Robert continues the story with young Pol Pot's years in France where he and his friends radicalize themselves in what has to have been the deadliest book club of all time.

Robert continues the story with young Pol Pot's years in France where he and his friends radicalize themselves in what has to have been the deadliest book club of all time.

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.

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: The Pol Pot Episodes: How A Nice, Quiet Kid Murdered His Country

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Happy New Year, Robert and Sophie sit down and answer listener questions.

Happy New Year, Robert and Sophie sit down and answer listener questions.

Part One: Behind the Bastards Q&A: 2026 Edition

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Robert is joined again by James Stout to continue to discuss the Tobacco Industry.

Robert is joined again by James Stout to continue to discuss the Tobacco Industry.

CZM Rewind: Part Two: How Cigarettes Invented Everything

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Robert is joined by James Stout to discuss the Tobacco Industry.

(2 part series)
https://daily.jstor.org/a-brief-history-of-tobacco-in-america/
https://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/james-buchananduke-father-of-the-modern-cigarette-by-william-kremer/comment-page-1/
  https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/eaa/tobacco.html
https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/eaa/duke-doc.html
https://sites.middlebury.edu/smokingkills/forms-of-tobacco-advertisement/ https://csts.ua.edu/files/2016/09/A-History-of-Tobacco-Trading
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5402187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490543/?report=classic#bib3 https://www.jstor.org/stable/40469740
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470496/?report=classic
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Cigarette/JX6mDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
http://www.cigarettecentury.com/

CZM Rewind: Part One: How Cigarettes Invented Everything

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Part Two: The Pol Pot Episodes: How A Nice, Quiet Kid Murdered His Country

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