Robert is endlessly entertaining, and with all the ugliness in our country it is somehow reassuring to know that we as humans have always been this cruel and terrible. I love the depth of Robert’s knowledge and his sense of humor, without which these stories would be hopelessly bleak. My only criticism is poor Sophie who doesn’t have much to add beyond frequent exclamations of, “Jesus Christ”. She’s a great producer and I wish she would stick to that. Overall, one of my favorite podcasts!

I really enjoy this show, but it is very, VERY annoying to constantly have a show (It Could Happen Here) on my feed that I do not subscribe are listen to. Quite an odd choice

Thanks Robert. And Sophie. 💜

For the love of god. It’s KEY-lay-shun.

I very much love this show. I’ve gotta show Sophie some love here. She is very witty and funny. But Robert just talks over her, so that her wit is lost as she is stomped on verbally.

Can you redo all the racist ones without prop? He’s too lound, talks way way way too much and for too long about absolutely nothing. It’s cringey and I skip all his episodes.

This podcast would be great content if the hosts weren’t constantly laughing about joking the people dying and getting raped. It’s disgusting to hear hosts joke about prison rape of Palestinians because it ruins some kind of prison escape fantasy. It’s honestly embarrassing and makes the show unlistenable.

Host can’t pronounce Nevada to save his life but pretty informative and entertaining otherwise.

Love it overall, but Sophie’s interjections interrupt the flow of the conversation and are just not a great fit for the rest of the show. Her comments just don’t add anything. Not trying to be mean, she seems like a nice person. It’s too bad though since they’re all friends I think they’ll never say anything to her about it but it honestly made me stop listening to the show

Please don’t invite back guests who trash NPR.

Stay for the dying squirrel

This podcast covers very tough subjects and dark depressing topics of historical past. The host and guests go off on organically funny, and lots of times needed, tangents. Which I find really helps give you a mental palate cleanse from usually awful subject matter. I’ve been listening to this show since day one. I also have to say, if you are offended by the political views of this host, they are not the problem. You are.

I laugh out loud with this podcast all the time. I love the topics they choose, they’re all fascinating in their own weird way. I love Robert as a host and it’s clear that they do extensive research for each episode. The negative reviews are a result of people who can’t handle hearing the truth.

I really enjoy listening to smart, funny people roast corrupt, evil humans.I learn a lot of history listening to this podcast as well.

I really wanted to like this, and appreciate the thorough research the host provides, but my God they are terrible at storytelling. I don’t have ADHD, but I am guessing this is what it’s like. A wall of tangents and non-sequiturs. Exploration of pointless minutia that lends nothing to the story. Take some of that ad money and hire an editor.

Exceptional, informative podcast. I don’t know how scripted it is, but the guests have such quick wit and their observations are always on point and so hilarious. The way Robert jives with every guest is awesome. Andrew Ti, Bridgett Todd, Miles Gray, and Ed Helms are my favorite guests. Sophie comes in with the funniest quips, too.

I am enjoying the podcast. But scrolling through the back catalog, I don’t see Lyndon LaRouche. He was a scary b**t*rd of the late 20th century. He’s long overdue for consideration. Please do him!

Informative and detailed but the hosts get off topic and rant way too much. They also don’t hide their political ideologies at all. Far left extremism and they like to bash anyone with opposing beliefs. Not a great podcast overall.

Episode on Robert Maxwell interesting but after listening to few other episodes, now am questioning accuracy as this pcast is definitely defending anti-Amer values and ethics, even they defend pharma corruptions.

There’s one episode in this podcast where the host is advocating his defense of ANTIFA and ANTIFA’s violence. Seriously not even lying

But keep in mind that Robert Evans has worked for the Feds before and he is an American Anarchist, so take everything he says with so many grains of salt. Dude uncritically referenced the black book of communism in one of his episodes.

it’s informative i listened with my dad in the car

Hosts are far too annoying to glean anything useful from this. I barely lasted 5 minutes.

Nothing better than a little Robert and Sophie and guest ruining my day or week by listening to some episodes. Anderson is the only happy part. 10/10 recommend.

She ruins lots of Robert’s jokes and is genuinely hard to listen to. Please get her to stop. She is the absolute worst and most unfunny person ever

Great podcast with interesting subject matter, well-researched episodes, and an engaging tone, right? The only problem is that I noticed how often Robert Evans ends his statements with “right?”, right? And now that I have, I can’t unnotice it, right? I recently counted RE ending his sentence with “right?” 787 times (approximately) in one hour, right? The other hosts do it, too, right? Anyway, I have a handful of diagnoses that explain how I’ve latched onto this phenomenon, right? Cool podcast, but jesus…right?

