Weird Little Guys

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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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  1. 4h ago

    Salisbury Steak, A Civil War Diarrhea Cure: Carnivore Diet Guys, Pt 1

    There are a lot of made up reasons for eating an all-meat diet. Steak won't cure your cancer and it probably wasn't that effective at preventing death from diarrhea during the Civil War. As we enter the season of gluttony, let's take a brief tour of the history of guys who think you should be eating WAY more meat.Sources & Further Reading:Salisbury, James (1888). The Relation of Alimentation and Disease. JH Vail & Company, New York.McLaughlin, Terence (1978). A Diet of Tripe: The Chequered History of Food Reform. David & Charles.Moncriff, Bernard (1856). The Philosophy of the Stomach; OR An Exclusively Animal Diet (Without Any Vegetable or Condiment Whatever) Is The Most Wholesome and Fit For Man. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. London.Stuart, Elma (1889). What Must I Do To Get Well AND How May I Keep So? By One Who Has Done It. An Exposition Of The Salisbury Treatment. Trow’s Printing & Bookbinding. New York.Baker, Shawn (2019). The Carnivore Diet. Victory Belt Publishing, Inc.Sutherland, George Alexander (1908). A System of Diet and Dietetics. Oxford University Press.Clummer, Clyde, L. (1950). "Dr. James H. Salisbury and the Salisbury Diet". Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly. 59 (4): 352–370.Parry, Thomas (1844). On Diet, With Its Influence On Manhttps://www.foodandwine.com/carnivore-diet-8769136https://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/deathsandinquests1860.htmlhttps://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/sep/12/carnivore-diet-meat-plantshttp://docfinder.docboard.org/nm_orders/Baker,%20Shawn%20Mark.pdfhttps://www.pbs.org/mercy-street/uncover-history/behind-lens/disease/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  2. Oct 29

    The Weird Little Guys of AI with Adam Becker

    Molly talks to Adam Becker about his book, More Everything Forever See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  3. Oct 22

    Brown v Board of Education v The Pioneer Fund, Pt 3

    A final look at the Pioneer Fund's attempt to use racist pseudoscience to overturn the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decision.Sources & Further Reading:Tucker, William (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and The Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press.Jackson, John P. Jr (2005). Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown v. Board of Education. New York University Press.Sussman, Robert Wald (2014). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard University Press.Newby, IA (1967). Challenge to the Court: Social Scientists and the Defense of Segregation 1955-1966. Louisiana State University Press.Gabriel, Ricardo, "Somos Boricuas y Estamos Despertando: Decolonial Education, Collective Identity, and the Struggle for Puerto Rican Studies" (2023). CUNY Academic Works.https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5583 Kenneth B. Clark, The Desegregation Cases: Criticism of the Social Scientist' s Role, 5 Vill. L. Rev. 224 (1959).Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/vlr/vol5/iss2/5 Ernest van den Haag, Social Science Testimony in the Desegregation Cases - A Reply to Professor Kenneth Clark, 6 Vill. L. Rev. 69 (1960).Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/vlr/vol6/iss1/3https://www.naacpldf.org/brown-vs-board/significance-doll-test/https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/charleston-church-shooting/dont-blame-us-church-shootings-council-conservative-citizens-says-n380126https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1968/02/03/south-africa-the-south-westhttps://x.com/socialistdogmom/status/1439283771237339139https://time.com/archive/6873118/education-a-negro-in-ole-miss/https://time.com/archive/6873165/the-south-the-intruder/https://www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-the-lies-scientific-racists-told-about-jacksons-children/https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2017/nov/15/how-integration-failed-jacksons-public-schools-196/https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/revisiting-brown-v-board-education-70-years-laterhttps://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal83-857-26237-1197399#_https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/07/us/desegregation-plans-in-peril.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1963/09/10/archives/wallace-orders-guard-units-out-for-school-duty-they-replace-state.htmlTranscripts:https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/d965a6d8-9452-495b-84ad-0d5be465964a/stell-v-savannah-chatham-county-board-of-education-transcript-of-proceedingshttps://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/209f0fe1-c065-4a37-b229-fc7b233ce2f3/evers-v-jackson-separate-municipal-school-district-transcripthttps://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/df5c8b3d-e3fa-465d-a071-7c18dcbd1ce7/evers-v-jackson-separate-municipal-school-district-transcript-1https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/3c162003-4708-41e2-83da-437c93f0394a/evers-v-jackson-separate-municipal-school-district-transcript-2Other Court Documents:https://www.icj-cij.org/case/47https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1748927/evers-v-jackson-municipal-separate-school-district/https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/347/483/#F11https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/220/667/1815159/https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/255/88/1818366/https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/724/1384/1468033/https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/387/486/262018/https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/333/55/14062/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  4. Oct 15

