Behind the Bastards
Everything you don't know about History's greatest monsters
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts · iHeartPodcasts
Show overview
Behind the Bastards has been publishing since 2018, and across the 8 years since has built a catalogue of 1,146 episodes, alongside 61 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to over 1800 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence, with the show now in its 2nd season.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h 1m and 1h 51m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. Roughly 46% of episodes carry an explicit flag from the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Society & Culture show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 77 episodes already out so far this year. Published by iHeartPodcasts.
From the publisher
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.