WEBVTT - Behind The Bastards: Trailer

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<v Speaker 1>Hello, everybody. I am Robert Evans, the new host of

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<v Speaker 1>the Behind the Bastards podcast, where we tell you everything

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<v Speaker 1>you don't know about some of the worst people in history. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>in my prior career, I was an editor at cracked

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<v Speaker 1>dot com and a journalist. I reported from Iraq, Ukraine,

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<v Speaker 1>the former Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and I talked to all

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<v Speaker 1>sorts of people who'd lived their whole lives under dictators

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<v Speaker 1>and monsters of varying types. And one thing I found

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<v Speaker 1>about these people is that, in addition to being you know,

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<v Speaker 1>just the worst, they're all way more interesting than I've

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<v Speaker 1>ever heard about in school. Uh. The worst people in

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<v Speaker 1>history are also often the most fascinating. For example, Saddam Hussein,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, genocidal monster war lord, also a romance novelist

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<v Speaker 1>who wrote the strangest book I've ever read, and we're

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<v Speaker 1>going to talk about that in one of our first

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<v Speaker 1>podcasts Adolf Hitler, you know, obviously worst person in history,

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<v Speaker 1>but also obsessed with a young adult fiction series that

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<v Speaker 1>was basically the German equivalent of Harry Potter. Uh, and

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<v Speaker 1>he in fact based his strategies in World War Two

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<v Speaker 1>off these children's books that he was obsessed with his

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<v Speaker 1>entire life. All of these terrible people have fascinating stories

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<v Speaker 1>like that in their background. Osama bin Laden obviously hated

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<v Speaker 1>America is something fierce, but he was also obsessed to

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<v Speaker 1>a pretty significant extent in American pop culture, and he

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<v Speaker 1>and his buddies in the mountains of Afghanistan would watch

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<v Speaker 1>American action movies to pump themselves up for activities against

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<v Speaker 1>the United States. There's all sorts of crazy details about

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<v Speaker 1>all of these people, and it's just endlessly fascinating to me,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think it's going to be fascinating to you

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<v Speaker 1>the collective Internet as well. So we'll be talking about dictators, warlords, terrorists,

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<v Speaker 1>awful people like Carlos the Jackal, and we'll also be talking,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, about broader subjects like you. When you think

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<v Speaker 1>about dictators, they all have these big families. They groom

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<v Speaker 1>their kids to take over for them. What kind of

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<v Speaker 1>parents are they? Uh? It turns out there really really,

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<v Speaker 1>really weird parents. So if you want to know about

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<v Speaker 1>all these terrible people I've talked about so far and

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<v Speaker 1>so many more, tune into Behind the Bastards. You can

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<v Speaker 1>find us online at Behind the Bastards dot com where

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<v Speaker 1>you can and check out, you know, pictures and links

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<v Speaker 1>to sources, so you can, you know, check up on

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<v Speaker 1>my work and you can also see things like the

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<v Speaker 1>incredibly gorgeous face of a young Saddam Hussein or the

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<v Speaker 1>ridiculously weird pistol packing man who wrote at all Hitler's

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<v Speaker 1>favorite books. You can also find us on social media Twitter, Instagram,

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<v Speaker 1>at at Bastard's pod uh so yeah, check out Behind

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<v Speaker 1>the Bastards. I'm Robert Evans, and I'm gonna be here

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<v Speaker 1>every week talking about terrible, terrible nightmare people