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Heard on this week's episode of Chapo (Don't judge me).

Couple of excerpts from the WaPo article:



>In 2012, he helped three other Americans found a libertarian compound in the mountains, Galt’s Gulch, named for the fictional capitalist haven in Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.” Cobin quickly split and founded a competing sustainable farm and libertarian compound, called Freedom Orchard.
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>A brochure for the mountainside compound advertised an idyllic 400-unit paradise, where “liberty-loving people from all over the world” could enjoy low taxes, organic produce, and freedom from “intrusive and abusive government meddling.” One group, however, was not welcome on his orchard: liberals from the United States.

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>In an undated video circulating on social media, Cobin had even spoken about eliminating the “communist plague."
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>“When they show off machetes, we’ll have the most massive firearms legally allowed in this country, and shoot to kill,” he said. “Not shoot at their legs, [but] straight in the heart so no witnesses are left.”

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There was also a Mother Jones profile written of him in 2014.

I'll throw in another recommendation - "Dear Leader" the story of Jong Il's personal poet who fled. Unbelievable tale of how the top 1% lives in NK versus the abject poverty of the other 99%.

It has a lot of info that was new to me, as an example, there are people whose job it is to look for attractive girls in junior high schools who are sent (their consent is never asked for) to special resort hotels as slaves. A depressing fact for sure, but if you listen to Robert Evans you probably will appreciate the book.

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https://www.amazon.com/Dear-Leader-Escape-North-Korea/dp/1476766568

I'm a machete enthusiast.

Order yourself an Ontario brand machete (no saw-back those suck). Get the sheath, too.

Whole thing should set you back less than $30

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Be sure to get the right size sheath for your machete.

I recommend the 18" for indoor use.

The chapter on Timothy McVeigh has a number of issues, all steming from Robert relying on "American Terrorist" as his main source. The book was written from interviews with McVeigh, and is pretty much McVeigh's story as he wants it told, not how it actually was. Link below is a much better source.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061986453/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_NUevDbMG0YHT5

Hitler's American Friends was referenced in Episode 30 (The Birth of American Fascism)

https://www.amazon.com/Steal-This-Book-Abbie-Hoffman/dp/156858217X

Here's the literary equivalent.

He also has a book called A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization in which he experiments with substances.

Couple listed here

• “Tropic of Kansas” and "American war"
  
  Also some more suggestions at the end.
  
  Another one from 2005 - "Divided we Fall"
  
  This Wiki page has some more

For the Harvey Weinstein ep of Behind the Bastards: Peter Biskind's book Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film is focused mainly on Harvey Weinstein and covers a whole lot of his abuses and assaults of others. (True to the form Evans mentioned in the podcast, Weinstein offered to publish Biskind under the Miramax imprint to buy him off.)