Hello everybody. I am Robert Evans, the new host of the Behind the Bastards podcast where we tell you everything

You don't know about some of the worst people in history now in my prior career

I was an editor at crack.com and a journalist I reported from Iraq Ukraine the former Soviet Union Yugoslavia

And I talked all sorts of people who'd lived their whole lives under dictators and monsters of varying types and

One thing I found about these people is that in addition to being you know, just the worst

They're all way more interesting than I'd ever heard about in school

The worst people in history are also often the most fascinating for example said I'm who's saying you know

genocidal monster warlord

also a romance novelist who wrote the strangest book I've ever read and we're gonna talk about that in one of our first podcasts

Adolf Hitler, you know, obviously worst person in history

But also obsessed with a young adult fiction series that was basically the German equivalent of Harry Potter

And he in fact based his strategies in World War two off of these children's books that he was obsessed with his entire life

All of these terrible people have fascinating stories like that in their background a song been lot and

Obviously hated America something fierce

But he was also obsessed to a pretty significant extent in American pop culture

And he and his buddies in the mountains of Afghanistan would watch American action movies to pump themselves up for

Activities against the United States

There's all sorts of crazy details about all of these people and it's just endlessly fascinated me

And I think it's gonna be fascinating to you the collective internet as well

So we'll be talking about dictators warlords terrorists awful people like Carlos the jackal

And we'll also be talking you know about broader subjects like you know think about dictators

They all have these big families they groomed their kids to take over for them. What kind of parents are they?

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