Weird Little Guys

Weird Little Guys is a weekly show about the worst people you’ve never heard of, taking you beyond the headlines to get to know the race warriors and aspiring terrorists trying to unravel the fabric of our society. Weaving together the origin stories of modern American white supremacist groups and the crimes that land their members in court, independent journalist Molly Conger exposes the monsters for what they really are - some weird guy. Whether they’re conspiring to build bombs or serving swastika shaped cookies at a dinner party, the weird little guys trying to destroy America are a little less scary with their masks off. 

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  1. 14h ago

    Sons of Mississippi: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt. 2

    Byron de la Beckwith and Medgar Evers never met. Evers didn’t even see the man who killed him. But the man and his killer grew up a hundred miles apart, fought in the same war, worked similar jobs, and were both deeply invested in the outcome over the fight for integration. Sources & Further Reading: Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press. Mendelsohn, Jack. (1966) The martyrs : sixteen who gave their lives for racial justice. Harper & Row  Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown & Company. Rolph, Stephanie (2018). Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989. Louisiana State University Press Williams, Michael Vinson (2011). Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr. The University of Arkansas Press Evers, Charles and Andrew Szanton (1997). Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story. John Wiley & Sons Inc Tisale, John (1996). Medgar Evers (1925-1963) and the Mississippi Press. Doctoral Dissertation, University of North Texas Sheridan, Louis (2021) "Patriotism Betrayed: How the U.S. Military Resegregated From 1913-1939," Historical Perspectives: Santa Clara University Undergraduate Journal of History, Series II : Vol. 26, Article 11. Donaldson, Le'Trice, "A Legacy All Their Own: African American Soldiers Fight for Citizenship, Race, andManhood, 1870-1920" (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1167.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/1167 Hartgrove, W. B. “The Negro Soldier in the American Revolution.” The Journal of Negro History, vol. 1, no. 2, 1916, pp. 110–31. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3035634.  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/07/06/where-is-the-voice-coming-from https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/welty/welty-manuscripts/weltys08 https://press.bobmizer.org/releases/instant-gratification https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/20/books/my-uncle-the-bigot.html https://www.history.com/articles/battle-of-tarawa https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/Tarawa/InvasionCasualties https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/marine-killed-battle-tarawa-laid-rest-80-years-later https://www.oyez.org/about-audio  https://www.army.mil/article/97705/black_soldiers_in_the_revolutionary_war https://diaryofahistorian.com/2013/03/05/for-evers-his-is-a-story-that-must-be-told-and-retold-too-few-young-people-know-his-story-and-that-is-a-tragedy-greater-than-his-untimely-death/ https://rediscovering-black-history.blogs.archives.gov/2021/11/10/african-american-seamen-of-the-antebellum-era/ https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/CombatMultipliers.pdf See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  2. Jul 9

    CZM Rewind: The Roommates & In Minecraft

    It's a Weird Little Guys classic episode - the story of the Atomwaffen member who murdered two other Atomwaffen members. Stay tuned until the end for some updates to the story.Sources & Further Reading:https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67075979/united-states-v-clendaniel/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71119306/united-states-v-brandon-russell/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/white-power-newsletter-neo-nazi-accelerationism-behind-bars/ https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/13/fbi-surveillance-terrorist-attack-00141200 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-did-a-convicted-neo-nazi-release-propaganda-from-prison-628437/The RoommatesIn 2017, police investigating a double homicide found more than just bodies in a Tampa condo. The founder of a neonazi group was making bombs in the garage. Original Air Date: 8.7.25Sources:https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-threat-is-the-network-the-multi-node-structure-of-neo-fascist-accelerationism/ https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/visions-chaos-weighing-violent-legacy-iron-march/ https://ironmarch.noblogs.org/post/2019/11/15/meet-lauren-paul-mit-alumni-and-neo-nazi-atomwaffen-division-propagandist/ https://www.bu.edu/articles/2016/police-release-video-of-suspect-in-hate-poster-distribution/ https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/12/19/transnational-white-terror-exposing-atomwaffen-and-the-iron-march-networks/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/all-american-nazis-628023/ In Minecraft After Devon Arthurs murdered his roommates, he claimed he'd only done it to prevent the loss of innocent lives. The man he said was planning a terrorist attack was arrested with a car full of guns, but not charged with any of the things Arthurs claimed their nazi terror cell had been working on. Original Air Date: 8.14.25Sources:https://www.propublica.org/article/an-atomwaffen-member-sketched-a-map-to-take-the-neo-nazis-down-what-path-officials-took-is-a-mystery https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/three-murder-suspects-linked-to-atomwaffen-where-their-cases-stand/ https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/crime/article156282099.html https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nicholas-giampa-neo-nazi-teenager-murder-girlfriends-parents-virginia_n_5a4d0797e4b0b0e5a7aa4780 https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-4 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/documenting-hate-new-american-nazis/transcript/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjEBXDfuBDE&ab_channel=COURTTV See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  3. Jun 18