    CZM Rewind: Third Position & A Secret Third Thing

    We're revisiting two classic Weird Little Guys episodes from last year about a white nationalist political party's attempt to get their candidate on the ballot. Third Position Original air date: 8/21/25 In 2012, a newly formed white nationalist political party tried to get their candidate on the ballot. The American Third Position Party wanted Americans to vote for Merlin Miller, but how did the party end up picking him?  Sources: https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2012.pdf#page=11 https://irehr.org/2018/06/14/what-is-the-american-freedom-party/ https://www.ocregister.com/2009/09/04/two-time-felon-runs-pro-white-political-group/ https://rosecityantifa.org/articles/meet-the-oregon-chapter-of-the-american-freedom-party-part-one/ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/will-la-elect-a-ron-paul_b_104053 https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2013/08/two-american-freedom-party-leaders-speak-out-about-their-party/ https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v19/d284 https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/middle-east/six-day-war-liberty.html A Secret Third Thing Original air date: 8/28/25 After the 2012 election, the American Third Position Party rebranded. Not because their candidate lost, they expected that. But probably because their candidate didn't know what the party's name meant. Sources: https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2012.pdf https://politicalresearch.org/2016/12/19/what-third-position https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/neofascism-european-style/ https://www.alternet.org/2008/07/surviving_a_weekend_with_americas_premiere_pro-white_activist_group# https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2016/10/18/former-mpd-chief-drue-lackey-dead-90/92349168/ Winkler, Martin M. Arminius the Liberator: Myth and Ideology. Oxford University Press, 2016.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  5. Oct 14

    KFC #1: The Lies of Math (w/ Molly Conger)

    In the first level of Knowledge Fight Country, Dan and his guest adventurer Molly Conger set out to understand the context around Tucker Carlson's interview with a welder who is mad about algebra. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    KFC #1: The Lies of Math (w/ Molly Conger)

  6. Oct 8

    Scientists for Segregation: Ernest van den Haag

    A closer look at one of the men on the Pioneer Fund's team of scientists for segregation reveals that he wasn't a scientist at all.Sources & Further Reading:Tucker, William (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and The Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press.Jackson, John P. Jr (2005). Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown v. Board of Education. New York University Press.Sussman, Robert Wald (2014). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard University Press.Van den Haag, Ernest (1969). The Jewish Mystique. Stein and Day.Ernest van den Haag, Academic Freedom and Tenure, 15 Pace L. Rev. 5 (1994)DOI: https://doi.org/10.58948/2331-3528.1354Available at: https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/plr/vol15/iss1/2Chianese, Gloria (2006). Fascismo e lavoro a Napoli: Sindacato corporativo e antifascismo popolare (1930-1943).https://catalog.archives.gov/id/538438703?objectPage=3https://ilmanifesto.it/melamerson-una-coppia-in-fuga-a-vietrihttps://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/the-intellectual-portrait-series-a-conversation-with-ernest-van-den-haaghttps://web.archive.org/web/20031010001427/http://home.comcast.net/~neoeugenics/pioneer.htmhttps://holidaycoast.it/en/Vietri-sul-Mare-and-Salerno%3A-highlights-on-designer-ceramics-with-Europe/https://www.ilvescovado.it/it/storia-e-storie-19/verso-il-25-aprile-l-antifascismo-vietrese-105190/articlehttps://www.nytimes.com/1969/11/23/archives/the-jewish-mystique-by-ernest-van-den-haag-252-pp-new-york-stein.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/27/nyregion/e-van-den-haag-87-educator-and-backer-of-death-penalty.htmlhttps://chroniclesmagazine.org/cultural-revolutions/ernest-van-den-haag-r-i-p/https://vdare.com/articles/in-memoriam-ernest-van-den-haaghttps://kirkcenter.org/essays/ernest-van-den-haag-19142002/https://sousamendesfoundation.org/family/melamersonhttps://archives.albany.edu/description/catalog/apap135https://files.supersite.aruba.it/media/31058_cfca3f8a5fa8002f9ebf82670aba47c97078fb72.pdf See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  7. Oct 1

