Robert and Mara conclude the story of Steve Cartisano with a truly shocking number of illegal open air child torture camps.

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Robert sits down with Mara Wilson to discuss the man behind those camps that kidnap teenagers and torture them in the desert.

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Sources:

1. The rise and fall of Steve Cartisano - High Country News (hcn.org)
2. Steve Cartisano - Bryan County Patriot
3. Hell Camp: The sinister true story behind Netflix documentary - Dexerto
4. MOTHER OF GIRL WHO COLLAPSED IN DESERT PRAISES CHALLENGER – Deseret News
5. ‘Hell Camp’: Paris Hilton and the Troubled Teen Industry’s Abuse Epidemic (rollingstone.com)
6. How Utah became the birthplace of the once-lucrative wilderness therapy industry for ‘troubled teens’ (msn.com)
7. BYU alumnus sparks off lucrative, controversial wilderness-therapy industry - The Salt Lake Tribune (sltrib.com)
8. Salt Lake Tribune | 2002-04-28 | Page 2 | | Utah Digital Newspapers
9. Loving Them to Death -- The... (utah.edu)
10. Boot Camps Proponent Becomes Focus of Critics - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
11. Wilderness therapy programs for troubled teams began in Utah (sltrib.com)
12. Troubled US teens left traumatised by tough love camps (bbc.com)
13. EXPLAINER: The history behind 'parents' rights' in schools | AP News
14. How Utah became the leading place to send the nation's troubled teens | APM Reports
15. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/05/07/how-utah-became-birthplace-once/
16. https://www.deseret.com/1991/7/24/18932325/father-sues-challenger-over-daughter-s-death/
17. https://apnews.com/article/religion-education-gender-identity-0e2ca2cf0ef7d7bc6ef5b125f1ee0969
18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG0vANHmMmM
19. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238102695_Examining_the_Effectiveness_of_Boot_Camps_A_Randomized_Experiment_with_a_Long-Term_Follow_Up
20. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/09/us/boot-camps-proponent-becomes-focus-of-critics.html
21. https://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/test/ci_10438570https://www.farmerfuneralchapel.com/obituaries/larry-olsen

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1. The UAW Staff Purge
2. Why Conservatives Hate Ukraine feat. Rudy Giuliani
3. The Heritage Foundation's Anti-Trans Booklets
4. An Update On The Revolution in Myanmar
5. The Current State of Meme Politics

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Robert concludes the story of Curtis Yarvin, and explains to Ed Helms how he went from pseudonymous weirdo with a blog to part of the right-wing power structure.

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Robert sits down with the great Ed Helms to discuss Curtis Yarvin, the American philosopher of dictatorship whose ideas inspired J.D. Vance.

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Sources:

1. Curtis Yarvin, Political Theorist - Tablet Magazine
2. Who is Curtis Yarvin, the monarchist, anti-democracy blogger? | Vox
3. Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich (thebaffler.com)
4. A Founder's Farewell • Blog • urbit.org
5. Interview with Curtis Yarvin — Max Raskin
6. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trumps-vow-to-fire-thousands-of-crooked-federal-workers-prompts-alarm/
7. https://thebaffler.com/latest/mouthbreathing-machiavellis
8. https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/
9. https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-moldbug-variations-pein
10. https://glasgowmuseumsslavery.co.uk/2020/11/18/thomas-carlyle-historian-writer-racist/
11. https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/05/ol5-shortest-way-to-world-peace/
12. https://newtotse.com/oldtotse/en/ego/cult_of_the_dead_cow/cdc252.html
13. http://www.textfiles.com/groups/CDC/cDc-0234.txt
14. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-trump-harris-high-status-males-4chan-b2606617.html
15. https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/11/patchwork-2-profit-strategies-for-our/
16. https://academic.oup.com/book/25370
17. https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/curtis-yarvin-thiel-carlyle-monarchism-reactionary
18. https://www.amazon.com/Key-Thinkers-Radical-Right-Democracy-ebook/dp/B07LFKWCV2

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1. How to Stop the Far Right in Three Easy Steps
2. What’s The Matter With Texas? feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips
3. Inside the Russian Government's Big YouTube Scam
4. Harris V. Trump: The Thriller in Wherever They Filmed This Debate
5. What Happens When Temperatures Soar at the Border?

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Robert is joined again by Michael Swaim and Abe Epperson to continue to discuss the end of L. Ron Hubbard's life.

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Robert is joined by Michael Swaim and Abe Epperson to discuss the end of L. Ron Hubbard's life.

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