Speaker 1: Hello, everybody. I am Robert Evans, the new host of
Speaker 1: the Behind the Bastards podcast, where we tell you everything
Speaker 1: you don't know about some of the worst people in history. Now,
Speaker 1: in my prior career, I was an editor at cracked
Speaker 1: dot com and a journalist. I reported from Iraq, Ukraine,
Speaker 1: the former Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and I talked to all
Speaker 1: sorts of people who'd lived their whole lives under dictators
Speaker 1: and monsters of varying types. And one thing I found
Speaker 1: about these people is that, in addition to being you know,
Speaker 1: just the worst, they're all way more interesting than I've
Speaker 1: ever heard about in school. Uh. The worst people in
Speaker 1: history are also often the most fascinating. For example, Saddam Hussein,
Speaker 1: you know, genocidal monster war lord, also a romance novelist
Speaker 1: who wrote the strangest book I've ever read, and we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about that in one of our first
Speaker 1: podcasts Adolf Hitler, you know, obviously worst person in history,
Speaker 1: but also obsessed with a young adult fiction series that
Speaker 1: was basically the German equivalent of Harry Potter. Uh, and
Speaker 1: he in fact based his strategies in World War Two
Speaker 1: off these children's books that he was obsessed with his
Speaker 1: entire life. All of these terrible people have fascinating stories
Speaker 1: like that in their background. Osama bin Laden obviously hated
Speaker 1: America is something fierce, but he was also obsessed to
Speaker 1: a pretty significant extent in American pop culture, and he
Speaker 1: and his buddies in the mountains of Afghanistan would watch
Speaker 1: American action movies to pump themselves up for activities against
Speaker 1: the United States. There's all sorts of crazy details about
Speaker 1: all of these people, and it's just endlessly fascinating to me,
Speaker 1: and I think it's going to be fascinating to you
Speaker 1: the collective Internet as well. So we'll be talking about dictators, warlords, terrorists,
Speaker 1: awful people like Carlos the Jackal, and we'll also be talking,
Speaker 1: you know, about broader subjects like you. When you think
Speaker 1: about dictators, they all have these big families. They groom
Speaker 1: their kids to take over for them. What kind of
Speaker 1: parents are they? Uh? It turns out there really really,
Speaker 1: really weird parents. So if you want to know about
Speaker 1: all these terrible people I've talked about so far and
Speaker 1: so many more, tune into Behind the Bastards. You can
Speaker 1: find us online at Behind the Bastards dot com where
Speaker 1: you can and check out, you know, pictures and links
Speaker 1: to sources, so you can, you know, check up on
Speaker 1: my work and you can also see things like the
Speaker 1: incredibly gorgeous face of a young Saddam Hussein or the
Speaker 1: ridiculously weird pistol packing man who wrote at all Hitler's
Speaker 1: favorite books. You can also find us on social media Twitter, Instagram,
Speaker 1: at at Bastard's pod uh so yeah, check out Behind
Speaker 1: the Bastards. I'm Robert Evans, and I'm gonna be here
Speaker 1: every week talking about terrible, terrible nightmare people