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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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Can’t tell30% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026The Los Bombardeados investigation geolocated seven U.S. boat strikes, with three in the Pacific and four in the Caribbean.Said by AThe only sources that state the seven-geolocation breakdown (three Pacific, four Caribbean) are the podcast transcripts that repeat the claimant's own passage, so they cannot corroborate it. The investigation's own outlet and Airwars describe the project without giving this count, and no independent source confirms or disputes it. The extraction is faithful to the passage.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell40% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026The Trump administration sent 137 Venezuelan men to El Salvador's Sicot prison in March 2026.Said by AThe sources support the core event: the Trump administration sent 137 Venezuelan men to El Salvador's CECOT prison, but they show this happened in March 2025, not March 2026. The post never names a year for "in March", so the 2026 date was added during extraction and the claim departs from the passage, which is why the verdict is unverifiable rather than false.Can’t tell20% confidence4 sourcesOct 3, 2026Alejandro Caranza Medina previously pled guilty to a scheme to steal weapons confiscated during legal proceedings.Said by ANone of the provided sources mention Alejandro Caranza Medina, a guilty plea, or a scheme to steal confiscated weapons; the search results concern unrelated Medina cases. The claim is also a restatement of the passage's content, which is the claimant's own words and cannot corroborate it, so the claim cannot be graded in either direction.Can’t tell30% confidence7 sourcesOct 3, 2026Operation SOOS, carried out by the Colombian Aerospace Force, Dominican counterpart, and U.S. Joint Interagency Task Force South, resulted in the seizure of nearly 450 kg of cocaine and the arrest of two people.Said by ANone of the provided sources mention Operation SOOS, a Dominican counterpart, or a seizure of roughly 450 kg with two arrests, so the claim can be neither confirmed nor refuted. The sources describe different operations: a June 2026 Colombian Caribbean seizure of 5,439 kg with seven arrests, and an Oct. 30 Caribbean interdiction of about 8,131 lb with five detained. Those are nearby but different events, so they do not contradict the claim, and the post is 30 days old with no matching coverage.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell40% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026There have been anti-migrant protests in Ceuta almost every day for the last 30 days.Said by 3DThe sources confirm that protests in Ceuta and across Spain over the migrant crisis occurred in September 2026, and some included anti-migrant slogans. None of them documents protests in Ceuta on almost every day of the 30 days before 2026-10-03, so the frequency claim is not graded either way. The claim also refers to Ceuta, which the garbled passage ('Seoulta') supports as the intended place. The sources are not about daily frequency and are mostly from after the claim date; the anti-migrant framing is mostly tied to Spain-wide marches rather than a documented daily Ceuta pattern.Can’t tell45% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026Ed Sheeran stated that Robert Kraft rallied other stadium owners with an ultimatum that if Macklemore stayed on the tour, they would not be allowed to play in those venues.The sources show that Macklemore alleged Sheeran told him Kraft rallied other stadium owners with this ultimatum, and that venues did refuse to host Macklemore, but no source reports Sheeran himself confirming or denying the ultimatum. The claim is about Sheeran's own statement, so the sources do not settle it either way.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell40% confidence4 sourcesOct 3, 2026The state of Florida owns one of the stadiums where Macklemore was scheduled to perform.Said by 4CThe claim faithfully paraphrases the post, but none of the sources says the State of Florida owns any Macklemore tour stadium. The Florida venue, Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, is described only as publicly owned and managed by the local Tampa Sports Authority, which points away from state ownership without stating it. As of 2026-10-03, the sources do not settle the claim either way.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell60% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026Transportation and logistics workers are forbidden from striking under the Railway Labor Act.The extracted claim says all transportation and logistics workers are forbidden from striking under the Railway Labor Act, but the post only says 'so many of them' are, and it says truckers are not covered by the Act, so the claim departs from the passage and is graded as unverifiable. The sources do show that the RLA restricts strikes for railway and airline workers during mandated bargaining stages, but they do not support a blanket ban across all transportation and logistics workers.Can’t tell20% confidence6 sourcesOct 3, 2026Zsolt Takacs served as Hungary's development minister from 2014 to 2018.Said by 10CNone of the sources mention a Hungarian development minister named Zsolt Takacs or any 2014–2018 term. The only Takacs hits are an unrelated LinkedIn profile for a sustainability CEO and a 2007–2008 Interior Minister, Albert Takács, so no source addresses the claim's referent. The passage also says "Zsoltak", not "Zsolt Takacs", so the extracted full name departs from the post's wording.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell30% confidence2 sourcesOct 3, 2026Zsolt Takacs is suspected of taking 30 million euros in bribes linked to bus tenders.The claim names "Zsolt Takacs," a name that appears nowhere in the passage (which says "Zsoltak") or in the sources, so it departs from the post. The sources instead describe Miklós Seszták, former development minister 2014–2018, as suspected of taking around €30 million in bribes linked to bus tenders, so the claim does not match the referent the sources cover.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell30% confidence5 sourcesOct 3, 2026Border Patrol threatened landowners in Lochiel, Arizona, regarding the occupation of cottonwood trees.Said by 12CNone of the provided sources report that Border Patrol threatened landowners in Lochiel over the cottonwood occupation, so the claim can be neither confirmed nor refuted. The only basis is the claimant's secondhand account of what unnamed people on the ground said, which covers a threat to landowners tied to a tree sitter in Mexico, not the broader framing of the extracted claim.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.