Part One: H.L. Hunt: The First Elon Musk

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Robert Evans· Host0:02

[upbeat digital music] Oh, goodness, jiminy, gracious Christmas. Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast about the very worst people in all of history, introduced by one of the very worst introducers in all of history, your host, me, Robert Evans. This week, I have a guest who's better at introducing things, Princess Weekes. Princess, why don't you introduce yourself? Because we've seen how I do it.

Speaker 20:32

You're, you're fabulous. I disagree with you.

Robert Evans· Host0:34

That's a lie.

Speaker 20:35

Just put that. [laughs] [laughs] Uh, my name is Princess Weekes. I'm a writer, YouTuber, shit talker, and I love history, and especially when I get to listen to Robert tell me about bad people.

Robert Evans· Host0:47

Yeah, and I love bad people, especially when I get to inflict their badness on someone else.

Speaker 20:53

Wow.

Robert Evans· Host0:54

And this week, we've got a guy who kinda made inflicting his opinions on other people, on everyone else, his, like, life mission, and used the vast fortune he built to do it.

Speaker 21:05

Oh.

Robert Evans· Host1:05

We're covering a fella here, he's the former richest man in the world. This guy was in oil. In his time, he was a millionaire, but if you, you know, fix things to modern money, he was a billionaire from a fairly early point in, like, terms of modern money.

Speaker 21:21

Mm-hmm.

Robert Evans· Host1:21

Um, and he was kind of the first of the right-wing, like, these ultra-rich right-wing guys to make pushing his own