I Don't Speak German

This episode sees the return of popular guest David Gerard - reluctant expert on crypto currency and author of Attack of the 50ft Blockchain and Libra Shrugged - to tell us about Bitcoin and the Nazis.  Content Warnings, as ever, but an especial TW this time for discussion of a suicide. Podcast Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent.  Patrons get exclusive ac...

In Part 2 of our investigation of Heather Heying's (of the extended IDW, and the Dark Horse Podcast with husband Bret Weinstein) descent from sociobiology into outright TERFery, we get to the really nasty shit. Content Warnings for venomous, hardcore transphobia, albeit couched in an ostensibly reasonable tone. Podcast Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. ...

In the first part of a two-part episode, we continue to chart the increasingly malignant influence of the IDW and satellites, examining the journey of Heather Heying (of the Dark Horse Podcast which she co-presents with her husband Bret Weinstein) from scientific reductionism all the way to (as she herself puts it) "full TERF". Content Warnings for Transphobia, Ableism, anti-Sex Worker stuff, etc....

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Another special episode this time, as we welcome to the show David Gerard, author of acclaimed takedown of cryptocurrency Attack of the 50ft Blockchain , and Elizabeth Sandifer, author of acclaimed takedown of neo-reaction Neoreaction a Basilisk , to discuss Scott Alexander (or is it Siskind?) and his blog Slate Star Codex, with digressions into Less Wrong, 'rationalism', and why David is responsi...

This week, special guest Goad Gatsby joins us from the streets of Twitter (you'll get it later) to tell us all about Virginia's biggest growing threat, so-called "Trump in heels", coup-supporting, GOP-suing, fash-associated, plexiglass-encased firebrand, State Senator (and gubernatorial hopeful) Amanda Chase, and her epic struggles against the tyrannical forces of Antifa, the Deep State, RINOs, Co...

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A special episode in which Daniel and Jack are joined by guest Shannon Foley Martinez.  A friendly chat with an insightful, humane, moving speaker. Owing to technical difficulties the sound quality is not quite up to our recent standard, so apologies for that.  But it's quite listenable. Content Warnings. Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent.  From Jan 2021 onward...

This week, we finally get to the conclusion of our coverage of Tom Metzger (Part 1 here ), which takes us on a journey through the early history of hate online. Content Warnings. * Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent.  From Jan 2021 onwards, patrons get exclusive access to one extra episode a month.  Our first bonus episode is on the 1971 Peter Watkins movie Puni...

This week, it's another of our occasional News Roundup episodes.  This time Jack takes the lead (and Daniel hits the whiskey) for a discussion about Jimmy Dore platforming a Boogaloo Boy.  Plus a couple of other stories, the painful return of an old segment, and a very special but silent guest appearance. Content Warnings. * Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent. ...

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Daniel and Jack respond to the Jan 6th 2021 attack/coup-attempt on the Capitol Building, Washington D.C. Content Warnings. * Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent.  From Jan 2021 onwards, patrons get exclusive access to one extra episode a month, plus other extra benefits. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: https://www.patr...

And so 2020 - notable mostly for being IDSG's second year - comes to an end.  This time, in a change to the advertised program, and with apologies for our absence throughout most of this last month, we return with another of our period movie discussion episodes, this time looking at D. W. Griffith's epic, lauded, infamous, three-hour, silent-era blockbuster of hate, prejudice, and bigotry, Birth o...

The first in a two part series on Tom Metzger (deceased), former Grand Dragon of the California Klan turned Neo-Nazi, pioneer of using cable-TV for propaganda and hate music to recruit young people.  Content Warnings. This episode is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Mulugeta Seraw. Notes/Links: Louis Meets the Nazis (at BBC iPlayer): https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02q8d5v/louis-ther...

Part 2 of our look at the National Justice Party's 25 Point Program, with special attention paid to ecofascist rhetoric.  Content Warnings. Links / Notes: Part 1 pf this discussion: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/73-the-njp-program-part-1 National Justice Party: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/ National Justice Party Platform: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/platform/ Mike Enoch/Peinovich "...

In this episode, the first of a two-parter, Daniel tells Jack all about the new 25 Point Program of the National Justice Party, the latest venture from Mike Enoch and the Right Stuff rabble, and their hope of peeling away support from disaffected leftists using 'Third Position' rhetoric.  Daniel starts going through the program point-by-point, analysing its hypocrisies and contradictions.  The 'le...

This time, after a brief obligatory discussion of current events, Daniel and Jack take one of their periodic detours into film discussion to talk about David Fincher's 2010 movie The Social Network about Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook, and thus of so many of our current problems (not that the film gets that). Links/Notes: Our old podcast about Zodiac , at Jack's Patreon: https://www....

Recorded 8/9 Nov 2020.  What the hell do you *think* we're talking about? Content Warning North Carolina Gerrymandering article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/us/north-carolina-congressional-districts.html IDSG makes it to the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/fbi-arrests-the-base-michigan.html  

In this episode, after a little roundup of podcast recs, Daniel (finally) tells Jack all about the latest venture by Mike Enoch and the TRS: the National Justice Party.  We listen in on their founding meeting in a barn and learn the *other* problem with the GOP according to Enoch's audience.  Then we check in on Richard Spencer to see what he thinks about it all.  Finally, Daniel gives Jack a shor...

This episode, we are joined by special guest Talia Lavin to talk about her excellent new book Culture Warlords. Content Warning. Talia's Twitter: @chick_in_kiev Culture Warlords: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/talia-lavin/culture-warlords/9780306846434/

Christopher Cantwell, the 'Crying Nazi', was recently tried and convicted in a federal court in New Hampshire.  As our regular listeners will know, we've been following Cantwell's fortunes for some time.  In this episode, Daniel and Jack are joined by special guest, journalist and Cantwell expert Hilary Sargent, to talk about the trial, and the long, winding, bizarre, horrifying story of how we go...

An unplanned, emergency mini-sequel to our discussion of Tim Pool just a couple of days ago.  Reality, displaying its customary poor timing, waited until just after we dropped our Tim Pool episode to reveal the story of the Wolverine Watchmen, a group of militia types arrested for planning the abduction and 'trial' (i.e. murder, presumably) of Michigan Governer Gretchen Whitmer.  At least one of t...

This time, Jack and Daniel delve into the cesspool that is the barking, beanie-wearing, bollocks-talker Tim Pool.  Prepare for a small avalanche of weapons grade stupid from YouTube's favourite reactionary propagandist pretending to be a centrist or something. Content Warning. Links / Notes: CV Vitolo "Haddad": Another Academic Racial Fraud? https://medium.com/@polite_keppel_dinosaur_57/cv-vitolo-...

This time, Daniel welcomes special guest Rebecca Lewis to the show.  Rebecca is the author of the Data & Society report 'Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube' about which Eric Weinstein was such an asshole (our word, not Rebecca's). Content Warnings as ever. The report: https://datasociety.net/library/alternative-influence/ Rebecca's Twitter: https://twitter.com/bec...

This week, Daniel is joined by a special guest Ed Burmila who blogs at Gin and Tacos and hosts the Mass for Shut-Ins podcast.  A free-form chat about the way things are and the way they're going.  Fun despite the depressing subject matter. Content Warnings, as ever. Ed's Twitter: @edburmila Gin and Tacos blog: http://www.ginandtacos.com/ Mass for Shut-Ins: https://massforshutins.libsyn.com/