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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.

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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.

Listen on Apple Podcasts
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    Part Four: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer

    Part Four: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer

    Beria? I hardly know'ya. Anyway, this is the last episode of the series. Goodbye.
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    Part Three: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer

    Part Three: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer

    Robert and Joe get into the meat of the Beria story: the invasion of Poland and start of World War 2.
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    • 57 min
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    Part Two: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer

    Part Two: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer

    In part two, Robert continues with Joe Kassabian to tell the sordid tale of Lavrentiy Beria, the head of Stalin's secret police, prolific sex criminal and ethnic cleanser, and nuclear weapon entrepreneur.

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    • 1 hr 18 min
    Part One: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer

    Part One: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer

    Robert sits down with Joe Kassabian to tell the sordid tale of Lavrentiy Beria, the head of Stalin's secret police, prolific sex criminal and ethnic cleanser, and nuclear weapon entrepreneur.

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    • 1 hr 13 min
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    • 2 hrs 32 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
981 Ratings

981 Ratings

Chicken100 ,

Needs better cohost

Honestly, the only thing that lets this podcast down is the cohosts that will occasionally just talk absolute nonsense for no reason other than to be heard. The reason why shows like the dollop works so well is because they have a much tighter cohost host dynamic. Please be a little more careful with the cohosts, and keep Sophie from interrupting

Thepurplebean ,

I used to enjoy this show

I’m sick of the bagging of Jordan Peterson and the inane interjections of Sophie

Niofaps ,

Fascinating, horrifying and very entertaining.

Listening to the Steve Jobs episode and loving learning about the man behind the propaganda. So glad for podcasts that tell us the truth about the psychopaths who ruin the world for the rest of us.

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