    Flagged for Removal

    Last week, a federal judge ordered the Department of the Interior to stop implementation of a Trump executive order that would whitewash history at National Park sites. A leaked database shows the materials that parks employees had flagged for removal. They want to 'make America great' by erasing its past.Sources & Further Reading:https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/ https://www.doi.gov/document-library/secretary-order/so-3431-restoring-truth-and-sanity-american-history https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72285106/national-parks-conservation-association-v-department-of-the-interior/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72178941/city-of-philadelphia-v-burgum/ https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/save-our-signs/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ulzIcpjpyTKLa52DClUkUlcazJPdAryK0B0oKmA9TF8/ https://mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/medgar-evers-killer-trump-says-stop-calling-him-racist/https://mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/visitor-brochures-returned-medgar-evers-home/ https://mississippitoday.org/2026/02/12/medgar-evers-home-omissions-to-story/ https://mississippitoday.org/2025/03/17/wwii-vet-medgar-evers-erased-from-arlington-cemetery-website/ https://www.mississippifreepress.org/brochures-calling-medgar-evers-killer-racist-still-available-at-evers-home/ https://www.nhpr.org/2013-08-12/van-evers-honors-his-father-in-his-own-way https://abcnews.com/Politics/hegseth-announces-usns-harvey-milk-renamed-usns-oscar/story?id=123266490 https://www.mpbonline.org/blogs/news/medgar-evers-family-fights-efforts-to-strip-his-name-from-navy-vessel/ https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2026/02/national-park-service-plans-censor-brochures-murder-civil-rights-leader https://npshistory.com/publications/memy/brochures/2021.pdf https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/16/philadelphia-trump-judge-slavery-history/ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/us/politics/judge-national-parks-trump.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  4. Jun 4

    Outside Agitators

    In 1967, segregationist lawyer Jack Kershaw swore out a warrant against George Ware, an organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. By the end of the week, a congressman was denouncing Ware on the house floor as an outside agitator. But what is an outside agitator? What do we mean when we blame unrest on these untrustworthy outsiders? Where does that idea come from? And is it even true?Sources & Further Reading:https://belonging.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/ARCHIVE/kerner_commission_full_report.pdf https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html https://www.crmvet.org/docs/sv/670400_sncc_nyc-newsletter.pdf https://www.christcathedral.org/phase-to-history/st-anselms-liberation-school-and-the-long-hot-summer-of-1967/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/274/538/1574803/ https://www.phillytrib.com/obituaries/george-w-ware-jr-72-educator/article_0e1a1218-3c2b-51fa-b960-61094a1f6d98.html https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/GSB/id/10262/ https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal67-1311343 https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/05/archives/us-aides-in-visit-to-negro-school-view-a-drama-at-institution-cited.html https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/12/archives/nashville-panel-suspends-school-liberation-classroom-also-ousted.html https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/09/archives/official-changes-testimony-on-antiwhite-school.html https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/30/archives/sedition-charges-dropped.html https://www.wsmv.com/2025/02/25/former-nashville-assistant-police-chief-dies-while-custody-wifes-death/ https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/wife-former-mnpd-assistant-police-chief-found-shot-to-death-rutherford-county/ https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-07-12/race-troubles-109-us-cities-faced-violence-in-1967 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2020/07/27/a-brief-history-of-dangerous-others/ https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/11/12/audio/defining-safe-defining-the-outside-agitator/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Weird Little Guys is a weekly show about the worst people you’ve never heard of, taking you beyond the headlines to get to know the race warriors and aspiring terrorists trying to unravel the fabric of our society. Weaving together the origin stories of modern American white supremacist groups and the crimes that land their members in court, independent journalist Molly Conger exposes the monsters for what they really are - some weird guy. Whether they’re conspiring to build bombs or serving swastika shaped cookies at a dinner party, the weird little guys trying to destroy America are a little less scary with their masks off. 

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