Part One: H.L. Hunt: The First Elon Musk
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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 Weeks. Princess, why don't you introduce yourself? Because we've seen how I do it.
You're fabulous. I disagree with you.
That's a lie.
Who was H.L. Hunt and why is he compared to Elon Musk?
Just with that. My name is Princess Weeks. 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.
Yeah, and I love bad people, especially when I get to inflict their badness on someone else.
Wow.
And this week, we've got a guy who kind of made inflicting his opinions on other people, on everyone else, his life mission, and used the vast fortune he built to do it. We're covering a fella here. He's the former richest man in the world. This guy was an oil. In his time, he was a millionaire, but if you... fix things to modern money. He was a billionaire from a fairly early point in like terms of modern money. And he was kind of the first of the right wing, like these ultra rich right wing guys to make pushing his own opinion in politics by taking control of like, or building media organs deliberately to force his own opinion on public. He was the first of these super rich guys to really do that.
Or he was part of the first wave of rich guys that did that. And he was the biggest like of this first wave of generally like post New Deal, super rich, you know, multimillionaire billionaire oil guys who are funding right wing politics. He was the guy who was kind of best at it. But he was also the guy who was only interested in forcing his own politics on people. Like he didn't want to talk to any other people on the right. He didn't want to make friends. He just wanted to create media organizations that would push his politics on other people. He's a very weird dude. And his name was H.L. Hunt. Also, some people think he killed JFK. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed human.
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What were H.L. Hunt's early influences and upbringing?
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:35
2
Who was H.L. Hunt and why is he compared to Elon Musk?
0:35–3:45
3
What were H.L. Hunt's early influences and upbringing?
3:45–9:06
4
How did H.L. Hunt's family background shape his views?
9:06–18:15
5
What role did gambling play in H.L. Hunt's early life?
18:15–36:35
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How did H.L. Hunt's education impact his later success?
36:35–1:00:00
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What were the key events leading to H.L. Hunt's rise in the oil industry?
1:00:00–1:10:02