#Robert evans podcaster series#

It’s not easy to find guests who can do that. The guest has to have chemistry with Robert, know when to interject with some comedic relief, when to ask clarifying questions as the audience stand-in, when to share genuine emotional reactions, and when to just shut up and let Robert talk. The other challenge with this format is the burden it places on the guest. I’m here for the expensive, well-researched potshots. Now, I am definitely not above taking cheap pot shots, especially at the alt-right, but for me, there’s a difference between talking shit to blow off steam and talking shit for other people’s entertainment. And, I don’t know, when I’m listening to this podcast, I am not here for cheap potshots.

On one hand, I think it’s really clever, these sort of breaks from format to ease the load, but I’m not really a huge fan because they’re mostly a chance to take cheap potshots at the alt-right. They do episodes where Robert and his friends watch Jordan Peterson’s new show and react to it, or they’ll flip through a weird alt-right book and react to random pages. So they’ve developed other ways to reduce the pre-production workload. The team has ways to spread out the workload, like recording a number of episodes in advance, but given that they don’t really take any breaks except for around the end of the year, they don’t have a lot of time to build up that buffer, and it gets eaten through very quickly. I release this podcast every other week and all I have to do is share vaguely coherent opinions!

I wish I had even a quarter of his energy and ability to get things done. And they’re releasing two episodes a week. This clearly requires an enormous amount of research and writing.

#Robert evans podcaster series#

His four part series on Nicolae Ceausescu spends an hour summarizing Romanian history from Vlad the Impaler through World War II before getting into Ceausescu’s story. While Drunk History tells short, quippy stories, Robert provides deep and comprehensive profiles. Of course, there’s a reason not many podcasts use this format. Robert: Look at that guy, look at the way he wears boots. Prop: Know what I’m saying? We over here inventing jazz, you talking about Mussolini kinda fly, like, dang man. Robert: ‘Cause they’re getting real into Mussolini. Prop: Okay, that’s CRAZY! We’re inventing JAZZ. Robert: Yeah! That’s what’s happening with white people at the time. Prop: My lord, like, there was Mussolini stans! The guests act as an audience stand in while also providing some comic relief. Ron Hubbard Made an Antichrist Using Sex Magic,” “Bill Cooper: The Man Who Killed Truth,” and “The Con Artist Who Invented a Country.” That role reversal lets the podcast be a kind of comedic documentary, like Drunk History, but with a sense of humor very much shaped by.

Instead of inviting experts on to share information, Robert is the expert sharing information with his guests. Forbes calls them a “progressive podcast network,” It’s the flagship program of their network, Cool Zone Media. The show is hosted by Robert Evans and produced by Sophie Lichterman. But unlike the History Channel, Behind the Bastards doesn’t tell these stories just for edu-tainment. Not exactly soothing, and the topics get very, very dark. If you have ever listened to another podcast, no you have not, that’s schizophrenia. Robert: Oh yeah, oooh god DAMN, it’s Behind the Bastards, the only podcast on the internet. Which is kind of weird, considering it sounds like a History Channel series hosted by a shock jock. You can still drink the tea. )īehind the Bastards is another podcast where I’ve listened to pretty much the entire catalog multiple times over as a pandemic coping mechanism. (Don’t worry they aren’t owned by a racist cult anymore. A podcast that tells the wild and often little known stories about the worst humans in all of history – I’m talking everything from Hitler’s drug problem (multiple drug problems) to Saddam Hussein’s erotic novels to the racist cult origins of the Celestial Seasonings tea brand.