Just finished listening to the episodes about David Berg. I am one of the many children who were born and raised in the Children of God cult The damage done to us kids is beyond unfathomable! Unfortunately those of us who survived will have to live with the fact that none of the adults and leaders who propagated and allowed this abuse will ever be brought to justice. (And Zerby is still alive somewhere)

A deep, unyielding love of posse comitatus. 🤠

Overall I love this podcast, the discussions are thoughtful and I appreciate the journalistic integrity of Judge Evans. Thank you Robert and Sophie for doing the lords work. NC sends its love. -BL

Solid idea and they are offering good info about the folks shaping the world out there. I listened to the four part episode about Oprah. If listening to endless banter is your thing, you will enjoy this, but for those who enjoy the results of media that is filtered through an excellent and ruthless editor, you might find yourself like me constantly hitting the fast forward button past the chitchat to get to their next point already. Some good info and yes funny at times but I find myself a little impatient with the endless banter in between the facts.

Who knew history could be so hilarious and cringe. Also, Robert, marry me?

My favorite podcast, haven’t missed an episode in three years and I can’t wait for more! Love you guys, thanks for doing what you do. Also Robert can you stop sending me and my children instructions on how to build a pipe bomb please :/

And always end up unfollowing. Definitely some good information but delivered in a way to render it inaudible. Is this what the younger revolutionaries sound like? Y’all think snarky remarks and complaints are going to do it? These people don’t realize they are essentially arguing for better slavery conditions. Real people are fighting to be set free from slavery. Not for better slave masters. Anarchy doesn’t mean no rules, it means no leaders aka slave masters.

I won’t stand for Sophie slander. She’s great and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to dive deeper into the catalog. She makes the show.

I have never heard someone say the word “right” so much, right?

The opinion of the most knowledgeable professionals with direct experience with children and families is that autism is most likely triggered when infants with a genetic predisposition to autism are born into a household where parents suffering trauma that does not allow them to give the infant what they need to develop emotionally.

This is not relaxing. ADHD non stop loud chatter and nervous laughing. Stressed me out tbh, lasted 25 minutes.

Robert ditches the America slant, in favor of a world perspective based in his travels and deep-dive fair-weighted research. If you wanna understand why most people are struggling, this podcast delivers with wild dark yet considerate and reflective humor.

Favorite cast. Listened to every episode. Love the whole gang

If you like a friends chatting type of podcast this is for you, if you want informed analysis not so much. This is one of those shows where one person reads a script about a topic they researched and the other person reacts to it. Sometimes that reaction is a thoughtful response sometimes it’s just jokes, a lot of the time it’s two people who don’t know what they’re talking about and they don’t take the time to look it up or edit out the incorrect things they said.

Exceptional research.

Listening to the episode of Beau Brummell and the guest Princess Weekes repeatedly makes the most ignorant comments and adds nothing to the conversation. Why are these guests even there?

i really enjoy the show but wish that Sophie would stay off mic. I’m sure she’s a great person but she really detracts and distracts from the show. I don’t want to pile on the sophie hate but i’m just giving my opinion for the sake off the show.

Love the concept of this; The execution isn’t great. Listening to this podcast is like sitting by the overly enthusiastic group of philosophy majors at a community college cafeteria.

I don’t often review podcasts but as a longtime btb fan I was surprised by some of the negativity in the reviews. BTB is not an overly academic history podcast, it is a twice weekly entertaining show giving quick overviews of complex often overlooked topics from history and it never claims to be more than that. They do good work, if you find a topic they don’t cover as thoroughly as you would have liked go learn more about it, that’s the point. Also to the bootlickers on here, hate to break it to you but reality and critical thinking has a left slant, got out of your echo chamber and trust your own eyes and ears.

Informative, entertaining, and just plain good.

The hosts perpetuate the awful they purport to expose through their hateful vitriol and quick judgments. It’s obvious they consider themselves above the rest and perfect. They perpetuate a hateful and awful place degrading the world of podcasting.

On the same spectrum of msnbc/corporate propagandists. Not the most recent iteration or creative example of the propagandists that seek to divide and deceive, who are themselves divided and deceived. If you are looking for an example of quality work, non politicized research, for example, check out In the Shadows of Utopia by Lachlan Peters.

I found this a few weeks ago and started from the beginning, listening on my commute. Well researched, humorous when needed, and now I’m eating all the Spicy Nacho Doritos.

You guys are doing great work! It’s amazing how little is widely known about historical figures and how few resources there are for people to actually learn. It’s functionally illegal to teach kids this stuff in most schools. I don’t agree with Robert’s takes on everything but I’m also an adult who can form my own opinions (looking at you right-wing one-star review trolls). Evans is a better journalist/researcher than most not because he’s unbiased, but because he has the crucial combination of being upfront about his opinions and backing them up with comprehensive research. These reviews are so mean to Sophie. She’s an excellent producer! Sophie: Ignore the haters and pet your dog if you feel bad. Dogs will get us through it all.