Behind the Bastards - Behind The Bastards: Trailer

Episode Date: April 18, 2018

From Hitler’s love of young adult fiction to Saddam Hussein's shameful romance novels, this podcast sheds new, weird light on history's monsters.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 now in my prior career I was an editor at cracked.com and a journalist I reported from Iraq Ukraine the former Soviet Union Yugoslavia and I talked to all sorts of people who'd live their whole lives under Dictators and monsters of varying types 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 The worst people in history are also often the most fascinating for example Saddam Hussein, you know genocidal monster warlord Also a romance novelist who wrote the strangest book. I've ever read and we're gonna talk about that in one of our first podcasts

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 And he in fact based his strategies in World War two off of these children's books that he was obsessed with his entire life All of these terrible people have fascinating stories like that in their background. Assam bin Laden Obviously hated America something fierce but he was also obsessed to a pretty significant extent in American pop culture 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 There's all sorts of crazy details about all of these people and it's just endlessly fascinating to me

And I think it's going to be fascinating to you the collective internet as well So we'll be talking about dictators warlords terrorists awful people like Carlos the Jackal And we'll also be talking, you know about broader subjects like you know, you think about dictators They all have these big families. They groom their kids to take over for them. What kind of parents are they? It turns out they're really really really weird parents So if you want to know about all these terrible people I've talked about so far and so many more tune in to behind the bastards You can find us online at behindthebastards.com where you can check out, you know pictures and links to sources So you can you know 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 at all Hitler's favorite books You can also find us on social media Twitter Instagram at at bastards pod So yeah, check out behind the bastards. I'm Robert Evans and I'm gonna be here every week talking about terrible terrible nightmare people