    Segregation Forever

    Last week, the DOJ's Civil Rights division announced they were moving to dismiss more than 50 desegregation cases against school districts all over the country. Like the weird little guys trying to overturn the Brown v Board of Education decision in the 1960s, the Trump administration is trying to take us all back to a version of America they think was great.Sources & Further Reading:Reardon, Sean & Grewal, Elena & Kalogrides, Demetra & Greenberg, Erica. (2012). Brown Fades: The End of Court-Ordered School Desegregation and the Resegregation of American Public Schools. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 31. 876-904. 10.2307/41653800. https://selc.wordpress.ncsu.edu/files/2013/03/Brown-Fades.pdfWang G, White JS, Hamad R. The end of court-ordered desegregation and US children's health: quasi-experimental evidence. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2024 Nov 4;193(11):1530-1540. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae082https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12096290/ U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. (2007). Becoming less separate? School desegregation,justice department enforcement, and the pursuit of unitary status. Washington, DChttps://www.usccr.gov/files/pubs/docs/092707_BecomingLessSeparateReport.pdfhttps://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-ends-over-50-half-century-old-desegregation-cases-throughout-united https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-dismisses-half-century-old-louisiana-consent-decreehttps://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/communication/speech-march-washington-aug-28-1963 https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/freedom-black-women-speak-march-washington-jobs-and-freedomhttps://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jun/18 https://www.k-12legalinsights.com/2026/03/some-recent-motions-for-unitary-status-seem-to-be-facing-less-careful-scrutiny/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-seeking-to-end-school-desegregation-cases/https://www.naacpldf.org/case-issue/why-are-schools-still-segregated/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/us/politics/justice-department-desegregation-cases.htmlhttps://www.ed.gov/grants-and-programs/grants-birth-grade-12/school-and-community-improvement-grants/training-and-advisory-services-equity-assistance-centershttps://www.regulations.gov/document/ED-2026-OESE-0958-0001https://www.justice.gov/crthttps://web.archive.org/web/20240301102317/https://www.justice.gov/crthttps://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ex-employees-us-justice-department-blast-destruction-civil-rights-unit-2025-12-09/https://redlinecivilrights.org/education/https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/us-federal-court-ends-decades-long-school-desegregation-lawsuit-in-louisiana/https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6105774/smith-v-concordia-parish/https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14791822/boudreaux-v-st-mary-parish/https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/5295676/thomas-v-st-martin-parish/https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72066767/navy-v-sch-bd-of-st-mary-prsh/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  8. Sep 24

    Brown v Board of Education v The Pioneer Fund, Pt 2

    In the decade after the Supreme Court's ruling in the Brown v Board of Education case, segregationists used every tool available to prevent integration. By the early 1960s, a group of Pioneer Fund-backed scientists had teamed up with the lawyer they hoped could get their pseudoscientific argument against Brown in front of a judge.Sources & Further Reading:Tucker, William (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and The Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press.Jackson, John P. Jr (2005). Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown v. Board of Education. New York University Press.Sussman, Robert Wald (2014). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard University Press.Gould, Stephen Jay (1996). The Mismeasure of a Man. Penguin Books.McMillen, Neil (1971). The Citizens’ Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954-1964. University of Illinois PressReardon, Sean & Grewal, Elena & Kalogrides, Demetra & Greenberg, Erica. (2012). Brown Fades: The End of Court-Ordered School Desegregation and the Resegregation of American Public Schools. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 31. 876-904. 10.2307/41653800. https://selc.wordpress.ncsu.edu/files/2013/03/Brown-Fades.pdfAlbert P . Blaustein & Andrew H. Field, "Overruling" Opinions in the Supreme Court , 57 MICH. L. REV. 151 (1958). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol57/iss2/2Amy M. Gardner, Comment, "An Attempt to Intervene in the Confusion: Standing Requirements for Rule 24 Intervenors," 69 University of Chicago Law Review 681 (2002).https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5684&context=journal_articleshttps://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/08/how-often-does-the-supreme-court-overturn-its-own-decisions/ 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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  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
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