Behind the Bastards

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5🌟Show; 0-Star Sophie

2d ago

Nicc878

Poor pro-Sophie bots… I’ve been listening to for years, and I used to LOVE this pod. But Sophie needs to exercise her talents as a producer. She is not a cohost.
Radovan Karadžiċ

5d ago

ZRH-1

Learn how to pronounce names. Historically, the account is reasonably accurate and Robert’s horror at the situation is appropriate. His guest thinks it’s hilarious. Don’t have her back. She’s awful and her ignorance, arrogance and always talking over the host is incredibly annoying. I have some knowledge of the subject matter here and yes, the horror is real. There wasn’t much funny about it at all.
Used to be good

Sep 23

Tepfe005

Stopped listening over a year ago, came back to see if anything had improved. Nope, it got worse. Liked it way better when the politics weren’t so blatantly off-the-rails left and the facts presented weren’t cherry-picked to reflect this. Do better Robert.
Used to be 5 stars

Sep 21

Bort&Ghost

Look I’ve been listening to this podcast for over well 5 years at this point and I loved it. It used to be my favorite, I deeply enjoy Robert’s reporting, the bringing in of guests to be cohosts for the episodes to learn as they go but objectively it is a different podcast than when it originated because of the dynamic switch with Sophie being included. This isn’t about her as a person but rather the interrupting, the heavy bias and rude to everyone introjections that make me cringe. It’s not the show it used to be objectively, I go and re-listen to old episodes but I just can’t listen to the new ones anymore. It’s not a reporting history podcast anymore.

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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Cool Zone Media
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Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
Years Active

2018 - 2026
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1.2K
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Explicit
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