Daniel Vorcaro for 27 million dollars to make a film about his father.The record strongly supports that Flávio Bolsonaro sought money from Daniel Vorcaro to finance the film 'Dark Horse' about his father, and he acknowledged seeking funding. However, the sources put the amount at about US$24 million (R$130-134 million) or $25 million, not 27 million, and the claim also drops the passage's 'almost'. The claim's figure is therefore disputed by the record, while the core act is supported.Minor detail. The sources confirm the claim; only a minor detail differs, such as a name's spelling, a title's wording or a rounding.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Mixed60% confidence9 sourcesOct 3, 2026The Section 301 tariffs apply to 99.4% of all imported goods in the U.S.USTR's official figure, repeated across the sources, is that the Section 301 action covers 99.4% of U.S. imports from 60 trading partners, so the figure holds on that coverage measure. However, sources also say numerous product exemptions (oil and gas, fertilizer, certain foods, Section 232 goods) mean the duty actually applies to a much smaller share of imports, so the claim fails if read as the tariffs applying to 99.4% of goods in practice. The claim matches the post's wording and was accurate as of 2026-10-03.Mixed80% confidence9 sourcesOct 3, 2026The Federal Reserve released a 126-page report that clears Jerome Powell of criminal wrongdoing regarding a remodeling project.The report exists and clears former Fed Chair Powell of criminal wrongdoing, as several outlets confirm, but sources put the report at 120 or 121 pages, not 126. The central claim holds while the page count is wrong.Minor detail. The sources confirm the claim; only a minor detail differs, such as a name's spelling, a title's wording or a rounding.Mixed55% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026The Department of Homeland Security has conducted a voter roll purge.The sources support that DHS ran a large review of state voter rolls to find noncitizen voters before the midterms, as of 2026-10-03. They do not document DHS actually removing anyone from the rolls, so calling it a 'purge' is a contested characterization used by critics rather than a reported removal.True95% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is 80 years old.Lula was 80 years old on the claim's date of 2026-10-03, as AP (published 2026-10-05), Reuters (2026-07-31) and WSJ (2026-10-04) all state, and Britannica's birth date of October 27, 1945 is consistent with that. He turned 81 on October 27, 2026, a later change that does not affect the verdict. The extracted claim faithfully matches the passage's wording.True70% confidence3 sourcesOct 3, 2026Xfinity Cyber Secure provides protection against online threats and risky sites for every device.Xfinity's own product pages and a Comcast corporate story describe Xfinity CyberSecure as a built-in network-level feature that screens for malware, phishing and other online threats across every device connected to the Xfinity gateway, and a Reuters report on the Xfinity Shield platform, which includes it, is consistent with that. The post's claim matches these descriptions, and the later Comcast page does not change the state of affairs as of 2026-10-07. Most of the support comes from the company's own material, so confidence is capped.True80% confidence4 sourcesOct 3, 2026Xfinity Shield offers a guaranteed WiFi price for five years.The post's claim that subscribers can lock in one WiFi price for five years, guaranteed, is supported by Xfinity's own page (published 2026-10-14) describing a 5-Year Price Guarantee on select internet plans, and by a 2026-09-28 review site and a 2025 CNET article describing the same guarantee. The extracted wording 'Xfinity Shield offers' is a slight reframing, since the guarantee is attached to internet plans with Xfinity Shield features rather than being a Shield-specific product, but this is a minor label difference; the sources do not contradict the core assertion, and the post's own 'select plans only' and 'Xfinity gateway required' restrictions are consistent with the guarantee being conditional. Sources are from after the 2026-10-03 post date but describe a standing offer, so the state on that date is judged as continuous.True88% confidence8 sourcesOct 3, 2026Since September 2, 2025, the US military has carried out at least 70 strikes on civilian vessels in the Caribbean Basin and the eastern Pacific Ocean.Said by AMultiple sources show the U.S. had carried out about 70 or more boat strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific by early October 2026, which matches the claim's 'at least 70' as of the post date. The sources do not directly address the 'civilian' label beyond describing the targets as small civilian or alleged drug boats, and the 'at least 70' count is consistent with the later tallies of 72 and 'more than 70'.True85% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026Only three out of 28 total survivors of US military boat strikes have been rescued.Said by AThe claim matches the passage's figure: AP (republished by NBC and Newsday) and The Intercept both report 28 survivors of US boat strikes, with only three ever rescued, based on SOUTHCOM social media data and Airwars-linked reporting. The claim drops the 'Per Air Wars' attribution, which does not change the graded assertion, and no source contradicts the figures.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True88% confidence6 sourcesOct 3, 2026At least 234 people have been killed by US military strikes on civilian vessels in the Caribbean Basin and the eastern Pacific Ocean since September 2, 2025.Said by AThe claim's figure is a floor ('at least 234'), and sources show the death toll was at least 234 by early October 2026 and higher later: AP reported at least 235 in 70 strikes, and the NYT tracker showed 244 by late October. The post's own attribution to the New York Times is consistent with the NYT tracker, though the extracted claim drops that attribution.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True90% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026The US military reactivated the Roosevelt Roads military base in Puerto Rico.Said by AMultiple independent sources (Reuters visual investigation, Military.com, Wikipedia, NBC News, and a Puerto Rico-focused report) document that the US military reactivated the formerly closed Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, beginning around September to November 2025. The claim is supported; the exact reactivation date varies by source, which is a peripheral detail, and the claim is a faithful extraction of the passage.