Behind the Bastards
Hosted by Robert · Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.6from 41,725 ratings
- 1,170
- Episodes
- 416
- Transcribed
- 41,725
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 441M
- YouTube views
About Behind the Bastards
There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.
- Publisher
- Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
- Category
- history · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 18 Apr 2018
- Latest episode
- 22 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
416 of 1,170 episodes have a transcript.
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Part One: Radovan Karadžić: The Genocidal Dictator Who Became a New-Age Guru
19 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
It Could Happen Here Weekly 250
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Part Four: Francis Galton: Inventor of Eugenics
Inside a recent episode
Part One: Radovan Karadžić: The Genocidal Dictator Who Became a New-Age Guru
Published 22 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They're communists, right? That's what makes them their elite. The elite in a communist country are not anti-communists, right? So when he's talking about the Serbian elite, he's talking about the ethno-nationalist elite. like among kind of the people who want independent Serbia, those are the people he's talking about, right? Because Tito, the guy who's the dictator, had been born a Croat, but he really emphasizes that he's Yugoslav and he tries to build a Yugoslav identity. And some people buy that and some people don't. And you get the feeling that even when he's with the communist party for a while, Radovan is never like a Yugoslav identity guy, right? […]
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- Jamie Loftus
- Andrew
- Kim Kelly
- Bridget Todd
- James Stout
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 441,153,001
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 15,769 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 25,956 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 88 / 100
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- Quality
- 100
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 100
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Who hosts Behind the Bastards?
Robert host the show. Published by Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts.
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