How Many Ads Are in Behind the Bastards? We've Cleaned 311 Episodes
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We’ve cleaned 311 episodes of Behind the Bastards through ZeroAds. The ad numbers on this page are recent by design: they come from the 8 episodes processed between July 16 and August 5, 2026, and they’ll firm up as new episodes arrive.
Behind the Bastards is Robert Evans’ history show about the worst people who ever lived, from iHeart’s Cool Zone Media. When someone adds it to ZeroAds, our pipeline cuts the ad segments out of each episode’s audio and logs every cut with timestamps. This page is that log, added up. Snapshot: episodes processed July 16 to August 5, 2026.
What we measured
Section titled “What we measured”| Behind the Bastards | |
|---|---|
| Episodes measured | 8 |
| Episodes cleaned all time | 311 |
| Median ad time per episode | 12.7 minutes |
| Median ad share of runtime | 15.2% |
| Typical episode length | about 126 minutes |
Episodes run long, about two hours on average, and the median measured episode gave 12.7 minutes of that to ads.
How Behind the Bastards compares to other podcasts
Section titled “How Behind the Bastards compares to other podcasts”Across every show we measured this window, the median episode is 9.8% ads, about 4 minutes. Behind the Bastards comes in well above that mark, with about three times the typical ad minutes in its median measured episode. The full distribution and the heaviest shows we measure are in our August 2026 podcast ad study.
About the show itself: ads are how Behind the Bastards gets made, and this page is a measurement, not a complaint. We’re building revenue sharing so the shows our subscribers listen to most will get paid from subscription money.
How to listen to Behind the Bastards without the ads
Section titled “How to listen to Behind the Bastards without the ads”ZeroAds serves Behind the Bastards back to you as a clean private feed. You keep the app you already use: the feed works in any podcast app that accepts a custom RSS URL, which is most of them. (Spotify and Amazon Music don’t accept custom feeds.)
- Sign up at zeroads.ai. Your first 5 episodes are free, so you can hear a cleaned episode of Behind the Bastards before paying anything.
- Add Behind the Bastards and play your free episodes in the ZeroAds app.
- Subscribe to get your personal ad-free RSS URL and add it to your podcast app.
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Questions
Section titled “Questions”How many ads does Behind the Bastards have? In our measurements (8 episodes processed July 16 to August 5, 2026), the median episode of Behind the Bastards carried 12.7 minutes of ads, 15.2% of its runtime.
How do I listen to Behind the Bastards without ads? ZeroAds cuts the ads out of each episode and serves Behind the Bastards as a clean private RSS feed for the app you already use, any app that accepts a custom RSS URL. Spotify and Amazon Music don’t take custom feeds. The first 5 episodes are free.
Will my episodes have the same ads you measured? Probably not exactly. Most podcast ads are inserted at download time, so your copy of an episode can carry different ads than the copy we processed. The pattern holds; the exact minutes vary.
Are these numbers exact? Close, not exact, and early. We test the detector against hand-labeled episodes: it catches about 97-98% of labeled ad time, and about 85% of every second it cuts lands on labeled ad time. With 8 episodes measured in this window, expect these figures to move more than on our larger-sample pages.
Measured from the 8 episodes of Behind the Bastards processed through ZeroAds from July 16 to August 5, 2026. Ads are inserted dynamically, so your copies may differ. Full methodology in the study.