Behind the Bastards - Behind The Bastards: Trailer
Aired: 2018-04-18
Duration: 02:26


=== Behind The Bastards Intro (01:50) ===

[00:00:00]  Hello everybody, I am Robert Evans, the new host of the Behind the Bastards podcast, where we tell you everything you don't know about some of the worst people in history.
[00:00:09]  Now, in my prior career, I was an editor at Cracked.com and a journalist.
[00:00:12]  I reported from Iraq, Ukraine, the former Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and I talked to all sorts of people who'd lived their whole lives under dictators and monsters of varying types.
[00:00:23]  And one thing I found about these people is that in addition to being, you know, just the worst, they were all way more interesting than I'd ever heard about in school.
[00:00:32]  The worst people in history are also often the most fascinating.
[00:00:35]  For example, Saddam Hussein, you know, genocidal monster warlord.
[00:00:39]  Also, a romance novelist who wrote the strangest book I've ever read, and we're going to talk about that in one of our first podcasts.
[00:00:48]  Adolf Hitler, you know, obviously worst person in history, but also obsessed with a young adult fiction series that was basically the German equivalent of Harry Potter.
[00:00:56]  And he, in fact, based his strategies in World War II off of these children's books that he was obsessed with his entire life.
[00:01:04]  All of these terrible people have fascinating stories like that in their background.
[00:01:07]  Osam bin Laden obviously hated America as something fierce, but he was also obsessed to a pretty significant extent in American pop culture.
[00:01:15]  And he and his buddies in the mountains of Afghanistan would watch American action movies to pump themselves up for activities against the United States.
[00:01:23]  There's all sorts of crazy details about all of these people and it's just endlessly fascinating to me.
[00:01:27]  And I think it's going to be fascinating to you, the collective internet, as well.
[00:01:31]  So we'll be talking about dictators, warlords, terrorists, awful people like Carlos the Jackal.
[00:01:37]  And we'll also be talking about broader subjects like, you know, you think about dictators, they all have these big families.
[00:01:42]  They groom their kids to take over for them.
[00:01:44]  What kind of parents are they?
[00:01:47]  It turns out they're really, really, really weird parents.

=== Endlessly Fascinating Details (00:35) ===

[00:01:50]  So if you want to know about all of these terrible people I've talked about so far and so many more, tune into Behind the Bastards.
[00:01:57]  You can find us online at behindthebastards.com where you can check out pictures and links to sources.
[00:02:03]  So you can check up on my work and you can also see things like the incredibly gorgeous face of a young Saddam Hussein or the ridiculously weird pistol packing man who wrote Adolf Hitler's favorite books.
[00:02:15]  You can also find us on social media, Twitter, Instagram at BastardsPod.
[00:02:19]  So yeah, check out Behind the Bastards.
[00:02:21]  I'm Robert Evans and I'm going to be here every week talking about terrible, terrible nightmare people.