Don Simpson rises to the top of Hollywood by co-opting gay culture and doing every drug imaginable. But then things take a turn on the set of a doomed Tom Cruise movie.

<p>Don Simpson rises to the top of Hollywood by co-opting gay culture and doing every drug imaginable. But then things take a turn on the set of a doomed Tom Cruise movie.</p>

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.

Everything you don't know about History's greatest monsters

Behind the Bastards

Part Two: Don Simpson: The Producer of Top Gun Also Ruined Hollywood

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