Part Two: The Pol Pot Episodes: How A Nice, Quiet Kid Murdered His Country

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04/30/25 • 55 min

Robert continues the story with young Pol Pot's years in France where he and his friends radicalize themselves in what has to have been the deadliest book club of all time.

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Robert continues the story with young Pol Pot's years in France where he and his friends radicalize themselves in what has to have been the deadliest book club of all time.

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Part One: The Pol Pot Episodes: How A Nice, Quiet Kid Murdered His Country

Robert sits down with Andrew Ti for three episodes in one week about the bizarre life of Pol Pot, a man who spent too much time reading books and bullshitting with his friends and for convinced he could save his country by destroying it.

(3 Part Series)

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Part Three: The Pol Pot Episodes: How A Nice, Quiet Kid Murdered His Country

Pol Pot and his friends are now in charge of Cambodia and in a remarkably short period of time they manage to kill two million people. Including a leftist academic from the UK who thought the Khmer Rouge was rad. Here's how!

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Behind the Bastards - Part Two: The Pol Pot Episodes: How A Nice, Quiet Kid Murdered His Country

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Speaker 100:00:01.719

Also media, Oh, welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast about really our first genocidal bastard who is legitimately considered a nice guy, which is a nice write at everybody that nice does not mean good. Lots of nice people who are evil.

Speaker 200:00:22.120

That is so I was going to say, Yeah, that's also a reminder.

Speaker 300:00:25.679

Of course, you know, you don't have