I Don't Speak German

We here at IDSG have lots of great stuff in the pipeline... but the pipeline is taking a little longer to construct than we'd like.  So here is a bonus episode - originally published in June last year and previously available only to Patreon backers - featuring us in conversation with our old friend, podcasting legend James Murphy, about Grant Naylor's novel Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Dr...

Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes.  At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. This time we talk about Slaughterhouse Five , Kurt Vonnegut's classic satire of war and American civilisation (but I repeat myself), and the disappointing movie version. Slaughterhouse-Five...

So, Daniel and Jack recorded a bonus episode on 1998's Primary Colors (the Mike Nichols movie, written by Elaine May, starring John Travolta and Emma Thompson, based on the originally Anonymous roman-à-clef about the 1992 Bill Clinton primary campaign) for their Patreon contributors... and, as the discussion ranged widely, it somehow turned into something they wanted to release on the main feed. C...

This time Daniel and Jack welcome special guest José, brilliant YouTube essayist, for a chat about Elijah Schaffer and José's recent video about him and the US Christian Right.  We also sorely try the good man's patience with much frivolity and digression.  Things get giggly when we start talking about Glen Beck's novels.  A thoroughly good time, this one... before we begin our descent back into h...

We haven't given you, our non-paying listeners, a bonus episode since Christmas, so have a summer present.  It's our bonus episode - originally for Patreon backers only - on 2004's Downfall , the acclaimed German movie (good thing there are subtitles because... y'know) about the last days of Hitler and his assorted hangers-on in the bunker as the Red Army grind their way into Berlin.  Spoiler: he...

This time, Daniel and Jack talk about Uvalde, Buffalo, the cops, guns, and the discourse. This episode is respectfully dedicated to the victims of these crimes and their families. Content Extremely Warnings Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only bac...

Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes.  At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. This time we talk about The Fugitive (1993). The Fugitive (1993 film) - Wikipedia Daniel's Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/user...

In a depressing but necessary News Roundup episode, we cover the recent apparent career problems of Elijah Schaffer, the weird implosion of Nick Fuentes' America First Foundation, and... and here comes the depressing part... the recent nazi massacre in Buffalo, New York. This episode is respectfully dedicated to the victims of this crime. Content Extremely Warnings Show Notes: Please consider dona...

Jack continues to tell an increasingly (and understandably) resentful Daniel all about insidious YouTube 'comedian' and political commentator Jimmy Dore, detailing his 'leftist' or 'progressive' version of reactionary politics via accounts of his slimy transphobic coverage of the Lia Thomas story (leading to a bizarre open challenge to all trans man basketball players), his frothingly misogynistic...

So there's this jagoff comedian making videos in his garage… I mean, this millionaire Hollywood guy running his own media venture, employing writers and producers… who is persecuted… I mean, criticised… for bravely standing up to the establishment and the corporations and American imperialism… I mean, for being a reactionary, and platforming fascists, and doing interviews on fascist TV with Americ...

Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes.  At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. This time we talk about the Coen Bros.  No Country for Old Men (2007). No Country for Old Men Daniel's Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon:  https://www.patr...

This time we are honoured and delighted to welcome special guest Kelly Weill of The Daily Beast (etc) to talk to us about her new (and excellent) book Off The Edge , a history of Flat Earth, the current state of the Flat Earth movement, and our cultish and conspiratorial times generally.  A fun and thoughtful - and sometimes melancholic - discussion. Off The Edge links Off the Edge - Workman Publi...

Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. This time we talk about the Coen Bros. Fargo (1996) . Fargo Daniel's Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Please consider donating to help us make the show and sta...

In rank defiance of all the various conflicting things we've told you Episode 105 would be about, here is an episode about 2015's (and sadly also 2022's) Lauren Southern (lying, untruth-telling nazi liar-nazi) and the mainstreaming and normalising thereof.  In this episode we consider Lauren's career (in brief, owing to the fact that chronicling her trail of lies and evil acts has become something...

This time, we look at the recent AFPAC conference, Nick Fuentes' gathering of the Groypers, i.e. the even worse version of CPAC, attended by Marjorie Taylor Greene and Joe Arpaio, among many horrible others.  Controversies, squabbles, coalition-building, Christian dominionism, and very long, weird speeches.  Daniel and Jack both do voices. Podcast Notes: Please consider donating to help us make th...

Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. This time we talk about Maus by Art Spiegelman. Maus Our episode about Maus and the McMinn County School Board Auschwitz in Contemporary Popular Literature by Dr Wanda Witek-Malicka Of Mice and Memory by Joshua Brown Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patre...

So, McMinn County School Board in Tennessee decided to remove Maus - Art Spiegelman's classic graphic novel about the Nazi Holocaust and historical memory - from their syllabus, on the grounds that some simply sketched mouse nudity and a few very mild swears would upset and corrupt their pupils, which is obviously very reasonable and evidence of extremely well balanced priorities.  Actually, along...

In the second part of our Rittenhouse coverage, we start with a look at Kyle's reception as a rock star messiah at Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA and follow the thread where it leads, from more on Elijah Shaffer to Tucker Carlson and his 'Trial of Kyle' to Mike Enoch and the National Justice Party via "a twentieth century philosopher".  In the process, we consider the currency of the concept of...

Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. To start 2022, we chat about Curtis Hanson's 1997 period thriller L.A. Confidential , starring Kim Basinger, James Cromwell, David Strathairn, fetus Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, pre-exposure Kevin Spacey, and Danny DeVito, and based on the James Ellroy n...

And so we kick off 2022, IDSG's fourth year, with an episode about the Denver shooter and self-published SF novelist (who put himself and his own murder plans in his own books) Lyndon McCleod, AKA Roman McClay, and his relationship to the infamous 'Manosphere', AKA a network of misogynistic and 'masculinist' fashy chudlingers like Jack Murphy, Jack Davenport, etc.  We follow up a bit on our last e...

Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes. To see off 2021, we chat about David Fincher's 1995 serial killer movie Seven , starring Brad Pitt and several cancelled people. Content warnings, spoilers from the word go. Seven (1995 film) - Wikipedia Daniel's Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/danie...

For Christmas, here's a little gift for our treasured listeners, a bonus episode - originally available only to our patrons - on Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009).   Beware content / spoilers    

IDSG episodes are like the proverbial bus that keeps you waiting and waiting and waiting and then turns up in multiples.  And it's definitely nothing to do with Jack having irregular jags of being in the mood to edit or anything.  Anyway, here's your latest. For this, our combined hundredth / Christmas episode, Daniel has prepared a bevvy of clips of Kyle Rittenhouse, the Kenosha Killer Kid, pre a...

Let all persons having any manner of business before this venerable podcast gather ye forth and giveth your attention!  Closing in on the end of 2021 and their hundredth episode, Daniel and Jack talk about the Sines vs. Kessler trial (the civil trial of the Unite the Right organisers etc), the way in which the far-right (including the defendants) have conceptualised it, the long-awaited aftermath...

It's been a while since we released an episode so, to tide you over, here's a bonus show, previously for patrons only.  It's on the subject of the satirical mockumentary Bob Roberts (1992), written, directed by, and starring Tim Robbins (with Alan Rickman, Ray Wise, Giancarlo Esposito, Harry Lennix, Lynne Thigpen, Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Fred Ward, Bob Balaban, John Cusack, Gore Vidal, and J...